WizTheMC's summery collab with Tyla, and 4 more songs you need to hear this week
Listen to new music from Bambii, Chris LaRocca, 80purppp and more
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Caption: Tyla jumped on a remix of WizTheMC's Show Me Love, one of the songs you need to hear this week. (Submitted by the artist,for Paramount; graphic by CBC Music)
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Show Me Love, WizTheMC with Tyla and bees & honey
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Back in February, WizTheMC dropped a very strong contender for song of the summer. Show Me Love, produced by Berlin and London-based duo bees & honey, is a burst of sunshine, with an amapiano bassline and melodic house groove. Born in South Africa, raised in Germany and living in Toronto since 2017, WizTheMC pulls from a myriad of influences in his music. He tapped into his South African roots for Show Me Love and it seems worldwide phenom Tyla (Water, Push to Start) took notice. After appearing on stage with her at Coachella in April, he dropped this new version of the song featuring a verse from the South African Grammy winner. On Youtube, he shared that he was "so excited that Tyla jumped on the song! What a full circle moment being from South Africa and collabing with the biggest artist out of my home country." Tyla's verse follows in the same vein as WizTheMC's original, as she effusively gushes about needing nothing more than that one special person: "Compared to your touch/ A million bucks is nowhere near enough/ I'd give it all up/ All I need is your trust." Every summer needs a love song that crosses borders, and this just might be the one. — Kelsey Adams
Mirror, Bambii feat. Jessy Lanza and Yaeji
On June 20, Bambii will release Infinity Club II, the highly anticipated follow-up to her 2024 Juno Award-winning EP. In an Instagram post, the Toronto DJ/producer proclaimed, "I assembled the Avengers," nodding to the all-star cast of features on the EP including Ravyn Lanae, Lamsi, Jeleel! and previous collaborators, Beam and Aluna. Her latest single, Mirror, is a mini supergroup team-up in itself with fellow electronic acts Jessy Lanza and Yaeji. A simple bass riff opens the track before Bambii's signature airhorns and speedy breakbeats kick the song into overdrive. Both Lanza and Yaeji are removed from their own distinct sonic worlds here, but fit very comfortably on Mirror, with the former finding a melodic rhythm within Bambii's nocturnal club production and the latter bringing her own fiery English-Korean staccato delivery. For electronic music fans, this is the blockbuster hit that's going to be a summer playlist staple. — Melody Lau
When In Rome, 80purppp
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Slinky horns help to showcase Edmonton rapper/singer 80purppp's crisp flow as he sails along a soft beat on When In Rome, a new track from his recent project This is Suite 96: (Side B). "Lord knows I've been thinking 'bout models/ hit me with a tendency to wanna pop bottles," he explains on the first verse, giving his own take on "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." Wearing expensive clothes, making enemies and claiming what's his are just a few ways he asserts himself as one to avoid toying with, acting like the ruler of his empire. "I'm in Rome, I came, I saw," he raps. The jazzy instrumentals bleed into a moody outro, where he asks "why do I feel this way" over and over, trying to push past any of the hollowness in his lifestyle. In the track's accompanying music video, 80purppp cruises along in a car, popping out of the sunroof while decked out in a sleek suit, perfectly matching the song's relaxed yet opulent tone. — Natalie Harmsen
Fall in Flight, Beauts
"I'll carve out your name/ I'll carve out our history," sings Jeff Lawton, a sweet promise floating on the chorus of Beauts' new single. The Halifax indie-rock quintet hasn't released any new music since 2022's two singles (Cave and Paragon), and Fall in Flight doesn't disappoint, ebbing and flowing amid sunflowers and seasonal moons. Beauts have often felt like the child of Explosions in the Sky and the National (complimentary), but after more than a decade together the comparisons aren't necessary. The band's sound is distinctly its own, rolling in on a wave of guitars, drums and vocals, sweeping you out to sea while promising to return you more whole than you started. It's rooted in Halifax, and in the skilled hands of bandmates Lawton, Palmer Jamieson, Darryl Smith, Erik Van Lunen and Joel Waddell — and thankfully, a new full-length album, Beauts' second, is on its way later this year. — Holly Gordon
Laundry Day, Chris LaRocca
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And luck was never on my side,
Heaven knows I tried,
I tried and tried and tried,
'Til you came along,
And I didn't have to try at all.
Although he's been releasing music since 2017, in recent years Toronto's Chris LaRocca has spent much of his time writing for other artists, including Russ, Kali Uchis, K-pop star BamBam and AP Dhillon on his 2025 Juno-winning album The Brownprint. In March, he returned with new music for the first time since 2023's i cried my heart out, with an upbeat single called ladybug. Last week, he released one of his most vulnerable songs to date, laundry day. In a post on Instagram, LaRocca shared how proud he felt writing " something so real and raw — less lyrical, more conversational. Those who know me know that this song has been pinned to a special part of my heart for over a year now." As Daniel Lanois' fuzzed-out pedal steel guitar chugs along, LaRocca lays his soul bare, as he reflects on his own capacity for vulnerability and encountering someone who helped dissolve his walls. If these two teasers are anything to go by, his upcoming project is sure to satisfy all our emotional and musical needs. — KA
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