Skiddle Stereo Selections Friday 17th July

Image: Wolf Alice Credit: Emily Cheng

We're starting a brand new series every Friday where we round up the five songs that have been dominating our office listening. No person will go unnoticed, as we pluck the brains of our clubs and live music desk to relay the tracks that have been constantly on repeat.

David Zowie 'House Every Weekend'

We're partial to a good slab of commercial dance music and love it when they make it to Number One, so we've been fist pumping to David Zowie getting the accolade last week with his brilliantly catchy 'House Every Weekend'; feel-good dance music with a live for the weekend mantra always goes down well with us.

We've been fans of Zowie for a while now (check the great mix he did for us earlier in the year) and whilst we're sure this track's omnipresence will be annoying us soon. 

Kagoule 'Glue'

After a chance encounter at Glastonferret in sunny old Preston a couple of weekends back, Nottingham based three piece Kagoule have been perpetually on our radiowaves.

This track in particular is a riot, bursting into life instantly with growling basslines, thunderous percussion and a nuanced vocal performance from lead singer Cai culminating in a Pixies-esque chorus that is mentally unshakeable. Their album comes out on August 21st, put it in your diaries.

Fatima Yamaha 'What's a Girl to Do'

It's been one of those earworm grooves that has been getting underneath our skin on and off for a few years now, the record first coming to prominence way back in 2004, but a timely re-release from Dekmantel this week has mean it's been re-discovered and brought back to prominence by a host of DJs.

It was literally everywhere when we went to the Garden festival recently, taking top spot in our pick of the music we heard at the festival. We're sure you'll be hearing it everywhere soon too, if not already.

FIDLAR 'West Coast'

First came '40oz On Repeat' now LA's fledging garage punk band are plugging our airwaves with 'West Coast'. The scuzzed up anarchic number claimed Annie Mac's hottest record and it's been a constant fixture in our office too.   

Built on a wordless yet infectious chorus, these youthful punks know how to relay a hook: "Cracked out and sleepless in Seattle, got drunk and barfed on my shadow", it's not exactly what you want your Grandma to hear but it'll make for one hell of an album when it finally drops in September.

Wolf Alice 'Bros'

It's taken some time to settle, but Wolf Alice's My Love Is Cool keeps on getting better with every listen.'Bros' operates on the softer side of the album, sewn with glistening melodies that ripple throughout the track.

It's impossible not to get hooked on Ellie Roswell's melt in your mouth vocal that, as found out by 'You're A Germ', can get nasty with the flick of a switch. My Love Is Cool is by far the best debut we've heard for a long while, and 'Bros' largely attributes to our thinking. .  

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