This New Music Friday requires us to go back to, back to, back to, back to Charli XCX, who came forward with the remix compilation of the year. Scroll down to check out other worthy new releases. First, here’s what everyone’s talking about.
The Best of New Music Friday:
Charli XCX – Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat
Charli XCX can do whatever she likes. She put up flashy neon green billboards featuring other artists’ names at random places all over the world and everyone knew what they were. Now the sounds on BRAT are getting a fresh coat on Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat; It’s mostly the same but with a surprise on each track when the listener can say “oh snap, that’s insert popular artist here.”
Take the single “360,” which has been remixed to feature Robyn and Yung Lean. Hearing those two adds an immediate ‘newness’ factor to BRAT, a record that still feels so fresh despite being four months old (that’s a dig at the current short-attention-span album cycles). The song still starts with a synthy rhythm and will make many people dance from the second it starts. Now it will allow clubbers to pretend they’re singing in someone else’s voice. Of course it should, that’s fun and fun’s the whole point of BRAT.
Caroline Polachek transforms “Everything Is Romantic” into a duet of wing-girls keeping each other’s backs. Big name guests are all over the place. Bon Iver gilded onto “I Think About It All the Time” with a soulful voice; Julian Casablancas has a dreamy auton-tune moment on “Mean Girls.” Matty Healy from the 1975 slowly draws across “I Might Say Something Stupid.” The version of “Talk talk” with Troye Sivan is actually wicked.
Some of these songs are reimagined, some only have additional but noteworthy vocal performances. Whatever these songs are, they are ultimately Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat.
New Music Friday Top Picks:
Chat Pile – Cool World [The Flenser]
Dua Saleh – I Should Call Them [Ghostly International]
Elucid – Revelator [Fat Possum]
Glorilla – Glorious [CMG/Interscope]
Harmony – Gossip [Harmony’s Fantasy Corp]
Hemlock – 444 [Hemlock]
JENNIE – “Mantra” [Columbia]
The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers [Universal]
La Femme – Rock Machine [Disque Pointu]
The Linda Lindas – No Obligation [Epitaph]
Michigander – “Emotional” [Totally Normal]
Molina – When You Wake Up [Escho]
Nate Mercereau – Excellent Traveler [Third Man]
Popstar Benny – Oasis [True Panther]
Rich the Kid, Famous Dex & Jay Critch – Rich Forever 5 [Rich Forever Music/Create Music Group]
Sam Wilkes – Iiyo Iiyo Iiyo [Wilkes]
Touché Amoré – Spiral in a Straight Line [Rise]
Tucker Zimmerman – Dance of Love [4AD]
Tyla – Tyla + [Epic]
Which of these tracks from New Music Friday will you add to your favorite playlists today? Any we missed? Let us know in the comments or on Instagram!
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