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From <\/strong>New York Pull up your beanbag, light a lava lamp and crack open the Vicks VapoRub: downtempo is back. New compilation Telepathic Fish documents the 90s south London ambient night; Logic1000\u2019s latest DJ-Kicks mix would barely register on an ECG; there\u2019s none more languid than even the summer\u2019s flagship pop album, Addison by Addison Rae. New York producer and musician James K has been dabbling in trip-hop \u2013 and various shades of experimental pop and club music \u2013 for more than a decade, but nonetheless, her new album, Friend, arrives right on time for summer\u2019s wind down. (What is autumn if not the chill out room to escape the year\u2019s most hectic season?)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/span>James K: Play \u2013 video<\/span><\/p>\n While the accompanying text around the record speaks impenetrably of \u201coneiric fogs\u201d and a \u201cgaseous halo\u201d, its many pleasures are in fact immediate and enveloping. These songs bob along on sleepy breakbeats wreathed in liquid, shoegaze guitar and angelic atmospherics; K\u2019s melancholy falsetto is self-possessed, tracing its own hypnotic path through the blissed-out clouds she spins like candyfloss. (Fans of the more evanescent end of Caroline Polachek\u2019s catalogue will find lots to get lost in.) Over repeat listens, this dreamy record leaves stronger impressions, of soft Balearic ecstasy on Peel; a little dank post-punk on pop gem On God; liturgical awe on Rider. Seductively slow it may be, Friend nevertheless seems primed to accelerate this cult hero\u2019s emergence from the underground. Laura Snapes<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Symphonic trip-hop \u2026 Zuli.<\/span> Photograph: Malak El Sawi<\/p>\n Zuli \u2013 Care<\/strong> Titanic \u2013 Gotera<\/strong> Sophie \u2013 Ooh<\/strong> Cass McCombs \u2013 Peace<\/strong> Mark William Lewis \u2013 Still Above<\/strong> Sombr \u2013 We Never Dated<\/strong> I Jordan \u2013 An Angel (ft Tom Rasmussen)<\/strong> Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.<\/p>\n <\/span>Add to playlist \u2013 the week\u2019s best new tracks<\/span> Spotify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From New YorkRecommended if you like Caroline Polachek, Voice Actor, VegynUp next New album Friend released via AD 93 on 5 September Pull up your beanbag, light a lava lamp and crack open the Vicks VapoRub: downtempo is back. New compilation Telepathic Fish documents the 90s south London ambient night; Logic1000\u2019s latest DJ-Kicks mix would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1137,1139,1140,817,686,1138,1141,1142,969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-add","9":"tag-downtempo","10":"tag-dream","11":"tag-james","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-playlist","14":"tag-pop","15":"tag-tracks","16":"tag-weeks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Recommended if you like <\/strong>Caroline Polachek, Voice Actor, Vegyn
Up next <\/strong>New album Friend released via AD 93 on 5 September<\/p>\nThis week\u2019s best new tracks<\/h2>\n
Following up his acclaimed 2024 album Lambda, the title track of the Egyptian producer\u2019s new EP is skittering, splintered, symphonic trip-hop, with bells and whispers reaching across the uncanny valley. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
Mabe Fratti\u2019s duo with H\u00e9ctor Tosta returns, channelling the astonishing metal energy of their recent live sets into an epic where Fratti\u2019s ragged voice pierces ceaseless rounds of artillery-fire drums. LS<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>A deep cut from the 10th anniversary reissue of Product: \u201cI\u2019m your Play-Doh baby \/ Push me to my knees,\u201d a female voice pleads, starkly melancholy against the rubbery bass and ecstatic synth blurts. LS<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>A riff that\u2019s like sunlight on the broken surface of a pond powers the latest stunner from an artist who, coming up to 12 solo albums, has amassed one of the great bodies of American song. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>After May\u2019s beautifully brooding Tomorrow Is Perfect, the enigmatic London songwriter lets the light in, splicing strangely sweet, jazzy harmonica into his deep-voiced lyrics on off-kilter relationships, whether narcotic or romantic. LS<\/em><\/p>\n
The lad with the sharpest cheekbones in pop made the heartbreak anthem of the year with Back to Friends. His new one goes from hurt to outright bitter, but the sturdy chorus scans just as satisfyingly. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>You can practically feel the throbbing walls and rushing skin on this grounded yet celestial rave hymn to rebirth and transition, with more than a little Pet Shop Boys in its DNA. LS<\/em><\/p>\n