The good new stuff playlist #2

 So last month it was mostly about 80s influenced synth pop. This time we have drifted away both in musical styles and geography. There's Hillary Anne from Côte d'Ivoire, with a distinctively African take on current pop, and Turhan James from Karachi Pakistan. Adeline's Whsiper My Name opens with a sublime guitar lick, and is as good apiece of retro soul as you will find. Another great playlist, if I do say so myself, enjoy...

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Hillary Anne   Low Girl   Rosehip   Lucy Dreams  Pushpin   Adeline  Turhan James   Four Nights  

Express Office Portico   Roderic H   Naytiive   Beks   Olivia Rose   Vissia    Katie Kittermaster

A late addition to the playlist is Lucy James 'Cloudy Vision'  a dream pop ballad that recalls people like Judie Tzuke.

 

The good new stuff playlist #1

Having spent the week listening the artists who have submitted songs to Musosoup, I've learnt something I knew already, that there is so much fab new music about that we can safely live without the harsher end of the music biz. I also discovered something I didn't know; that 80s style synth pop, synthwave or whatever you want to call it is back with a bang. 

I'm not sure what I expected to find by way of genres but this is music you can make in your bedroom so it makes sense that as bands struggle to get together that this would be the music of lockdown. 

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 Mantis State  Chris D'lima Karianne Jean Ben Xylo  Nocturnal's The Shop Window  The Woods
Zipten Zelha  Waxworks. Youth Antics Hypheria

Lindsay Ruth Young is the first addition to the playlist, cracking little song called 'Still'. Some Massive Attack stuff going on here...

One song that I selected isn't on Spotify, but as the video for Johnny Cleveland's Order of Courage live beats encapsulates the DIY ethos of much of this fab playlist that I've included it below.