On Rotation – February 2014

Another month, another playlist.  February is looking pretty good on the books, so subscribe to this playlist for live updates and tastemaking magic.

Weekly Digest

 

It’s a dreamy, nuanced weekly digest where heart flittering lyrics give way to mystifying embellishments and suddenly dance grooves.  It’s the playlist that takes you from solitude to social sparks in an instant; a snapshot of the most outstanding releases from the past week.

 

Sam Smith: Tease

Sam Smith is giving me some of the most painful blue balls of my life.  The kind of blue balls only one of the best voices can sustain.  He’s really getting cruel now by releasing a tease of a new track ahead of his debut album In the Lonely Hour (out May 24th on Capitol Records).  With a slew of ridiculously great collaborations (including two chart topping tracks with Disclosure and Naughty Boy), Sam Smith is bound to be the next great R&B/Pop male vocalist, and his songwriting is pretty fantastic, too.

Weekly Digest

 

Whewwww…this playlist is killing me.  Sam Smith’s new track is to die for.  Also, new artists Ella Eyre and Syron are delivering some of the most hypnotic and contagious tracks I’ve heard in the past few weeks.

Weekly Digest

Some random internet finds this week.  Brooklyn locals (including a new single from Friends), Daft Punk remixes (I suppose I’m a little late on Daftside, but this track is the only one that stood out anyway), new Sam Smith and a super catchy song from Party Supplies to blast this weekend while we begin our goodbyes to summer.

XOXO

Weekly Digest

Your connection to what’s rising to the surface in the world of Future Pop and R&B (with some guilty pleasures throughout).

Is any song entitled “La La La” not a hit?

UK producer Naughty Boy has released a cut from his upcoming full-length Hotel Cabana.  La La La features RnB artist Sam Smith‘s incredible vocal stylings (previously a featured vocalist for Disclosures’ single Latch).  Sure, this song is fantastically catchy.  The childlike post-chorus, which repeats the songs title, has that cheeky, catchy quality that tends to blow a song up.  But really it’s Smith’s incredibly well sung high notes and riffs that make this a hit.  Seriously, though…his voice.  At minute 1:58 he is singing the house down.

There’s no release date for Hotel Cabana just yet, but keep your ears peeled, and until then let this earworm take you over.

Here’s a trailer for the record, which also features his track with UK star Emeli Sandé, Wonder, of which I’ve included two great remixes: