Solange
Losing You
Solange and Dev Hynes wrap the end of a relationship in a skittering, eighties-tinted R&B groove: the 2012 lead single of the True EP on Terrible Records, with a Melina Matsoukas video shot in Cape Town's Langa township.
Feeling
bittersweet
13 tracks.
Michelle Gurevich
Lovers Are Strangers
Michelle Gurevich croons a deadpan, candlelit elegy for love gone cold, with lo-fi synths and a slow-dance sway that make heartbreak feel strangely elegant.
Michelle Gurevich
First Six Months of Love
A slow, smoky synth ballad in which Michelle Gurevich's deadpan contralto toasts the giddy first months of a romance while already hearing the ending coming.
Marcus Marr & Chet Faker
The Trouble With Us
Marcus Marr and Chet Faker (Nick Murphy) recorded this disco-funk jam in four days in a Brixton studio in July 2015: a funk-flecked guitar riff and a soulful plea about a relationship going wrong, made into a reason to dance.
Lilly Wood and The Prick, Robin Schulz
Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)
Robin Schulz lifts a mournful 2010 French folk-pop song onto a bouncing deep house beat, Nili Hadida's bleak prayer and a looping guitar riff becoming a number one across Europe in 2014.
Hindi Zahra
Old Friends (Remastered Version)
The slow, dreamy closing song of Hindi Zahra's debut Handmade, which she dedicated to her ancestors: a husky voice layered into a quiet choir, turning memory into something warm and quietly aching.
Gabriella Cilmi
Cry Me A River (Live Version)
A sixteen-year-old Gabriella Cilmi takes Justin Timberlake's 2002 break-up hit into smoky, live soul territory with a three-piece band: a 2008 B-side recorded by Xenomania, her husky voice carrying all the hurt.
Broken Back
Happiest Man on Earth (Radio Edit)
Bright acoustic strumming over a gentle electronic beat, Broken Back's first single sounds like optimism earned the hard way.
Asaf Avidan & the Mojos
Reckoning Song
A cracked, ageless voice over a few acoustic chords: the original Reckoning Song from 2008 is a campfire confession about growing old, four years before Wankelmut's remix turned it into a European number one.
Amy Winehouse
You Know I'm No Good
A slinking, horn-stabbed confession of infidelity from Back to Black, written by Amy Winehouse and produced by Mark Ronson with the Dap-Kings' players: retro soul with a lyric no 1960s girl group would have sung.
Alle Farben, Graham Candy
Sometimes
Alle Farben's sun-warmed deep house meets Graham Candy's quivering, unmistakable high voice in a wistful Berlin summer song about the days that do not go to plan.
Louie Austen
One Night In Rio
'One Night In Rio' by Louie Austen is a tongue-in-cheek electro-lounge story from 2001: a Viennese hotel-bar crooner, then in his fifties, counting off a tour from Rio to LA to Moscow and complaining about a taxi, with backing singers echoing every line.
Lipka
No More Beer
A Geneva duo stops the party to break the worst possible news: a wry, shout-along electro-indie track in which the DJ is told to cut the music because the beer is running out.