Ella Mai, ‘Trip’ | Track Review
![Ella Mai, Trip [Photo Credits: 10 Summers / Interscope]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ella-mai-trip-10-summers-interscope.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising urban contemporary artist Ella Mai follows up her brilliant, breakout single “Boo’d Up” with another surefire bop, “Trip.” Upward trajectory indeed.

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype
![Ella Mai, Trip [Photo Credits: 10 Summers / Interscope]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ella-mai-trip-10-summers-interscope.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising urban contemporary artist Ella Mai follows up her brilliant, breakout single “Boo’d Up” with another surefire bop, “Trip.” Upward trajectory indeed.
![LX Mason, I Don't [Photo Credit: LX Mason]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/lx-mason-i-dont-lx-mason.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
LX Mason dazzles on his debut single, “I Don’t,” a song that eschews being “oppressed by other’s opinions” or by “personal anxieties and fears.”
![Alec Benjamin, If We Have Each Other [Photo Credit: ℗© 2018]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/alec-benjamin-if-we-have-each-other.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising Arizona singer/songwriter Alec Benjamin ‘gives you those feels’ on his sincere, thoughtful single, “If We Have Each Other.”
![Anthony Russo, I Jusswon [Photo Credit: Anthony Russo]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/anthony-russo-i-jusswon-anthony-russo.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising LA-based pop artist Anthony Russo continues to build a name for himself with his latest short, sweet, and slick, urban-pop single, “I Jusswon.”
![Anthony Starble, Paperweight [Photo Credit: Anthony Starble]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/anthony-starble-paperweight.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Evergreen, Colorado-bred, Los Angeles, California-based singer/songwriter Anthony Starble sounds angelic on his emotional, radiant ballad, “Paperweight.”
![Race to Neptune, Abandon Fashion (EP) [Photo Credit: Race to Neptune]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/race-to-neptune-abandon-future-race-to-neptune.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Fort Collins, CO indie rock band Race to Neptune impresses on their adventurous, distorted, and at times, retro-sounding EP, ‘Abandon Fashion.’
![Holander, Smoke [Photo Credit: Holander]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/holander-smoke-holander.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising Los Angeles electro-pop artist and social change advocate Holander shows tremendous potential on her short, but hella sweet single, “Smoke.”

Embattled R&B icon R. Kelly comes over as totally inept on his self-centered, utterly disgraceful, 19-minute ‘admission’ track, “I Admit.”
![Nina Luna, Keep Me [Photo Credit: 571975 Records DK]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nina-luna-keep-me-571975-records-dk.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
NYC-based indie pop artist Nina Luna compels on her self-described ‘sultry, bittersweet, slow-jam for the dog days of summer,’ “Keep Me.”
![Daisy Maude, Don't Blame Me [Photo Credit: Daisy Maude]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/daisy-maude-dont-blame-me-daisy-maude.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Remember the name Daisy Maude. This up-and-coming singer/songwriter from Arizona drops a brilliant debut single with “Don’t Blame Me.”
![The Best Song From Each Future Album [Photo Credit: Epic]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-best-song-from-each-future-album.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
“Same Damn Time,” “Benz Friends (Whatchutola)” and “Mask Off” are among the picks for ‘The Best Song from Each Future Album.’
![lovelytheband, finding it hard to smile [Photo Credit: The Century Family]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lovelytheband-finding-it-hard-to-smile-the-century-family.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Rising alternative pop collective lovelytheband shines on “Emotion,” one of many advance singles from the band’s debut LP, ‘finding it hard to smile.’