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Heartworms has announced a collaboration with Airfix, to launch the first ever music artist-inspired starter kit.The singer-songwriter and NME 100 alumni, who is signed to cult indie label Speedy Wunderground, announced the collaboration earlier today (February 13) on Instagram.“CONFIDANTES! I was lucky enough to collaborate with my favourites @officialairfix to design my own Heartworms limited edition Spitfire,” she wrote.“It’s Airfix’s first ever music-artist inspired starter kit and to be designed onto my most treasured war plane is beyond comprehension.”The musician made the announcement alongside a short animation (see below), writing that there would be “more news to come”.A post shared by Heartworms (@heartwormsband)Speaking to NME last year, Heartworms (real name Jojo Orme) discussed her journey to getting signed and her influences and interests, which include military history.“The Heartworms image is entirely her own, however, and her sense of control and self-determination shines through in every photographer of Orme,” NME‘s Max Pilley noted in the feature. “Her personal fascination with military history plays into that discipline – Orme has just taken a volunteering role at The Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon – but it is the same resolve that stirred her into acing her college course.”Last month, Orme announced details of debut EP ‘A Comforting Notion’, sharing new single ‘Retributions Of An Awful Life’.“The song itself lyrically is deeply unsettling, I wanted it to come alive in action,” she said in a statement about the track.

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have shared a joyous Christmas single titled ‘HOHO’ in honour of the holiday season. Check it out below.‘HOHO’ is a comical reworking of the duo’s track ‘HAHA’ from their debut album ‘Topical Dancer, which was released last year via Soulwax’s label, Deewee.

Tkay Maidza is back with her first lead single of the year, ‘Silent Assassin’, produced by fellow Australian Flume.The track – which also marks the first time Tkay Maidza and Flume have collaborated – comes with an accompanying Milo Lee-directed music video that sees Maidza riding in a blacked out in the desert.Tkay Maidza said of the single via a press statement: “I like to move in silence, but this song is a reminder that people shouldn’t count me out or underestimate my abilities; they should be afraid when I’m quiet as I come back more evolved.”Watch the music video for Tkay Maidza and Flume’s ‘Silent Assassin’ below.She said of collaborating with Flume: “I’ve always wanted to work with Flume and was immediately ecstatic when he played the instrumental for this; I wanted to channel Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot.”‘Silent Assassin’ comes Tkay Maidza featured on the Snakehips track ‘Show Me The Money’ in March. Prior to that single, Maidza last released the festive cut ‘Nights In December’ in November.In October last year, Tkay Maidza shared a new remix of her track ‘High Beams’, enlisting JPEGMAFIA for a guest verse on it.

Chubby and The Gang have shared a new three-track EP, ‘Labour Of Love’.The EP arrived on all major streaming platforms on Monday (February 14), alongside a fresh music video for the project’s lead single, ‘Who Loves Ya? (Coup d’état)’.The ‘Labour Of Love’ EP is rounded out by ‘Twice Shy’, a punchy track about being hurt by love and now being skeptical of all relationships, and ‘Ain’t There No One?’, which chronicles the search for someone to “fix a lonely heart”.Listen to the ‘Labour Of Love’ EP below.The music video for ‘Who Loves Ya? (Coup d’état)’ was filmed and edited by the band’s tour manager during their recent run of shows supporting Turnstile, per a press release.Released on Valentine’s Day, ‘Who Loves Ya (Coup d’état)’ aims to spotlight “all the angles of love. Warts and all,” according to frontman Charlie Manning Walker.