Essential Listening: The best new music releases in July 2024

The best new music releases in house, indie, DnB, jazz rap, techno, and more.

Skiddle Staff

Date published: 8th Jul 2024

Now we’re a week into the month, we can start properly putting you guys onto the best new music releases in July 2024! It’s been a brilliant year so far and we’re certain it’s going to continue to be a cracking year.

This week we’ve got new music from Tom Misch, beabadoobee, Danny Howard, Romy feat. Jessie Ware, Sara Landry and Alex Farell, Kasabian, Ferreck Dawn, Cassyette, JessB with Sampa The Great and Sister Nancy, Grey Code, Stalley feat. Benny The Butcher, redveil, and more.

Check out the best new music of July 2024 so far and follow the playlists below to stay up to date with every new banger we add!

Essential Listening: House and Techno

TOO COOL TO BE CARELESS - PAWSA

On a roll at the minute, PAWSA, who released the massive banger ‘PICK UP THE PHONE’ with Nate Dogg at the end of May, has dropped another tune that’s sure to go off at the rave.

‘TOO COOL TO BE CARELESS’ is a simple but funky little number that also gives off some disco vibes. Funky as hell with that lead guitar bit and that irresistible bassline, he’s crafted a track that you can’t help but wiggle to at least a little bit.

Paired with the occasional starting and stopping, a warm but light synth, and feel-good vocals, and you’ve got a hit.

Get tickets to see PAWSA live here:

Document Presents: PAWSA | Friday 1st November 2024 | DOCUMENT in Bristol

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Essential Listening: Indie and Alternative

Lonsdale Slipons - The Bug Club

Taken from their forthcoming album On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System, which is scheduled for release on the 30th of August, Welsh band The Bug Club have given us a second taste of what to expect following the release of their lead single ‘Quality Pints’.

‘Lonsdale Slipons’ is a tribute to the “UK’s worst-ever shoes”, as the band says. Punky and a bit weird but a lot wonderful, the track’s post-chorus lead guitar riff sounds like how you’d imagine a bug would actually play an instrument. Listen to it and tell us we’re wrong.

Oh, and their forthcoming album title is actually a lot longer than that, check it out for yourselves because we’d be here all day if we typed it out.

Get tickets to see The Bug Club live here:

Edinburgh Psych Fest (The Bug Club, Temples, and more) | Sunday 1st September 2024 | Various venues in Edinburgh

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Essential Listening: Drum & Bass and Jungle

Loved You So - High Contrast

Welsh veteran DJ and producer, High Contrast, continues to tease DnB fans as he steadily rolls out his forthcoming album. At the end of May, there was ‘Be No Rain’ and now we’ve got this tasty new track, ‘Loved You So’.

The Grammy nominee packed plenty of goodness into this track, basing it around a classic soul sample. Creating the track using the sample and a £20 organ, it’s insanely impressive how clear and brilliant sounding this is. Although, if anyone could do it, it’s probably High Contrast.

Wobbly, a bit eerie but balanced out by the organ and horns later in the track, we have a track that’ll suit plenty of occasions. It’s now up to you to choose what shenanigans this one will soundtrack…

Get tickets to see High Contrast live here:

Hospitality On The Harbour Festival (High Contrast, Netsky, and more) | Saturday 3rd August 2024 | City Centre Lloyds Amphitheatre in Bristol

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Essential Listening: Hip-Hop and Jazz

Boiler Room - Stalley feat. Benny The Butcher

Ohio rapper, Stalley, released his new album Peerless on Friday, a 14-track album with features from Jay Worthy, Kevin Durant, Curren$y, and, of course, Griselda’s Benny The Butcher.

Boiler Room with Benny is the one we chose to put on your radar due to the smooth production, horns, drumming, and backing vocals behind their spitting.

Jazzy, hard, and moreish, if you like this, check out the album!

Love hip-hop? You might like…

Jazz Cafe Festival (Earl Sweatshirt, The Alchemist, and more) | Sunday 15th September 2024 | Burgess Park in London

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Love jazz? You might like…

Wild Fields (Sampa The Great, Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, and more) | Friday 16th August 2024 | Earlham Park in Norwich

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Follow our Essential Listening playlists on Spotify to discover the best new tracks released each week, as curated by the Skiddle team.

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