WAKE UP! Discover the new music you'll be obsessed with this autumn...
- blondevibrations
- 1 day ago
- 9 min read
Festival season has left us in a cloud of dust... quite literally, in some cases. Whether you were in the crowd when Tyler, The Creator brought A$AP Rocky on stage at All Points East, donned your best bald cap for BST Hyde Park, or watched the live music magic unfold from the comfort of your TV screen (and avoided the rain, lucky you!!), I think we can all collectively breathe one big sigh of relief as we officially enter the cosy seasons.
Don’t be fooled into thinking the fun stops here. In fact, this might just be one of the most exciting times of the year for new music releases. So, whatever you do, don’t move from that duvet cocoon just yet... we’ve rounded up the new music highlights you need to know about right here!
Angèle - 'Une seule vie'
'Une seule vie' feels like stepping into a new dimension, with a wonderfully weightless energy to the track from the outset. Built on the electronic foundations of her forthcoming album 'INSTINCT', Angèle stretches them into something, lifts them somewhere brighter and more expansive to become this sleek, futuristic pop track perfectly at home for dancing under the club lights. Writing in the first person, Angèle lets her thoughts ricochet between doubt and truth while trying to pick apart the strange illusion of the world around her, but nothing quite stays still. There are questions without answers, and the nagging feeling that maybe the search itself is the point. That sense of movement makes the track feel like a natural progression from 'Dis-Le'. Where that song was about tuning into your instincts and finally turning up the volume, 'Une seule vie' is what happens when you actually obey them. Angèle exists somewhere between yesterday, right now and whatever comes next, suspended in that weird little space where you haven’t quite decided what you’re doing but you’re already moving. Then, as the track draws towards its final moments, her breathy vocals emerge through the haze. They feel almost physical, cutting through the polished futurism and suddenly making the whole thing feel much closer. For a song so wrapped up in glossy electronics, 'Une seule vie' has a surprisingly beating heart and the whole track comes alive.
Charlotte Plank and NOTION- 'Burberry'
'Burberry' is finally here and it has been stuck in my head ever since! Charlotte Plank’s vocals arrive light and slightly otherworldly, gliding over NOTION’s production before the bass starts to gather underneath them. It feels like a strange combination where her voice is full of morning light, while the production sounds like the walls have quietly started moving. Somewhere between the two, 'Burberry' finds its sweet spot, unhinged while entirely euphoric. Originally written back in 2024 and carried through tours and festival stages since, the track has had plenty of time to grow teeth. You can hear why it became a fan favourite. Charlotte never overworks the vocal, instead she lets the hooks land with an almost casual confidence, as if she already knows they will be circling your brain hours later (correct!). There is no reaching for the moment as she simply seems to know where it is. The track has a deep understanding that the best dance music should feel a little dangerous. NOTION’s production keeps the pressure building beneath Charlotte’s delivery, with those sudden shifts giving the song just enough unpredictability to keep you slightly off-balance. It never quite sits still, and neither does the feeling of it. At the centre of all that movement, Charlotte sounds completely at home. Her lyrics bounce around with an unbothered confidence of someone who has realised she does not need to prove she belongs here. This is exactly her lane and the tracks works so well because of it.
Chloe Slater - 'I've Never Felt So Hated'
'I've Never Felt So Hated' may well be Chloe Slater’s most honest release yet, and it is probably my favourite. There is something slightly sinister hanging around the edges of it, like the feeling of walking into a room and realising everyone already has an opinion about you. Slater has never exactly been shy about saying what she thinks, but this feels different. The volume turns down and the gaze turns inwards, as she picks apart her own position in the world, in society, and in the weird machine of the internet that seems to have an opinion on everything. In an age of comment sections and algorithms with a seemingly endless appetite for outrage, Slater gets to the particularly rotten heart of online culture where nobody seems to have time for context anymore. A person becomes a character exposed to either hate or adoration. Slater writes about the impact of internet scrutiny on her mental health, questioning what it does to your sense of self when strangers keep confidently handing you back versions of yourself that you do not recognise. The track is at its most affecting when Slater puts herself right in the middle of it all, the uncomfortable reality of trying to figure out who you are while everyone else is busy deciding for you. It’s a darker direction for Slater's new music, but one that suits her frighteningly well.
Dalia - 'Samsara'
Dalia has a beautiful ability to build a feeling around her music, and this comes to a head with 'Samsara', where she creates something that feels suspended between a dream and a memory, soft at first, but with something darker quietly moving underneath as we get into the track more. 'Samsara' comes from an earnest and personal place, looking back at a childhood shaped by things no child should have had to carry, and at the people who tried to protect one another through it. The emotion lives in the spaces between the vocals, in the tension building underneath, in the feeling that something has been survived even if it has not entirely disappeared. What stays with you most, though, is the idea that pain does not have to be permanent. Not that it simply disappears, but that there can be a moment where you realise you are allowed to put something down. Dalia allows that hope to exist without making it feel easy or editing out the darkness for the sake of a nicer ending, but there is a version of life which does not have to repeat itself. Above all, this is a gorgeous track and we cannot wait to see where Dalia goes next with her new music.
Sara Baroni - 'slow down'
There’s something really satisfying about watching an artist grow into themselves. With 'slow down', Sara Baroni feels like she’s finally stopped knocking on the door of her own sound and just walked straight through it. Since her latest project, we’ve watched her figure things out in real time, and this feels like a particularly beautiful little marker of that growth. The track feels like a lovely contradiction. Sonically, she gives herself somewhere to drift, whereas lyrically, she’s very much staring at the floor and trying to work out why she feels like she should be running. 'slow down' explores that particular kind of pressure that comes with being young and ambitious, the constant feeling that there should be another achievement waiting around the corner. Another thing to prove. It hones in on the feeling of having another thing to prove, and how easy it is to convince yourself that if you aren’t moving forward every second, you must somehow be moving backwards. Sara handles that feeling with maturity within that uncertainty, there’s no sense of her trying to mould herself into what she thinks an artist should sound like. The production feels instinctive, her melodies have room to breathe, and even the vulnerability comes across differently. It’s also what makes the title so clever. 'slow down' isn’t really about actually stopping, instead finding a pace that actually belongs to you. Sara has spent the time since her last project moving, experimenting and growing, and now she sounds like she has a true understanding of where she is going next, even if she feels like there is a big question mark in front of her sometimes.
Lola Blue - 'Vegas'
It's so easy to slip into the atmosphere of 'Vegas'. Lola Blue keeps things soft and hazy, building this gentle indie world and there's a little bit of shoegaze in the blur of it all. At first, 'Vegas' seems to be about someone who has a habit of disappearing the second a relationship gets difficult. There’s frustration there, but Lola never quite turns it into an accusation. Instead, the song slowly reveals something much more interesting, of the possibility that she recognises a little bit of that instinct in herself, too. That becomes particularly clear when the thought of 'don’t think we’ll make it' shifts into 'I hope we make it'. It’s such a small change in detail, but it completely amends the shape of the song. What could have been a neat little breakup track become the story two people who might both have the urge to run, still hoping neither of them actually does. Visually, Lola seems to understand that world just as well. The stop-motion, doodle-like music video adds another layer to her creative universe, making everything feel slightly handmade and imperfect in a way that suits the song beautifully. 'Vegas' leaves you wanting to see what that world looks like when it gets bigger. As part of whatever Lola Blue is creating next, this feels like a lovely little glimpse as it is soft, self-aware and actually quite hopeful, even when it’s pretending not to be.
Shana Sarett - 'A Little Bit Bunny'
Thank you to the streaming service heavens for introducing me to Shana Sarett. From the very first moment 'A Little Bit Bunny' started playing, I was introduced to a voice that feels unlike anything else floating around right now. Honestly, what a way to meet her! Originally a silly little song written and sung to her cat, 'A Little Bit Bunny' somehow escaped the confines of a private joke and became a proper studio release after fans begged Shana to give it one. (THANK YOU!) There’s something wonderfully ridiculous about a song being born this way, but the second you hear that voice, the joke becomes almost secondary because her voice is genuinely insane. The track itself is short, snappy, and truly weird. There’s no overthinking it, no desperate attempt to make a strange idea feel important, it simply exists in all its odd little glory. Perhaps that’s exactly why it works. Now it begs the curious question of exactly is Shana Sarett, and what else does she have hiding up her sleeve? There’s something about hearing a voice this distinctive attached to a song this delightfully strange that makes you want to follow the trail wherever it goes. If this is the accidental introduction, I’m very interested in what happens now that the rest of us have found her.
Disgusting Sisters - 'Not Cool'
Disgusting Sisters have opens the door to their electronic pop-rock world with 'Not Cool' and, frankly, there is something delightfully wrong with it in the best possible way. The track feels like it should already exist somewhere in a Freaky Friday scene, and I am entirely drawn to its eclectic chaos. Lyrically, 'Not Cool' is a beautifully deadpan swipe at ex-boyfriends and the particular horror of seeing someone clearly for the first time once you’ve escaped them. There's no dramatic breakdown, just scrappy realisations of every little red flag that is actually a banner - and it is delicious! That refusal to take itself too seriously is exactly what makes Disgusting Sisters so much fun. There’s something very satisfying about a song that can be chaotic without becoming exhausting, as it isn't taking itself too seriously. It's a catchy track, and does not pretend to be something more than a reminder that your ex was embarrassing, actually. We at BVHQ cannot wait to digest more of what Disgusting Sisters have to offer with their upcoming debut album, 'Skin and Blisters', for release on October 30th. Fans of Wet Leg will feel very much at home here.
Lucy Park - 'THREAD 27'
Lucy Park opens up a little portal with her EP, 'THREAD 27'. Across six tracks, ideas of identity and self-discovery are pulled apart and stitched back together into something that feels almost tactile. 'THREAD 27' becomes a scrapbook of relationships, digital noise, half-remembered thoughts and little pieces of herself blinking back from the screen. Park seems less interested in becoming some shiny new version of herself than in figuring out what to do with everything she has already collected over her years on Earth. These fragments of life that we accumulate without meaning to become material, obsessions, mistakes, memories, and Lucy stitches them together to become something new. The intimacy of her writing sits against production that feels restless, moving between softness and distortion, warmth and digital edges with ease and peace. Each track seems to have its own little ecosystem, but Park’s voice is the thread running through all of it to hold it together. The project is experimental and beautifully unafraid of leaving her edges showing. 'MOSAIC' is a personal favourite, but this is honestly such a strong project listening to in its entirety. For the lucky ones heading to The Lower Third this week, this EP is going to hit differently live.
New music lovers, you are welcome.
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