Lauren Laverne's 5 songs you should hear this week - w/e 7 Jul

By Sarah Evans, Team Laverne

Each day we slide our favourite new music into your eardrums and each week we pop five of these tracks onto our Just Added playlist. Just Added is the place to come to find the latest in new music that's either exclusive to us, has just appeared online or is basically just something we're really excited about.

Here are our picks of this week's best new music:

1) St. Vincent – New York

St. Vincent's New York

A two and a half minute melancholy ballad from St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark. The first new work from the artist following 2015’s Teenage Talk and her 2014 self-titled LP. She’s currently touring on her ‘Fear The Future’ tour until the end of October. Released on June 30th on Loma Vista Recordings.

Clark debuted the track last year during a New York City benefit show that also featured Rufus Wainwright and Father John Misty, whilst wearing an oversized toilet costume. There’s talk of this being followed up by Clark’s fifth album that she’s been working on with Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff. Speaking about the potential new record last year Clark Said "I feel the playing field is really open for creative people to do whatever you want, and that risk will be rewarded – especially now that we have such high stakes from a political and geo-political standpoint”

2) Daphni – Hey Drum

Daphni, the DJ-ready name of Caribou (aka Dan Snaith) releases a 23 track album for Fabric with all new material plus four previously unreleased edits. This is his first full album of work as Daphni since 2012’s JIAOLONG. The album, FABRICLIVE 93 is due for release on July 21st on their own Fabric label

Talking about the new work, Snaith said: "What started as a mix featuring bits of new music gradually evolved until it reached a place where it was essentially a studio recording and barely a DJ mix at all, yet the structure remained. A lot of these tracks were recorded in situ in the mix itself - I'd put one track in place and instead of searching through existing music to find the track to follow it I'd just make an entirely new one."

3) Four Tet – Two Thousand And Seventeen

Four Tet, the alias of Kieran Hebden, sent this to Lauren the night he released it, and the next day we passed it on to you. Referring to it as a ‘new single’ Hebden later tweeted to say that an album will follow later this year. His last studio full length was 2015’s Morning/Evening, his eighth album to date. The 12” single will be out shortly on Text.

The new single is being compared to the likes of his previous album Pause and Rounds and we can hear why; bass heavy, slow, pulsating, all the things we’ve come to love Four Tet for. Other than knowing he’s been working on new material for the last ten months, we know nothing else, but we’re excited about the new album.

4) Ghostpoet – Freakshow

The third release from his forthcoming new album Dark Days + Canapés, Ghostpoet has not disappointed with this, what Team Laverne believe is his strongest record yet. If you’re feeling it then there’s also an intense, apocalyptic video to go with the song, directed by Zhang + Knight. The fourth album is due out August 18th on Play It Again Sam and he’ll be taking it on tour later in the year.

Speaking about the single Obaro Ejimiwe (Ghostpoet) said “Freakshow is a kind of commentary on modern consumerism - it sums up my general sense of unease in the way we buy our emotions these days, and the unstoppable cash-driven churn we seem to be caught up in as a society.”

5) DJ Shadow – Horror Show Ft. Danny Brown

DJ Shadow presents lead single ‘Horror Show’ ft. Danny Brown taken from surprise new EP ‘The Mountain Has Fallen’ released via Mass Appeal Records tomorrow. The EP also features collaborations with Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price and Nas, the track ‘Systematic’ which we playlisted here at 6 Music, plus a brand new solo composition. Shadow released his latest feature album ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ via Mass Appeal Records last year.

Shadow released his latest feature album ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ via Mass Appeal Records last year. After the likes of Coachella, touring Australia, Japan and Europe in support of the album, DJ Shadow will be in London for dates in October.

• You can hear all the tracks via Lauren's Just Added Playlist

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