Welcome to five outstanding tracks hand-picked for you. I hope you‘re doing alright and soon head off into the weekend, or, even better, you‘re already on vacation.
Today, Weekly5‘s 160th edition provides an inspiring and smooth calmness, bold ideas, and cool simplicity.
Yttling Jazz, Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday
Illegal Hit (Edit)
A fascinating collaboration between Yttling Jazz, the project of Swedish artist Björn Yttling (Peter Bjorn & John), the celebrated spoken word artist Joshua Idehen and his producer, Saturday, Monday. A reinterpretation of the song Illegal Hit as a dance anthem, bubbling with expectation and yet poetic.
Luke Marzec
Broken Promises
The best aspects of soul and pop come together to create Broken Promises, the new single by Briton Luke Marzec. The brass instruments nestle gently against the piano, creating a velvety-soft contrast to Marzec’s sometimes whispering, sometimes raspy-rough voice.
Curtis Harding
Time
He strikes the balance between catchiness and artistic ambition like no other: Curtis Harding shows his greatness once again on Time. Royal soul with the perfect pinch of patina, driven yet full-bodied in the arrangement and showing sacred grandeur in the right moments.
Panic Shack
Pockets
The all-female punk band Panic Shack is racing towards success with a ravenous matter-of-factness. Pocket is a bitingly humorous reckoning with the lack of pockets on women’s trousers, absurd and yet emblematic of the inequality that women still have to fight against.
White Lies
In The Middle
The British trio are working towards the release of their seventh album Night Light. In The Middle is the second single—a six-minute sprawl of hypnotic escapades that reveals an uncharted facet of White Lies. But the execution is exquisite, the signature unmistakable.
