Top Ten Tracks: PinkPantheress, Masego, Robert Glasper & more 8/10/21
Welcome to ‘Top 10 Tracks’, the essential weekly round-up of the best new music.
At the end of each week, we count down the ten essential new tracks you need in your rotation. Ranging from rappers in the Emerald Isle to boundary-pushing, experimental producers and everything in between, it’s all hits, no filler.
This week, Masego enlists Outkast’s Big Boi and JID on ‘Garden Party’, PinkPantheress releases a single ahead of her debut mixtape and Gemma Dunleavy shares a new cut from her remix project.
Robert Glasper Shine Feat. D Smoke & Tiffany Gouché
Four time GRAMMY winner Robert Glasper returns ahead of Black Radio 3 with Inglewood, CA natives, D Smoke and Tiffany Gouché coming through on a jazzy self-love anthem.
Finn Foxell Slow Kisses
Elevation Mediation rapper Finn Foxell joins forces with fellow crew member P-rallel for a cut celebrating love in all its forms.
Sad Night Dynamite & Moonchild Sanelly Demon
A spectral collaboration that’s arrived just in time for spooky szn.
Moonchild Sanelly has been in our rotation ever since her verse on Ghett’s ‘Mozambique’ and her link up with Sad Night Dynamite is perfect to soundtrack the next full moon.
Jeshi Hit By a Train
Jeshi’s pen game is as incisive as it is poetic. On ‘Hit By A Train’, the London spitter captures the dark duality of the capital’s grinding mundanity and the relentless hamster wheel of life under the Tories. Putting into full focus that if you stop moving you face being left on the outskirts of society.
Gemma Dunleavy Cruisin (Swing Ting Remix)
Swing Ting take the wheels to rainbow road on the dreamy and astral reworking of ‘Cruisin’.
PinkPantheress I must apologise
PinkPantheress has a unique way of borrowing from music before her time and transforming it into audible crack for Gen-Z. ‘I must apologise‘ samples house music classic ‘Gypsy Woman’ by Crystal Waters and lasting under two minutes it has us fiending for more ahead of her debut mixtape next week.
shiv Ha Ha Ha
A stand out from shiv’s latest EP, ‘Ha Ha Ha‘ is a bittersweet soulful cut that feels like the honeymoon phase of a romance is fading.
James Blake Coming Back Feat. SZA
As expected, James Blake’s collaboration with SZA on his new album is great. Both Jameela Jamil and Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie have production credits on this melancholic bubbler.
Paris Texas BULLSEYE
Standout track from the west coast pair’s second EP, featuring production from Kenny Beats.
Masego Garden Party Feat. Big Boi & JID
Masego’s beautiful tones slaloming through the old guard and new wave of Atlanta rap, what’s not to love?
