Five tracks to hear this week (Oct 19-25)

Saints alive: St Vincent
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David Smyth19 October 2018

After last year’s bubbly Masseduction album, St Vincent has just released a new version with the title subtly altered to the more serious sounding Masseducation. It features the same songs in stark piano form, a different experience altogether.

Swedish trio Peter Bjorn & John’s latest album, Darker Days, is out today. As a trio it must be hard to make decisions, so they also put out three singles at once, on an interactive website where you can listen to all of them at the same time if you enjoy cacophony.

High streaming teenager Billie Eilish is taking her success story into the real world, with three shows at Shepherd’s Bush Empire all sold out for the spring. She’s also just released a new piano ballad, When the Party’s Over, whose minimal accompaniment shows her soft voice to its best effect.

Matthew E White gets political on his new song, No Future in Our Frontman, which takes aim at that bloke with the red tie. As well as his own version, his pals including Natalie Prass and Bedouine are covering it, with the proceeds from the EPs going to the charity When We All Vote.

Murkage Dave, best known for collaborating with Skepta and putting on club nights with Mike “The Streets” Skinner, turns out to have a lovely soothing singing voice on his debut album, Murkage Dave Changed My Life. It’s out today, while the recent single Magic Mission Deja Rinse has a video on YouTube.

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