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We’ve got a banging selection of new tunes on FP Picks this week, including trx fm Lime Garden, Sports Team, Fontaines D.C. & many 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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Helen (Futureproof) x
Lime Garden – Moving Target
Brighton’s Lime Garden recently shared their emotive new single Moving Target, which sees them take on the roles of cabin crew for “Wonk Pop Airways” as they search the aisles for a mystery passenger, played by British poet and spoken-word performer Antony Szmierek. The track was produced with Charlie Andrew (Wolf Alice, Alt-J), and zeroes in on the rush of meeting someone new — and ultimately surrendering to the feeling. Singer Chloe Howard says: “Moving Target is about the feeling of falling in love even when you know it’s not going to work out. It’s rare to find people you are magnetically drawn to, but when you do – just dive in and brace yourself for whatever happens. Heartbreak is always worth it.”
Sports Team – Billy
Sports Team recently shared their uplifting, witty new single Billy. Frontman Alex Rice and co. lean into the similar infectious, soul-tinged melodies, but add new elements of grit and jagged guitars to make it one of their most lively and raucous songs since their 2020 debut album Deep Down Happy. Songwriter Rob Knaggs states: “It’s a love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night … We recorded it live at RAK studios over the first weeks of summer with Seth Evans and Adele Phillips. It felt like a return to how we made the first album. Fast, and loose and loud.” A real happy toe-tapper to put on repeat!
Kate Nash – Spilt Milk
Kate Nash has announced her sixth studio album Cailín, a release dedicated to her Irish heritage, and shared the single Spilt Milk which addresses reproductive rights and the erosion of bodily autonomy. Kate explains: “Spilt Milk was initially written about abortion law in Ireland before they repealed the 8th. It’s about not having control over your own body, not being listened to and feeling like the powers that be are getting bigger, scarier and more crushing.” Drawing on her familial roots and childhood summers spent in Ireland, the album explores themes of family, forgiveness, love, colonialism, religion and internalised shame. It blends traditional Irish instrumentation with punk aesthetics, hip-hop production and Nash’s pop instinct.
Johnny Marr – It’s Time
Johnny Marr‘s new single It’s Time sees the rocker take on “assholes with dodgy views”. The third cut from his upcoming fifth solo album The Age of Everything sees Marr “singing about some worldly issues but finding defiance in idealism”. He explains: “I wanted a lyric that matched the exuberance of the music but is actually about resisting cynicism and corruption: ‘Everybody ain’t making it / Change the weather and breaking it / Mobilise to know the truth / Open eyes to know the truth.’ Of the album, Marr says: “This is the record that’s been the most cathartic. The title came to me early in the process and became an inescapable idea. It seemed to sum up the way I think a lot of people are feeling. It’s all encompassing, but it’s not necessarily a negative statement. There’s a sense of overwhelm in the culture brought about by technology, but looking at it with a different light, there could also be a sense of possibility.”
Angèle – Love Triangle (ft. Caroline Polachek, SebastiAn)
Belgian pop artist and songwriter Angèle faces a tough decision on her new song Love Triangle: how to choose between SebastiAn and Caroline Polachek. The trio’s single, which premiered on BBC Radio 1, finds Polachek wooing the Belgian star in her native French over a killer electro beat courtesy of the Ed Banger-affiliated producer. It’s the latest preview of Angèle’s third album Instinct, which is out tomorrow and also features Justice and Soulwax. Angèle states: “This song first came from a conversation I overheard at a dinner in Brussels. Some friends were debating the particularities of a love triangle, and I remember being completely captivated by their stories. I wrote Love Triangle down on a little piece of paper under the table.”
Overmono – After The Rain
Welsh duo Overmono (brothers Ed and Tom Russell) have purposefully cultivated a fanbase that heralds them as one of the UK’s most original contemporary live electronic acts. They’ve never really played by the rules of standard dance music, easily gliding between gritty warehouse energy and deeply emotional, pop-leaning songwriting. Latest single After The Rain is a masterclass in mood, pairing the kind of sharp, intricate production we’ve come to expect from the brothers with a brilliant vocal feature from experimental pop duo Smerz. Instead of just writing a straightforward banger, they’ve built a track that feels like a bittersweet release—the exact kind of song you want to hear when you’re nursing a late-night epiphany on the way home.
Fontaines D.C. – Where Is Gone? (ft. ROSALÍA)
Fontaines D.C. recruited ROSALÍA for their orchestral ballad Where Is Gone? and the band’s Carlos O’Connell states: “I’ve been a fan of ROSALÍA since her debut album, which was absolutely beautiful. What really excited me was how she was keeping a Spanish tradition of music alive, which in a spiritual way felt akin to what we’ve tried to do with Irish music. For someone with roots in both countries, it’s been beautiful to see. She’s an artist who’s blown me away at every stage since.” The album Dopamine Chamber, out tomorrow, is also less optimistic than Romance. “I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning,” said vocalist Grian Chatten. What a stunning track – definitely on repeat!
Fine – Everything in the shade
Danish songwriter Fine (Fine Glindvad Jensen) has shared the dreamy piano ballad Everything in the shade, taken from her album Jazz Dreams, which was self-produced, recorded and mixed by Fine. “Making records, it is not linear, Something is thrown into a room, and the bizarre is simply accepted, without ever feeling strange, you surrender to the dream’s own logic. It’s cruel, but it’s also freeing.” Fine explains. Even the artwork came together by chance: it started as a drawing an unknown fan gave her in exchange for entry to a Paris show last year, which feels pretty perfect for a record so interested in accidents, intuition and the strange little connections that end up sticking with us.
Band Of Revelations – Wishing Well (ft. Rosie Oddie, Mystery Jets)
Band Of Revelations (aka Tribes frontman Johnny Lloyd) has shared a heartfelt new single and states: “Wishing Well is a love song and a confession of faults, of lost love and broken promises. It is a realisation that, from the ruins of something gone so wrong, the best relationships are often formed.” There’s hurt in Wishing Well, but also the possibility of finding something good in its aftermath. The track pairs Lloyd’s candid lyricism with a warm, cinematic arrangement that sounds quite timeless and memorable and Rosie Oddie‘s dulcet tone fits perfectly with Lloyd’s expressive, passionate vocals, both radiating raw emotion and soul from start to finish. Mystery Jets’ Blaine Harrison and Kapil Trivedi contribute keys and drums, respectively.
Sandhouse – Gasoline
Sandhouse (Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway) blend melodic, off-kilter indie-rock with an uneasy undercurrent, creating a track where something feels just slightly wrong beneath the good, alongside an urge to escape. Sandhouse state: “Gasoline is about being trapped in a relationship that feeds on the softest, most fragile parts of yourself, and how realising this after leaving tarnishes memories you once treasured. Whilst writing this song we spoke a lot about this image of people having a fantastic day at the beach, looking closer and realising that all their food is mouldy, the ice cream is covered in ants, and the seagulls all have the plague. We wanted the start of the song to reflect the feeling of a perfect day underlined with the ominous feeling that something is not quite right. The chorus is meant to be a moment of clarity before the long outro which musically is representing this idea that you’re trapped. Something about it feels good but you also want it to end.”
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