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Black Prada DressEllie Goulding1.0 out of 5 stars · 11d ago

Polydor pushed this out in June 2026 as the lead for I Know Too Much, and Jack Rochon (the TikTok discovery she bumped up to exec producer) builds it on a four-on-the-floor that's more club-adjacent than actual club. Programming's clean, the hats carry most of the motion, but the kick sits too far back in the mix for my taste. That's the gripe. A song about the voice in your head telling you you're not enough should have some weight under it, and instead it kind of floats. The vocal saves it though. All air and reverb, and there's a real sadness in the pre-chorus that a dance record usually sands right off. Not the reinvention people are calling it, but a downer lyric riding a bright beat that doesn't come off cheap is harder than it looks. I'm in.

Pearl's Girl (r18_for2026)Underworld4.5 out of 5 stars · 15d ago

The long ambient intro had me thinking it was a comedown track, then those breaks drop in and it just shoves you. Karl Hyde doing that blue-light free-associating chant over the top is what burrows in, I had it looping for a week straight. Still one of the only Underworld tracks built on a real breakbeat instead of the usual four-four pulse, and probably the nastiest thing on Second Toughest.