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Samantha Urbani returns with a “really wet” video for new single Go Deeper I've been crushing on the music of Samantha Urbani for a while now but, while there has been the odd smattering of tracks since US outfit…

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Listen to Hook & Sling, Parson James and Betty Who on new single If You’re Hearing This Already addicted to this hypnotic new threeway from Aussie producer Hook N Sling (aka Anthony Maniscalco), soul summoner Parson James (Sinner Like You, The Temple) and synthpop stylist Betty Who.

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NINA previews second EP with new single One of Us

NINA has unveiled the title track from her incoming second EP One of Us

Last April I wrote about NINA, a pop star from Germany based in London who, at the time, had just released her debut EP Beyond Memory – a kaleidoscopic collection that bore the fruits of working in a studio with electropop production giant Richard X. Fast forward fourteen months and NINA’s now been working with Grammy-winning sound engineer Liam Nolan (Adele, Clean Bandit, Ellie Goulding) but…

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Junior Empire release pulsing debut self-titled EP:

Listen to Junior Empire's debut collection of atmospheric, sun-kissed synth-belters

Fresh from their sold out headline show at Dalston Victoria last week, London-based five piece Junior Empire have released their self titled debut EP which covers each of their impressive singles to date and throws in a few great new ones for good measure – including the exhilarating opener I Know. 

“I Knowis about that moment you realise you have had the wool pulled over your eyes,” say the…

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Fickle Friends debut new single Glue from upcoming EP

Fickle Friends premiere title track from upcoming EP Glue

Sheer pop perfection here via the title track from UK five piece Fickle Friends’ debut EP Glue, out 11 August. If you aren’t instantly won over by their irresistible blend of breathless harmonies, infectious lyrics and bubbling beats and guitar strikes,  I think you have a screw loose. 

https://open.spotify.com/track/7tfdE7sUbVkPhfAK3rwyc2

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Michaela May serves superb electropop on debut EP Rogue

Michaela May has released a debut EP full of synthpop gems and absolute bangers. Go Rogue.

If you’re looking for an EP full of fiery electro belters and synth-drenched gems, look no further than Michaela May’s debut EP Rogue which is out today. 

We’ve already raved about the Toronto based pop star thanks to her previous singles 1954 and Lights Out. The former, a feminist statement dressed up as a brassy electropop stomper and the latter, a dreamy upbeat ballad that twinkles like an…

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Susanne Sundfør returns with new single Undercover 

Susanne Sundfør has given us the first taster from her upcoming album Music for People In Trouble, and, if the title and first single Undercover are anything to go by, the Norwegian songstress is in full therapeutic mode. 

“You’re a teasing little twister and they’re dancers in the dark,” comforts Susanne, her vocals tender and pure and probably the perfect therapy for people in trouble. 

Paired…

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VÉRITÉ unveils debut album taster Saint

Listen to Saint - the latest single from VÉRITÉ's upcoming debut album Somewhere in Between

In a few weeks, VÉRITÉ will release her long awaited debut album and today she’s given us even more reason to be excited by gifting us with a cracking new single called Saint. 

The follow up to the record’s previous promo tracks Phase Me Out, When You’re Gone and Bout You is an atmospheric electrozinger, that encapsulates absolute everything we love about the New Yorker. Crescendoing, chunky…

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ROOM8 and The Sound of Arrows debut new song Just You & I

ROOM8 are Ezra Reich and Nic Johns, an LA/Stockholm-based production duo who have previously worked with the likes of Electric Youth, Little Boots and King Deco. Today they team up with one of our all time favourites The Sound of Arrows to release their latest single Just You & I and it’s an ambient dream.  

“Just You & I is a song written from true emotions,” say Ezra and Nic about the…

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Martine McCutcheon returns with a brand new single from her upcoming album Lost and Found Martine McCutcheon - or Tiff from Eastenders - will release her new LP Lost and Found on 11 August, and today the one time chart topping pop star and actress premiered the record's first single Say I'm Not Alone.

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Carly Rae Jepsen cuts to the feeling on her exhilarating new single

Championing and capturing the sheer free-willed beauty of love and happiness and the full gamut of e•mo•tion, the unbroken spirit of Carly Rae Jepsen's Cut to the Feeling feels perfect right now.

Pedigree pop queen Carly Rae Jepsen is back with the official release of her brand new single Cut to the Feeling; a track which leaked online a few weeks ago and got everybody bloody excited but, now in high quality sounds even more exhilarating. 

Right from its sparkling Lucky Star-learnt synthtro through to those irresistible hand claps and deliriously lost-in-the-moment wooad-libs which (along…

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Katy Perry + Nicki Minaj = Swish Swish Earlier this week Katy Perry announced her new album Witness and FINALLY we have a reason to get excited about it.

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Is Liam Payne's Strip That Down any good? Liam Payne is looking great and he sounds good but surely we can't be alone in having expected a lot more from his first solo single Strip That Down?

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Three Laws mesmerise on Siren Song 

Introducing UK duo Three Laws and their serene Siren Song

Louise Gold and Adam Relf are London-based duo Three Laws who will soon be releasing their debut album Illuminated. Today though they’re kicking off proceedings with the launch of the record’s lead single Siren Song and it’s one of those tracks that, as well as introducing you to an act that you know is special from the get go, also tucks away subtler moments to enjoy when they reveal themselves…

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Scavenger Hunt remix Betty Who's Mama Say

Scavenger Hunt remix Betty Who’s Mama Say

Betty Who has called upon Scavenger Hunt to remix her single Mama Say and the union is a match made in Heaven. The Aussie pop star is full of charisma and charm (check out her recent PressPlay OK podcast outing below) and that affectionately plays out on the original version of the track which is taken from her recently released second studio album The Valley, and isn’t lost in the remix. The…

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HAERTS premiere new single No Love For The Wild 

If less is more, then HAERTS have bucketloads.

From an intro of stirring strings and a hushed piano melody, HAERTS latest single No Love For The Wild quickly nevertheless cranks up the cinematic when the chorus hits early on. 

“No love for the wild, no love for the true. I gave you my world and I took it from you” sings Nini Fabi on what the duo call “less of a truth than a burning outcry and the hope to be proven wrong.” 

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The Sound of Arrows have premiered a music video 

The Sound of Arrows have premiered the official video for their superb single Beautiful Life

If more people invested their time listening to the music of Stockholm’s The Sound of Arrows, the world would surely be a better place. 

Stefan and Oskar returned earlier this year with a breathtaking lead single from their upcoming second album and today they shared the official music video for Beautiful Life. For the clip, the Swedish duo take some time to remind us of the world’s natural…