Best new streaming music: MIA, Lana Del Rey, Drake (July 17)

David Smyth presents his round-up of the best new music streaming online this week
David Smyth17 July 2015

Our weekly look at the best new music to hit the web this week includes a boundary-crossing video from MIA, an exquisite new Lana Del Rey album track, and Drake's video for tense new single Energy.

Rap firebrand MIA is travelling the world making videos for tracks from her next album. The first two, Swords and Warriors, were filmed in India and the Ivory Coast and have arrived together on Apple Music under the title Matahdatah Scroll 01 ‘Broader Than A Border’.

Nobody does doomed glamour like Lana Del Rey, who sounds as exquisite as ever on Honeymoon. The slow-motion single is the title track of a new album due in September and appeared on YouTube this week.

Releasing two albums in 2014 obviously wasn’t enough for Prince, who is streaming another new single on his Soundcloud page now. Hardrocklover is a sexy slow jam boasting a quite extraordinary guitar sound.

Sinead Harnett continues to emerge from the shadow of her work with Rudimental with an attitude-packed new single, Do It Anyway. The song and its drum and bass breakdown are now streaming on Soundcloud.

A member of the Drive-by Truckers til 2007, Jason Isbell is now on his fifth solo album of sophisticated Americana. Something More Than Free is on sale today.

Groove Armada are back this week with a new take on the album format. Little Black Book has seven new tracks but also covers and remixes, adding up to 34 songs in all. It’s free of obvious hit singles but should please the serious clubbers.

After collaborating with the London Sinfonietta and composing the soundtrack to Jonathan Glazer’s film Under the Skin, Mica Levi is back planning her third album as Micachu & the Shapes. It’s out in September, preceded by the uneasy drone of Oh Baby.

Albums - July 2015

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After that gruesome Rihanna video, it’s a relief to see a superstar being more lighthearted in the clip for Drake’s tense new single, Energy. You can see the rapper impersonating Oprah, Miley Cyrus and a Ken doll.

David Gilmour hasn’t released a solo album in almost a decade, and now the Pink Floyd guitarist has released his first single in some considerable time, Rattle That Lock.

Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco received a decent amount of praise for his 2014 album Salad Days. Now he’s following that with a mini-album out next month, from which he’s revealed the gently swinging I’ve Been Waiting for Her.

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