ELLE L’s official debut single ‘Hoping’ and introductory track ‘Circles’ received a groundswell of tastemaker support to establish her rising star status. Earning a first wave of critical acclaim from Noisey, The Face, Wonderland, Clash, The Telegraph and harnessing radio support from BBC Introducing. Diplo’s Sirius XM and Soho Radio, ELLE L has landed on key playlists at Apple Music, Shazam and synched her music to a worldwide TV / Digital campaign with Lacoste. Beyond her creativity as a musician, ELLE L’s multidimensional nature also reflects in her work as a regenerative fashion ambassador and as an environmental activist working on campaigns alongside the United Nations.

Now ELLE L’s skybound trajectory continues as she shares her brand new single ‘Higher’ along with its official video, released 5/11/21 with a premiere on VEVO US ‘Incoming Pop, VEVO UK ‘Emerging Artists 2021’ and ‘Study Sessions’. Early Editorial support has been harnessed by The Line of Best Fit, Wonderland Magazine and Apple Music, landing on ‘New Music Daily, ‘New in Pop’ and ‘Breaking Pop’ this weekend.

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‘Higher’ channels ELLE L’s beautifully feminine vocals into a song that blurs the lines between dream-pop and dance-pop with searingly honest lyrics and euphoric, guitar-driven production. The result is an uplifting crowd-pleaser with international appeal. The narrative places a poetic slant on a universal experience: embracing the possibility that new love has the potential to go all the way, but that first you might have to put yourself into a vulnerable place and ‘let go’.

ELLE L says, “‘Higher’ explores the power of surrendering yourself to fearless love. I feel like we all need good energy more than ever, so I wanted to write a song that dares to be positive. It’s a natural progression from the themes of my debut single ‘Hoping’, which focused on the notion of opening up to new love. It takes a lot of bravery to be so Panglossian about the future and to let go of your vulnerabilities. Love has a glass-like fragility and at the same time the potential to be earth-shatteringly beautiful. For me, it’s always worth taking the risk to trust and love hard.”

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‘Higher’ was written and performed by ELLE L, with production courtesy of ARH at Tileyard Studios, London. It was subsequently mixed by Dan Vinci (Ed Sheeran, Jessie Ware) and mastered by Chris Gheringer (Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez) at Sterling Sound.

ELLE L further explores the themes behind the song with its official video, a beautifully kaleidoscopic animation from Jack Zhang, one of the team behind the Dua Lipa x Elton John ‘Cold Cold Heart’ video. The narrative focuses on a young woman and a rabbit, who both dream of escaping far into the stratosphere above us. It adds a new string to her creative direction after the release of the striking, stylised aesthetic she first revealed with the video for ‘Hoping’.

Outside of music, ELLE L unites the worlds of fashion and sustainability with the aim of inspiring a more positive, eco-conscious future for the planet. She is a newly appointed Kindness Champion for UNESCO MGIEP’s #KindnessMattersglobal campaign. This year has also seen her address and showcase her music at the Frankfurt Fashion Summit and the UNESCO MGIEP’s 3rd World Youth Conference. Elle’s recent special projects have included curating and moderating segments at UNEA-4 for UNEP with Heron Preston and as a global ambassador for Fashion For Conversation, she has ventured to the depths of the Peruvian Amazon and curated a runway show at the Natural History Museum. She is also an ambassador for the regenerative-circular fashion brand and has featured this year in British Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.

Her talents as a musician and director also resonate in her philanthropic endeavours. ‘Hoping’ was synced for the Hope For Earth Day 2021, a campaign with bio-dynamic brand Mude Drinks which raised over $15,000 for non-profit Hoja Nueva to rewild endangered species in Madre De Dios, Peru.

Short neo-classical Piano Walz, backed-up with a music video of an 92-year old couple dancing on it, still ‘Making Memories’

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An anthem to feel comfortable in your own skin, regardless of your sexuality, your desires, your weight or your body shape.

I think there’s a lot of pressure on people to present themselves in a proper, gentle and socially acceptable way and because of this people often feel the need to hide their sexual diversity and desires. Sometimes only feeling safe to truly express themselves in closeted or underground environments, even when there’s a risk of being “discovered” and shamed.

For me, being assertive when you’re a woman is often misconstrued as being bossy or bitchy and talking about sex or showing off your body opens the door to having your morals criticized.

I wrote Vixen as a way to shed my own fears around my body and my sexuality. People sexualize me all the time, it’s my body so why can’t I do the same?

I’ve come to a place where I no longer want to refine myself into less than I am just to make other people feel more comfortable. As long as you aren’t hurting anyone there’s no reason to be ashamed of who you want to be.

I think it’s important to feel empowered and confident in your skin, manifest good things for yourself, communicate what you need and want, to always maintain personal boundaries, have safe sex, it’s your body and your happiness.

Life is too short not to take what you want from it.

LYRICS:

Come on come on come on

Come on come on come on

Catch me by the lips

Like smoke I’ll slip

Through your finger tips

Cheated once again

You’ll say it ain’t fair

Leave you in decay

When I’m not around

To keep ‘those’ thoughts at bay

You’ll question where I am

And who I’m with

Baby I’m a vixen

Drink you dry until I get my fix in

I don’t need a reason

To get what I want

I get it get it

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

Lilac in my cup

Make it overflow

Until I’ve had enough

I make the rules

Don’t you break ‘em

(don’t yah don’t yah don’t yah baby)

Beauty’s in the eye

Of the beholder

But I have many a shoulder

To bite on

If I don’t have you

Baby I’m a vixen

Drink you dry until I get my fix in

I don’t need a reason

To get what I want

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

Na na nah na nana na na nah

Na na nah na nana na nana

Unchained, Unashamed

It’s crazy how good confidence tastes

Get a little rowdy

Or get out of my way

Get out of my way

Get out of my way

Baby I’m a vixen

Drink you dry until I get my fix in

I don’t need a reason

Woa I don’t I don’t I don’t I don’t

I’m a vixen baby

Drink you dry until I get my fix in baby

Yea

I get it get it

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

I get it get it

Come on

I get what I want

I get what I want

Dance with U is classic R&B/pop song with a hypnotic funk laced production. Its very catchy melody explains that sometimes you need to dance with a person before getting to know them a little better. Calyco have quickly established a trademark of smooth and slick lead vocals and lush harmonies, and this carries on the tradition. References for the song are Isley Brothers, SZA, Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak

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“Lotus” is a piece written from an emotional perspective, my music creates an emotive atmosphere that evokes in the listener a path for his own imagination.

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Jasper Sloan Yip’s latest offering is as moody as a rainy day in his hometown of Vancouver. The atmospheric double EP is full of ethereal harmonies and resonant strings while Yip tackles grief, heartbreak, and inevitable endings, all pinned to downbeat languid rhythms.

As with all endings comes new beginnings, and within this sense of struggle are edges of hope. Yip summarizes the album as “a meditation on learning to live with the death process,” as well as the birth of new life and a new chapter – specifically, Fatherhood.

The new double EP, Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn emerged from the liminal period after the Strange Calm sessions at the Noise Floor had been cut short by COVID. In the midst of isolation, Yip recalls how the second EP came to be.

“I felt that what we had made was finished, but also that there was more to say. So with nothing written and not much to go on other than a desire to create, I committed myself to recording a second EP at Afterlife Studio in Vancouver with producer and longtime collaborator John Raham (Destroyer, Tanya Tagaq, Frazey Ford). Almost immediately after doing this, my wife and I learned we were going to be parents the following summer, and from that point on there was nothing else to write about. What resulted was Blushing Autumn: four quiet songs about the anticipation of new life.”

The next challenge was how to go about making collaborative music in isolation. In the weeks leading up to the sessions, Vancouver’s COVID numbers were trending in the wrong direction, depriving Jasper and the band of an opportunity to workshop the material. Rather than fret, the band decided to lean into the circumstances, inviting cameras into the studio to capture whatever happened under the guidance of filmmaker Lester Lyons Hookham of C’est La Vid Productions. “That was an exercise in trust,” says Yip. “I was already nervous about recording untested songs, but we decided to embrace the opportunity for spontaneity in the hopes we’d capture something special on film, and I think we did.”

Jasper has hinted at a much larger film project still in the works for 2022. For the time being though, he is sharing footage of the sessions as a music video for “Blushing Autumn”, showing the band in situ, joyfully creating together in-studio again after a long separation.

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Weathered the Storm, written by Barry Muir, is the first single/video from the soon to be released album “Gentle”. Weathered the Storm is a search for clarity after a tumultuous breakup and the hope that after some time apart the flame might be rekindled.

“Weathered the Storm, is a song I wrote about giving a relationship time to heal.” says Barry. “There is nothing like a breakup to spur so many emotions as a songwriter and the upcoming album “Gentle” is filled with songs about breaking up, knocking the walls down, starting over and even finding yourself alone. “

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Today, rapidly rising singer/songwriter Sam Tompkins unleashes his brand new single, the emphatic “Bloodline”, taken from his forthcoming EP who do you pray to? out February 4th, 2022 via Island Records.

Fresh from a sold-out tour across the UK, the Brighton-raised vocalist, who is Justin Bieber’s “favourite new artist”, is back with another heartfelt smash which is sure to connect with his growing fanbase. His Electric Brixton headline show last week really cemented his place as one of the most exciting young storytellers to come out of the UK, with fans singing back every word.

“Bloodline” is the latest in a string of singles where the young songwriter wears his heart on his sleeve. Explaining the intimate story behind the “Bloodline” lyrics, Sam says “Bloodline is a reminder that no matter how far our loved ones go, they are always still with us wherever we go.”

Sam’s super engaged fanbase has grown exponentially following a series of viral videos, impressive covers shared via TikTok & Instagram, single releases (accumulating millions of streams) and pre-pandemic, grass-roots touring. Resonating with Sam’s emotional lyrics and raw vocals he has built a deeply supportive global community with close to half a million followers on both platforms.

Justin Bieber is a huge fan of Sam’s, and they’ve developed a friendship over the past year. In a recent IG live chat between the two, Justin told him “You’re so talented, you bring so much joy to people and are making such an impact already.”

And it’s not just Justin who has championed Sam. His music has already been praised by Bastille, Elton John, Bebe Rexha, Jason Derulo and MNEK alongside the likes of MTV, Clash, Notion and tmrw magazine and featured on flagship Spotify editorial playlists like The Pop List and Fresh & Chill.

Following in the footsteps of British break-out stars like Sam Fender and Tom Grennan, 2022 is set to be his year. This incredibly talented artist has gone from busking on the streets to selling-out tours and with the release of his new EP who do you pray to? Sam will set out his vision for the future.

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This is the second single and title track from the forthcoming album “The Mighty Mighty Something” due for release December this year.

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Taken from album Archipelago, out now.

Archipelago is a soundtrack to a short film with the same name by photographer Kalle Gustafsson. Starring in the film is Elsa Hosk, Elsa Crafoord and Joel Danielsson.

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