New tracks from the most musically productive county in the country right now, writes Rob Hakimian

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Jack Light & ChloeJet - Help

Asking for Help is no easy thing, but this is something that Kent rapper Jack Light wants to address with his latest. For starters, he’s called in back up from North Londoner ChloeJet, who introduces the song with her angelic voice, setting the tone of vulnerability. As Jack jumps in with his fast-paced bars, the tone shifts but the mood doesn’t break as he confesses that “I can’t even call my mate when I’m in need of some help.”

Flipping back forth between Chloe’s caressing touch and Jack’s effusive flow, all delivered over ethereal production, Help is a pearl of a track that perfectly reflects humans’ tendency to try to cover up their pain, while deep down they want nothing more than someone to offer them an ear or a shoulder.

Delta Sleep - View to a Fill

Instagram: @deltasleepband

As the Delta variant creeps its way across the globe, these Canterbury math-rockers are aiming to be the only thing named after the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet to be entering people’s bloodstreams this summer. Their new single and video View To A Fill is a statement of intent for what’s to come on their new album Spring Island, arriving this autumn.

It sees them expanding their tightly-wound playing to encompass a whole mountain range of peaks and valleys. Emphatic messaging about battling demons, technical playing, and mosh-along riffs, there are about a million things to hook you into View To A Fill, and unlike that other Delta shite, this band are all about getting you up, active and enjoying being alive.

Little Suspicions - Thinking Lately

Instagram: @littlesuspicions

Undoubtedly, Tonbridge band Little Suspicions have heard this before, but they sound a lot like Arctic Monkeys – which is no bad thing as the Sheffield legends are showing no signs of return and we miss them. This similarity starts from vocalist Mortiz Meyns romantic singing, which he applies to his lovelorn words with an Alex Turner-esque adorable hopefulness; “I spend all my time thinking of you / do you do the same, is that what you do?”

Little Suspicions furnish his words with ringing, emphatic pop rock sound that’s ready to fill stadiums and light up festivals around the country, if not beyond. In combination, it all adds up to a truly winning formula, an innocently swaggering little ditty ripe with strings and melodies that put us in mind of the excitement of a first crush coming to fruition.

Namani - LAB / GENETICAL

Instagram: @namaniworld

Former Kent student Namani has already proven himself as one of the unignorable rappers currently on the up, and he pushes himself up another level with his new two-part single LAB / GENETICAL. Teased by him on social media as biohazard, it certainly finds the MC at his caustic best. The production remains tastefully minimal, punchy clicks and blips over a spaced-out synth, leaving plenty of space for his determined and razor-sharp tongue. Full of idiosyncratic boasts about his lifestyle and attitude, this leaves us wanting to get to know Namani, but wary of getting caught in his crosshairs.

ENNY - Keisha’s & Brenda’s

Instagram: @ennyintegrity

Although ENNY’s debut EP Under 25 has been out for a couple of weeks, we’re still hooked to it and want to spotlight this track from it. A complete flip from recent banger I Want, which we highlighted a couple of months ago, Keisha’s & Brenda’s finds the Thamesmead multi-talent working in a slower, more patient milieu, getting real – and being just as magnetic.

This low-key atmosphere allows her to show off her devastating bars and narrative prowess, getting real as she raps “I know girls who’ve survived R Kellys / I know some men who survived them too.” She only cuts deeper from there, but brings it back for a heartwarming, choral sing-along that reminds us that nobody’s alone in their trauma.