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Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks
Right on time for the return of the chill out era, the New York producer traces a hypnotic path on an album that bobs along on sleepy breakbeats and angelic atmospherics
Photograph: Malak El Sawi Zuli – Care Following up his acclaimed 2024 album Lambda, the title track of the Egyptian producer’s new EP is skittering, splintered, symphonic trip-hop, with bells and whispers reaching across the uncanny valley. Sophie – Ooh A deep cut from the 10th anniversary reissue of Product: “I’m your Play-Doh baby / Push me to my knees,” a female voice pleads, starkly melancholy against the rubbery bass and ecstatic synth blurts. Mark William Lewis – Still Above After May’s beautifully brooding Tomorrow Is Perfect, the enigmatic London songwriter lets the light in, splicing strangely sweet, jazzy harmonica into his deep-voiced lyrics on off-kilter relationships, whether narcotic or romantic.
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