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Scottish synth-pop newcomers CHVRCHES continue to impress with every release from their upcoming debut album. Both ‘Recover‘ and ‘Now Is Not The Time‘ showcased their ear for a great pop tune and Lauren Mayberry’s breezy and engaging vocals. Now comes ‘Gun’, another shimmering and buoyant pop song. Listen to ‘Gun’ below: CHVRCHES as yet untitled […]
Up and coming Glasgow band Chvrches have released a pretty cool promo video for their Recover EP track ‘Now Is Not The Time’. The clip is a nice take on the ‘performance video’ format, with the band playing the track in the centre of a roller disco. Watch it here:
This week’s single releases – 24 March This weeks reviews from Phil Lickley features new single releases from 30 Seconds To Mars, Peace, CHVRCHES, Frank Turner, Sky Ferreira and more… 30 Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’ [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Up In The Air The first single from their upcoming fourth album and ‘Up […]
CHVRCHES has released a brand new single titled “My Enemy” and it’s totally awesome. The band continues giving us less-pop songs for this album and it’s great. This song is definitely a worthy follow up to their last single “Get Out”. I’ve heard that song a million times already and I’m sure this new material […]
The American DJ, “Marshmello” has joined forces with the Scottish trio, “CHVRCHES”. They have shared a new song called, “Here With Me”. The track, “Here With Me” was co-written by Marshmello with, Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Steve Mac and Martin Doherty. Well, this new song is a bop. It is simply impossible to record bad […]
Up and coming Glasgow synth-poppers CHVRCHES are releasing a new EP later this month, and released the above sci-fi inspired video for the title track today. CHVRCHES will release Recover EP on 26 March, here’s the tracklist: 1. Recover 2. ZVVL 3. Now Is Not The Time 4. Recover (Cid Rim Remix) 5. Recover (Curxes’ […]
It may be a short month, but February still managed to produce some awesome new music! My February playlist features Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke’s brilliant remix of MS MR’s ‘Fantasy’, AlunaGeorge’s ‘Attracting Flies’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs new single ‘Sacrilege’ and loads more. Listen to the playlist below, and remember to go check out my […]
Is there no better way to while away one’s free moments; minutes so furiously wrenched away from the boring rigmarole of everyday life; than putting on pairs of shades and shorts and heading on down to a summer festival. Baking sun, guitar twangs percolating through the breeze, and a frosty pint of lager; we wouldn’t […]
For some reason today has seen three brilliant cover versions emerge from three of the most exciting new acts around.
Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES came out firing with a great cover of Arctic Monkeys’ AM track ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘ during an appearance on Australian radio.
Check it out:
Read more about CHVRCHES, London Grammar and MO do battle with awesome new cover versions …
So in this final part, here are my top twenty songs of 2013! 20. Gary Barlow – ‘Let Me Go’ (Released: November, No. 2) After a few years captaining the reformed Take That man-band, Barlow released his first major solo single in fourteen years. Taking inspiration from Mumford and Sons, this perky, country-tinged number feels […]