This week in dance music: the queen Charli XCX ascended to No. 1 on Dance/Electronic Albums with Brat , tracks from which also currently make up a third of Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, and Lorne Padman was named president of Steve Aoki’s venerable Dim Mak label. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news It’s also a big day for big name releases.
These are the best new dance tracks of the week. Zedd feat. Bea Miller, “Out of Time” It’s been [checks watch] nine years since Zedd’s last studio album True Colors, and while he’s released a flurry of singles since — including his 2018 Maren Morris collab “The Middle,” which hit No.
5 on the Hot 100 — the album cycle is finally rumbling back to life for the artist born Anton Zaslavski. The lead single from his forthcoming Telos , coming August 30 through Interscope Records, is “Out of Time,” an urgent, elegant affair that leans hard into indie pop (a realm his buddy Porter Robinson is also currently exploring) while maintaining a firm electronic backbone. It all serves as a foundation for Bea Miller to go HAM on vocals, with the whole production building to a place that’s more a crescendo than a drop.
The Telos tour starts September 6 in Los Angeles. TSHA & Rose Gray, “Girls” With the bouncy, punchy, electro-flavored “girls” TSHA delivers the lead single from her second album Sad Girl , coming in September via Ninja Tune. A collaboration with singer/songwriter Rose .
