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The most striking eyes in music is back with this bouncy, pop number that’s not quite as immediately powerful as ‘Let Go For Tonight’ but, thanks to its fast-beat, Foxes’ alluring and strong voices and soaring strings, ‘Holding Onto Heaven’ proves to be just as listenable. Throwing in some catchy ‘ooh’ hooks in the chorus […]
Just to prove that death is no barrier for record companies to drag out new releases, here we go full circle with Timberlake merging into Jackson’s memory in this funky number which shows how similar they are. Outside of the mismatched Timberlake break-down two-thirds in this is actually a pretty polished, strong single though the […]
It might feel at points that this is a spoof song and that ‘Weird Al’ will burst out of a jeep at some point but this hit from Sparxxx is pretty solid with its mash-up of different genres. Yes, for every shout out to cold beers and hot country girls and neat guitar solos, there’s […]
I’m all for bands trying something different and not recording the same thing over and over again, but Coldplay’s ‘Midnight’ is an experiment gone too far. As a piece of ambient music it’s very involving and the mixture of Martin’s vocoder vocals and a mix of electronic instrumentation is actually quite listenable in a relaxing […]
The third cut from Embrace’s fifth album, ‘Follow You Home’ is their best song, in my opinion, in ages. Poppier than their more recent fair, the simple but catchy chorus quickly grabs you, thanks in main to the delivery of lead singer Danny McNamara and the driving drum beat. Great, and deserves to bring them […]
With a Calvin Harris vibe back from when he was good, ‘Free Falling’ is a catchy uptempo, electronic number with the sweet lead vocals of Florence Arnold pulling you into the record. With echoes of ‘Reverse Skydiving’ from Hot Natured, with the titles eerily reflecting each other, the use of rhyming and mixing up of […]
Boyce Avenue’s seven-track EP is a downbeat but evocative collection of songs with a strong OneRepublic and The Script vibe flowing through the tracks. Though there’s not a huge amount to differentiate between the style of the tracks, there is a flowing connection between the individual songs. Opener ‘Speed Limit’ starts things off well with […]
The first cut from their upcoming third album is brilliant. Having fallen out of love with the band after their first album – their second passed me by – ‘There Is No Other Time’ brings the relationship back into focus. Though different from the likes of ‘Golden Skans’ and ‘It’s Not Over Yet’, it’s a […]
Here is a different song for me to cast my opinion on. On one hand this first cut from his fourth album is finally more different than what we’ve heard from Harris on his last few albums, after he decided the sound of his debut album was too multi-layered so should churn out the same […]
‘Every Little Word’ from Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike, better known as MNEK, has guested on several other songs recently but here is his first major solo offering and it’s a mixed bag. I love the electronic vibes that have shades of classic Daft Punk, the Beastie Boys breakdown and the funky retro RnB styles, but I’m […]