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Conrad Taylor, Alessia Labate - Action
Alessia Labate's hook on Action ambushes you two days later mid-meeting. NCS strikes again, generic drop and all — the vocal carries it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Alie, HIKING - FLIRT (if i don't mean it)
Read more . . . →This one sounds like a text you shouldn’t have sent. “FLIRT (if i don’t mean it)” pairs Alie’s breathy, conversational vocal with HIKING’s clean electronic-pop production, and the whole thing has the jittery energy of overthinking a situationship at 1am. The beat is light and skittering — plucky synths, a bassline that stays out of the way — and it leaves a lot of room for the lyric, which is doing that modern thing where the casualness is the whole vulnerability. The hook lands at 1:08 and it’s sticky in the way good pop should be; I caught myself humming...
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ZKG - Right Here
Read more . . . →“Right Here” has more bite than the label it’s on usually gets credit for. NCS tracks get written off as gaming-stream wallpaper, and ZKG mostly ignores that ceiling: this is built around a catchy vocal hook, sure, but the drop earns its keep with a punchy, mid-tempo bass groove and a lead that snaps rather than soars. It’s clean, radio-ready electronic pop with just enough grit in the low end to keep it from floating away. The best bit is the second drop at 2:05, where a counter-melody sneaks in over the top and gives the whole thing a lift...
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Justė - Just A Little (feat. Sam Harper)
Read more . . . →Somewhere between a pop song and a dancefloor filler there’s a lane that acts like it barely exists, and Just A Little parks right in it. Justė turns in a confident, radio-shaped piece of dance-pop with Sam Harper’s vocal doing a lot of the lifting. The production keeps things clean and uncluttered — a bouncy plucked riff, a bassline that walks rather than pounds, a drop at 1:30 that’s more about groove than impact. It’s the kind of track that would slot into a summer playlist without anyone thinking too hard about it, which sounds like a backhanded compliment and...
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Tove Lo - I'm your girl right?
Tove Lo has been doing whatever she wants for years and I respect it. I'm your girl right? is catchy and slightly unhinged — that's the deal.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Nightly - 1989 feat. Fly By Midnight
Nightly and Fly By Midnight in full nostalgia mode on 1989 and completely committed to it. Not ironic about it at all. Respect.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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The Chainsmokers & Oaks - Love Is Kind
The Chainsmokers teamed up with Oaks and pulled way back from their usual maximalism. Love Is Kind is a better track for the restraint.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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K/DA - MORE
K/DA is a League of Legends virtual band and this goes harder than it has any right to. Madison Beer and (G)I-DLE, no weak links.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Lady Gaga - Abracadabra
Lady Gaga premiered Abracadabra during a Grammys commercial with 40 dancers and it goes hard. The electro-dance era suits her perfectly.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Zara Larsson - Lush Life
Zara Larsson's Lush Life via Wave Music and it still slaps years later. Some pop tracks refuse to age and this is one of them.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
