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Here’s your latest FP Picks update .. loads of great new music as always inc tracks fm Matilda Lyn, Slow Fiction, Jordan Patterson & more. If you like what you hear please follow and share this playlist, it helps us keep doing our thing by getting the algorithms on our side. Also please support the artists featured in any way you can!
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Way Dynamic – Miffed It
It might have come out last year but it’s great so check out Miffed It, a captivating track about the unshakable knowledge that you messed up and there’s no going back, taken from the album Massive Shoe. Melbourne’s Way Dynamic is a revivalist pop project spearheaded by Dylan Young, who enlisted a talented roster of backing musicians to fill these songs out with everything from pedal steel and upright bass to clarinet. The track opens with this fun little drum fill that pings around your speakers for a few beats before it’s joined by a simple acoustic guitar. As the guitar alternates between a swishy chord progression and nifty fingertapped riff, Young enters the fray, softly crooning the song’s namesake and setting the stakes in the simplest of terms. A harmonium joins in, followed shortly by a squeaky, low-humming violin, each instrument adding a beautiful new layer to the revelations spelled out in the lyrics.
SOFY – Superfriend
Leicester-born, London-based songwriter SOFY continues to showcase her knack for heartfelt storytelling on Superfriend, a nostalgic ode to the friendships that stay with us through every stage of life. Blending indie sensibilities with gentle electronic textures, the track marks a subtle but captivating evolution in her sound while never losing sight of the warmth that defines her songwriting. Drawing inspiration from artists such as The xx and Aphex Twin, the track strikes a beautiful balance between intimate indie pop and understated electronica. Gentle breakbeats, hypnotic rhythms and airy production create the perfect backdrop for SOFY’s warm, understated vocal, allowing the song’s sense of nostalgia to unfold naturally rather than overwhelming the listener.
Slow Fiction – satellite
Slow Fiction announce debut album dollhouse and share new single satellite. The track explores themes of empathy and community, pairing shimmering guitars with expansive vocals. Vocalist Julia Vassallo states: “satellite is an allegory for collective atrophy in a country that’s poisoned with an Us vs. Them mentality. I was thinking of a person watching something uncomfortable on TV, and then being like ‘oh, that’s too much, I have to turn it off,’ because as a whole we’ve become selective with our empathy. I heard someone say recently that the price of community is occasional inconvenience; we’ve got to start considering community as more than just our own digital echo chambers.”
Opus Kink – Will It Come For You?
Opus Kink have released Will It Come For You?, the newest single from their upcoming debut album The Sweet Goodbye. Singer and guitarist Angus Rogers says, “Will It Come For You? is a song about searching for your function in the world, the fear that there might not be one, and the sense of an encroaching fate different and maybe more terrible than you had imagined. It’s also about becoming more jaded, more afraid that the world will find ways to dash your hopes, and wondering if you can break through that and discover new ways to live within the ascribed hellscape! The track enters bounding, wonky pop territory, and showcases the band’s manic absorption of influences shining through the discipline of the record’s new-yet-ancient sound.
James Blake – I Had a Dream She Took My Hand
Back in February, James Blake shared I Had a Dream She Took My Hand, the second single from his seventh studio album Trying Times. The song features a sample of It Was Only a Dream – a 2019 track by East Los Angeles band Thee Sinseers, written and produced by peermusic songwriter Joseph Quiñones. A singular and important artistic statement, the album was written between Los Angeles and London and is described as moving “along the pressure lines of modern life, where overwhelm becomes both subject and atmosphere.” It explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the fragility of love against a backdrop of global anxiety, and the disorienting loop of hope and dread that defines contemporary life.
Curiosity Shop – Crows
Edinburgh-based alt-folk band Curiosity Shop have announced their signing to Fontana Records and released their debut single Crows. The band share: “Crows is a really important song to us, not least because it was one of the first Ruairidh and Sonny wrote together, but it was also one of the first we played as a group. Since we started playing gigs it has been hard to pull it from the no.1 spot on our setlist, the accapella start also serves as our pre-show warm up routine (followed by a series of all important hugs). Naturally, this song felt right as our first release.” Curiosity Shop have been playing their way across venues in Scotland, even going on to support Divorce during their 2025 UK tour.
Muireann Bradley – Not Going Back
Donegal musician Muireann Bradley has shared the new single Not Going Back. On this blues-infused track, Bradley’s storytelling comes to life through captivating guitar and soulful vocals and she states: “Not Going Back is my latest original track, which sees me playing with a full rhythm section and exploring a sound that moves away from the bluesier influences in my songwriting. While I still love performing solo, like many of my heroes, having a rhythm section frees me from having to be the drummer and bass player too, allowing me to focus more on my vocals and melodic guitar playing. The track was written in the studio with my fantastic producer Declan Gaffney, and the brilliant Wildes (Ella Walker). We clicked immediately, and the collaboration felt incredibly natural and positive. I think that energy really shines through in the finished recording.”
Jordan Patterson – Cinderella
LA-based artist Jordan Patterson has shared the final preview of her forthcoming EP Songs From A Valley Girl. New single Cinderella, produced by frequent Dijon collaborators Mulherin, is folk-infused reverie painting vivid brushstrokes of the conflicting emotions that arise in a volatile relationship. Augmented by wispy harmonies and synthetic flourishes at the track’s crescendo, Patterson’s excavation of stifled emotions leaves a lingering impression. Of the EP, Patterson shares: “I said exactly what I meant to say. I felt like I believed in myself. I had a lot of faith. I was like, if I’m gonna make this EP, it’s gonna be exactly what I meant to say.”
mary in the junkyard – Mouse
mary in the junkyard have shared their new single Mouse, taken from their debut album Role Model Hermit. The track fuses the band’s fantastical story telling with hard hitting themes of reconnecting with a person you abandoned in a former life. The song inspired the album’s artwork and is, in Clari Freeman-Taylor’s own words, the product of an Iceland trip, a fixation on the ocean and the memory of a former life. “I went to Iceland and became obsessed with the ocean,” she has said. “I remembered I was a fisherman in a former life with a mouse in my pocket, lost in a storm. It is about me reconnecting with the mouse when they have taken on a human form in this life.” That description is not a metaphor. It is a mary in the junkyard lyric, which is precisely why it works.
Matilda Lyn – Little Baby
Honey drip vocals built around an ethereal pop melody push Gothenburg artist, and junior kickstart Matilda Lyn firmly into one to watch territory. The track is the perfect expansion of the cosy folk of her old work. There is a flirtation with electronica as expansive new ideas stream in like bright lights, and Lyn delivers from the get go. “In my house growing up there was always a mixed genre of music, my parents loved to sing Simon & Garfunkel songs together,” says Lyn. Reflecting on the story of the track, “I love the message of this song. It’s not so much a pure love song, it’s deeply introspective focusing on insecurities. The song is full of my experiences growing up. Sometimes it’s easy to think you’ve grown up but then the little baby in you shows up”.
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