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Skrillex, Dylan Brady & Caroline Polachek Share New Song “hit me where it hurts”

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On April Fool’s Day, Skrillex surprise-released his album Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! , which recently earned him Grammy nominations for Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Dance/Electronic Recording (for “Voltage”). He dropped a new single called “Fuze” with ISOxo last month, and today he’s got another new one. Enticingly, the hyperactive and high-octane “hit me where it hurts” pairs our boy Sonny with longtime collaborator Dylan Brady (also of 100 Gecs fame) and none other than Caroline Polachek, whose vocals from Pang track “Hit Me Where It Hurts” are threaded throughout. Listen below.

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Caroline Polachek Joins Danny L Harle on New Song “Azimuth”: Listen
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Caroline Polachek Joins Danny L Harle on New Song “Azimuth”: Listen

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Danny L Harle has enlisted his longtime studio-mate and co-writer Caroline Polachek for the new song “Azimuth.” Take a listen below, via XL. Harle has also announced a European tour—scroll down for the dates.

Harle says of the new song, “‘Azimuth’ felt like the finalisation of an approach that Caroline and I had been orbiting for some time as a way of putting her voice into my music—I sometimes call it the ‘trance siren.’ You can hear manifestations of it in tracks like ‘Insomnia’ from Pang and ‘On the Beach’ from Death Stranding 2, but this was the first time I managed to translate it into my style of dance music. Azimuth’s melody could only have been sung by Caroline, it is designed around her voice, I couldn’t imagine anyone else singing it or giving a performance like that. It also allowed us to play with scale, space and quietness in a way I’ve never done before. For me, ‘Azimuth’ is a trance ballad, despairing but hopeful, best heard in a in club in a sunken cathedral.”

“Azimuth” is Harle’s follow-up to the PinkPantheress collaboration “Starlight,” released in July. That was his first solo release since his formal solo debut LP, 2021’s Harlecore. Polachek shared her own first post–Desire, I Want to Turn Into You single, “Dang,” in October last year. Since then, she has released “Starburned and Unkissed,” from the I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack, and made an unexpected appearance on the post-rock band Caroline’s album Caroline 2. More recently, she released “On the Beach”—the title track of the video game Death Stranding 2—which was co-produced with Harle and co-written by Death Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima.

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Watch Caroline Polachek sing Charli XCX and George Daniel down the aisle at their Sicilian wedding ceremony
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Watch Caroline Polachek sing Charli XCX and George Daniel down the aisle at their Sicilian wedding ceremony

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Charli XCX and George Daniel had their big wedding celebration last weekend following a low-key ceremony in July, and both Caroline Polachek and Yung Lean sang at the bash. Check out the footage below.

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The singer, real name Charlotte Aitchison, and The 1975 drummer Daniel celebrated in the Sicilian village of Scopello complete with numerous friends from the worlds of music and celebrity.

Polachek, a frequent collaborator of Charli, sang Daniel Johnston’s 1984 song ‘True Love Will Find You In The End’ as the couple walked down the aisle.

Swedish rapper Yung Lean, real name Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, sang The Stooges’ 1969 proto-punk classic ‘I Wanna Be A Dog’ with a live band, too. Daniel’s 1975 bandmate Matty Healy and his fiancée Gabbriette, both absent from the July ceremony, joined Håsted onstage after the former crowdsurfed for a while, too.

Healy himself performed with his dad, actor Tim, as they sang ‘Perfect Day’ by Lou Reed, one of Charli’s idols. He played a DJ set, too, which included Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe’, while his mum, actress and TV personality Denise Welch, was invited too and shared a montage of footage from the celebrations on Instagram.

Among the other musicians there were PC Music founder A. G. Cook and producer Easyfun, who played a remix of Charli’s hyperpop classic ‘Vroom Vroom’, singers Beabadoobee, Robyn, Clairo and Troye Sivan, and actress Julia Fox.

Charli has shared a range of photos from the ceremony on Instagram too, the most recent selection being fronted by one of her and Daniel kissing.

The couple first worked together in 2021, when they recorded the track ‘Spinning’. A year later, they confirmed their romance on social media, and in November 2023, they got engaged.

In a TikTok post, Charli shared that her song ‘Talk Talk’, from her 2024 album ‘Brat’, was written about an incident involving Daniel at the 2020 NME Awards, in which she almost followed him to the bathroom but decided against it when halfway there.

That night, Charli was nominated for Best Solo Act In The World, Best British Solo Act and Best Collaboration. She also presented the Songwriter Of The Decade Award to Robyn alongside Christine And The Queens.

Daniel was also present, with The 1975 being awarded the Band Of The Decade Award, as well as Best British Band and the NME Innovation Award.

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