Lao Ra returns with the sparkling ‘No Pressure’

Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from Lao Ra.

The last we heard of supremely exciting newcomer Lao Ra was back in September with the release of her chart-ready collaboration with Afro B, ‘Me Gusta’.

She’s now returned with ‘No Pressure’, her first new music of 2018, and those chart-topping ambitions are still in perfect view. A brilliantly rhythmic, catchy bop, the track sings of relationship trouble, and lingering feelings, but it gives none of this away musically; it’s a carefree, sunny cut.

Speaking about the track, the singer says ‘No Pressure’ is “about emotional unavailability. It’s that feeling of not being able to give more of yourself in a new relationship because of a past love that still lingers, and the offer of something transient instead.”