Last week, Lorde made her long awaited return. Dropping the gorgeous, breezy ‘Solar Power’ – a song that’s arrived just in time to soundtrack the summer months – it sees Ella Yelich O’Connor move past the break-up blues of 2017’s ‘Melodrama’ and start anew. With its ‘Screamadelica’-styled melodies and earworm hooks, ‘Solar Power’ was a must-add to this week’s NME Radio playlist.
Also new to NME Radio this week we’ve got Pa Salieu and slowthai’s brilliant ‘Glidin’, Clairo‘s stunning comeback and a cut from Japanese Breakfast‘s excellent new album ‘Jubilee’.
Here are all this week’s additions to the NME 1 & 2 playlists:
On the A List
Lorde
‘Solar Power’
Lorde’s back, and she brings greetings from the beach. Leaving behind the moody streets of ‘Melodrama’, she finds new life in summer’s joy, celebrating the sun and tossing her phone into the ocean: “Forget all of thе tears that you’ve cried / It’s ovеr / It’s a new state of mind,” she proclaims. – JX Soo
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
Pa Salieu
‘Glidin’ (feat. slowthai)’
Don’t doubt Pa Salieu: “I give them the best of me,” he declares. On top of kinetic drum rolls and rubbery bass, the Coventry MC delivers a fiery number defending his work ethic and status, criticism and rivals be damned. And when you add in the slick Slowthai assist, ‘Glidin’ is an absolute winner that more than proves his claim. – JXS
