New Releases: Charli xcx & Billie Eilish, Khalid, Maren Morris & Mimi Webb
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Welcome to New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song, album and DVD releases.
Do you wanna guess what we're starting with? Charli xcx is, truly, the biggest name in pop right now. To prove it, she's only gone and secured the first feature of Billie Eilish's entire career for her next brat remix.
Guess - a track on brat's deluxe edition - is a glitchy, stuttering electro-clash banger, featuring production from rising star The Dare. With Billie in tow, the titillating track is transformed into something a bit more sapphic, with none of its hard edges sanded off.
'You wanna guess what me and Billie have been texting about,' Charli purrs. 'You wanna guess the address of the party we're at.' Yes, Charli. Yes we do.
While brat tracks 360 and Apple continue to climb their way towards the UK Top 10, we're expecting the arrival of another new remix track - this time for guess, the frantic and energetic bonus track. But who is that mysterious artist posing with Charli and her lower back tattoo on the cover? Your guess is as good as ours...
Elsewhere, UK pop princess Mimi Webb dabbled with drum'n'bass and jungle on her earlier single Mistake, now her second new song of the year (and a hopeful tease as to what we can expect from her second album) comes in the form of Erase You, which comes with power-pop production from hitmaker Ryan Tedder.
More new tracks this week come from BRIT Award winners FLO (Check), Jamie xx and The Avalanches (All You Children) and Soccer Mommy (M).
Meanwhile, as we turn to albums we see that US savant Khalid is taking a back to basics approach to his new record. Sincere is the third album by the Talk hitmaker, and his first in nearly half a decade, if you can believe it.
New LPs this week also arrive from queer country icon Orville Peck (Stampede) and Dance Monkey progenator Tones and I (Beautifully Ordinary).
Plus, we have two brand new EPs dropping this week; one from Maren Morris, whose Intermission will hopefully help her continue to bridge the gap between the pulls of both country and pop music and Tyler Lewis, the fast-rising R&B siren who has teamed up with production wizard MNEK for her accomplished first body of work, the slick Wait 'til She Gets Heart Broken.
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