Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird

[Vasilios]

I'm much more into pop than hip hop, but Glide is one of my favourite tunes of 2018 and Mallrat bringing Tkay out for UFO at Splendour in the Grass last weekend was one of my favourite live music moments of the year. Any recos for which of her solo songs are the most pop-leaning?

 

[elektroxx]

I'm much more into pop than hip hop, but Glide is one of my favourite tunes of 2018 and Mallrat bringing Tkay out for UFO at Splendour in the Grass last weekend was one of my favourite live music moments of the year. Any recos for which of her solo songs are the most pop-leaning?

 

[klow]

"White Rose" is great - sounds like something from Ctrl.

 

[Island]

I didn't even know this came out.

@ohnostalgia @R92

 

[Noir]

It did come out without much fanfare. Kinda odd. I need to check it out.

 

[klow]

I think a second volume of Last Year Was Weird is on the way. Here's a new single with JPEGMAFIA - it's a bit more aggressive than her previous releases.

 

[AshleyKerwin]

I just saw her on the front page and didn't know she had a new album out. I'm on my first listen but I already love every song on it.

 

[LPMA]

Not sure what this is, but bop. Doubt it's a new song, since it's basically the same instrumental as Jaded's Pancake (also bop).

 

[klow]

This came out several months ago but I'm just posting it because it's one of Tkay's best ever songs IMO and it seems to have completely passed the forum by.

 

[elektroxx]

 

[elektroxx]

Tkay's "Awake" was No. 9 on TheNeedleDrop's Top 50 Singles Of 2019.

 

[Pretend]

New single Shook out today:

Seems like she's signed to 4AD outside Australia & New Zealand now!

 

[klow]

An instant thrill. The Missy-ness of it all!

 

[strangekin]

Shook is so good!!!


4AD seems like a great fit.

 

[IAmRockstar]

'Shook' is an absolute 10, someone needs to turn this into a TikTok viral hit.
Agree, it's so Missy in the absolute best way.

 

[Pretend]

 

[klow]

Video:

 

[Pretend]

New EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 is out August 7!

1. My Flowers
2. 24k
3. Shook
4. Awake (feat. JPEGMAFIA)
5. Grasshopper
6. You Sad
7. PB Jam
8. Don't Call Again (feat. Kari Faux)

 

[The Knowledge]

Awake and Shook have been two of my absolute favourite songs of the last few months so I’m absolutely perched for the rest of what’s in store next Friday. Her art direction is so on point too.... she deserves everything.

 

[klow]

This is another great release from Tkay. Admittedly I haven't listened to LYWW Vol. 1 for a while but on first contact, this seems like my preferred volume. (I also just realised it's nearly a year since "Awake" first came out.)

There's great versatility here. "24K" has her..."gliding" up at an...ungodly hour, let's say, while "You Sad" is a detour poolside. Meanwhile, "Grasshopper" has her revisiting the same hardness as on "Awake".

Hopefully the fact that she's on 4AD means she'll get some promotion beyond New Music Friday Australia and New Zealand and actually, finally, becomes the huge ginormous star she's always deserved to be.