Earlier this month, Little Simz released her stunning fourth studio album ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’. Given the full five-star treatment here at NME, we hailed it as “a near-perfect album that will exist as a marker for future generations to try and attain”. Though the record is stacked with stellar cuts, it’s the Smokey Robinson-sampling ‘Two Worlds Apart’ that we’ve selected for the NME Radio A List this week.
Also new to the NME Radio playlist we’ve got a track from Rico Nasty’s surprise released SoundCloud playlist, a pure-pop belter from Charli XCX and a tune from genre-pushing newcomer Priya Ragu’s excellent new mixtape ‘damnshestamil’. Dive in.
Here are all this week’s additions to the NME 1 & 2 playlists:
On the A List
Little Simz
‘Two Worlds Apart’
Sampling the King of Motown Smokey Robinson’s 1975 hit ‘The Agony and The Ecstasy’, ‘Two Worlds Apart’ sees Little Simz celebrating her successes – as she raps: “London-born estate girl to international sensation / Basking in this feeling, I must say it’s amazing, I’m amazing.” And she’s not wrong – her critically acclaimed fourth album, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’, is amazing. – Qistina Bumidin
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
On the B List
Charli XCX
‘Good Ones’
Charli XCX’s latest, the brilliantly bombastic ‘Good Ones’, is the first new solo music that we’ve heard from the artist since her lockdown album ‘How I’m Feeling Now’, and the hypnotic single is a smasher. The song, she’s said, “laments my inability to keep hold of healthy relationships, instead being endlessly drawn back to the dysfunctional and toxic”. Along with the gothic visuals of the accompanying music video, ‘Good Ones’ is an exciting entry into a new chapter of Charli’s eclectic career. – QB
