Internet sensation and loveable, yet incomprehensible Korean hit ‘Gangnam Style’ has racked up over 250 million views on YouTube and topped charts across the world. Undoubtedly thanks to it’s video of inexplicable side shuffles and horse-whipping moves, PSY’s song has been shared by celebs, inspiring flash mobs, and confusing viewers since it was uploaded in…
Lydia Cialis explores Youtube sensation Gabrielle Aplin’s new single ‘Please Don’t Say You Love Me’
The fourth single from what is said to be one the best albums of 2012, Given To The Wild by The Maccabees, is the wonderful ‘Ayla’. Personally ‘Ayla’ is my favourite track from the album and has grown to be one of the best tracks in recent times. I know this is a massive thing…
The Joy Formidable have announced their return with new single ‘Wolf’s Law’. A song of two parts – the beginning is slow, sombre and the use of piano is very articulate. Not The Joy Formidable I remember from their debut album The Big Roar. This change in style from indie rock is promising as it…
For some incomprehensible reason, they’ve put an air siren in Tulia’s second single ‘Live it Up’, which features ‘Rack City‘ star, Tyga. After the runaway success of her first single ‘Young’, this follow up is devastatingly poor. A cheap attempt to try and start the song in a sunny ‘samba-esque’ mood fails and moves into…
Walk the Moon, the little known band from Cincinnati, Ohio, have released a free-download track from their self titled album which is available to download here. Energetic, catchy, upbeat and just plain fun – ‘Tightrope’ is a quintessential Walk the Moon song. Use of a scratchy guitar sound and a fairly repetitive drum beat is…
Indie-pop band Everything Everything have made a triumphant return with new single ‘Cough Cough’
My first thought upon hearing ‘Madness’ was “this has to be a joke”. But perhaps this is a bit too obvious of a reaction. If you put this camp, pure-pop number next to any of the Muse’s Origin of Symmetry-era work then, objectively, it pales in comparison. The band have taken a new direction, unique-apocolyptic-Muse…
Coexist, the xx’s follow-up to debut album xx, remains one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the year. The release of single, ‘Angels‘ only whet the appetite and with less than a month to go, second single ‘Chained’ has got the heart pacing even more. In many ways, ‘Chained’ follows the pattern set-up by its…
‘Bad Blood’ is the new single from Bastille. To be honest, if you haven’t heard of Bastille already then you really should sit up and pay attention. After getting a significant amount of airplay on BBC Radio 1 and featuring on Huw Stephen’s show very recently, it seems others are really starting to take Bastille…
The Biff are back. New single ‘Stingin’ Belle’ was premiered as a preview to their upcoming album ‘Opposites’. Despite the fact they have changed the name, their promise to release two studio albums in 2012 still looks to be on. Anyhow, to the track. With an intro that sounds like a marching band on speed…
After producing one of the best albums of 2009, Grizzly Bear are back with new single ‘Yet Again’; the debut track from the forthcoming Shields
Animal Collective’s new single Animal Collective deserts any sign of Merriweather and plows full steam ahead in the weird and wonderful of psychedelic pop; it’s like musical tripping
The Queen of rock pop has returned to regain her crown. She’s rude, she’s sexual and she f***ing loves it. Having been away for four years while she performed a sell out world tour, sorted out her marriage to Motocross racer Carey Hart, and joined Beyonce and Lily Allen in the baby department, she’s also…