Mavi wastes no time to let you and her lover know what she wants. Your attention. And it’s our attention this talented 20 year has as her lyrics run headstrong from the first breath. “Love Longtime” leaves the poetry in the music and surprises us with a verse of spoken word. It’s the kind of song that you know will be a killer in acoustic form as well. If it’s a balance of street cred and passion Mavi is after, she’s on the right track. She’s got a confidence that pops like a high fashion shoot and the raw youth that tells us “Love Longtime” is only a hint of what’s to come. Listen to the banger below…

We virtually met Yellow Days aka George van den Broek over Facebook chat earlier this evening. He’s a 16 years old musician, singer and songwriter from London with a voice that recalls the hay-day of Only Real, with hints of King Krule in the instrumentation. It’s sounds awesome in the headphones, so can’t wait to bask in bliss tomorrow as I pack this bag of mine.

For me, hip-hop music that can best be defined as “chill” usually makes for good background music, and not a whole lot else. Usually. With his new tune “Mantra”, London’s Benny Mails breaks that mold by deftly keeping things laid back without ever holding back, in a paradoxically relaxing track about teenage anxiety.

Homegrown London-grime influences and trans-Atlantic heroes like Nas both had a hand in shaping Benny’s style, as is evidenced by the combination of tight-but-meandering flows and an unmistakable English wit. Like listening to an uninterrupted stream of thought, we’re pulled through highs and lows over the course of “Mantra”. There are mood swings marked by waxing and waning tinges of vocal aggression, making for a deeply realistic sense of the artist’s personality, and giving an extra dose of sympathetic weight to the personal truths and secrets being disclosed.

The voice rings a bell? You’ll have heard it on Vampire Weekend’s tracks, that’s why. Rostam was one of the group’s founding members, but left in early 2016 to launch solo pursuits. For his first album Bike Dreams, the talented multi-instrumentalist and producer serves up a raw, introspective experience with a dash of his Iranian origins that’s honest, captivating and heady.

She may only be 25, but OK Lou has a long history in music. This Internet-age French producer is pretty avant-garde and influenced just as much by mainstream pop as experimental sounds. Her music is emotional and intense, which plays out beautifully on stage.

Here’s the long awaited debut EP ‘Naked Life’ by the Parisian born and raised Oko Ebombo. Someone we’ve been following very closely for the last 3 years since he posted his very well done video for ‘Naked Life’ and saw the entire body of work progress, evolve and blossom into a fully fledged musical, visual, and performing tour-de-force.