Add to playlist: Sarah Meth’s resplendent, intimate songwriting and the week’s best new tracks | Music

From North LondonRecommended for those who like Helena Deland, Billie Eilish, Okay KayaUp subsequent Headlining Bermondsey Social Membership, 30 July; enjoying Inexperienced Man competition, Brecon Beacons, AugustLondon-based singer-songwriter Sarah Meth makes eerie, skeletal dream-pop reduce by way of with a self-deprecating, very on-line sense of humour. A scan of her artist web page on any streaming service gives a gratifying biography of an artist slowly however absolutely chipping away at her fashion seeking a definite viewpoint: the lounge jazz stylings of 2020’s Useless Finish World give solution to piquant, post-King Krule bed room pop on 2022’s Leak Your Personal Blues and Billie Eilish-ish pathos on 2023’s Steps EP.What might really feel like a canine’s dinner of genres is held collectively by Meth’s heat, laconic voice and knack for resplendent however pathologically small-scale manufacturing. Winnies, a tune from final yr’s NY ILY single, is constructed atop a delirious, translucent organ line. In contrast to a lot of her songs, which deal in winking self-subjugation, Winnies is a couple of blooming sense of self-determination, and Meth neatly performs it as one thing that would disappear at any second.At a latest present at London’s Theatreship, a cabaret theatre on a ship in Canary Wharf, Meth previewed new songs that alternated between amenable folks music within the fashion of Julia Jacklin and Angel Olsen, and shimmery, skew whiff pop songs that she sang over a prerecorded monitor. The modes proved surprisingly complementary – indie music ego and id, perhaps, or a real-time battle between extroversion and introversion. The brand new songs had been indelible and thrilling: memorable odes to rising up, and falling out and in of affection, that stand out in a crowded area of indie-pop newcomers. Shaad D’SouzaThis week’s finest new tracksDebby Friday. {Photograph}: Lucy Mahoney/JuliArtFlashDebby Friday – Guess on Me“Frightened of what simply may occur / If I’m going forward and wager on me,” the Canadian pop star exhales over anxious breakbeats, constructing to a cheerleader chant riotous with self-belief. LSGalya Bisengalieva – Alash-kala (The Bug Reflection)From a brand new EP additionally that includes an ambient reinterpretation by KMRU, this remix of Alash-kala sees Kevin “The Bug” Martin blow the Kazakh-British composer’s lonely, glacial crackle as much as an end-of-days cataclysm. LSDanny L Harle & PinkPantheress – StarlightHarle is a tough dance revivalist and a pop producer for Caroline Polachek and Dua Lipa, and each impulses cohere on this soft-donk stomper with Grimes-ish vocals from PinkPantheress. BBTAgriculture – BodhidharmaAnyone lamenting the lack of Black Sabbath this week ought to flip to this crushing post-metal anthem, with a splendid sky-scorching riff in addition to eerie sound design and quiet-loud thrills. BBTGeese – TaxesAfter frontman Cameron Winter turned an indie darling due to his traditional solo debut Heavy Metallic, Geese return with a winner: a rumpled slacker tune that straightens up and stands out its chest for a joyful refrain. BBTSJ – OzilWith cool, softly swinging jazz obliterated by the arrival of a hard-headed drill beat, the Tottenham MC sprinkles references to his footballing previous with the nimbleness of a boy-wonder midfielder. [Not on Spotify] BBTFever Ray – Now’s the Solely Time I Know (Remedy Session)Karin Dreijer is releasing an album of studio mixes of reside variations of outdated songs: this spooked tune about domesticity from their 2009 debut turns into a savage, ravey exorcism. LSSubscribe to the Guardian’s rolling Add to Playlist alternatives on Spotify.Add to playlist – Spotify Spotify