Australian up and coming artist Oliver Kirby, better known as LOVER, has just announced the release of his debut EP with a groovy and cosy track titled “Starving”. Co-produced by long-time collaborator Tanssi and Gold Coast trio daste, the song reproduces the intimacy of a velvet club with its lounge R&B vibes. Although the arrangements sound comforting, the lyrics of the track are not as soothing as they enlighten the struggles of being a new artist trying to make a living from his music. In his own words:

[su_quote]Lyrically I was thinking about music and the struggle in pursuing, not being able to afford groceries – the classic starving artist cliché. The lyric “I’m starving in front of friends, but they eat anyway” is meant to be a personal aphorism; that even if I’m doing all this artist stuff, my friends and family deep down don’t really care – so don’t take it too seriously and just have fun with it. I get so stressed and anxious about stuff that in the end no one really cares about, and won’t matter.[/su_quote]

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[su_dropcap style=”simple”]B[/su_dropcap]ack in October, the HighClouds team attended Ibeyi’s wonderful concert at the Ancienne Belgique. During this concert, they performed one of their singles, “Stranger/Lover“, which they had previously just released a moving video a month before. The sisters are now presenting us two new versions of the song.

The first song is a complete “Refix” made by the established English DJ/Producer Mark Ronson.
He built the song with a mind full of funk infused with some R&B vibes.

Mark told The Fader; “I’ve never worked so closely with an artist when doing a remix before, it was more like producing a track from scratch than making a remix.”
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On the other hand, the young and talented rising artist Mura Masa did his own remix. A remix that you could immediately affiliate to him, as it’s completely his own style.
For example the intro has many similarities with some of his previous songs, hint hint his latest song “Love for That” featuring Shura

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If you’re interested about the magic that happens during Ibeyi’s concerts, read our live review here.