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Part two of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra feat. Bitty Mclean – ‘Fu Man Chu’ Though nobody in the video is wearing facial hair of the type described in the title, this chilled-out laid-back ska tune relaxes in its simplicity. For fans of […]
Part one of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. AlunaGeorge – ‘You Know You Like It / Bad Idea’ It does feel like a real let down when you get this sort of musical sequel coming on the coat-tails of ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ and the excellent ‘Attracting […]
Cheryl Cole, or whatever her name is now, returns with this clap-along pop number that shamelessly steals the rhythm of ‘Single Ladies’ and slaps a less distinctive number on top of it. The rhythm is great and designed for the pop-dance crossover, but it’s only until the bridge and chorus comes in that the song […]
Chaka Khan must be laughing all the way to the bank as her seminal hit ‘Ain’t Nobody’ has once more been covered / sampled, this time by Maverick Sabre on this slowed-down swaggering number. But, let’s be honest. If the song didn’t have the sample built so intrinsically into its chorus would we enjoy the […]
If you enjoyed ‘Best Day of My Life’ then ‘Believer’, the next single from ‘American Authors’, continue in a similar positive, sing-a-long vibe. It shares a very similar sound and structure so, if I’m being honest, you’d be better sticking with the earlier song, but for those of you who want more of the upbeat, […]
It seems that Cher Lloyd has grown up, releasing this much more mature ballad. But, unfortunately, as she’s also gone more serious, she’s lost a lot of that tongue-in-cheek spark that we expect from her. ‘Sirens’ doesn’t have the alerting power the title suggests, instead coming across as a sub-par cover of the recent X-Factor […]
With a title like ‘Louder’ you’d expect Neon Jungle to go a bit noisier, which to some degree they have, but outside of the alerting chorus there’s not a huge amount of guts to this piece, coming across as quite an uninspiring semi-ballad. The chorus will make you sit up and listen and as a […]
Part three of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Lucy Spraggan – ‘Lighthouse’ She dropped out of the X Factor due to illness but, like many of the other competitors, this hasn’t stopped her from releasing a song onto the chart. Her first single proper, after her last […]
Part two of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Dirty South and Alesso feat. Ruben Haze – ‘City of Dreams’ With a discography dating back to 2005, this is my first encounter with Dirty South’ and I’m not sure if it’s someone I’ll be wanting to encounter again. […]
Part one of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Agnetha Faltskog – ‘Dance Your Pain Away’ Former Abba singer’s second new solo single, ‘Dance Your Pain Away’ is a much more uptempo, Europop number than its predecessor. Funky, danceable and well produced, this is a second spot-on hit […]