frontline THEPLAYLIST STORMZY (FEAT. ED SHEERAN & PRETTYMUCH BURNA BOY) Own It (#Merky) Intl:EP (Syco) Stormzy’s bromance with Ed Sheeran With K-Poppers NCT Dream and continues, with Burna Boy arriving to add Brazilian singer Luísa Sonza among the flair to a good-time collab that’s already collaborators on this gleaming new EP, sending stream-counters into overdrive. Prettymuch are going global. Contact Rachel Campbell Contact Shane Hawkins [email protected] [email protected]
SORRY BLOSSOMS Rock‘n’roll Star (Domino) The Keeper (Virgin EMI) Sorry aren’t exactly old, but they’re Are Manchester City fans Blossoms imagining a “washed up” rock‘n’roll star paying tribute to a famous goalie? Joe here. Pleasingly, they pair the image Hart, perhaps? Likely not, but there’s with guitars that scrape like rusty nails. lots of piano-led pep here all the same. Contact Dan Carson Contact George Cochran DAVIDO (FEAT. SUMMER WALKER) [email protected] [email protected] D&G (Davido Worldwide Entertainment/RCA) CHELCEE GRIMES HAIM Davido’s second album A Good Time Tryna Not Fall In Love (Tap Records) Hallelujah (Polydor) is already being hailed as a modern Afrobeats masterpiece and this springy, Nestled in the Tap Management stable Haim mourn the loss of a friend highly danceable single is one of the with Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey, Chelcee on a crackling acoustic ballad that best moments across its 17 tracks. Grimes has starry ambitions, as the demonstrates their swollen ambitions Contact Taponeswa Mavunga euphoric drops of this new one prove. ahead of LP three. [email protected] Contact Ant Giannaccini Contact Susie Ember [email protected] [email protected]
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