Collaborations are the order of the day on NME Radio, from unlikely team-ups (Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon on âBad Lifeâ) to longtime creative relationships (GOOD Music leaders Pusha T and Kanye West), to link-ups that make perfect, glorious sense (Aluna and Jayda G; PinkPantheress and Willow).
Throw in new statement-making tunes from Easy Life, Arcade Fire and Florence + the Machine and youâve got a great list of new tracks added to NME 1 and 2. Check them out here:
On the A List:
Easy Life
âBeeswaxâ
Easy Life want you to mind your own âBeeswaxâ. The Leicester group have taken a leaf out of Brockhamptonâs book for this track, which is an indication of the music to come. âIn a post-lockdown universe itâs easy to feel like we are oversharing and living under a microscope, everything feels so much more invasive and overwhelming after being locked away for so long at home,â frontman Murray Matravers has said of the songâs meaning. âSocial anxiety has been something Iâve always written about but I feel like this is a universal feeling now more than ever.â â Karen Gwee
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Arcade Fire
âUnconditional I (Lookout Kid)â
The hopeful and compassionate message of âUnconditional I (Lookout Kid)â feels like something the world needs to hear right now. âThereâs nothing saccharine about unconditional love in a world that is coming apart at the seams,â the band wrote in a resonant note on social media upon its release. âWE need each other, in all of our imperfection.â.â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
On the B List:
Aluna & Jayda G
âMine O’ Mineâ
Dancefloor dons Aluna and Jayda G join forces on the irresistible banger âMine Oâ Mineâ. Aluna remembered the chemistry in Jayda Gâs home studio in a statement: “I just remember laughing and enjoying the realization that neither of us are the cool, calm, collected badasses that we are on stage. When we’re in the studio, we’re just a couple of goofballs that love nerding out on beats and wordplay.” âMine Oâ Mineâ exudes that playful energy. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Liam Gallagher
âBetter Daysâ
Yeah Yeah Yeahsâ Nick Zinner lends his guitar wizardry to Liam Gallagherâs âBetter Daysâ, the optimistic new preview of upcoming album âCâmon You Knowâ. Liam walks the talk on this one: All UK proceeds from âBetter Daysâ will be donated to War Child for the rest of this year. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Beabadoobee
âSee You Soonâ
Beabadoobee has sent another dispatch from âBeatopiaâ. Fuzzy new single âSee You Soonâ is candid about its vulnerability, Bea Kristi singing on the bridge: âI wanted you to know I need time to grow and to exist / I think I needed space, let you know Iâm safe.â â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Darius
âEase Your Mindâ (feat. Devin Tracy)
Florida singer Devin Tracy lends his honey-dipped vocals to âEase Your Mindâ, a cut from French producer Dariusâs brand-new full-length âOasisâ. This impossibly smooth new track is as refreshing as the album title promises. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Florence + the Machine
âFreeâ
Get âFreeâ with Florence + the Machine. The latest track to be released from new album âDance Feverâ thrums with energy, apt for a song about persisting through lifelong anxiety â and seizing moments of liberation when they come. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
piri & Tommy Villiers
âwordsâ
NME 100 artists piri and Tommy Villiers have returned with more head-spinning house goodness on âwordsâ. Over a beat theyâve described as âDisclosure meets old school speed garageâ, piri sings about a time when the duo struggled with communication in their romantic relationship. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
On the C List:
Pusha T
âDreamin Of The Pastâ (feat. Ye)
âDreamin Of The Pastâ, the second track of Pusha Tâs new album âItâs Almost Dry,â soars on an old-school soul flip. The Clipse rapper is on fine form here: âYou hollerinâ, âTop fiveâ, I only see top me / Award shows the only way you bitches can rob me,â he sneers. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Sigrid & Bring Me The Horizon
âBad Lifeâ
Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon? An unexpected combination, perhaps, but it works when the song is right â as this anthem âBad Lifeâ shows. Bring Meâs Oli Sykes and Jordan Fish wrote the song remotely together during lockdown, and though Sykes was at first âreluctantâ to give âsuch a special recordâ away to another artist, when Sigrid asked if he would duet with her, âthat sealed the deal!â â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
PinkPantheress
âWhere you areâ (feat. WILLOW)
âWhere you areâ is an electrifying study in contrasts. PinkPantheress marshals a melancholic Paramore sample, her demure vocals colliding with Willow Smithâs authoritative, piercing delivery. More than worth the wait, âWhere you areâ is more proof that PinkPantheress was never just a flash in the TikTok pan. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Ty Segall
âHello, Hiâ
Ty Segall recorded âHello, Hiâ at home like the rest of his new album â but it was never going to be a quiet, toned-down affair. The prolific musician delivers a lean psych rock jammer that ups the anticipation for the full record â also titled âHello, Hiâ â that drops in July on Drag City. â KG
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
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