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Miles Kane – Electric Flower

Fuzzed-out guitar licks drip over a strutting, lascivious beat while Kane channels Marc Bolan's sultry croon in an ode on a botanically-dubbed lover, all wrapped up in a warm layer of saturation that recalls both retro recordings, and the scores of present-day tracks made to invoke that same analog aura.

The cover of Muse's new single "Unraveling"

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Muse – Unraveling

..."Unraveling," feels like a both a culmination and an evolution of all these past iterations of Muse, merging the synthwave ventures of their later years with the guitar-driven heaviness of their earlier repertoire.

A photo of the musician Obonjayar dancing on the cover to his single "Holy Mountain"

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Obongjayar – Holy Mountain

... OB's exultations are put forward with an delicacy found in the most effervescent indie pop. The end result feels at once relaxed and celebratory: a perfect portmanteau of Afrobeat jubilation and Indie contemplation.

A photo of musicians Haley Williams and Moses Sumney, taken from the video to the song "I Like It I Like It."

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Moses Sumney & Haley Williams – I Like It I Like It

"I Like It I Like It" is a soulful, almost sinister little helping of R&B, built on a roiling, slinky beat and a positively seductive bassline and topped with luscious, chime-like keys, plus the occasional clarion-call synth. Both singers join in reverb-drenched harmony throughout, splitting the song's two primary verses between them before ending once more in perfect tandem.

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Lola Young – Conceited

With its stark, damning lyrical accusations and an arrestingly erratic groove - not to mention it's stunner of an act three twist - "Conceited" is a stormy portrait of a toxic love affair painted upon the canvas of its off-kilter and cleverly turbulent arrangement. It's also a brief and striking distillation of everything that makes its parent album - and Young's music in general - so compelling.

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Nilüfer Yanya – Like I Say (I runaway)

"Like I Say (I runaway)" is the sort of song that one thinks they've might have heard a million times, when in fact they've never heard it at all, in the same way that genius feels obvious in hindsight.

Cover art for SSLy Scout's single I And I

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SSLy Scout – I And I

“A seismic steppers cut that detonates inside the echo chamber — bass you feel in your lungs before your ears catch it, tape delays like slow-moving electrical storms. SSLy Scout pushes Bristol’s dub tradition forward with authority and grace.” — RumorControl (9.1)