2019 has been quite a year for Dido. The release of her acclaimed album Still On My Mind in March quickly led to her becoming the best selling UK solo female artist of the year, an achievement that came as she embarked on her first tour in 15 years. Dido is set to release a special deluxe edition of Still On My Mind on November 15th (BMG). On the heels of this release, Dido has also released a stunning brand new single, “Just Because”. Taken from the record, we see the “UK goddess of lite pop” (Pitchfork) fully immersed in her element while playing with the electronic flourish that has…
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The name Mecha Maiko is a clever conceptual fusion of ‘mechas’–massive, futuristic battle robots and ‘maikos’–geishas in training. This dichotomy of hard-biting dystopian mechanics and the soft and tender performance of the maiko is meant to reflect the very same yin and yang dynamic found in her works as in her debut album for Canadian label ORO Let’s! available now. Listen to Mecha Maiko’s Let’s! here For Let’s!, Mecha Maiko has drawn inspiration from her favorite upbeat 90s dance and freestyle jams to create a sound that is uniquely hers. Aimed at a more DJ-friendly approach, these tracks will find…
Today, Brooklyn artist Chloe Lilac has released a brand new single titled, “Special,” out now via RCA Records. The song is available everywhere now here. Watch the official video here. A bold return for the budding artist since releasing her debut EP this spring, “Special” is the first song to see a release from Chloe’s forthcoming sophomore EP. About the song, Chloe describes, “‘Special’ is about how people will lie to get in your pants and how dumb they sound while doing it.” Further discussing the song’s official video, Chloe adds, “The video is all about how young love shouldn’t be taken too seriously. It was so much fun to make and…
Brooklyn’s Public Practice have dropped a new single, “Disposable,” along with its b-side, their take on Yukihiro Takahashi’s “Extra-Ordinary” via Wharf Cat Records. The track is the follow up to their 2018 critically acclaimed EP Distance Is A Mirror. Of the single and its b-side the band notes, “staring at a beach covered in tangled seaweed, the question began to form; as you watch a loved one get swept into a mad sea of a situation, how do you fight something seemingly so much bigger than yourself – for someone else? From here, ‘Disposable’ began to take shape. This was our first song we completed in our Brooklyn studio where…
UK duo Leftwing : Kody are the latest artists to remix the Duke Dumont smash ‘The Power’, out 4th October via Virgin EMI Records. STREAM IT HERE Centered around a euphoric piano riff, Leftwing : Kody deliver a feel-good, hands-in-the-air take on ‘The Power’, whilst losing none of the emotive elements that make the original so special. Multi-Grammy-nominated Dumont has amassed over 2 billion streams across his back-catalogue of previous anthems, scoring huge success with platinum-selling UK #1 singles ‘Need U (100%)’ and ‘I Got U’. Duke has also produced ‘Swish Swish’, the biggest single from Katy Perry’s Prism album.…