Let's Eat Grandma - Deep Six Textbook
★★★★
Imagine the creepy Grady twins from The Shining were a little older and heavily into Lorde? Well, that's the basic proposition here. Let's Eat Grandma are Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton, teenage multi-instrumentalists from Norwich who specialise in what they call "experimental sludge pop". And for a song whose lyrics may or may not be, simply, a mundane whinge about hating school, Deep Six Textbook is nevertheless quite impressively weird. The pair's debut album I Gemini is out June 17th.
Future ft. The Weeknd - Low Life
★★★
Thematically speaking, no one could ever accuse Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn of pushing the hip-hop envelope in his lyrics. The lead single from his Evol album features the usual litany of boasts about hotel suites, luxury sports cars, liquor and room service bills that "cost more than your whole life". "I'm repping for the low life," he claims on the chorus. Yeah, he's a regular Jeffrey Bernard.
Craig David - One More Time
★★
"Don't matter what's been said and done / I can make it right . . . " Holy God, Craig David is like the Ebola virus. You think you've seen the last of him. You think the threat has permanently receded. But he's always still out there, plotting his next horrifying return. This time the British R&B lothario is warbling sexily about some woman who used to come to collect him from raves when he was a teenager. Wait, wasn't that his mother?
Slow Place Like Home - Tiger Lilly
★★★
Released as a double A-side vinyl single (with Friday), Tiger Lilly is Donegal-based solo artist Keith Mannion's first foray into the studio since releasing his debut album Romolo to acclaim last year. The video by Jules Hackett could be described as the world's slowest moving heist movie. Slow Place Like Home play The Working Man's Club in Dublin on July 8th.
