The Bias Record is a Okay-pop weblog that additionally covers a good quantity of J-pop. However together with most music followers, I take pleasure in tracks from all around the globe. So, I assumed I’d begin a month-to-month round-up of a number of the non-Okay-pop songs which have caught my ear. No scores — simply highlights!
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Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding – Miracle
Now that we’ve scoured home music and synthwave for all they’re price, may trance be the following dance style to re-take the mainstream? Can I probably want for such a tremendous future??
That is such an unimaginable throwback – nostalgic however tremendous recent as a result of it’s been such a very long time since this sound has been fashionable.
Gustaph – As a result of Of You
Talking of home music, 90’s home is considered one of my favourite genres and Gustaph completely re-creates it with the addictive As a result of Of You. That beat!! It’s so satisfying.
This music is representing Belgium in Eurovision, btw.
Leksikon – Beat Of The Metropolis (ft. Martin Halla)
Do you want Donkeyboy? Do you want Rat Metropolis? Do you discover these questions type of gross and borderline offensive?
Each acts are the brainchild of brothers Cato and Kent Sundberg, and Leksikon is their newest mission. It’s improbable electro funk.
Loreen – Tattoo
Oh my god… this music. Go away it to Loreen to ship an epic sound that feels far wider in scope and greater in power than anything on the market. It’s the sequel to 2012’s immortal Euphoria we’ve all been begging for. I’m linking her efficiency reasonably than the audio as a result of the visible positively provides to the enchantment.
Marcus & Martinus – Air
Whereas Loreen could have simply (and deservedly) gained Melodifestivalen, twin brothers Marcus and Martinus made a reputation for themselves with this addictive piece of digital pop.
Oliver Tree & David Guetta – Right here We Go Once more
I like the relentless power that comes together with an Oliver Tree observe. It is a good praise to final 12 months’s Miss You.
Perses – Catch The Night time
Thai group Perses impressed me with their debut My Time final 12 months. I wasn’t a fan of their follow-up, however the bounding power of Catch The Night time regains the momentum – even when it borrows from a few of my least favourite Okay-pop tropes.
PNAU – The Onerous Means (ft. Khalid)
PNAU meld ambiance and drive for the shimmering The Onerous Means. It’s barely extra upbeat than their current work with Dua Lipa and Britney Spears, hearkening again to their glorious 2011 album Delicate Universe.
Sigala – Feels This Good
Sigala has change into considered one of my favourite producers of the period. His music is so massive and euphoric. It doesn’t attempt to reinvent the dancefloor wheel, however as a substitute leans into all the most effective facets of the style. That is one other stunner.