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It's been around for a few weeks but I've only just discovered it - Billie Black has followed up her impressive R&B number I Don't Need Another Lover with this collaboration with Mura Masa (who I featured back in April for a lovely remix of HARTEBEEST's Drums). If anything, it's even better. Jump in.
Seems like the internet just had a collective shit fit over this incredible new joint from Columbian-born, Brooklyn-based singer Tei Shi, previously best known for her cover of Beyonce's No Angel. Bassically pairs the femininity of Tei Shi's raw vocals to producer Luca Buccellati's aggressively analogue production. If you like FKA Twigs and Banks you'll love this.
This is the first track I've heard from Naomi Pilgrim, but it's a corker. Sassy dance-influenced R&B, it's a song about those days where everything should be great but you just aren't feeling it so you need that extra little kick to get you out of bed. Love the production, the vocals and the sentiment... One to watch.
Highly emotive pop from 22-year-old Swedish singer Sirena, who spent her years growing up between Barcelona and Stockholm. Sirena has always been inspired to be creative, whether it be through poetry, photography, dance or singing in choirs, but ultimately music making became her calling after a spiritual awakening that saw her drop out of school and focus on it full time.
Following on from January's EP The Brae, Yumi Zouma are back with what in my view is their best track yet. Cue floaty breathless vocals and weightless melodies that feel like floating in a pool of infatuation. There is a slightly more electronic, disco influenced sound here and it suits Yumi Zouma's music perfectly.