With this Deer Du Bois new playlist, we put the soul back into pop.

With Moir, we literally dive in an emotional ballad called “You Have Soul” and oh yes, we do have soul! Honest pop songs don’t come easy, but Summer Heart goes straight for it and tells us “I Got This Thing For You.” One thing GEMS can’t hide is their beautiful new single “Crippled Inside.”

German islander Ruuth is a fast rising newcomer with her refreshing sound and vocals on debut track “All About.”

The most colorful debut in this playlist must be Lillian Frances, who serves her experimental synth pop with Californian summer flair on “Better, Worse.” Just as sunny, Amber-Simone pushes us to shake it off on “Trashed My Heart” and we get turned upside down until the “small hours” with the delicate otta‘s song.

Von Sell already knew how to please us before with his music, but on his latest release “Digital Sleep,” he proves how his angelic, falsetto vocals lift his songs even higher into stardom. Lastly, Refs captivate with a song for all those who have ever tried to drink, smoke, or fuck away the inevitable.

If you want to drink a bit more until you get tipsy, you should check him on Facebook and Soundcloud, and follow his regular posts on our site.

Back in August, David Alexander, aka Summer Heart, shared his dreamy single “Follow” which despite a poppy spirit depicts the naive optimism and the possibility of never making your dreams come true. There’s now a beautiful Kyle Macfadzean-directed video to go with it.

About the video of “Follow”, Summer Heart detailed:

[su_quote]I wrote ‘Follow’ with the intention of exploring the concept of following your dreams, and the possibility of never quite getting there. Kyle, who directed the video, wanted to convey this idea through a relationship between a mother and her young daughter. The daughter, relishing her role as the star of the show, is all naive optimism and youthful exuberance. Her mother, meanwhile, looks on with pride but also with a kind of melancholy. As her daughter plays to the crowds, she reflects on her own youth and the dreams she never had the chance to follow, and wonders just how many years she has left with her daughter; too few, perhaps, to see her daughter follow her own dreams.[/su_quote]

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“Follow” is taken from Summer Heart‘s latest album “101” out now via Perfect Texture. The artist will also play two gigs in the US this month.

18.10. Sunnyvale, NYC
23.10. Bootleg Theatre, LA

Follow Summer Heart via Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter, and Instagram.

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With Deer Du Bois, the future is pop and we are getting hot this week!

Crystal clear beats and sun-kissed voices are this week’s sounds when we bring you the freshest tracks by newcomer Bella Mer on “Loaded Gun” & “Mind Control” by the Canadian ggpeach. Check out as well the sweet new track by Norwegian pop superstar Anna Of The North who just released “Lovers”.

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Smooth and colored in synth is the collaboration between Room8 & The Sound of Arrows on the intense pop ballad “Just You & I”. Powerful vocals and inspiring harmonies in the latest So Below and their very dance-able track “Ruin”. Indie-pop-crooner Sam Frankl, with his typical voice and matching bustling production is back on “Gold Rush”.

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Our heartbeat of the week goes to amazing vocalist Wit Blu on the mesmerizing “Crystallize” and to School Of X and their song “Words”.

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Can’t wait for summer!

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