Banks

Banks truly lived up to her goddess status in Sydney and put on a performance worth worshipping.

Is the next Lorde this 18 year old girl from Perth?. (Almost) 18 year old Perth singer Adria has hit the ground running with the premiere video of the first single off her debut EP - Pull Me Under. The EP's taken Adria to Europe and back, where it got the golden touch from Lykki Li producer Viktor Balter-Lundin, and the man behind Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Matthew Wiggins. The Pull Me Under clip, shot in black and white, is a sombre, sensual powerful couple of minutes of viewing, laden with dark shadows, water imagery, clever visual trickery and sensual close ups of the transfixing Adria, whose not a bad dancer, either. It was shot by Jason Eshraghian, a 20 year old Perth based filmmaker. It's a strong and assured debut track: while Adria's voice, upon first listen isn't as big or billowing as say, Hannah Reid's from London Grammar, or Florence Welch's, there's a lot of BANKS-like potential in her cool and smoky timbre, which rises to the occasion each chorus. A hypnotic piec

An intimate performance announced

It will unquestionably age as well as that Bordeaux in the cellar.

The Norwegian with the midas touch strikes again.. There's seriously nothing rapidly-rising Norwegian producer Lido can do wrong. Scrolling down his Soundcloud you'd be hard pressed to find a dud remix or original there. And that killer run continues with the release of his rad new remix of Banks' Drowning. The slow crawl to her eventual album release has been done perfectly, with the LA songstress employing all kinds of cool kids to re-work singles from the upcoming release. Lido follows in the footsteps of such luminaries as Dream Koala, Kaytranada, Ta-ku and Snakehips, and easily holds his own with his signature sounds permeating throughout Drowning. Starting a some Cashmere Cat-esque intro, the remix quickly shifts into epic synth stabs and happy clappy trap sounds. Putting it out for free is just criminal really:

Emma Jones chats with one of the year's most hyped acts.. If you don’t know who Banks is by now, you’re really missing out. The genre-shifting lyrical goddess has been making waves on the Internet for only about a year, but has already played Coachella, toured with The Weeknd, and was tipped as one to watch in 2014 by a multitude of publications. Her sultry songs demonstrate her incredible talent, showcasing her strong yet sweet voice, and her powerful, emotive lyrics. Banks is releasing her debut album in September, and we caught up with her whilst she was briefly in the country, bracing us to be the next country she is about to conquer.