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Ryan Doyle shares blissful remix of Nate James’ ‘The Message’

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Ryan Doyle shares blissful remix of Nate James’ ‘The Message’

Developing from an online bedroom remixer to a dance-pop newcomer, to an artist lauded by tastemakers and performing at the likes of The Great Escape Festival and Paper Dress Vintage, Ryan Doyle’s creative growth has been captivating fans and critics alike, with each of his singles pulling in a wider audience as his gleaming nu-disco dance blends continue to become more and more refined. 

Fresh off the back of an anthemic debut EP and two vibrant singles teasing a new era, Ryan Doyle has unveiled his mix of Nate James’ ‘The Message’. Lacing the track with his thumping house drums, swirling electric piano and distinctive vocal production, Ryan refreshingly modernises the track with a glamorous nostalgia. Shuffling percussive rhythms inject energy into every bar and subtle guitar licks twang out through a mist of synthesisers with each drop welcoming listeners into a sun-drenched disco paradise.

Ryan reflects on the track, ”To be involved in this project has been such an honour! I think when trying to put a spin on a record that’s been MOBO nominated and had so much success part of the challenge is to do something that’s very different from the original, whilst trying to keep it instantly recognisable – I hope I’ve done that and everyone loves it because I’ve been so excited to release this one since I made it!”

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Daddy Drwg returns to music with debut album ‘A Tree Called Happy’

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Daddy Drwg returns to music with debut album ‘A Tree Called Happy’

Hailing from Wales, Daddy Drwg or ‘Bad Daddy’ as his name translates, spent his youth absorbing a diverse musical palette. Growing up, and becoming an esteemed multi-instrumentalist, his self-taught abilities led to a post-grad in Music Technology at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, performances alongside globally touring bands and contributions to multiple albums.

Returning to music and re-embracing his passion for playing and songwriting after years away from the art, Daddy Drwg has unveiled his debut album ‘A Tree Called Happy’. Though there is a sense of time away from the project, it emerges entirely through the bright range of genres Daddy Drwg brings to the table. Tracks like ‘1 AM GMT’ are steady, soft acoustic anthems, with gorgeous string arrangements, impassioned vocals and rhythmic guitar parts, whilst on the other side we are treated to heavy grooves, dark vocals and futuristic synth arpeggios in the likes of ‘I’m Your Waste Of Time’.

The album is as much a journey of introspection and self-discovery as it is a listening experience, as the audience follows Daddy Drwg through a vast range of emotions, all portrayed through vivid musical tones.

Daddy Drwg shares, “After spending years of what was a musical hiatus, it has been a very enjoyable and rewarding experience writing and recording this solo album and emerging anew as Daddy Drwg.”

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Soleil River Nation shines in debut single ‘Small Girl in a Big World’

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Soleil River Nation shines in debut single ‘Small Girl in a Big World’

At just ten years old, Soleil River Nation is already on track to have a rich musical career. Teaching herself piano at age six, followed by finding her singing voice and learning trumpet, Soleil originally hails from Manila, Philippines, but now resides in Miami Beach. Further achievements include a “Student of the Year” award as part of Miami Music Project’s children’s orchestra, being a member of the Grammy award-winning National Children’s Chorus and working with Young Musicians Unite.

Soleil’s debut single has now arrived as the empowered anthem ‘Small Girl in a Big World’. Through the track, Soleil’s lyricism traverses feelings of anxiety, growth and moving through the trials of life as you learn more about the world around you. The arrangements behind her is also powerful and driving, with piano, guitars, drums and bass all pushing the artist further into her passionate vocal performance. As her confidence grows, Soleil also begins to take responsibility, overcoming her own fears and inspiring others to do the same.

The artist shares a comment on the single, ”I composed this song as I near my 10th birthday, reflecting on my role in the immense universe filled with uncertainties.“I don’t wanna grow up to see the bad things or the sad things or the mad things.”

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Jack Howard shares intricate new track ‘Another Day’

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Jack Howard shares intricate new track ‘Another Day’

Creating a presence in his new base in the UK capital, Jack Howard’s unique soul and raw energy have garnered him a reputation as a serious one to watch. Pair this buzz with sell-out performances at Prince Albert and Colours Hoxton and upcoming festival features at The Great Escape and Wild Paths, as well as acclaim from BBC Radio 1 Future Pop and you start to see what all the fuss is about. With his anticipated debut EP ‘All Things That Came Before’ beginning to reach the crest of the horizon, 2024 promises to be a pivotal year for Jack Howard.

Fresh from his first track of the new year ‘Circles’, Jack Howard has now unveiled ‘Another Day’, a bubbling amalgamation of plucky guitars, sleek piano syncopations and a comforting vocal haze. Pulling apart rhythms from complex drums and arpeggiated melodies gives the track an immense sense of feel. Rising through scores of gorgeous soundscapes, keeping everything intact, from the every minute element to the big momentous feel, whether it’s the floating windchimes or the roaring distorted grooves, the purposeful musical breaks or the choir of heavenly voices, it’s all thought through, and the results are stunning.

Speaking on the track’s deeper meaning, Jack shares, “Another Day is about hope. This song is about someone I love overcoming addiction. When I was younger sometimes all I needed was hope that the sun would come up and a new day would begin. Even now I still wake up extra early so I can sit in the silence of day break. When I wrote this song I needed to be hopeful that it was all going to be okay. I hope this song gives you a little bit of me!”

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Sadé Awele shares rhythmic EP ‘Intuition’

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Sadé Awele shares rhythmic EP ‘Intuition’

Lauded by the music press, award-winning from the likes of AFAM and CIBWE and touring extensively on an international scale, the creative elegance of Sadé Awele’s music and visuals are steadily becoming a hot topic across the industry. The Nigerian-born artist has been featured across film festivals for her videos and invited to perform at esteemed at events with her songstress abilities.

Sadé’s most recent unveiling is her new EP ‘Intuition’. Featuring fan favourites ‘Jo’ and ‘Intuition’, the project is a showcase of rich rhythmic songwriting that injects a sense of movement and bounce into every crevice of the arrangement, Sadé’s ability to write around these rhythms gives the project a unique feel, an individuality that becomes as intense as it is enticing. Elements of Afro-soul and -R&B are blended effortlessly with glimmering Western sensibilities, with each infectious addition of brass melody, bass line groove and sleek plucky guitar feeding into the personality of Sadé. There’s no one doing it quite like Sadé Awele.

Fresh off her successful European tour to solidify her international fanbase, Sadé Awele is gearing up for her Canadian tour to celebrate the release of her 7-track project ‘Intuition’. Discussing the project Sadé Awele explains the project “Intuition was written with the intention of creating a diasporic sound, influenced by my Nigerian upbringing combined with a mix of cultures and genres that have shaped my identity. Intuition tells a story of my journey to finding peace, finding myself, finding joy, feeling pain, and embracing the moments in-between.

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I Struck Gold with You by TaniA Kyllikki

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I Struck Gold with You by TaniA Kyllikki

 TaniA Kyllikki’s vocal prowess effortlessly takes the center stage on her latest love ballad. ‘I Struck Gold with You’ is the epitome of a love song -a stirring pop ballad led by a diva’s charismatic presence and heartfelt delivery.

Based in the English town of Berkshire, TaniA Kyllikki is a pop star whose streaming figures are through the roof, as she keeps delivering one terrific pop tune after another since she started releasing music roughly 6 years ago. ‘I Struck Gold with You’ is a truly captivating song. On paper, it is a safe song that uses an age-old formula. A quintessential pop ballad. Soft, breezy, emotive, piano-led, and fore fronted by a capable, touching voice, ‘I Struck Gold with You’ is an easy example of why this formula keeps on living on.

 

The piano figures on ‘I Struck Gold with You’ are interesting. Not quite as freeform as piano pop a-la Elton John, while not as classically leaning as to just resort to playing the chords unaltered, the line features a 2-note figure that repeats throughout the song, while the chords arpeggiate in the bass register right next to it. Simplistic composition made alluring and captivating using a simple but witty piano line. The vocals and words are breathtaking. Sung about persevering through love, this is a song that can get couples through tough patches, shedding light on all that needs salvaging, and being dedicated to Kyllikki’s husband and producer Rynellton, the sincerity is heartfelt in every syllable of TaniA’s performance.

A love song should need not much more than honesty and a heartfelt message to bring it across into the hearts of listeners. TaniA Kyllikki’s latest single is a case in point. A wonderful and smooth pop ballad that continues down a rich heritage of a genre that will never run dry.

The Weight by Earia Music Project

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The Weight by Earia Music Project

Pure vocal passion and talent comes through Earia Music Project’s latest ballad ‘The Weight’. A sparse and spacious piano and voice duet about the atrocities being committed in the Gaza Strip, the piece holds weight and feeling to mirror the scale of collective pain it attempts to describe.

Earia Music Project is a musical duo based in Vancouver, Canada, and ‘The Weight’ is their latest single, written by their percussionist  Sal Mattar, who is a Palestinian-Canadian, with a heavy heart, over the devastation that is taking place in Gaza. With a video made of clips and TikToks of the destruction the Palestinians live through each day, ‘The Weight’ is a stirring tribute to our collective inability to stop injustice, a frustration that is perfectly captured in Matthew Landry’s haunting vocal part.

Powerful and provocative, the song’s grand piano and melancholic chords are only a minor backdrop to Landry’s gigantic, agonized blues wails and the descriptive words that they wail. Greatly dynamic too, the song starts gently enough and gradually raises its stakes until the explosive crescendo kicks in, showcasing immense singing talent from Landry, displayed in the rawness of the take and in his capable range and control.

All in all, ‘The Weight’ is simple and noble. A song that isn’t here to say too many things because there aren’t many things to be said about the topic. It is a shared pain and a collective trauma that is continually unfolding. Earia Music Project are brutally honest in their delivery, and as a result, ‘The Weight’ is an easy song to resonate with.

nothingforme by Friend of a Friend

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nothingforme by Friend of a Friend

 From the first moments of ‘nothingforme’ I was faced with exuding warmth from what sounded like an exquisite mix. I felt compelled to pay attention, I did, and I had an epiphanic musical experience that effortlessly blended folk with electronica, with rock, with ambience and psychedelia. I emerged changed.

‘nothingforme’ is a song by folktronica, Chicago-based outfit Friend of a Friend, composed of Claire Molek and Jason Savsani, off their sophomore record FACILITIES. The duo certainly possess a unique sound, instantly standing out but never standoffish. The caliber of their sonic quality blends in enough with genre leaders for them to never be taken as newcomers on their way to discovering their best selves. Indeed, on ‘nothingforme’ the band sounds completely and wholly comfortable with the production techniques, the song structure, and the instrumental choices they strike throughout this vibrant, shape-shifting, and mystifying release.

A rhythmic start with a minimal guitar-vocal duet that soon features a subtle rhythmic disintegration, baked right into the composition. The guitar shape is whimsical and curious, closely mirroring the floating vocal melody and the inquisitive words, with the performances tight and confident. After two short, conversational verses, the song wholly erupts into an ethereal middle eight that is effortlessly haunting. Modal, veering off the conventional tonality of the major scale for the drama injected by the neighboring Dorian mode, along with the onset of a driving bass riff and the upheaval of the tight beat for something more immediate and dynamic, all beneath massive walls of synths.

The song then ends with a stellar display of ambiance that’s highlighted by a melancholic melody on top of sparse acoustic arpeggios that repeat until the end. ‘nothingforme’ is a creative marvel that is a display of a duo with pristine musical chemistry that just oozes over every single musical nuance the duo decides on. An exquisite trip of a song, mixed by Jordan Lawlor of M83 fame, left me greatly excited for all Friend of a Friend have to offer next.

 

Steerpike by Vernons Future

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Steerpike by Vernons Future

The astonishing level of detail on Vernons Future’s latest single never ceased to surprise me along the song’s generous length of 5 minutes, and despite revolving around a relatively simplistic core, it is that sheer amount of sonic detailing that made ‘Steerpike’ such an engaging experience.

Vernons Future are a veteran London band with history that dates back to the 1980s golden age of indie, when their first incarnation, then based in Liverpool, spawned an acclaimed album on a revered local label called Probe Plus. The band got back together in 2015 and have since put out an acclaimed second album and a number of singles. Their sound on ‘Steerpike’ is driven by tremolo-ed guitars that lend the song a vintage vibe, and along with timeless sounding synths and a voice carved by the hands of time, ‘Steerpike’ has a very momentous air to its confident stride.

With a dynamic composition that cuts its bread by staying outside of the boundaries of the familiar major scale chords, the modal chord structures sound alien and inviting, and greatly exciting. The general rhythmic restraint leaves more than ample space for guitars and synths to roam freely on top, giving the band space to introduce layers of details in the song’s various verses, choruses, and bridges, never once letting the song run stagnant.

From the James Bond-esque guitar line to the beastly fuzzed synth near the end, all ideas are neat, serve the sonic narrative, and add value to ‘Steerpike’. An inventive, multi-faceted gem from a band of veterans.

Mr Liar by Tende Kasha

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Mr Liar by Tende Kasha

Ever sweet reggae lends its perpetually easygoing charm to Tende Kasha’s latest single ‘Mr Liar’.

Based in London, Tende Kasha is a musician whose roots lie deep in the core of Africa, particularly in Angolan capital Luanda. After a challenging upbringing in his war-torn home country, Tende Kasha started relocating from the age of 10. Firstly, to Portugal, then to England, then to Australia, and back to England, Tende Kasha has been steeping himself in musical communities around the globe, honing his style, and discovering more about his own passion toward singing.

‘Mr Liar’ is a quintessential reggae song. With the hypnotic syncopation between melodic bass, scarce beats, minimalistic rhythm guitar, and a syrupy sweet chord sequence that flows beneath it all, the music of ‘Mr Liar’ is pretty and colorful, and Kasha’s soulful vocals are the cherry on top. The final result is a song that flows with extreme ease, a hypnotic balm that takes over the air and makes time pass, all thanks to Kasha’s perfected reggae formula.

A warm and effervescent love song is never too old of an idea, regardless of how many times we feel inclined to say that. Tende Kasha’s latest single comes to prove why the concept just refuses to fade away.

 

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