The 10 Best Tunes of the Week | 2023 Week 27
Catch up on the best new tunes of the week from the likes of Barry Can't Swim, Joan & The Giants, Tom Misch AKA Supershy, Tash Sultana, Skrillex x Boys Noize and more!
Image: Left - Skrillex, Right - Boys Noize
With so much new music coming out each and every day, it can be hard to listen to everything... but we'll be damned if we don't try. Here are our favourite tunes from the week that was from the likes of Barry Can't Swim, GAIKA, Hua Li 化力, KOREA TOWN ACID & Boogieman, Joan & The Giants, Kee’ahn & Emma Donovan, smol fish, Supershy, Tash Sultana, Skrillex x Boys Noize and Willo & niina.
Barry Can't Swim - The Crab Dance
Ahead of his long awaited debut album, Scottish producer turns in a short & sweet tropical, kaleidoscopic new house anthem. Barry Can't Swim's debut album When Will We Land? is out October 20 via Ninja Tune.
GAIKA - PIÑATA
English multidisciplinarian and musical chameleon GAIKA teases his sophomore album with an engrossing & atmospheric cut experimental electronic pop. GAIKA's new album Drift is out September 8 via Big Dada Recordings.
Hua Li 化力, KOREA TOWN ACID & Boogieman - Closing Time
Montreal artists Hua Li 化力 and Boogieman team up with Toronto's KOREA TOWN ACID who fuse k-pop, 90s r&b and club sounds in one addictive package. Hua Li 化力's new album is out September 23.
Joan & The Giants - Sleep Alone
Hot on the heels of winning best Rock song and coming runner up in the grand prize at the WAM Song of the Year Awards, Boorloo-based band deliver their new single of emotional & epic indie sounds.
Kee’ahn & Emma Donovan - Take No More
The Archie Roach Foundation's new Singing our Futures program, offering a mentoring experience helping emerging First Nations artists on their songwriting and recording journeys, kicked off with a bang with this soulful, reggae-inspired collab from North Queensland rising star Kee’ahn and ARIA-nominated singer-songwriter Emma Donovan
smol fish - Big Love
We covered this new atmospheric indie anthem from Boorloo/Perth indie rockers when it dropped earlier this week!
Supershy - Feel Like Makin’ Love feat. Roberta Flack
Tom Misch reprises his Supershy alias for a banging new housey reinterpretation of Roberta Flack's soulful 1974 classic.
Skrillex x Boys Noize - Fine Day Anthem
The long-teased, hugely anticipated, Opus III-sampling anthem from the duo known together as Dog Blood is finally here!
Tash Sultana - Bitter Lovers feat. BJ The Chicago Kid
Tash Sultana announced her new EP this week with the soulful & sultry R&B sounds of Bitter Lovers, featuring smooth as silk vocals from BJ The Chicago Kid. Tash Sultana's new EP SUGAR is out August 11 via her own Lonely Land Records.
Willo & niina - iv'e got a bf (best friend)
Enjoy all these tunes, as well as our singles with our favourite music videos of the week, and a stack of other new sounds we've been feeling in our Office playlist (updated almost daily)!