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Gorgeous new track from Sydney artist BUOY, real name Charmain Kingston. Kingston gives off a blissful ethereal sound on this ambient-pop styled track. The vocals are lovely and blissed out, offsetting the shuddering beats and clicks. Beautiful.
Love this big poppy record from Portland's EXROYALE, real name Josh Schroeder. Don't Stop (Playing With My Heart) combines melodic electropop with indie R&B and even throws in a little chip tune... The result is like Michael Jackson with a sugar-high, and I love the sentiment - those times when you have fallen enough for someone that being taken for granted is better than the thought of being left alone.
The track is will be on Soundcloud for a few days, but you can grab it on iTunes [affiliate link] or Spotify now.
LANY are back with new release Someone Else. LANY (pronounced lay-nee) feel like the embody of Gen Y - what with cross-continental music creation, performances on Snapchat and the knowingly titled Acronyms EP.
Last year one of the tracks from that release, ILYSB (that'll be I Love You So Bad) featured in my list of the best tracks of the year for it's unadulterated and cloyingly irresistible infatuation. Someone Else is similarly saccharine, but surprisingly free of zeitgeist in comparison. It's the kind of loved-up-yet-hurting record that will speak out for a billion broken teenage hearts, and the little bit inside every one of us grown-ups that occasionally still needs to feel that same feeling.
Following on from Somewhere last month and ahead of their debut EP Visits, Colleagues have just put out Talk It Out. Expect a lush dreamy track and it is here to brighten up your Friday... Take It Out is a holiday in aural form, full of big sweeping synths and vocal harmonies.
Get on it and look out for Visits, out on 18 May.
LA-based future R&B star Gallant has just followed up previous breakthrough track Open Up with this new track, Talking In Your Sleep. It's a dense, fizzy sounding track that sees Gallant's fantastic vocal range set against complex but poppy production work from STiNT that writhes and stutters as Gallant pours out his feelings.
As well as the track below check out his notebook, where Gallant has written about the song.