A finalist in the ninth series of the X-Factor, Henderson channels a Bastille and Duffy sound for this mid-tempo pop-number. It takes a few spins to settle in but her powerful and involving voice carries the track comfortably, and there’s enough production trickery and style-changes to hold your interest, though it’s the bridge and chorus…
You may have noticed that there is some football competition just around the corner. Here is one of the unofficial entries featuring Britain’s Got Talent finalist Gabz, firmly nailing her colours to the mast here. Though the verses don’t quite suit her voice, the catchy chorus with its simple, but memorable, hook and the subsequent…
A European number one that has taken a year to reach these shores, ‘Stolen Dance’ channels Franz Ferdinand on their recent album closer ‘Goodbye Lovers and Friends’ but with added melancholy. It’s not a song that will fill you with joy, with the verses being particularly downbeat, but the faster, comparatively jaunty chorus is very…
With a song title that could well be a metaphor for Gray’s career, he is back with this familiar-sounding record that isn’t going to rock the boat for his fans. ‘Back in the World’ is a gentle pop-song with a ‘Passenger’ vibe, though you could argue that Gray nailed that sound first. It’s not a…
This memorial track for charity campaigner Stephen Sutton has gained lots of traction this week, storming into the iTunes charts and currently sits at number five in the mid-week chart. Forgetting the great cause it’s for for a moment, this is a very raw, basically produced number that you will either love or find awkward…
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…
Clean Bandit has premiered the official music video for her latest single “Solo”. It’s her collaboration with pop princess Demi Lovato. Clean Bandit also succeeded in enrolling the pop star for the music video, which is great. However, I’m somewhat disappointed with the music video. I feel that the project could have been taken a…
We all saw the trailer in ‘Pushing 20’ and ‘Exhale’ for what the 20-year old is up to in her next LP “Singular: Act II”. Now she is out with “In My Bed”. The album is set to be released on July 19th, but she keeps giving us the glimpses of the bigger picture. Last…
The xx have revealed a video for new single ‘Fiction’, the latest to be taken from last years second album Coexist. The video is a gorgeously shot black and white piece which features Oliver Sim stalking around a hotel suite strewn with sleeping bodies – including his bandmates. Check it out: The video was debuted…
A lot of remixes get tossed about online these days, and usually I don’t bother too much with them. But when you see Foals sharing a remix of Holy Fire highlight ‘Late Night‘, it’s worth giving it a try. German house DJ Solomun has given ‘Late Night’ a proper working over, upping the BPM and…
