Add to playlist: Rian Brazil Björk’s favorite songs for Brighton’s youth and the best songs of the week | Music

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Not many would say that Björk played her song while DJing at the Venice Biennale, but, like last week, Rian Brazil is one of them. A Brighton-born producer, too praised by pop star Lola Youngis a master of earworms, which he weaves from the rich sounds of the UK underground (see long-time collaborator, producer Fakemink Clearo) and the saccharine rise and fall of his voice. At first listen, you might mistake most of his songs for Auto-Tune, but this one, interestingly, is a brazilian accent, tweaked with vocals to achieve a more vulnerable performance that sets his voice apart from his rap peers.

Through his upcoming EP Engine Heartbreak EP – including the drum’n’bass love song Bullet Caught in a Spiders Web, the gospel material 2 Make U Smile and the glitchy A Butterfly Was Born – Brazil (his real name) creates a very romantic country that likes to be connected online as much as it wants to connect IRL. In the middle of the radio frenzy he created, which recalls the infamous Jai Paul 2013 Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) or the new music of his Brazilian colleagues. Clear Chalk Makes and Twinsthere are sonic and musical remnants from the youth behind England – In Brazil, Hollingdean, Brighton.

Here, we get church sounds, rave songs sung by old raver moms, ripped MP3s played on the school bus through cheap headphones. The result is a sound that takes you beyond the present, and reminds you of where you came from. In Brazilian words: “the future version of a hyperactive kid who grew up smoking cigarettes on Barrow Hill”. Letty Cole

This week’s best songs

Jorja Smith – What Happened It’s done
Based on a song-of-the-summer contender, Smith plays the role of a relationship manager who has died from a severe beating. There are cut cords and UKG caps, but it’s not an ambitious trip. BBT

Tropical Ice Cream – Touch
A relationship from another time slips through the fingers of a lover at the first taste of the two songs of Helado Negro and Fabi Reyna, although there is no urgency in their sweet guitar, lo-fi fuzz and vague vocals. LS

Show Me The Body – There Is No God
The hard-hitting punk trio rejects religion in favor of immediacy in this wildly sheepish, mesmerizing dance: one to throw your friends in love with. BBT

The Avalanches – Together (ft Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss)
Excited and frustrated – “you can’t take a picture of me at home crying on my phone” – I live in this electro-pop candyland, part of its pulse is created by the click of the camera shutter. LS

Overmono – Lockup
Juxtaposing the chopped, booming vocals against the bass-driven tech-house might be ideal, but the returning duo deftly invert the scene with head-scratching detail – festival season can’t come soon enough. BBT

Alys (alys) alys – Effervescence
So you can hear the walls shaking, the Berlin-Brazilian producer’s latest feels more dangerous than its name suggests: loud vocals and heavy drums. LS

Ivy Knight – Beacon
Well done by Deer Park (well known his underground rap), the song pits the clear guitar against the amorphous bass as NYC singer Knight calls out for the crowd. BBT

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