WIDE Recommends: #0004
Releases that we’ve awaited for an eternity, unintelligible hieroglyphs, a new pop diva with a body positive agenda and two singers from Sweden challenging the disoriented millenium-turn romeos and house producer. These are our finds and reccommendations for this week.
1. Four Tet – Nuevo track con jeroglíficos impronunciables
Just a week from now british producer Kieran Hebden – a.k.a. Four Tet – gave us a nice little remix of “Opal”. Just yesterday, he’s dropped a new track with a gleeful nudge towards the schizophrenic, as its title is a collection of undecipherable gibberish without any likeness of meaning. A hyperkinetic tune with a pulsing drum beat, overflowing with digital marimbas and gummy pitch bent synths for the soundtrack of your .120mph highway rides or your favourite substance-abuse nightclub.
2. AMWIN — “Uber”
AMWIN a.k.a. Amanda Winberg is a newcomer from Sweden that we’ll be keeping our eye on. Even though she’s a former X Factor contestant, she has debuted with the controversial single “Uber”, a sullen and uncomprising take on the romance? story where she treats her lover like a faucet. The chorus reveals “what’s going on” to a confused fuckboi who struggles to catch up: “Fuck me, then get dressed, your Uber’s outside”.
3. Seinabo Sey – “I Owe You Nothing”
Seinabo Sey debut album made our mouths water in 2015 and her new album is just around the corner. The Swedish-Gambian singer now presents us her single “I Owe You Nothing”, flaunting her husky and resounding voice. Following in the steps of her first release, the first single’s accompanied by a video and b-side available on Spotify.
4. Dounia – “So Cool”
Dounia dropped her new video for “So Cool”, a self-conscious track of romance from the girl’s point of view, mocking her make-believe naieveté and her lover’s far from seamless pose as she shows us her deep desire to be loved. This is also the directoral debut of model Barbie Ferreira, which was filmed in Connecticut after an unexpected snowfall and was inspired on the aesthetics of goth girls from cult classic films from the ’90s.
5. Dabrye (feat. Shigeto) – “Sunset”
We were waiting for almost an eternity – cross that out, it was just seventeen years – for the closing act of Michigan producer Dabrye, which is his third album Three/Three, and gladly, it was well worth the wait. The new material features “Sunset”: a mellow, relaxed trap framed by a nostalgic instrumental hip-hop beat performed on real drums (clearly, Shigeto’s contribution to the piece) with the eventual adornment of unexpected reference-laden samples.
6. Melé – “Tribal Layers”
After making a killing on the dancefloors, house producer Melé has returned with a new EP entitled Tribal Trax, signed to the Unknown To The Unknown label, who have chosen to present us “Tribal Layers” in the manner of an entrée. Diving among beats, robotic claps and on repeat screaming, this track generates a terrible urge to shake dat booty, even for those of us gifted with a pair of left feet.
