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

Lee Fields & The Expressions – It Rains Love (FEATURE ALBUM)
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Chris Cohen – Chris Cohen
Franco – Franco EP
Jayda G – Significant Changes
On Diamond – On Diamond
Shafiq Husayn – The Loop
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
White Denim – Side Effects

It takes a certain type of person that can bring together Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, Thundercat, Anderson .Paak and Kamasi Washington to collaborate on an album. For his second release, ‘The Loop’, Los Angeles’ Shafiq Husayn is just that person. During the mid-late aughts, while part of three piece Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Husayn was quietly championing a then fresh blend of hip-hop jazz fusion, and soul experimentation that we now regularly see come out of LA. ‘The Loop’ is the culmination of nearly a decades’ work that’s freewheeling and bumping with astral, cosmic flavoured beats flowing seamlessly through jazz, hip-hop, and soul and and deeply embracing the unique and eclectic LA community.

And Texan rockers White Denim return with their eighth studio album ‘Side Effects’, coming out less than a year after 2018’s ‘Performance’. ‘Side Effects’ is spontaneously rich and packed with high, and infectious energy, much like what you would experience at their live shows, and is an element the band have drawn direct inspiration on for these songs. Barrelling garage rock, psych-punk, and blues all oriented by an untethered groove and boogie we’ve come to find with White Denim in the past few records.

And hailing from Melbourne, and lead by the inimitable Lisa Salvo is the group On Diamond. Salvo, who’s the principal songwriter here and was previously solo, now enlists the help from fellow Melburnians and members of Jaala, Grand Salvo, Jazz Party, Harry Angus, and Hannah Cameron. Their latest, self-titled album is an exquisitely produced piece that look frequently, and extensively into the sprawling riches of 70s folk, the quieter sides of prog rock and experimental pop.

Plus new singles from Sydney’s Julia Why?, Cairns’ Leanne Tennant, Melbourne’s Romeo Moon, Cate Le Bon, and KOKOKO!.