Sky Ferreira | Everything Is Embarrassing

Likely to be new to approximately 0% of Sky Ferreira's fanbase, Everything Is Embarrassing is finally getting a release in the UK on an EP of the same name. Originally featuring on 2012's Ghost EP, this is a slice of of despondent, 80s disheartened pining not too dissimilar to Losing You by Solange, and is the kind of comedown song you listen to after a night out dancing with a broken heart. 

It's her first release on these shores since the criminally overlooked One (#64 in Summer 2010), and although it shares a similarly imploring tone, Everything has a much more mature sound. With an ominous computerised male vocal a la Jessie Ware's If You're Never Gonna Move and subtle instrumentation, it may be too much of a grower to hit big - but it definitely teases great things from her long overdue debut album I'm Not Alright (release date TBC). 

Charli XCX | You (Ha Ha Ha)

Fresh from getting trolled by a Tumblr hater who basically called her a rip-off of "DIY" act Grimes, and compared her unfavourably to fellow major-label act Sky Ferreira (curiously, all 3 of them appeared together on the cover of V Magazine back in the Autumn), Charli XCX releases her 6th (!) single this week.

You (Ha Ha Ha) samples a track by Gold Panda of the same name, and mixes obscenity-laden Kate Nash stroppiness with MIA-style beats. Her vocals shift seamlessly from sung-spoken verses to the triumphant, booming chorus, and is a return to catchy form after the dreary You're The One. This should mark another tiptoe towards the mainstream, in the massive game of Grandmother's Footsteps that is Charli's achingly slow rise to fame. 

Tove Styrke | Call My Name

Following the moody, chic High & Low from earlier on in the year, Swedish Idol 2009 finalist Tove Styrke is taking another stab at UK chart success with Call My Name. Think Robyn's pulsating beats making friends with Sky Ferreira's effervescent charm. The best bits are the echo segments, and there's something strangely reminiscent of Seven Wonders by Fleetwood Mac in the electronic bleeps and bloops of the chorus. Frolicking on with the 80s feel, I'll be two steps over the water is a cheeky reference to Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush. There's no video as yet, but you can satisfy your ears at least: