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Single number four for Fuse ODG is not his biggest number but it does everything you need from an early summer hit: catchy, bouncy, and sounding great in a club or out at a festival. With Sean Paul guesting on the record, surely the epitome of summer music, and a whipping out of the Caribbean […]
A mid-tempo, piano-led ballad that has shades of a smattering of other songs, but ones that don’t immediately come to my head. Fans of Bastille and the Killers will find a home in this merging of sounds that also crosses into the world of Snow Patrol, in particular ‘In The End’, mixed nearer the end […]
The fifth single from the band’s album, which isn’t even out yet, is pretty much an amalgamation of what we’ve heard so far, lacking as it does the uniqueness of ‘Mozart’s House’ or the catchiness of ‘Rather Be’, with too few fresh ideas and too much autotune undercutting the vocals of Sharna Bass. It’s still […]
Chromeo – White Women Rating: 7/10 Buy: White Women Before coming across the two singles of Chromeo, an electro-funk duo from Canada, I had never heard of them, especially weird being that it’s their fourth album that has just come out. Picking up White Women on the back of two very strong singles, this album […]
It’s not as irritating as ‘Happy’, thankfully, but there’s something missing on this new single from Williams. Though its Bond-esque riff is fun especially in the breakdown and the repeated ‘girl’ chorus grabs you with its repetitive simplicity, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ isn’t up to Pharrell’s usual high standards with a collection of ideas that don’t gel […]
I’m not a huge fan of Jake Bugg but this is his best song in a long time, with its tempo-changing verse to chorus structure. His voice and performance style is very much still the Marmite of recorded music but it holds together well enough on ‘Messed Up Kids’, which employs a smattering of hooks […]
To steal a phrase from the world of television, this is probably the moment that Lady GaGa ‘jumps the shark’. There’s nothing wrong with ‘G.U.Y’ as a song – its mix of pop, electronic and catchy hooks are as insane and spot-on as she’s ever done – but it’s a cherry-picked selection of elements from […]
Though the song is a wry footnote after she cancelled her appearance in the next series of The Voice, this is Minogue’s best song in a long time. With Pharrell Williams on production duty he has crafted an unashamedly poppy number that is instantly catchy and harks back to Kylie’s disco days, whilst also borrowing […]
The first single from their latest album Le Petite Mort, this is a song that wears its heart on its sleeve both in its music and excellent video. With a quickly perky chorus but also with a slight sombreness to its centre, the slight Manic Street Preachers sound works for James and this feels like […]
Here is the former Supergrass lead singer with his John-Lewis-advert-featuring cover of The Kinks album track. Sadly it’s not a particular noteworthy song to cover or indeed a particularly exciting version of it, ambling as it does through some lacklustre verses. The slick production has a soft, chill-out vibe and as Coombes reaches the conclusion […]