Category: New Albums

5 Seconds Of Summer Share Coming Of Age Music Video For ‘Old Me’. New Album ‘C A L M’ Due March 27 Via Polydor

March 10, 2020

5 Seconds of Summer once again teamed up with director Hannah Lux Davis (Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey, 5SOS’ ‘No Shame’) for the official ‘Old Me’ video. Filmed in Sydney, Australia, the video recreates moments throughout the band’s career and includes home footage from their early beginnings. The final shot features 5 Seconds of Summer walking onto the stage at the Fire Fight Australia benefit concert for National Bushfire Relief. Watch the video:

Vivid Neo Jazz Pop Album ‘Expectations’ From LA Songstress Olivia Henry

March 3, 2020

Olivia Henry, from Los Angeles, has known all her life that she’s wanted to sing, and she shared that passion with the world. with her debut EP, ‘Sessions’, released in 2014. The recrord demonstrated Olivia’s gift for taking a retro-jazz sound and recrafting it into an alterna-pop format, and set her on a seemingly rocketlike trajectory to the stars. Sadly this was not to be, because following the release of ‘Sessions’, Olivia was forced to put her career on hold, as she was diagnosed with a variety of joint-related auto-immune conditions.

Neil Arthur, Blancmange Superstar, Talks With Essentially Pop

March 1, 2020

Blancmange, the hugely successful British electronic band have a new album and a tour to go with it. Kicking off in Scotland on May 1st and working their way across the U.K. to finish in October. To go with the tour they have a new album ‘ Mindset’ which releases on May 22nd. Blancmange music has been used in so much recent music by La Roux, LCD Sound System and Hot Chip. So influential is the band and their music that electronic superstar Moby described the, as “the most underrated electronic band of all time”, high praise indeed. Since Stephen Luscombe was forced by illness to stop touring or recording after 2011’s ‘Blanc Burn’, the band’s evolution has continued with Neil Arthur at the helm and Essentially Pop were lucky enough to chat with him this week about the new album, the tour and even ABBA, who’s ‘Day Before You Came’ they superbly covered. It’s an honour to get a glimpse at what motivates one of our own electronic superstars.