Anna is at the absolute cusp of innovation in 2017.
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Listen/review: Jstar feat. Ranking Joe - Bad Boy Stepping
For all its futurist production values and natty arrangements, the message on this one is pretty simple: cut the crap ‘bad’ boys.
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Listen/review: Thundercat - Show You The Way
“Show You The Way” proves that aside from his otherworldly musicianship, Thundercat charms with his ever-present unpredictability.
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Listen/review: LIFE - Euromillions
Any dissent, and there’s a lot of it about, is to be embraced. It helps when delivered to a champion tune, of course.
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Listen/review: Tuxedo - Fux with the Tux
The whole EP is a mini masterpiece so I suggest you start with the opener/title track and dive in.
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Listen/review: Les Gordon - Carole
On this track the French enigma crafts something that's similar in feeling to Bonobo’s Black Sands but with shades of Debussy shining through.
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Listen/review: H. Hawkline - Last Thing On Your Mind
Seriously, if he can get an album as beautiful and meandering as this song then we’re all good. It’s all gonna be ok.
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Listen/review: Dessert - Checkmate
If MGMT are the formalist pop guys then Dessert are the post-structuralists and avant-gardists, dialling down the immediacy of their hooks and rolling up the feeling.
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Listen/review: Homeshake - Every Single Thing
A bouncing bass and some TLC style vocals make ‘Fresh Air’ a very spellbinding trance to fall into.
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Jamie from Tigercub and Matt from Demob Happy
New Music Column: Ali Waite's 10 new bands for 2017
Ali Waite from Blue Stragglers weighs in on his bands to watch out for this year.
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Listen/review: Be Charlotte - One Drop
Be Charlotte take so many free-spirited risks in this song that it makes you wonder why so many older groups are towing the line in the UK right now.
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Listen/review: Professor Green feat. Dream McLean - Active
The sampled strings give it an air of mischievous deviancy like some eccentric contemporary British crime thriller.
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Listen/review: Chick Quest - Savant Garde
It serves as hope to those who see rock and roll getting lobotomised by commercial culture.
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Listen/review: Ajani Jones - Mazerunner
In terms of lyrical flow, it heavily recalls Top Dawg Entertainment roster stars like Kendrick Lamar and in particular Isaiah Rashad.
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Listen/review: Oh No - The Troubled
Like Curtis Mayfield after a healthy dose of high-powered Orange Sunshine blotter.
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Listen/review: The Comet Is Coming – Final Eclipse
The Comet Is Coming's final release of the year is another sax-piloted body of banging cosmic jazz
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Listen/review: Mouse on the Keys - Earache
The stumbling beat, Wagnerian electronic backbone and liberating piano meanderings of ‘Earache’ form a stimulating instrumental.
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Listen/review: Robbing Millions - WIAGW
Enjoy this one for what it is: one of a kind.
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Listen/review: Dessert - Eyes Wide Shut
Dessert are possessed of the same kind of hip psychedelic indie intrigue that drew people to MGMT.
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Listen/review: RVWR - Cupcake
With urban music being rapidly commercialised, cloned, diluted and disseminated ad nauseam, RVWR's sound might be deemed 'unsanitary'.
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