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After teasing us all with a surreal animated visual on his socials, Burna Boy has now released his new album Twice As Tall. After the runaway success of last year’s seminal African Giant, which enjoyed unmitigated critical and commercial success, the pressure was on to follow it up with a worthy successor. Features-wise, it’s still a quality-over-quantity […]
Touted as one to watch in some circles, Belgium-born, Germany-based DJ and producer (and classically trained pianist) Mandana has already notched up a pretty formidable career, including a residency at the world-renowned Fuse Club in Brussels and subsequent bookings across the globe. Now living in Berlin, she’s currently gearing up for the release of her debut EP, Le […]
It’s been over a decade since Youngs Teflon kicked off his Call Of Duty mixtape series with its seminal first volume and a good nine years since its follow-up, Call Of Duty 2: Riot Season. But this Friday, the South London rapper returns with two new tracks from a long-awaited third volume. The first of those is “Alpo” with […]
JD Cliffe may be criminally slept on (seriously, we’ve been talling you about him for time, get on it), but that hasn’t stopped him giving us two of the best releases of the year. First came February’s “Come Again”, a laid-back yet upbeat bubbler with a suitably understated visual to boot, and now he’s back […]
Arriving the same week as we celebrate Jamaica’s independence from colonial rule is “Funkin For Jamaica”, a timely new release from revered producer and sound engineer Prince Fatty (whom you may know from his work with everyone from Pharcyde to Lily Allen to Capleton) and Shniece Mcmenamin, a singer he’s struck up a fruitful collaborative relationship with […]
You might recognise her from YouTube, you may even know her as the socialite from East London, but rumour has it Ivorian Doll is reppin’ for the ladies via rap in full effect. The unfiltered 22-year-old means what she says and says what she means, and her mission is clear: to show that women can go just as hard as the boys […]
After announcing the new album back in June with “One More Time”, followed by subsequent singles “Hold On” and “Mr. Wu”, Kamaal Williams has now unveiled his latest full-length, Wu Hen. With an allusion to his other alias, Henry Wu, in the title, Wu Hen plays out like his most personal to date, pulling together all the different […]
As a cursory Google search will tell us, Ukiyo is a term that is used to describe “the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of the Edo-period Japan” and while the Australian-born musician, DJ and producer who uses that moniker isn’t as seedy as that description suggests, his music is all about unabashed fun, but with a cinematic […]
It’s difficult to quite put your finger on a name for the kind of music made by Sheffield-born, Berlin-based producer Haider. Having cut his teeth in his hometown’s bassline scene, his palette now extends through electro, EBM, grime, UK funky, house music. Those are the sounds bubbling up in his new single “I Came Here To […]
This year’s shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize has been announced to the usual mix of approval and criticism. Kano, Stormzy, Michael Kiwanuka and Moses Boyd are all up for the award alongside Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, Laura Marling and others. While many are happy with the list, some have criticised the lack of more […]
