Broken by Jake Bugg

This week’s new single releases (30th June 2013) Part 1

Part one of my round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Andrea Begley – ‘My Immortal’ After Leah McFall hit the charts with some of her covers, it’s time for the winner to also arrive in the top 40. A slow-paced, stripped back beautiful cover of the Evanescence classic, it’s […]

OneRepublic

Stream Single “Connection” by One Republic

OneRepublic has premiered a new track titled “Connection” and it already feels like a massive hit. The band hasn’t released a new track since 2014. Now after such a long time, a hit was due. After listening to “Connection”, I feel like this hit is here and it’s bigger than our expectations. The new song […]

Sia Chandelier

Single review: Sia – ‘Chandelier’

Sia’s first single proper, ‘Chandelier’ takes a few listens to really grab you, as its large soaring notes and autotuned undertones struggle to gain traction at first as Sia’s powerful voice is used more for impact than necessarily good music. But her energy and power soon show themselves, and though it lacks the emotion and […]

Rough Copy Street Love

Single review: Rough Copy – ‘Street Love’

Coming fourth in last year’s The X Factor, Rough Copy have taken the classic Anita Baker song ‘Sweet Love’, keeping its famous hook-filled chorus but slapping so much autotune on it I’m surprised a computer isn’t credited in the sleeve notes. Thrusting the famous hook in amongst an even more heavily autotuned set of verses […]

Hedley Anything

Single review: Hedley – ‘Anything’

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 […]

chasing grace run

Single review: Chasing Grace – ‘Run’

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 […]