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Six From The Six: Majid Jordan, k-os, Alessia Cara, Bossie, Jeremy Glenn and Roy Wood$

Majid Jordan, [|]

It’s been a year since we heard from OVO Sound’s house-y R&B duo Majid Jordan, but with OVO Fest less than a month away singer Majid AL Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman are getting prepped with what appears to be a new EP. On Thursday, the pair posted 20 continuous minutes of night-time glamour on Soundcloud. It’s almost entirely instrumental save for a re-edit of All I Do, off last year’s A Place Like This EP.

UPDATE: Turns out the 20-minute mix was merely a teaser for My Love, a proper single featuring a verse and middle eight by Drake.

k-os, Crucify

Following a string of singles that varied widely in style – punk, trap and “post-EDM pop” – Toronto hip-hop veteran k-os has decided to introduce his sixth album, Can’t Fly Without Gravity, with a bit of feel-good, throwback warmth. Crucify opens with a snippet of Ella Fitzgerald singing It’s De Lovely and then morphs into an exercise in straightforward lyrical stuntin’ replete with nods to 90s east-coast rap heavyweights Biggie and Nas. Can’t Fly Without Gravity is out August 28 via Dine Alone.

Alessia Cara, Bad Blood (Taylor Swift cover)

Brampton-bred singer Alessia Cara is in the midst of an international promo tour thanks to the success of her debut single Here. The anti-party anthem aligned the Def Jam signee with similarly conscious-minded millennial talents such as Tink and Kehlani, and her decision to cover Taylor Swift’s number-one hit Bad Blood (Kendrick Lamar verse and all) for BBC Radio 1’s Piano Sessions proves she isn’t short on social-media savvy. Not long after the cover hit the web, the biggest pop star in the world let her 60 million Twitter followers know that she approved.

Bossie, Meteor

Anne Douris-fronted duo Bossie found themselves splashed across headlines in music rags NME and DIY last year after they posted the pop tune Meteor on Bandcamp under the name Token. A year later, they have rebranded as Bossie and the remastered version of the single now has an excessively glitter-dusted video that features cameos by members of Tokyo Police Club, July Talk and Hollerado. Bossie makes their live debut on September 10 at Smiling Buddha.

Jeremy Glenn, LIV

Dance music does not get much more life-affirming than LIV, the latest solo cut from Jeremy Glenn. The Toronto vocalist, who has lent his male-diva R&B runs to tracks by Tensnake and A/jus/ted, indulges in a bit of unabashed and uncomplicated weekend warrior escapism with a bouncy “nu-jack” beat and a hugely uplifting chorus.

Roy Wood$, All Of You (Da-P Remix)

Another barely out of high school Bramptonian making waves is Roy Wood$, a singer/rapper who drew comparisons to Smooth Criminal-era MJ earlier this year when he released the song All Of You. His snarling performance has attracted the attention Drake’s OVO crew (if his Twitter followers are an indication) plus a handful of remixers that includes Montreal-based beatmaker Da-P. The Soulection member’s take on the track swaps the original’s skittery snares for an aggressive thump that more closely approximates the gritty vocal.

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