Stream Body Close - Lyves X Synkro

Following on from her track Shelter back in February comes this, a collaboration with Manchester based musician Synkro.

Lyves is North London-based singer, songwriter and producer Francesca Bergami, who is of Australian and Italian heritage and grew up in Portugal before settling in London to study psychology. Body Close is the second track from Lyves' forthcoming debut EP and Synkro's production style provides a perfect platform for Lyves' vocal delivery.

Synkro is signed to R&S sister label Apollo and his debut album, due later summer 2015, will also feature Body Close.

Video: Commute - SSWIII x Contour

Love this highly dynamic video from visual artist and graphic designer Switzon Samuel Wigfall, III. Sometimes going by the name SSWIII, Wigfall says he is inspired by: ""things" I love since I was a child drawing on everything with a bunch of crayons: sci-fi movies, robots, machines, geometric shapes, and the power and play of colors".

The video itself has a fantastic grungy 90s DnB feel and the whole pink filter makes it feel like a crazy Wipeout experience from The Zone. The music comes from SSWIII friend and collaborator Contour, real name Khari Lucas, and it has a soulful garage / drum 'n' bass sound.

Wigfall is inspired by music and often works with abstract visuals in his VJ work. The music Wigfall works with includes the likes of Daft Punk, Flying Lotus, Bonobo, RJD2, Luke Vibert and Aphex Twin, and you can see that in his visual aesthetic.

For more from SSWIII check out his website and for VJ clips checkout his Vimeo page.

Watch the video - go fullscreen and turn the volume up:

Stream: Never Going Home - Hazel English

Australian-born but Oakland, California based artist Hazel English has just put this new track out from her debut EP and it's positively bristling with excitable spring-energy AND autumnal introspection, making it perfect for both those in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

English cites influences that include the Cure, Stevie Nicks and and The Smiths, all artists you can hear in Never Going Home's jangling instrumentation and softly delivered vocal melodies.

Never Going Home is for those that have moved and travelled away from home, says Hazel: "The song is about moving overseas, the feeling of being drawn to California, and really finding myself here."

Look out for the EP when it comes this summer. 

Stream: Love. Hate. Pain. Killer - Chelsea Lankes

Awesomely delicately naked R&B from Chelsea Lankes on new single Love. Hate. Pain. Killer.

I love everything about this - Chelsea's vocal delivery is spot on, like someone getting up from a ten-rounds of an emotional battering, hurt and battered but determined to go on. The track is taken from the Vice short, Mr. Happy, by Collin Tilley and featuring Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper.

Stream: Silent - EMBRZ

Gorgeous debut track from EMBRZ featuring guest vocals from Amy Rose... Silent is full of lovely electronic touches and blissful piano chords, complemented beautifully with Rose's vocals. Producer / artist EMBRZ is remaining cagey about the song's subject:

"I finished writing Silent just before Christmas. The last step was getting an amazing vocal down, and Amy was perfect” explains Jack Casey continuing "There is a story behind the track, but I like the idea of leaving listeners to their own interpretation. Whatever it means to someone is what it means to someone."

Check out Silent below: