Our music editor Adam Humphries brings you the top music releases of this week! Make sure to add them to your playlist!
Ewan MacFarlane urges us to stand up for who we are in new single “Validated!”
Scottish singer-songwriter and former frontman of Grime Northern Social and Apollo 440 has released his latest musical offering, Validated, ahead of his upcoming album Always Everlong.
As a song, Validated is about being comfortable with the life choices we have made and living with them as we do. Ironically put, seeing as that sense of sentiment now carries more meaning in the last year and a half that it did from even earlier then.
This latest musical number showcases us even more of Ewan’s talent both as a singer and songwriter as well as a musician. It begins on a slow-paced note before gradually picking up momentum. As you would expect, Martin’s vocality is absolutely spot on and hit every note as well as carries feeling. In some ways it is as though he is singing only to you and you along.
Validated is a balanced single as at one end you have full of energized guitar riffs, steady drum beats, and gradual flowing harmonies and is equally as soulful, whereas on the other end you have gritty, emotive piano tunes along with Martin’s vocals which are also gritty yet soft to the ear as well. Overall, it creates a sweeping landscape that sets a tone that entices the listener the more they hear it.
Bryson tiller releases mixtape sequel ‘Killer Instinct 2’
Bryson Tiller surprised fans on Sunday by dropping the sequel to his 2011 Halloween mixtape Killer Instinct. Arriving a decade after the original, Killer Instinct 2: The Nightmare Before runs for 28 minutes, featuring 13 tracks that find the R&B crooner flip recent hits like Brent Faiyaz’s “Gravity,” NBA YoungBoy’s “Lil Top” (“On Top”), Normani’s “Wild Side” (“Are You Listening”), and Chris Brown’s “Heat” (“Keep It Simple”). The new tape marks Tiller’s first full-length offering since releasing the deluxe version of his 2020 album Anniversary back in February.
Anuel AA Shares Video for New Single “Dictadura”
Ahead of the release of his third album Las Leyendas Nunca Mueren (Legends Never Die), Anuel AA dropped his new single “Dictadura.” The track follows Anuel’s latest release “23 Preguntas,” which arrived in August on what would’ve been his anniversary with ex-girlfriend Karol G. ‘Dictaudura’ was directed by Anuel AA. “I wanted the plot to guide my fans through a concept storyboard for my upcoming album Las Leyendas Nunca Mueren. I can’t wait for them to see what is to come, but I want them to be inspired by the legends concept the way they have influenced my career and story.”
