At JustFocus, we love all styles of music. And so that your playlist is never too dated, our team of editors offers you at the beginning of the week the playlist of the editorial #97, a selection of 10 tracks freshly released. From Calvin Harris to Billie Eilish to MacDeMarco, here's a 360-degree tour of the latest news to add to your playlist!
Canek's choice
Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa – One Kiss
The next hit of the summer will be One Kiss, a collaboration between DJ Calvin Harris and pop star Dua Lipa. The song leaves aside the house sound to turn to sounds of the 90s with an extremely catchy and sensual chorus, in the same musical line as Feels by Pharell and Katy Perry: less powerful but still as effective. One Kiss is undoubtedly another hit from the DJ's repertoire that will heat up the dancefloors to welcome the rays of summer sunshine. (See here)
Noucky's picks
Halsey – Alone ft. Big Sean, Stefflon Don
The divine Halsey is back and going further and further. This time the young singer, who had been emulated at La Cigale in 2016, dresses up in sequins and completely crazy outfits. This clip reminds us of the extravagance of Lady Gaga's debut. After all, isn't she Yves Saint Laurent's new muse ? Anyway, we are curious to see what could happen next. She will be on September 19 at the Olympia, the opportunity to hear Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, her second album released in June 2017, live.(See here)
Mai Lan – Autopilot
While we are impatient to see her on May 2 on the Badaboum stage, Mai Lan has already planned other surprises: she will be on the stage of the Zenith of Paris on June 15 in the first part of the concert of Rone. A great opportunity to offer yourself a great stage. Fingers crossed that next time it will be headlining.
This week she offered us a superb 3D clip for the title Autopilote which is also the title of her album released in January. Here, she addresses the need for perspective and introspection. Put herself "off" but stay in autopilot "Because life goes on whatever happens, the ship continues to move forward.", as she says so well! "It's a pretty hard and long process, and it's a state in which there are also other people close to whom you can't always be available."(See here)
Clement Bazin – Catch Me Ft. Aaricia
2017 was an excellent start for Clément Bazin, who in addition to being the winner of the Fair and Adami Talents Award, made a visit to several festivals: Solidays, Vieilles Charrues and even Sziget. After a concert at the Gaîté Lyrique sold-out last November, here is a new single Catch Me while waiting for his first album Everything Matters, scheduled for April 27, the day of his concert at the Printemps de Bourges. Suffice to say that 2018 promises to be as strong as the previous year and that we may be holding here a tube of the summer …Be continued!(See here)
Aline's choice
SCYLLA & Sofiane Pamart – The Child and the Sea
The ogre of French rap signs a new song with his faithful pianist with fairy fingers.
The singing is soft, the piano is even softer. We count the intonations of Scylla, his breath restraints that suspend us to his world, his "Rah", less present than on his other songs, but there.
The novelty of the week is the clip, all in black and white, showing the two artists alone, Sofiane Pamart at the piano and Scylla, a microphone in her hand, on a black background. It is said that the sea washed away the rest of the scenery. (See here)
Romain's choices
Baxter Dury – Listen
The British Baxter Dury, who had made a name for himself with the albums Happy Soup (2011) and It's A Pleasure (2014), had at every opportunity left room for fun in his music, but his last disillusioned album, Prince of Tears put an end to it. A little confusing after listening to the first two. The clip (and song) Tears that is taken from it, despite its rhythm a little lighter than the rest, does not deceive by its chorus. Listen is for lost love, lost love. (See here)
Mac DeMarco – PICKLES
We knew the wacky side, joking, and touches everything of the Canadian Mac DeMarco. He does not deviate with an unlikely piece dedicated … To the cat who made the back of his garage his second home. Pickles is the name of the cat that DeMarco likes to film. The multi-instrumentalist plates on the video that did not cost a round a slightly jazzy track as exhumed from the 1980s, offbeat. DeMarco.
John Maus – Episode
While waiting for the release of his next production Addendum ("complement", or "addendum in English") on May 18 on Domino Records, John Maus has released the track Episode. A little gem of synth-pop. The beginning is clear, a synth line, on which bass and drums quickly follow one another, before the voice hovers over it, sketching melodies in the middle of the repetitive glaze of the machines, punctuated by brief clear moments.(See here)
Emma's choices
Amine – Campfire ft. Injury Reserve
Aminé continues his rise and releases this week his second single since the release of his first album, Good For You. After the opus released last summer, it was then the turn of his single Squeeze, but also and especially his appearance on Egyptian Luvr, single of Rejjie Snow which we had obviously told you. Well surrounded, it is the trio Injury Reserve who appears this time at his side. A song and a clip more sober than usual, Aminé nevertheless confirms that he will look elsewhere than other artists. Campfire is proof of this, he is a genius on his scale. (See here)
Billie Eilish – bitches broken hearts
New single under the elbow, Billie Eilish is ready for the festival season. Far from her amateur beginnings, she now chains appearances in the media and remix releases of her songs. Already a recurring character on the world electropop scene, he just has to continue on this voice. This week she revealed bitches broken hearts, a more chilly track and still as mature. She will not stop surprising us, and apparently we are not the only ones: she is on the bill of MO POP and Lollapalooza US this summer!(See here)
