Billianne has dropped a huge new pop banger in the form of ‘Crush’. It’s the artist’s first ever purely pop single, but she pulls it off as if she does this all the time. Her deep, textured voice shines over those fast acoustic guitar strums, before bursting to life for the shimmering, addictive chorus. The sonic world she has created here is effervescent and warm, and when combined with the haze of the music video that accompanies the track, makes for the song of the summer. “I was thinking about a crush I had a while ago and how consuming it feels,” she explains. “Crush is a plea for more as much as it is a confession of feelings.” Give her EP, The Things We Talk About, a spin and check her out live in the UK at the end of October. -Dan Peeke