Neu This Week In New Music (2nd March 2013)

In our newly-unveiled magazine, we hung out with one of the stars of 2013, sat down and had a sundae with Chlöe Howl and put on some shows with where the likes of Brolin and Wolf Alice took to a snug stage in East London. All in the name of getting in the headspace of what it’s like to be a musician out there, in the real world and outside of online stardom. But here we are once more, telling you about the best songs, videos and new artists to emerge from the past seven days. The internet never takes a break, not least when it’s got plenty of exciting new music to showcase. So head down, ears open, here’s the best of the past week.

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Sean Nicholas Savage - Lonely Woman


Next week the man who is apparently entirely responsible for everything good that’s coming out in Canada right now arrives in the UK. Ask him whether he’s behind the rising stock of maple syrup across the globalised world and he’d probably shake his head. Ask him whether Grimes or Doldrums would exist without him and he’d probably go red with anger. But ask him to sing you a sweet, romantic love-track, free of context and supposed accolades, and he’ll oblige. He’ll probably make you blush, too. ‘Lonely Woman’ - heading Sean Nicholas Savage’s new, potential breakthrough album - is the Ryan Gosling of music. No matter what your physical inclination - or in this case, genre favouritism - it’s god damn irresistible.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
GEMS - Pegasus


‘Pegasus’ isn’t complexity defined. The fact that we’re seeing Gems’ two members hanging out in beach huts behind thin curtains in black-and-white scenery is, frankly, completely predictable. But this video - shot on an iPhone, if ever Apple needed another ringing endorsement - is that final piece in the jigsaw, the mirror image of everything you imagine when listening to the D.C. band’s soulful music.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
ETML


Spilling out of this glorious UK garage scene which the Artful Dodger have somehow remained a constant during its tragic fall and current rise, is ETML, the latest in a long line of angel-faced youngsters giving the clubs a cause. His vocals are plastered all over his latest ‘Bind Me’ track, which, quite suitably, have us forever in love with everything that’s emerging from the UK, post-Disclosure.