dvr is Dillon van Rensburg, a seventeen year old songwriter and producer from North Berwick, Scotland. In 2020, he self-released an EP (“tape_01) and single (‘thru the city‘) that quickly became organic, word-of-mouth success stories, racking up streams in the millions. With influences ranging from Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean and
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The unveiling of the KICK series culminates today with the announcement of the fourth, and final, album in the anthology: kick iiii. Arriving on December 3 via XL Recordings, kick iiii, along with the recently announced albums KICK
“One of the year’s best pop records” – Wall Street Journal “Extraordinary, winning songs
KURUPT FMThe Lost Tape released 17 NovemberShare new single ‘Suttin’ Like That’
Shamir is Shamir Bailey, a 19-year-old musician from Las Vegas. He grew up not on the strip but in the desert, right across the street from a pig farm. Since his debut
Listen to Ibeyi – aka Paris based sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz – cover Jay Electronica’s ‘Better In Tune With The Infinite’ here. Ibeyi’s Richard Russell-produced debut will be released in 2015 on
Ratking’s very own Wiki has remixed Skepta’s track of the year ‘That’s Not Me’ Check out the video below.. So It Goes is out now via XL. Rhythmethod
XL Recording’s Ibeyi have released a new track ‘Mama Says’. Buy it on iTunes or stream it on Spotify here
Listen to this brand new steamerrrrrr of a remix of Jungle‘s ‘The Heat’ from Joy Orbison. Right on time. Sweatin’ n viben’. ‘Jungle’ out now via XL Recordings and Rhythmethod, grab it on iTunes here
Shout out to our British darlings FKA twigs & Jungle who’ve been nominated for the Mercury Prize 2014! Listen to tracks from the artists below:
ICYMI yesterday… Jungle and FKA twigs absolutely smashed their Later With Jools Holland performances! Watch Jungle perform ‘Busy Earnin’ here: Debut self titled album is out now via XL Recordings here Watch FKA twigs perform “Two Weeks” LP1 is
So what, or who, is QT? She’s a sparkling future pop sensation – albeit one who is set to warp and stretch the notion of what a pop star actually is. It’s
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION XL RECORDINGS ANNOUNCE LABEL HISTORY-SPANNING COMPILATION ALBUM RELEASED ON 22nd AUGUST 2014 AS VINYL BOXSET, CD AND DOWNLOAD AND AVAILABLE FROM TODAY ON THE NEWLY LAUNCHED HTTP://PAY-CLOSE-ATTENTION.COM Test out
Jungle – Jungle (XL) Jungle are based around a core musical duo of lifelong friends known simply as ‘J’ and ‘T’, who expand to a thrilling seven piece live, and make mesmeric, kaleidoscopic modern soul