With a lead singer that looks like a cross between Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger, and a sound that crosses them with the Manic Street Preachers, ‘Put Your Money On Me’ is a great follow up to ‘Kiss This’ with a poppy, 70s-rock vibe that picks up where The Darkness left off a few years…
Part 2 of Phil Lickley’s roundup of the week’s top new single releases Mikill Pane – Chairman Of The Bored EP A follow-up to the brilliant ‘Good Feeling’, ‘Chairman of the Bored’, flanked by a plethora of remixes on the EP, takes the structure of his original hit and substitutes the lyrics in a very…
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…
