Another big week of music on 2SER! Here on the new music review is where we connect you with some of the best and latest releases from around the world. Read on, click through to our Spotify playlist and enjoy it all on 2SER.

SERvin’ Up! – w/c April 30, 2018

Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders – Blue Poles (Feature Album)
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Okkervil River – In the Rainbow
LOOBS – Bubblewrap
Half Waif – Lavender
Deke Tom Dollard – Na-You
Paul White – Rejuvenate
Estère – My Design, On Others’ Lives
Dwight James and The Royals – Need Your Loving
BOYTOY – Night Leaf

Hailing from the Ivory Coast is Deke Tom Dollard who only recorded two albums in his career, but leaves us with an original and unique funk fusion with the Bété language. Brought to us by Hot Casa Records, the same label who re-released Boncana Maiga’s works, who have selected tracks from those albums and brought them together on a new EP Na-You. High energy Afro Soul with a dash of Latin grooves, hear quirky offbeat vocals, strong sax lines, riffing guitars and moogy keyboards.

Fronted by Nandi Rose Plunkett is New York Trio Half Waif, who just released their third album Lavender. The record is a transfixing affair, find off-kiltered synth pop songs with ethereal vocals, careful electronic arrangements and ghostly melodies. The daughter of an Indian-refugee mother and an American father of Irish-Swiss descent, Plunkett finds influences from Celtic songstresses and Indian bhajans. The album is named in honour of Plunkett’s grandmother, who had a habit of picking lavender from her garden to boil on the stove.

London producer and regular Danny Brown collaborator Paul White returns new album Rejuvenate. Known for his heavy psychedelic beats and frequently borrowing from 60s electronics and Middle Eastern funk to make hip-hop beats, White has abandoned sampling altogether and has written, played and produced all the tracks on this record. A stylistic shift drawing more from 60s/70s classic rock but still firmly groove heavy, hear with trippy textures, propulsive rhythms and playful harmonies.

New singles too from Jess Williamson, Merpire, The Innocence Mission, Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Anohni and Father John Misty.

Until next week,
Steph