Q3/15

So, another three moths are behind us, the summer is over and the end of the year is slowly approaching. Plan to limit myself to 50 tracks per mix is totally out of the window, and I’m not even a little bit sorry.

And while we were enjoying warm weather Years & Years, Kwabs, Halsey and Meg Myers released their debut studio albums. Beach House and Tame Impala also have new albums out and I can already see them being among top ten albums of the year. Also, I have to mention new albums from Youth Lagoon, Disclosure (I really had my doubts with them but they proved me wrong) Chvrches and Lana Del Rey.

Daughter have a first single from their upcoming album due for January. Jamie Woon (!!!) is alive, has a new single out and his 2nd album is scheduled to be out in November.

ZHU is working on a new Genesis Series project which will feature AlunaGeorge, Skrillex, A-Trak, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gallant and more.

While we are talking about new projects I have to mention Sexwitch, a musical collaboration between Toy and Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. Their self-titled debut album, released on 25 September 2015, consists of six cover versions of 1970s psych and folk songs from Iran, Morocco, Thailand and the United States.

You can hear all of them, as well as new tracks from Jarryd James, Låpsley, John Grant and many more if you just play the 8tracks mix below.

http://8tracks.com/jaatil/new-q3-15

Q1/15

The first three months of the 2015 are behind us and here are the 50 songs that marked them.

We heard the long anticipated returns of Florence + the Machine, Sufjan Stevens and Róisín Murphy, Marina and The Diamonds, Say Lou Lou and Twin Shadow already have their albums out, Christina Wood and Cicely Goulder, aka Kaleida, finally released the debut EP, while James Bay, Kwabs and Shura with new tracks proved that BBC was right when they were nominated for the Sound of 2015.

Also, the begging of the year introduced us to Matt Woods, Maiday and Jarryd James who all have just one song so far but it was more than enough to totally fall in love with them. You can hear all of them, as well as a lot more if you just play the 8tracks mix below.

http://8tracks.com/jaatil/new-q1-15

Ms. Chlöe Howl

Following the success of great pop/electropop/synthpop track No strings, she released three-songs debut EP “Rumour” in the 2013 which got her a well deserved place among the nominees for the BBC Sound of 2014.

The release of her self-titled debut album was first said to happen in march, then in june, but now it’s rumoured it will finally get out in september. Until that happens enjoy the lead single from the album.

p.s. she did a very interesting cover of Justin Timberlake – Señorita.

http://www.chloehowl.com/
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https://soundcloud.com/chloehowl
http://www.last.fm/music/ChloeHowl