Records on your radar

With so much good music constantly rolling out, summer can easily feel like an overwhelming and (literally) suffocating haze where the best projects get lost in the noise. Luckily, we’ve done the heavy lifting. For this summer edition of Records on your Radar, the temperature rises with a heavy roster of can’t-take-your-eyes-off music videos, sweat-dripping dancefloor essentials, and late-night meditative tracks. There’s something for every situation, from the nostalgic folk beauty of Sofii’s “Remember” to Cannelle’s French electropop dream “BB Blue,” and Babymorocco’s infectious hope-core anthem “Annoying.”

Now smear that sunblock, put these shades on, and blow your speaker up.

Sofii – iwtfy
There’s a soothing, deeply nostalgic feel to French-American artist Sofii’s latest single iwtfy (which, fittingly, stands for ‘I wrote this for you’). Following last summer’s ambient-essentials EP, Sofii now layers her dreamy, intimate vocals over tranquil acoustic guitar chords enmeshed with electronic textures. Atmospheric folk sentiments linger, weaving themselves into the rawness Sofii unfolds in her songwriting. Evoking the hazy nostalgia of a summer night by a lake we’ve perhaps never actually visited, the track and its visuals carry us to a place where facing our vulnerabilities feels entirely comfortable, and freeing.

Babymorocco – Annoying
What would a song written in the studio where Andy Warhol was shot sound like? Well, that would be Babymorocco’s Annoying. The track drips of sugary pop synths, romantic yearning, and cheerleader-like letter spelling. Rocco’s newest chapter opens up a twee-spiritual world filled with polka dots, saturated glitched up argyle patterns, boho tie-dyes and surreal spiritualism (if that sounds chaotic, trust us, it makes perfect sense). ‘Annoying’ sets its pace as a peak Summer dance track — the kind where you jump around in the club, scrunching up your messy hair, head bobbing side to side.

Kelela — new avatar
Kelela’s new album is a collision of shoegaze haze, psych-rock distortion, and futuristic, intimate R&B. When themes like political violence, economic precarity turn relationships to strain under collective pressure, Kelela turns towards guitars as an outlet. A lifelong music obsessive, she draws from East Coast club culture, drum’n’bass, ambient, and the experimental edges of electronic music, she builds a world where vulnerability and guitars coexist with RNB and club music. Her music remains suspended in an almost underwater dream state. Like Madonna’s Ray of Light, she uses electronic textures to create a private, almost spiritual inner world: a place where the human voice floats inside machinery rather than above it, dissolving into glassy synths, pulsing rhythms, and vast fields of reverb, creating the feeling of being submerged in sound. The result is a record that bridges melancholy and euphoria, club futurism and emotional fragility: a must listen this July.

Cannelle – BB Blue
Self-professed tumblr alum Cannelle is the French artist with gorgeous pastel blue hair and a style that is equally as deliciously calculated as her sound. With her debut mixtape CINNA, Cannelle keeps setting the bar higher than ever, with each track tasting sweeter than the last. Making choices is hard but, today, BB Blue comes to be our track of recommendation. Glitchy video-game bleeps thump against glittery notes, making the upbeat flirtiness of Cannelle’s lyricism land perfectly in the French electropop pipeline. Visually, it’s pure 2000s nostalgia of empty neon-lit dance boxes backdrop with a beautiful pop star performing in a 2010s short prom dress.

2K88 & Lauren Duffus & Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout — Purple Mauve
When you put together four of the most alluring contemporary artists, you get the cinematic soundscape of Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here. Commissioned by Polish experimental festival Unsound, producer 2K88 brought in the UK’s Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller, and Bianca Scout for a hauntingly submerging collaboration. Purple Mauve is the track that most distinctly captures this eerie, Central European operatic atmosphere. Reverbed organs open the scene, joined by free-flowing, breathy raps that submerge the listener in a comfortable melancholia set against distorted, owl-like hoots.

daisy — punch
Leaving behind her former moniker BABii, Daisy Weber now transforms and aligns her artistic project with her truest self. Settling into her new alias, daisy engineers an aerodynamic electronic sound she coins as ‘pure and pretty energy.’ With her eponymous debut project arriving on July 29, punch lands as its first single with all of its 150BPM. Reverbating like the soundtrack of a pixelated reverie, the track twists glitched-up sonics and thumping basslines,  melding into daisy’s ghostly melodic verses.

The Paws — “ur love” / veneration for the sacred action
London’s life is beautiful records unveils its first compilation, veneration for the sacred action, with “ur love” — a tender, left-field introduction to The Paws, the new project from Angelina Nonaj and Ben Paulson built around improvisation, experimentation, and collective energy. Executive produced by founder and DJ aloisius, the sprawling 40-track record captures one of the city’s most exciting emerging creative ecosystems, featuring Voice Actor, Coby Sey, Bianca Scout, James Massiah, CTM, NWAKKE, Pretty V and more. The release arrives alongside libiversary, a three-day celebration at London’s EartH Theatre bringing together music, poetry, performance, dance, and improvisation.

Lipstick Music – Bedroom 
Luckily for us, the pipeline of electro pop duo persists, and now we’re also blessed with Belgians Lipstick Music. He produces, she sings. With a sound self-described as ‘glamourous pop,’ their freshly dropped single Bedroom is kind of the poster child for the genre: completely flirtatious, electrically fun, and embarrassingly romantic. This fully-realised, sultry track opens with a sleek French Touch sound, serving as the perfect backdrop for Lili’s high, airy vocals evocative of pink-hues and endless rose bouquets.

UNIIQU3  – Calling My Name
Jersey Club’s reigning force UNIIQU3 returns with Calling My Name, a shimmering, dancefloor-ready cut that captures the exact moment the club lights hit and everything starts to feel cinematic. Built around hypnotic rhythms, dreamy production from Leonce, and a verse from Cakes Da Killa, the track turns the dancefloor into a space for main-character energy. As the second taste of her highly anticipated debut album, Calling My Name continues UNIIQU3’s mission of pushing Jersey Club beyond its boundaries.