Add to playlist: the art-pop showtunes of Luki and the week’s best new tracks

Combining grand melodrama with nuanced emotional character, Lucy Duncan and producer Niac’s collaboration sounds both timeless and true From Hastings, UK Recommended if you like Mary Margaret O’Hara, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple Up next Old Feelings EP out now, album to follow later in 2026 The first time listening to Luki feels like a miraculous discovery of something timeless and true, as though they’ve been waiting patiently to be discovered in the noisy maelstrom of contemporary pop music. The ...

By Claire Biddles and Ben Beaumont-Thomas