At JustFocus, we love all styles of music. And so that your playlist is never too dated, our team of editors offers you at the beginning of the week the playlist of the editorial #51, a selection of 10 tracks freshly released. From Sundara Karma to Anna Kova via Truth, here is a 360-degree tour of the latest news to add to your playlist!
Camille's choices
Phoenix – J-Boy
The Versailles residents made their comeback this year with the announcement of a new album Ti-Amo, which will be available on June 9th. To make us wait until this fateful date, Phoenix unveiled J-Boy through a very vintage clip and we love it! We can't wait to see them live in many French-speaking festivals this summer such as Eurockéennes and Garorock. But especially on September 29th at the AccorHotels Arena!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwjMiWgCi8E&feature=em-uploademail
Sundara Karma – Explore
Sundara Karma, the British band from Reading, released their debut album Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect earlier this year. But now Sundara Karma has just unveiled a totally new track: Explore ! We love it, we find the charismatic voice Oscar Pollock and a catchy rhythm … I am conquered!
Chase & Status and Blossoms – This Moment
Blossoms is the British band from Stockport that was the musical revelation not to be missed in 2016. They released last August their first eponymous album which met with a huge success having even been awarded a gold record! This opus offered us many hits: Honey Sweet, Getaway, At Most A Kiss, Blown Rose and the iconic Charlemagne ! And now an unreleased title in collaboration with Chase & Statutes has just been released: This Moment, and it's excellent!
Noucky's picks
Anna Kova – Believe
After her duet with Grand Corps Malade on the title Espoir adapted from the film PATIENTS, Anna Kova returns to make us discover a little more of her universe. His new music video Believe, released this week, is directed by Vincent Duquesne. We find with pleasure his soul and jazzy voice hovering on a music in weightlessness. The sound contrasts with the harsher but wonderfully enhanced images of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IqyBmIuPek&feature=youtu.be
BLOW – Fall In Deep
BLOW has just released a new music video for Fall In Deep. With more than 3,000,000 listens on Spotify, this title deserved a spotlight with a video. It is made by Elsa & Johanna, graduates of the Beaux-Arts and Decorative Arts in Paris. It is a kind of Thelma and Louise re-visited and the group tells us about the feminine friendship that can sometimes be fusional and destroy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGfQDrXHEwk&feature=youtu.be
TRUTH – Bout You
Another favorite of the week: VÉRITÉ who will soon release his album Somewhere in Between on June 23, 2017. Here is a new extract and we can find a nice cocktail of references. Indeed, to produce his album, Vérité collaborated with producers such as Liam Howe (Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding, FKA Twigs), Tim Anderson (Twenty One Pilots, Solange, Mr. Little Jeans), Peter Thomas (Selena Gomez, Betty Who),… A mix of electronic and alt-pop sounds . A real pleasure!
https://youtu.be/7nPMfiibxSM
Matthew's choice
Caballero & JeanJass – SVP
The return of the long-awaited Belgian duo! After an excellent album, the duo hits hard and makes its return with a second volume. The title SVP recalls their best titles between happiness and big bass. The sounds are joyful and the visual friendly. Their second album is a project of very good quality to listen to without limits.
Soraya's Choice
Miley Cyrus – Malibu
We had left her rebellious teenager, who sang her beer/joint evenings with her friends. She is more hippie than punk in the video for Malibu, the first single from Miley Cyrus' new album. This title reminds me a bit of that strange Skittles ad where we see a Bob Marley lookalike milking a giraffe to get a bucket of fruity candy. Between pop and guitars a little roots, this single is definitely not the one we expected. But Miley Cyrus does not seem to decide to land, musically speaking, and continues to surprise us. So we are waiting for the rest of his new songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j9zMok6two
Piotr's choice
POND – The Weather
The Australian wave, the sequel: they come from Perth, here is Pond, some of whose members participated in the first Tame Impala (another notorious local marsupial). In The Weather, the same mix of influence, the same absence of walls: Bowie, Beach Boys, psychedelia… Interspersed with uncontrolled moments, those who love music made of dreams and madness will love Pond.
Emma's choice
Amber Mark – S P A C E
If the travels could sing, they would write 3:33 AM. But in the meantime, this is the first EP (released on May 12) by New Yorker Amber Mark, produced by an impressive patchwork of different and international musical influences. Multicultural then, but also fresh and rhythmic are three of the many adjectives that come to mind from the first listening of S P A C E. An electro instrument coupled with snippets of Indian drum and an R&B voice that undulates, enough to make us change our minds about the usual "world music" and its forced musical diversity. In short, a naturally harmonious track, perfect for a summer playlist as we like them.
