THE PLAYLIST

The Ghost Cat/ Wan Fah Mua (Gloom) Wan Fah Mua (Gloom), the latest single from Spicy Disc’s supergroup The Ghost Cat, finds the quintet marrying upbeat new-wave guitars with familiar ’80s rock stylings (think bands like Future Islands and The War on Drugs). Here, vocalist Win Sirivongse sings about the challenges of overcoming a break-up (“The past’s catching up to me like a shadow/And now I can hardly stand it/In vain I’ll wait right here for you to return/Among the pain and suffering”). Gloom marks another solid track from the band and we can’t wait to hear what they will deliver on their fulllength album. Phantogram/ Same Old Blues “And this is nothing new/It’s just the same old blues,” vocalist Sarah Barthel swiftly warns in the opening verse of Same Old Blues, New York duo Phantogram’s third cut off their forthcoming third full-length studio album, Three. Following You Don’t Get Me High Anymore, Run Run Blood and Cruel World, the track features a rousing gospel choir sample, a subtle dubstep breakdown coupled with a gnarly guitar solo. “I keep on having this dream where I’m stuck in a hole and I can’t get out,” Barthel adds, further confirming the dark mood and tone of the new record. Kings of Leon/ Waste A Moment Kings of Leon are one of those bands whose sound is readily recognisable only a few seconds into their songs. And that’s exactly the case with their new song,

Waste A Moment, the lead single from their seventh studio album, Walls. Here, the Followill brothers give us the familiarity of a lurching stadium-rock tune built upon electric guitars and some obscure lyrics about sex (“Sexy was her boyfriend, with no kin, always running from the law/Every other weekend, the week ends with his back at her claw”). Peter Gabriel/ The Veil With lines like “There’s an ocean where data flows”, “now you’ve let that whistle blow” and “an American hero or a traitor that deserves to die”, British singersongwriter Peter Gabriel certainly doesn’t beat around the bush on The Veil, a song inspired by the story of Edward Snowden. As for the music itself, there’s everything you’d expect from a traditional Peter Gabriel number with the horns and percussion nicely playing off each other. And in case you haven’t guessed it already, the track appears on Oliver Stone’s new biopic about the former CIA officer/exiled NSA whistleblower, Snowden. Calvin Harris/ My Way Speaking about his new tropical house banger My Way, Calvin Harris said it’s “kind of about breaking out of a situation that you thought was a good thing”. As much as the Scottish DJ/producer likes to keep it vague, pretty much everyone and their grandmas know that the song aims squarely at his nefarious ex, Taylor Swift (who, by the way, has since started and ended yet another relationship). “I made my move and it was all about you/Now I feel so far removed/ You were the one thing in my way,” goes the not-so-subtle lyrics sung by Harris himself.