Last week Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama dropped their massive collaborative single ‘Beg For You’. It’s a long awaited team-up – XCX first hinted at working with Sawayama last year – and the ‘Cry For You’-sampling smasher more than meets expectations. Fusing euro-pop with modern production and huge hooks, it’s a total floor-filler, and a must-add to this week’s NME Radio playlist.
Also new this week is the luminous ‘Estación Esperanza’ by Sofia Kourtesis featuring Manu Chao, the new single by Grimes, rising London artist Gretel Hänlyn’s arresting ‘Motorbike’ and the silky Franz Ferdinand track ‘Curious’.
Here’s what we’ve added to NME 1 & 2 this week:
On the A List:
Years & Years
‘Night Call’
‘Night Call’ is a celebration of pleasure-seeking and hedonism. “No, sir, I do not have a guilty conscience,” Olly Alexander declares. “Let’s see what loving you can do.” It’s a bite-sized bop that captures the essence of the latest Years and Years album, also titled ‘Night Call’. “I realised that I wanted the album to be about sex, but also just to have this, like, freedom of expression,” Alexander told NME for a recent cover story. “I wanted to express myself in a way that maybe I hadn’t expressed myself before.” – Karen Gwee
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