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Stream: Sunburnt Through The Glass - PREP

♥️ >>> http://hypem.com/track/2e36x/PREP+-+Sunburnt+Through+the+Glass Written & Produced by PREP Backing Vocals by @sabellamusicofficial & @chiarahunter Mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis, London Artwork by Sam Coldy Translation by Hirotomo Tanaka and Keiichi Toyama Follow PREP: twitter.com/prep_band instagram.com/prepband

Sunburn through glass is actually a rather difficult injury to incur - most of the harmful effects of the sun are filtered out, meaning a standard window provides protection from the sun approximately equivalent to an SPF-30 sun block. This is admittedly incidental, but given the title of their new single it gives you some idea of just how much time new four-piece PREP must have spent in the sun.

Made up of a hip hop producer, a classical composer, a house DJ and a singer songwriter you can only hope that each band member ended up in vaguely the right position in the band. Their credits apparently include Drake, Foxes, Raleigh Ritchie, Eric Prydz, Klangarussell and Sub Focus, which pretty much guarantees you dislike at least one thing they have been involved with.

Regardless of all that, Sunburnt Through The Glass is actually lovely - a deep hit of warming evening sun. It's yacht rock for now (or about three months ago if you live in the Northern hemisphere), inspired by the likes of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Bobby Caldwell. Check it out above.

Stream: Monster Lead Me Home - Sara Hartman

Slipping into the closing weeks of 2015 is this debut track from 19-year-old musician Sara Hartman, who combines folk-tinged pop melodies with slightly operatic vocal harmonies.

Born in Sag Harbor is Suffolk County in the US, Hartman now resides in Berlin. Her new home town is the birthplace for Monster Lead Me Home. On the track she explains: "It’s a snapshot of my mind when I first got to Berlin ... It was really exciting but very frightening at the same time.  I put everything into the music I make and trust it’ll take me where I’m supposed to be, i.e. Monster Lead Me Home.

Hartman is currently finishing up her debut album, but in the meantime you can catch her on live, including a tour with MS MR. See dates below:

November
17 - Munich, Germany (MS MR support)
18 - Frankfurt, Germany (MS MR support)
19 - Cologne, Germany (MS MR support)
21 - Hamburg, Germany (MS MR support)
22 - Berlin, Germany (MS MR support)
27 - Puls Festival - Erlangen, Germany
28 - Puls Festival - Munich, Germany
30 - It’s A School Night - Los Angeles, United States

December
01 - Communion Music - New York, United States
03 - The Drake Hotel - Toronto, Canada

January
13 - Eurosonic Noorderslag 2016 - Groningen, Netherlands

Stream: Home - Chelsea Lankes

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Continuing a busy year, LA pop star Chelsea Lankes is back with another gem of a track in the form of Home. Back in April Lankes teamed up with Chance The Rapper to create a track for his Vice short Mr Happy in the form of Love. Hate. Pain. Killer.

Home is a more straight-up pop record, an infectious and assertive track about finding that person that makes you feel like you are home... Both irresistibly catchy and uplifting.