Double-bubble for your Phoebe Ryan needs today... We've got the new Jon Hoeg directed video for Mine, below, and it's every bit as lovely as you would expect. Below that we a Michael Keenan remix of the same track featuring a new verse from rapper Skizzy Mars. Nice.
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Stream: Chemical - Jack Garratt
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Another big release from one of this year's most exciting artists, Jack Garratt. Chemical is one of the most upfront dance tracks we've heard from Garratt so far, with some insane grime bass lines, syncopated rhythms and those trademark falsetto vocals coming together to mark a heartfelt bluesy dance-floor freak-out.
Chemical comes as Jack confirms the release of his sophomore EP, The Synesthesiac EP, due on Island Records on 13 April. The EP is also set to include The Love You're Given, which Jack previewed late last year - it can be heard via Soundcloud below and remains one of my favourite tracks of the past year.
Alongside the new release Jack has announced a second live date at London's Village Underground, after the first date sold out in under 48-hours. The new gig is scheduled for 25 May. The Village Underground dates come at the end of an also just announced full tour, and tickets can be grabbed here for just £8 (£10 in London). The full tour dates are as follows:
13th May – Exeter, Cavern
14th May – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
15th May - The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
16th May – Oxford, Academy 2
18th May – Birmingham, Hare and Hounds
19th May – Manchester, Academy 3
20th May – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
21st May – Bristol, Thekla
25th May – Village Underground, London
26th May – Village Underground, London SOLD OUT
Stream: New Moon - Tom Aspaul
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Off the back of his first single to be lifted from Aspaul's forthcoming Revelation Mixtape, New Moon is another slice of cool electronic soul from the Wolverhampton-born, London-based singer.
New Moon is actually inspired by two different R&B tracks and if you listen you can pick them both out... The chord sequence is based on 80s groove of Carly Simon's Why, whilst the lyrics come from Brandy's Full Moon. Apaul adds his own touches and some nice lo-fi production.
Look out for the Revelation Mixtape later this month.
Stream: Shelter - Lyves
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I featured Lyves almost a year ago when she released track Visions. Now close to releasing her debut EP she has just unveiled this frankly heart-stopping new track, Shelter. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Stream: Get It Up - Pr0files
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Pr0files managed to make a late bid to become one of my favourite acts of last year with their killer electro ballad Forgive, which sounded like it came straight out of the mind of Ryan Gosling's character in Drive.
The LA duo are back with their first new track of 2015, Get It Up, and it picks up pretty much where they left off. Having first collaborated seven years ago it feels like 2015 could be Lauren Pardini and Danny Sternbaum's best year yet.
Get It Up is the band's most disco moment yet - a bluesy celebratory declaration of a determination to rise above it all. The brassy electronic bass retains the sleek 80s influenced sound that made Forgive so great, but this track overall feels like the natural conclusion to the breakdown that record encapsulated. Where Forgive sounded like it was first sung into the mirror, Get It Up feels like it has been hurled at a dancefloor in defiance - the moment you really move on is the first point at which you stop looking back.