Who. What. Where? No. 121 (music special)

This week, there’s loads of great new tracks to put on your radar, so we’ve put together a Who. What. Where? music special for you lucky people. And we know WWW is a Wednesday thing, but we’re kicking off with a song called ‘Weekend’ by Eliza Rose, who you definitely know from ‘B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)’ (that song scratches my brain in a way very few do). ‘Weekend’ is another of the artist’s earworms and marks a “new chapter” of her work, according to Rose herself. Essentially, it’s a tune about getting loose at the weekend, so most of you can probably relate. Oh, and it features The Trip. Check it out here.

This next one offers a very definite change of pace. Miller Blue drops his EP, Orchestral Version, on Friday. And, if the two released singles from it, ‘Blush’ and ‘Us’, are anything to go by, it’s going to be bloody brilliant. Obviously those names are going to ring a bell, and that’s because — as the EP’s name suggests — it’s a re-upholstering of Blue’s existing tracks. But this time, they’ve been zhuzhed up with a string orchestra, which really brings another emotional level to the songs as much as a sonic one. Listen from Friday here.

The next artist needs no introduction — Burna Boy has just dropped a new album called No Sign of Weakness. As well as being yet another example of the GRAMMY winner’s own larger-than-life approach to music, it also includes some pretty insane features, including Travis Scott on ‘TaTaTa’ and Mick Jagger on ‘Empty Chairs’ (so random but also amazing — and also nothing to do with Les Mis, thank God). If you love the album and happen to be an across-the-pond reader, Burna Boy has recently announced a North American tour, which you can get tickets for here. If you’re in the UK, soz about that. But what you can do is listen to No Sign of Weakness here.

Finally, we have a new track from Au/Ra. Last month, the German-Antiguan artist dropped ‘BLAH’, which she’s calling the end of the first act of her musical journey. That makes the new single, ‘CRACK!’, the start of her new era. All about the emotional void of modern life thanks to our obsession with screens (oops), Au/Ra wrote the track during a time of personal darkness. While that anxt definitely comes across in the track (as does that glitchy link to the digital world), it’s very anthemic, and the perfect first portal into Au/Ra’s next musical chapter. Give ‘CRACK!’ a listen here.