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100. CITY FATHER – “Coquette”

99. BILLIE EILISH – “Bellyache”

98. SABRINA CLAUDIO – “Belong To You”

97. PETRA GLYNT – “Fell In A Hole”

96. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR + SHARON VAN ETTEN – “Omnion”

95. GIRLI – “Hot Mess”

94. THE SOFT MOON – “Burn”

93. J.I.D – “Never”

92. ACE TEE + KWAM.E – “Bist Du Down?”

91. CRALIAS – “Hope You Are”

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90. CHROMATICS – “Shadow”

89. RUN THE JEWELS – “Legend Has It”

88. CARDI B – “Bodak Yellow”

87. YELLOW DAYS – “Hurt In Love”

86. JFDR – “Airbone”

85. SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “Undercover”

84. TOM TRIPP – “Aurelia”

83. SUPERORGANISM – “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”

82. KAN WAKAN – “Still Feather”

81. NILÜFER YANYA – “Baby Luv”

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80. WAKE CHILD – “In The End”

79. JAJA BU – “Sweetness”

78. ALVVAYS – “Dreams Tonite”

77. KIDÄ – “Bone Mother”

76. HÅN – “The Children”

75. ULYSSE – “Mañana”

74. SHY GIRLS – “You Like The Pain Too”

73. GOURMET – “Delicious”

72. SORCHA RICHARDSON – “4AM”

71. MILLIE TURNER – “Underwater”

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70. NABIHAH IQBAL – “Something More”

69. KEDR LIVANSKIY – “Your Name (имя твоё)”

68. MORGXN – “xx”

67. GRIZZLY BEAR – “Mourning Sound”

66. DANIEL CAESAR + KALI UCHIS – “Get You”

65. DILLON – “2.KIND”

64. COUCOU CHLOE + SEGA BODEGA – “Flip U”

63. THE TRP – “Soda”

62. JAY SOM – “The Bus Song”

61. GFOTY – “Tongue”

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60. SELENA GOMEZ -“Bad Liar”

59. ELA MINUS – “Juan Sant”

58. EMPRESS OF – “Go To Hell”

57. SHE Major – “Please Don’t”

56. VAGABON – “Cold Appartment”

55. NADINE – “Ultra Pink”

54. SONDER – “Feel”

53. RINA SAWAYAMA – “Alterlife”

52. SEGA BODEGA + SHYGIRL – “CC”

51. GOLDLINK + BRENT FAIYAZ – “Crew”

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50. CRATER – “Unearth”

49. QUAY DASH – “Decline Him”

48. YELLE – “Romeo”

47. GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO – “Fruitflies”

46. WESLEE – “Bathwater”

45. FOREST SWORDS – “The Highest Flood”

44. KENDRICK LAMAR + ZACARI – “LOVE.”

43. ALEX CAMERON + ANGEL OLSEN – “Stranger’s Kiss”

42. SMERZ – “Oh My My”

41. SASSY 009 – “Are You Leaving”

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40. CHARLI XCX – “Roll With Me”

39. TESSA DIXSON – “Prayer”

38. TOMMY GENESIS – “Tommy”

37. SSION – “Comeback”

36. PIXX – “Romance”

35. DANNY L HARLE – “1UL”

34. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “american dream”

33. LANA DEL REY – “Love”

32. KING KRULE – “Dum Surfer”

31. SAMPHA – “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

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30. MAKTHAVERSKAN – “Vienna”

29. CCFX – “The One To Wait”

28. KLLO – “Downfall”

27. KELLY LEE OWENS + JENNY HVAL – “Anxi.”

26. BLUE HAWAII – “No One Like You”

25. FEVER RAY – “Wanna Sip”

24. JULIEN BAKER – “Turn Out The Lights”

23. LIL PEEP + LIL TRACY – “witchblades”

22. FAKA – “Uyang’khumbula”

21. TR/ST – “Bicep”

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20. SARO – “Eyelids”

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19. BROCKHAMPTON – “Summer”

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18. TYLER, THE CREATOR + KALI UCHIS – “See You Again”

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17. O-SHiN – “A Revelation”

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16. ionnalee – “SAMARITAN”

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15. Vince Staples – “Crabs In A Bucket”

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14. WWWATER – “My Hands”

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13. Björk – “Blissing Me”

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12. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut To The Feeling”

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11. Big Thief – “Mythological Beauty”

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10. SZA – “Drew Barrymore”

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9. Frank Ocean – “Chanel”

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8. Wy – “Bathrooms”

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7. SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”

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6. Moses Sumney – “Doomed”

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5. Kelela – “Onanon”

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4. Arca – “Desafío”

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3. Lorde – “The Louvre”

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2. Perfume Genius – “Slip Away”

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1. Yaeji – “Raingurl”

Listen to the 100 tracks of 2017 according to the HighClouds‘ staff via Spotify, Youtube and Deezer.

With her unusual song-writing, imaginative, relatable vocals and dreamy electro-pop sound, there is nothing that we don’t love about Sorcha Richardson and this song. While reflecting on her life that is passing right in front of her eyes, with a almost-dead love next to her, she is losing hope about what to do with her life. As birthdays not only represent the moment to underline the bad to get rid of it, it is also the moment to start new. So there is always a glimpse of hope on Sorcha Richardson‘s music. The Brooklyn-based artist stated about what inspired the song:

[su_quote]”Waking Life” is a song I started writing around my last birthday.There’s something about birthdays that force you to pause and reflect on your life and take stock of where you’re at. Sometimes that’s a really fun and fulfilling thing to do but sometimes it can feel really shitty. I’ve spent a lot of my life saying to myself that ‘by the time I’m X years old, I’ll have overcome that fear, I’ll have worked out all those issues, I’ll have mended that relationship.’ This song is about getting to a point in life and suddenly realizing that your reality falls way short of the dream you were holding onto in your head. It’s about having no idea how to reconcile the discrepancies between the two, but also wondering how or why you thought it would be different. ​​​​​[/su_quote]

You can follow Sorcha Richardson over Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.

While her delicate yet intense songwriting is still pretty much recognizable, the production gets a bolder twist with heavy basslines showing a new honest position in her music. While repeating “It’s 4 in the morning, I think you should go”, the artist doesn’t hesitate on putting an open letter to admitting your wrongs but also to stop blaming yourself for it. The track evolves on a contrast between sweet and hard production, reminding that moment, at 4am, when the violence of the night fights against the sweetness of the early morning. The songwriting describes the situation of enjoying loneliness instead of staying on a toxic relationship. To get empowered alone rather than staying with someone because of the fear of forsakenness.

Sorcha Richardson inspires many of us who are afraid of being alone, and gives us hope and confidence by being unapologetically honest about her own struggles. With this new direction on the production, we are excited to see what’s coming next for her career and can’t wait to see her blossom.

You can follow Sorcha Richardson over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Soundcloud.

In this track, Richardson’s lyrics bring to the fore an impactful confessional and emotive narrative backed up as it is with a spare music of an acoustic guitar. Her song is all about a frivolous, drunken, tumultuous night of young love at the backdrop of the ‘underneath the Empire State’ while the song’s refrain “you should just forget my name” offers the scope for reflection expressed through the simplistic style of Sorcha.

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“Ruin Your Night” is Sorcha Richardson’s third single after the release of her equally impressive tracks “Walk Away” and “Lost”. Though she had to reject the idea of an EP to come up with “Ruin Your Night”, critics univocally think that Sorcha’s striking voice makes the decision worth it

Follow Sorcha Richardson on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

In an interview with The 405, Sorcha Richardson explains that last summer was a kind of turning point in her creative process as she decided to borrow the bass of a friend and experiment a new way of songwriting, at night.

On Facebook, the artist shared a few words about “Lost”:
[su_quote]Heartbreak sucks. It really does. I wrote this song after my friend called to say that his girlfriend had broken up with him. He was devastated and I wanted to do something to cheer him up. I recorded it in LA at the start of the summer with Alex Casnoff (Harriet) who taught me so much and helped me turn it from a bedroom demo into an actual song. It soundtracked some of the best moments of my summer, days and nights I spent with the very people I had written it about. This one feels really special and I’m so happy I can finally share it.[/su_quote]

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More songs are to come as the artist promised us to regularly unveil tracks (every 3 weeks) on her Soundcloud account until November 4! Thus, I think it can be a good idea to follow her there!