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Gianna's Coffee-Shop Pop and This Week's Top New Tracks
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Discover Gianna's debut EP 'Behind the Wings' and explore this week's best new tracks, featuring artists like Nia Archives, deBasement, and Downtown Boys.
Gianna, a 23-year-old Camden-based artist, has released her debut EP 'Behind the Wings', which blends polished boho-pop with elements of trip-hop and Balkan folk. Her music is reminiscent of early 2000s Nelly Furtado and All Saints. Gianna's songs are bright and effervescent, making a strong case for the revival of coffee-shop pop.
Other notable new tracks include:
- Nia Archives – Danger: A UK junglist's return with a catchy playground chant acronym and swerving beats.
- deBasement – Aftermarket Bass (ft Nikki Nair): Fuzzed-out dancefloor bass and commanding icy vocals.
- Downtown Boys – No Me Jodas: Rhode Island punks return with an expanded sound, blending spit-and-sawdust squall with doom.
- Brennan Wedl and Waxahatchee – Six O’Clock News: A beautiful essay on outlaw love, combining Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow styles.
- Empress Of – Dream House: Sweet, shuffling R&B offering to her family, whose home burned down in the Altadena fires.
- Lee “Scratch” Perry and Mouse on Mars – Rockcurry: Lee “Scratch” Perry's final sessions with a German electronic duo, producing synth-winking music.
- Khun Narin Electric Phin Band – Poet Wong Pt 1 (เปิดวง ตอน 1): Serene, intricate, psychedelic, and pulverising music from a marching band in northern Thailand.
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