🎵 Music findings #11

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #11 of Music findings. Ten straight off the playlist, weighted towards the new this time: a debut single from February, a dancefloor edit, and a few old reliables to land on.

🎵 Songs

• Temper City — Self Aware — three Israeli musicians, a debut single in February, and the first Israeli band ever to chart on the Hot 100. Dark and rhythmic, somewhere between Steve Lacy and Hozier:

• Durdenhauer, A$AP Rocky, Skepta — Praise The Lord (Da Shine) - Durdenhauer Edit — the flute hook dragged onto a 2000s dancefloor: trance synths, hard-house kicks, and none of the original’s patience:

• ridgeclub — do i clench my fists? — the saxophone does the talking here, jazz phrasing laid over a loose pop bounce. Out since May and already worn in:

• Central Cee — Gen Z Luv — Cench on modern dating, two and a half minutes, not a bar of it idling.

• Travis Scott — HIGHEST IN THE ROOM — one plucked, detuned loop that never changes and never needs to. His most airless hit.

• A$AP Rocky, Rod Stewart, Miguel, Mark Ronson — Everyday — Rod Stewart on an A$AP Rocky hook shouldn’t work; it’s built from his old In a Broken Dream vocal and it carries the whole song.

• Artemas — Don’t You Start — two minutes of we’re not actually over, hushed and low-lit, gone before it repeats itself.

• Tove Lo — Habits (Stay High) — the party song that is very obviously a breakup song; the Hippie Sabotage remix is what made it inescapable.

• Coldplay — Paradise — strings, then that four-syllable hook. Mylo Xyloto at its least embarrassed.

• Sixpence None The Richer — Kiss Me — 1998, and still doing the work in every closing scene it has ever been dropped into.

🎧 Play them all — the full playlist, where the next issues pull from too:

🗂️ Catch up on past issues.