Internet Songs of the Week

We rattle through the most notable bits of music we’ve listened to this week

This week has been seven days of pure revelation.

Skepta’s revealed himself as a true blue Tim Westwood fan till he dies, Brian Eno has extolled the virtues of Jeremy Corbyn at a Labour rally, and Battles decided to go full internet and premiere a few songs via live loop on YouTube for a start. Who knows where the week will lead us next?

Oh, but of course. We meet again. Here are some more eye-openers for you in the form of the musical tidbits we like to call Internet Songs of the Week.

DJ Spinn – All Day Remix

Self-released

A long overdue Chicago linkup. DJ Spinn ramps up the tempo of Kanye’s All Day and turns it into a pounding Teklife classic. The video does a sterling job of reminding us that footwork isn’t just about spilling your drink at 3AM when someone drops Rashad. The dance is still at the centre of the movement and video shows the Era Footwork crew from the South (“SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH”) side of Chicago come through with a superhuman masterclass.

Duncan Harrison

Nudes – Constant Summer

Dog Knights Productions and Barely Regal

Constant Summer is the first track from Nudes’ (who are members of Playlounge and Saturday’s kids) upcoming, self-titled debut album. In just roughly two minutes of post-punk bliss, it manages encapsulate adolescent excitement, inner conflict and a heightened sense of importance of your own feelings. In addition there’s a driving bass line, melodic guitar and soft vocals that will make your finger reside on the repeat button forevermore.

What makes songs like these excellent versus just ‘good’ is when the artist stops attempting to translate their experience into a fable but rather imposes their fable onto experience. Nudes manage to do the latter.

The album comes out on 29 September on Dog Knights Productions and Barely Regal. Get stoked.

Danny Nedelko

FKA Twigs – Figure 8

The Mercury-nominated FKA Twigs can be described as none other than the illegitimate, toothy lovechild of Grace Jones and Tricky. When she is not boggling our brains with her plasticine, post-human exterior, she is seducing our ears in a strange ritual of aural coitus.

Beautifully textured harmonies pulse against a discord of haunting synths and acoustic bass, while sudden halts in beat and rhythm throw the listener into a stomach-plummeting suspense; the track is an aural acid trip.

Gunseli Yalcinkaya

Lil B x Chance The Rapper – Last Dance ft. Noame Gypsy

Self-released

While the world continues to snigger at memes which mock a flagging street rapper for having a successful girlfriend, two of the world’s most free-spirited rappers blessed us with a cluster of truly based freestyles. It’s a total mess of course, but this was created purely for the love, and there’s an energy here that’s good for the soul. I declare Lil B and Chance The Rapper winners of the Drake and Meek Mill beef.

Davy Reed

Rabit – Tearz

Different Circles

There’s a lot to be said about this airy effort from Houston-based producer and Björk favourite Rabit, but I think Logos puts it best. As the Weightless Records co-founder notes, “think early Philip Glass meets a datpiff mixtape voiceover and you’re there – kind of. Defines [sic] ‘weightless’ for us.” This one’s ‘weightless’ polished with a glacial death-stare, and it’s due on the ascendant label in September.

Anna Tehabsim

Worriers – Most Space

Don Giovanni Records

The unfailingly awesome Brooklyn artist and queer/feminist activist Lauren Denitzios Worriers have just released the most thrilling punk song of the summer and it was produced by Laura Jane Grace and it’s imbued with a brilliantly wry commentary on “the sense of entitlement and ownership over public space” and it’s just so clever and funny and Lou from UK punk heroes Caves and Mikey Erg from The Ergs and the incredible Pale Angels are also in the band and there’s a video which just makes you want to be friends with them and they’re wrestling over a copy of Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic and it premiered on Rookie this week and the album Imaginary Life is out now on Don Giovanni and look I just literally don’t know what else you want me to say about it I’m in love

Geraint Davies

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