Neu This Week In New Music (27th July 2013)

Every so often these new music round-ups showcase new acts stepping up, going above and beyond expectations and arriving with their finest work to date. But the three acts of choice nudging their way into the spotlight in ‘This Week In New Music’ are very, very new. They’ve experience to their names, no doubt. Raleigh Ritchie’s played with Kendrick Lamar, as we keep mentioning over and over again because it’s a golden new-music nugget of knowledge. And members of Los Porcos come from all kinds of corners, most notably the now-defunct Wu Lyf. Tei Shi? Well, info’s still scarce on that one. What we do know is she could’ve emerged at any point in the past ten years and taken the world by storm.

This week’s best track, video and new artist, rounded up by Neu:

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Los Porcos - C.F.W


Smoothed out sensationalism isn’t something you’d instinctively expect from former members of WU LYF and FAMY. Only it’s the default setting Los Porcos find themselves switching to. Never has the line ‘ooh, la, c’est la vie’ sounded so fit to burst, as ‘C.F.W’ (crazy funk wizardry?) progresses into another example of the Manchester group’s studio sheen. They’re masters of their craft, meeting past projects eye to eye and brushing them off like it’s no big deal. Three songs recorded to date, three out of three are contenders for some of the most exciting music to have emerged in 2013.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Raleigh Ritchie - Stay Inside


Who knows is a similar story played out for Raleigh Ritchie’s own musical process, but the video for ‘Stay Inside’ shows how maddening being an artist can get. A puppeteer, played by Ritchie, crawls up the walls and fledges his home studio into a scene of distress by throwing all sorts - cheese graters, wooden spoons - across the room. It’d pain you to imagine Ritchie experiencing similar issues when recording his debut EP, but when something emerges that’s as perfectionist as his soul-affected pop, someone’s psyche is paying for it.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Tei Shi


If James Blake put his stamp on ‘M&Ms’, the debut track from Brooklynite Tei Shi, you’d be pushed to act surprised. The dissonant, sparse percussion that backs her flooring wordplay is clearly the work of someone super-talented. But then, that’s Tei Shi in a nutshell. Her first outing puts its ultimate focus on an unfiltered voice, in lieu to pressure changes and hearty declarations. It’s layered over and over again, until you’re presented with a giant heart swell of a song, unparalleled in 2013.