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This Week’s New Single Releases (11th August 2013)

My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. 2 Chainz feat. Pharrell – ‘Feds Watching’ As 2013 continues to turn into the year of Pharrell, he pops up here with 2Chainz. Far from his best moment, ‘Feds Watching’ is a cliché-ridden one-note tediously-written song with a chorus that fails to […]

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This week’s new single releases – 31 March

This week’s single releases – 31 March Phil Lickley takes us through another batch of new single releases. Alison Moyet – ‘When I Was Your Girl’ [rating:3.5/5] Buy: When I Was Your Girl The first release from Moyet’s eighth album is much poppier than I’d expect from the classically trained singer. Sounding very much like […]

This Week’s New Single Releases (9th February 2014)

My A-Z round up of the new singles available for digital download this week.

Single Of The Week

Gary Barlow and Elton John – ‘Face to Face’
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Buy it: Face To Face
For whatever reason this song has had very little publicity, so little that Amazon and iTunes aren’t listing it as a single even though it’s charted and was released. ‘Face to Face’ is Barlow’s best solo track yet. He’s crafted a bouncy, up-tempo singable number and his vocals – which are rather ‘Manic Street Preachers’ at times – work very well with the ever reliable deep sounds of Elton John. With some spot-on production, a truly memorable vibe and a powerful breakdown, this deserves to be much more successful. Poppy, perky and very catchy. Pop perfection!

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This Week’s New Single Releases (1st December 2013)

My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. All About She – ‘Higher (Free)’ The debut single from British dance act ‘All About She’ is a perky number headed up by the sweet words of the female vocalist but it doesn’t really reveal its own DNA during its four minute […]