Stream: Desire - Years & Years

Another cracking new single from Years & Years... Once again this builds on the warmer, house-influenced sound introduced on previous single Take Shelter. Keen to hear how this will play out across a full LP when we get one!

Desire is out on Polydor on 23 November.

Stream: Ilajaly - Xul Zolar

Ilajaly is our first official release of 2014 followed by a music video later in October. Ilajaly is taken from our debut EP that is due for release early 2015. "Ilajaly" is written & performed by Xul Zolar. mixed & produced by Jochen Naaf & Sven Ludwig. Mastered by The Exchange, London. Photo credit: David Kilagöz

Ilajaly is the first single to be lifted from Cologne three-piece Xul Zolar's debut EP, due in 2015. It's a smart and emotive track full of layers, propulsive drumming backing giving a sense of movement and dynamism to the reverb heavy and melancholic vocals and melodies. One to keep on the radar in the new year.

Stream: Alena - Yumi Zouma

Buy Alena on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1naY1rj Yumi Zouma return with new single, Alena, a song infused with their trademark quiet intimacy, now buoyed on a pad of lush electronics and building slowing to a muted euphoric refrain. Sliding in and out of dream states, capturing the safety of nostalgia and the grasping for good times out of reach, Alena's power stems from its evocative ability to unlock chambers in our memory banks. This fall Yumi Zouma circumnavigates the globe in support of Lorde (New Zealand shows) and later, play Iceland Airwaves, along with dates in the UK and US. Yumi Zouma on tour: www.yumizouma.com Yumi Zouma FB: http://tinyurl.com/nz7lecr Cascine FB: http://tinyurl.com/py2dncx

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.

Stream: Heroine - The Night VI

A track packed full of golden melodies and brassy vocals here from The Night VI. There is more than a little Stevie Nicks to the track, the sort of song that shimmers with a glossy surface layer that only partially obscures the rawness of the lyrics beneath.

Check out & like/heart on HypeM too: http://hypem.com/track/271ts/THE+NIGHT+VI+-+Heroine Written by Jack Gourlay, Sophie-Rose Harper & The Night VI. Published by EMI Publishing Produced & Engineered by Jack Gourlay at The Others Studios Mixed & Mastered by Yoad Nevo at Nevo Sound Studios Performed by The Night VI: With/ Sophie-Rose Harper: Vocals Kristy Buglass: Harmony Vocals Anna Pesquidous: Harp & Xylophone Bogart Giner: Bass Jack Gourlay: Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar, Piano, Organ, Rhodes, Synthesisers, Drum programming & Percussion. Artwork Artwork and concept by Anna Pesquidous, Felipe Pizano & The Night VI. Photography by Felipe Pizano behance.net/felipepizano

Heroin is about a femme fatale, says Sophie-Rose Harpe:

"She knows what she wants and how to get it but she'll ruin you much like the drug ... She's like your mum's worst nightmare but there's another side to her one that raises you up and keeps you wanting more"

Heroin is taken from the band's second EP, DIY, due on 17 November through Duly Noted Records and available exclusively from the band's live shows in a limited physical run or 500 CDs. Also check out Sienna and Wonderlust, both from the same EP, below:

Please vote for us on Hype Machine also: http://hypem.com/track/236d7/THE+NIGHT+VI+-+Sienna

Vote for our track on Hype Machine; http://hypem.com/track/24yrf/THE+NIGHT+VI+-+Wonderlust Wonderlust single launch show at Oslo hackney on the 18/06/14 tickets here: http://www.iamnewmusic.com/tickets/

Stream: Runaway - Grace Mitchell

16-year-old Portland singer Grace Mitchell has been causing a bit of a storm since unleashing her first couple of songs back in August. Yesterday she dropped this new epic ballad, Runaway, and it delivers the same heightened and cinematic scale of her previous tracks. There's undoubtedly more than a hint of the mature-beyond-its-years pop sensibility of Lorde here and I can't wait to hear a proper release.

Check out Runaway above, along with Grace's earlier tracks.