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Aggressive, hedonistic and seductive – often in the span of the same song – the independent LA-based singer-songwriter spans shoegaze, vaporwave and capital-P pop
On 2016’s Body Work, she sampled Britney Spears’ Everytime one song before her own masterpiece of emotional desolation, the breakbeat ballad You Never Knew; the highlight from her underrated 2023 club odyssey CBD Reiki Moonbeam, titled On the Floor, sounds like – and, in a just world, would have been – a 2000s Kylie Minogue single. During a time when conversations about ownership and rights dominate pop music, French, Clanton and the artists they work with represent the internet’s potential to foster a self-sustaining scene without gatekeepers or big money. DJ Dadaman and Moscow Dollar – Matlatsi This pair were at the heart of the “Bacardi house” scene of 00s South Africa that gave the world Township Funk, and now they’re back with this spry, sinewy hybrid of piano-house and amapiano.
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