Today is the hottest day of the year (and the last decade) here in the UK, so it was about time we put together a playlist of a few of our favourite songs for the summer.
We’ve put this list together in collaboration with Ticketbis, which offers an after-market exchange where you can sell tickets they no longer want or buy tickets for sold-out events for which you missed the deadline – you can find tickets here for acts ranging from Ed Sheeran to The Maccabees, and many more in between.
Onto the music…
We start things off-kilter with the mesmerising and hypnotic Gong from Leeds-based Favela, before we break into the powerful vocals and Lordesque production of the promising talent that is Keyes.
The booming and melancholic Hallows by Allman Brown is the third track in the playlist, followed by The Fog by Dublin via New Yorks’ The Overcoats.
Oh Wonder‘s latest soulful electronic delight Landslide is next, followed by the indie pop of Nantes-based Candids.
Girl-boy duo Yumi X‘s debut and instant classic slice of pop Swimming Pool drops right in, followed the timeless and catchy blues-soul of Jimi Charles Moody‘s Other Man is next, and should be everywhere in the coming months if we’ve got anything to do with it.
Walrus favourites Haelos are next with their EP’s title track Earth Is Not Enough, followed by catchy-as-all-hell Shine from Years & Years, another band very heavy on rotation here at Walrus Towers.
Tom Misch‘s gleaming and aptly named Sunshine follows, along with Kazy Lambist‘s cool as f*ck Doing Yoga.
As any good summer mixtape should, we end things on a party vibe with Ed Banger’s Para One & The South African Youth Choir’s Elevation.
Photograph by Duncan Harris