Sabrina Fuentes sings like a strung-out celebrity on Pretty Sick’s Star

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Len – How Greedy ft. Theodora

It’s been one year since Len dropped Conglomerate with Fimiguerrero and Lancey Foux – a collaborative album which toasted to the success of the UK’s alt rap movement. While some of the new guys sound as though they’re never far from the glow of their laptop screens, Len’s clearly been spending plenty of time on the dance floor. ​“All the fellas to the back, all the ladies to the front,” he huskily commands over a hip-shaking club rhythm. The fast-rising French-Congolese singer Theodara takes him up on the offer. DR

Jane Remover – So What?

Jane Remover’s recent headline London show was one of the best I’ve been to this year. The 22-year-old genremasher’s stage presence was energetic and intense, their use of AutoTune sounded psychedelic rather than lazy, and their maximalist post-hyperpop anthems opened up massive moshpits at every drop. Remover is all loved-up on So What? – taken from new EP ♡. ​“You got what it takes to write a song about me?” they tease with a syrupy R&B delivery, before coming clean on the hook: ​“So what if I’m hopin’ it’s you every time I check my phone?” This is a love song done the Jane Remover way, so when you listen closely, you’ll hear breakbeats, bleeping synths, trap sirens and Jersey club bed squeaks thrown in the mix. DR

Pretty Sick – Star

“God, I love being famous,” Sabrina Fuentes sings over a Deftonesian drone on the first new Pretty Sick track in a year. Produced with Oscar Scheller (he’s done stuff with Charli and Shygirl), Star is sardonic, shallow and seductive. ​“I take drugs, I get paid, enough of an escape from it all,” Fuentes deadpans as drums and synths explode, sounding like a hungover celebrity watching the bright lights of the city from behind their sunglasses. DR

The Crying Nudes – Joyride

Out of nowhere, Fine Glindvad and Dean Blunt’s shadowy band have dropped a beautiful, 96 second ballad about money and power and people you love turning into strangers. A quietly cool melody, sensual vocals and a grainy, lo-fi texture – joyride sounds like a bonus track for The Crying Nudes’ 2024 self-titled album, and that’s no bad thing. JW

Daniel Blumberg and Amanda Seyfried – Clothed by the Sun

It’s still a few months until we get to see The Testament of Ann Lee, the historical musical (?) starring Amanda Seyfried as the founding leader of a religious sect called The Shakers. And though I’ll admit that I had my reservations — fearing the Les Mis-ness of it all — from what I’ve seen, the film, directed by Mona Fastvold, looks pretty good and cathartically intense. Mona and Daniel last worked together on The Brutalist soundtrack that won Daniel an Oscar for Best Original Score. Now, the two have reunited for The Testament…, with Daniel producing three original songs for the soundtrack, including Clothed By The Sun, a tender folk track that acts as the film’s last song. Opening with some charmingly halting vocals from Daniel, he’s soon joined by Amanda, a piano, a guitar and a harmonica as they sing about revelation, salvation and moving towards a higher power. TL