Another week, another hour of quality tunes.
Dougie Poole lends his OST croon to Wild Motion, a highlight lifted from Drugdealer’s latest full-length, Raw Honey – a touching love letter to 70s bliss-folk which hits homers on this, Fools and Honey and gets gosh darn close on several others, including the Francis Lai-tinged instrumental opener You’ve Got To Be Kidding.
Gus Dapperton’s entire aesthetic is an amalgamation of Broad City fanfic writer and Do It For The Gram-ness, i.e instantly off-putting and bewildering, but delve in to his debut, Where Polly People Go To Read and you’ll find a host of summer-ready bedroom anthems, none as instantly infectious as Sockboy.
BROCKHAMPTON head honcho Kevin Abstract continues to drip-feed his new album, Ghettobaby, with three more offerings; the strongest of which, the pulsing Mississippi, breathes a new life in to his sad-lad r’n’b, a staple 2018’s Iridescence.
Lovely lad Kevin Morby dips in to his back pocket to breathe lyrics from 2016 standout single Beautiful Strangers in to the jagging OMG Rock n Roll, a clattering, clanking effort taken his upcoming record of the same name.
Elsewhere there’s more solid (if yet slightly uninspiring) smooth-pop from Carly Rae Jepsen, a Lucy Dacus ode to motherhood and xoxo, a whirring effort from Cali-psychers Wand reminiscent of late 90s Radiohead which is probably a good thing to be reminiscent of.
However the week’s standout comes courtesy of Blue House who, on Firefly, drift through a sombre scene of introspective retrospection – the centrepiece of their Very Good latest, Gobstopper.
Listen below.
