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The first cut from their album ‘Wild Life’, Canadian rockers Hedley deliver this track that cherry-picks styles from across the board, including Mia’s ‘Paper Planes’ and the discography of Train. Its expletive-based hook belies a song that screams out for radio play: its sunny, optimistic, clap-along nature with a mixture of vocals during its titular […]
Effectively balancing the male and female vocals of the group over a rattling drum beat that wouldn’t be out of place on a Sam Smith record, ‘Run’ is not a track that will blow you away with a distinctive chorus and set of verses, but it’s a solid enough indie-pop song with some shades of Lady […]
The first cut from the diminutive singer’s second album starts so promisingly: the building verse that opens the track with its pop-funk and retro styles will get your toe-tapping, but then just as the crescendo hits and the bridge builds to what you expect to be a cracking chorus, her vocals fade away and the […]
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week! Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ With its Fantasia-inspired video, ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ from the band’s upcoming fifth album, is both familiar and fresh sounding in equal measure. Clearly from the Sheffield band through its long, lumbering lyrical passages, but […]
The third single from his latest album, ‘One More Day (Stay With Me)’ is one of Example’s best releases in a while, sounding more like the pop-rap crossover of his bigger hits. The chorus is perhaps overly simple and the verses less memorable than some of his other songs, but it’s catchy enough to be […]
From listening to the chorus you’d expect a change of style for Minaj to something smoother and more acceptable, and there’s certainly something more insular and introspective about the titular hook. Outside of that, though, it’s a pretty bland rap sequence that doesn’t add much to the record. Taking a nice sensitive side and adding […]
It’s been quite a while since Enrique Iglesias gave us his ping pong song, and in those intervening years when the love for the sport has failed to be diminished by Boris Johnson’s embracing of ‘whiff-whaff’, we’ve finally got a new ode to table tennis. Sadly, whereas Iglesias’ ode to love over the beat resembling […]
I’m not keen when someone starts trimming a hedge when I’m trying to record a hit single, but this is the sort of thing you have to cope with. In all seriousness, although ‘Tremor’ borrows heavily from all the other songs in its expansive genre, this is one of the best examples of its kind […]
OK Go can usually be relied upon to bring you a great music video and this one is no exception, but there’s always a fear that a clever promo will overshadow the song or overcompensate for a poor single. That’s not quite the case here; ‘The Writing’s On The Wall’ is not as exciting or […]
I’ve been waiting a long time for a song to include the words ‘fine and dandy’ but here is one. ‘Godzilla’, quite possibly titled like this for some extra Twitter publicity, starts off with a really fun poppy chorus. The rap elements don’t quite live up to the more friendly chorus and male-led rnb section. […]