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Part 1 of Phil Lickley’s roundup of the week’s top new single releases. Afrojack feat. Chris Brown – As Your Friend And we kick off this week with another entry into ‘Now! That’s What I Call Clichéd 2013’ with another autotune-filled, synth-heavy dance track with Chris Brown sounding so bored on the song that he […]
Chicane used to be an exciting group – I’m thinking Saltwater or Stoned In Love but I think they took the title here too literally, creating a slow instrumental-heavy number that will send you off to the land of nod unless you have copious amounts of Red Bull to hand. With the most tedious repetitive […]
With a band title like that and a song with that name you’d expect this to be released more in six month’s time, but here we are with a June release for this mash-up of McFly’s ‘Transylvania’ and 5ive’s ‘Don’t Want To Let You Go’. With an appropriately dark and creepy music sound this is […]
Coming fifth in the 2011 series of the X Factor, here is Devlin with her second single and it’s a touching, heartfelt ballad with some saccharine, clichéd lyrics but ones that her soft, sultry vocals pull off successfully, balancing well between sexy and romantic. The fast beat, though a little overpowering at times, keeps the […]
I’m not sure if Justin Timberlake’s ‘Like I Love You’ needed to be made once, never mind twice, but here is Ed Sheeran back with his first cut from his x-cum-multiply album. Pharrell’s production is all over this record and proves that even Williams isn’t always able to make his sound different over the years. […]
Not Blondie as I originally misread it as, this is definitely Ryan Ashley’s track, his sultry vocals floating over a Chromeo-esque electronic tune with strong funky undertones. Though not quite up to the wordplay of Chromeo the mid-tempo meandering beat with the quickly catchy chorus proves to be a contender. It might not have the […]
A cover of the recent Beyonce single and, though I enjoyed the original, this version from John Mayer is a big improvement, removing the drawl of the first take and giving it a more solid progression from verse to chorus, and his voice just suits the record more. ‘XO’ is still not the greatest song […]
This is a song that will make fans of Kasabian give a collective, expletive-ridden ‘WTF’, as this, on first listen, is a very eccentric track that will grate. However, after a few listens it proves to be a really catchy, experimental number with echoes of Hot Chip in its electronic vibe. The beats, free-flowing lyrical […]
The four-yearly World Cup is not just confined to what happens on the pitch. It’s also about the fans at home and in the pub – no to mention the artists that have crammed into the recording studios or back bedrooms of Great Britain and abroad to record their own tribute to the beautiful game. So, […]
Chasing Dragons – Checkmate EP Buy: Checkmate [Explicit] Out on the 2nd June, the new EP from Chasing Dragons is a six-track exploration of rock and metal that doesn’t quite live up to the imagination of the prologue but proves to be an EP that fans of chugging guitars will lap up but works better […]