Los Angeles based Valentina releases the catchy electro pop track P.D.A. The up and coming songstress grew up listening to Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse and Adele. After learning how to produce in 2018, she found a really cool sound. Other tracks worth listening too are Break My Heart, 10 Feet Tall, and Child. With her latest track, Valentina notes, “This song is the best way for me to describe the euphoric feeling of falling for someone that you’ve known for a very long time.” Give it a stream!
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Jared & The Mill drops the new track Dying Fear. It blends folk, bluegrass, and alternative – in the vein of The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. As far as the new song, the band tells Kings, “Letting go of a past love is hard, especially one that you held in any sort of formative time period. This alternative act has several releases under their belt and they finally sound like seasoned writers and performers. Dying Fear is just that, coming to terms with letting something go that carries so much energy from you.” They band will tour in March, April and May that starts in the Midwest, takes them to the East Coast, and ends in the West Coast. The latest single comes off their new album “This Story Is No Longer” which drops on February 15th.

I really like You Like Me by Yaeger. She first made waves with her single Ocean that drew attention from blogs like The Line Of Best Fit, FAME Magazine and Radar Collective. The 20 year old Swedish singer-songwriter tells Kings, “I like to create scenarios with my music, based on either my own experience or my friends experiences. That’s what I’ve done with You Like Me. This scenario is built on the feeling of a winter in Stockholm that lasted forever, where you were chasing a love that felt so close but still so far”. Give it a listen. emil@birdswillsingforyou.com

Kings favorite Lucy Daydream dropped the new track Dizzy, a dreamy indie anthem. The duo tells Kings, “The song is finding a sense of peace. When you just let all of your thoughts out in the open, and don’t control them. You just let them be, let yourself feel it all, and live. The track also landed on Apple’s Alt Pop Playlist. Before crafting original songs in a basement studio, the indie pop duo began posting music covers. Post Malone’s ‘Go Flex‘ which was one of their first covers clocked over 2 million YouTube streams. Check it out.

Look out for James Smith’s new track Tell Me That You Love Me. In the vein of John Legend’s All Of Me, it sounds like an adult contemporary smash. The UK singer-songwriter released his debut EP Little while the title track garnered over 3 million streams. The latest track which was co-written and produced by James was inspired by a heartbreak. James reveals, “It was inspired by my first heartbreak, something I didn’t want to happen but it was inevitable, it’s the story of our last couple of days together, ‘pretending it’s all alright’. Hearing the band & gospel choir for the first time completely blew my mind”. Give it a stream.
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