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Add to playlist: Gelli Haha’s playful dance-pop and the week’s best new tracks
A delightfully deranged party girl whose bleepy vintage synths, sleazy chug and tireless disco keeps things weird in the right way – plus new music from Jorja Smith and more
Her delightfully weird dance-pop draws from a toybox of vintage synths, and sounds as if it could be some rediscovered lost Euro new-wave pop curio, dabbling in Italo, sleazy chug and early electro. It’s an immediately arresting proposition, but she’s also a slippery character, swerving across her debut album from the front-facing pop of Funny Music (which has some of Caroline Polachek’s DNA in its vocal ribboning) to more deranged tracks such as the tireless disco treadmill Tiramisu, or the acid-mangled Piss Artist’s account of getting wasted and peeing in a jar one night, a great addition to the annals of weird party girl curios. The Beths – Metal New Zealand’s best jangle-poppers put a typically poetic spin on feeling betrayed by illness: “I’m a collaboration / Bacteria, carbon and light,” Elizabeth Stokes sings in that wildly endearing, hopeful voice.
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