For those of you that haven’t listen to the entirety of Labrinth’s debut album Electronic Earth what have you been listening to this year?! Before you read any further go and listen to it. You will not regret it. The fourth single from the album is ‘Treatment’. To be perfectly honest this song needs no fancy…
Mumford & Sons have released a track from their forthcoming sophmore album Babel. ‘I Will Wait’ was premiered by DJ Huw Stephens yesterday evening on BBC Radio 1 and has caused controversy amongst many of the bands’ fans for not being “new music”. The track is in fact a reworking of a song on their…
The instantly catchy single ‘Brokenhearted’ from long-time youtubers Karmin debuted at number 6 in the official UK Charts last week. There is nothing subtle about its influences. Vocally from the likes of Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj, and the beat sounds like Calvin Harris on a lazy day – annoyingly repetitive and little variation throughout the…
‘Heatwave’ has all the components to suggest it will be great. Released following a week of the hottest temperatures of the year, girls in bikinis dancing around a pool in the video, the godfather of grime is rapping about a heatwave, what can go wrong? It is a guaranteed number 1 without even hearing it,…
‘Everybody’s on the Run’ follows on from ‘Dream On‘ the weakest single so far from the group’s self-titled début album. So you might expect that ‘Everybody’s on the Run’ would follow this decline. It doesn’t. As Noel describes himself, the drums combined with a choir gives an “epic” feel to the song from the start. The next really…
Scouting for Girls are (unfortunately) back just in time for our delightful British summer, with a single called, who’d of thought it, ‘Summertime in the City’. With an idiotic video, and equally stupid lyrics accompanied by a predictable ‘la la la’ melody, it’s just another generic pop song from the three piece. The thing with…
‘One More Night’ is the second single from Maroon 5’s newest album Overexposed and shows some of the colour of the album that isn’t reflected by the lead single ‘Payphone.’ Staccato beats at the start of the verses merge into smooth vocals in the bridge creating a multi-layered song that keeps you interested throughout. Both…
Cast your mind back 12 months and you might remember hearing about this new girl on the block, Kreayshawn, as her exciting electro hip hop sound generated one of the underground club tracks of the summer, ‘Gucci Gucci‘. At that point, there was a lot of hype, and since then she has been working on…
From the off there is something different about the new Lucy Rose single. In ‘Lines’ -from the EP with the same name- Lucy Rose has taken a style she used before and really embraced it. ‘Lines’ doesn’t have the dramatic drums of ‘Red Face’, or the heavy influence of Bombay Bicycle Club that was plain…
The second single from Electra Heart is the hard-hitting ‘Power and Control’ and with ‘Primadonna’ as the brilliant first single, it has a tough act to follow. A strong choice from Marina Diamandis, perhaps choosing it for it’s direct comment on the power struggle in relationships. However, critics have claimed that Marina has lost her musical…
First ‘Love Interruption’ , then ‘Sixteen Saltines’, now we have ‘Freedom at 21’. Jack White’s latest single from his album Blunderbuss is something of a mixed song. When you first listen it will throw you off given its peculiar rhythm. Quickly, however, it grows on you. A lot. The guitar takes a while to kick…
I was baffled, when I heard that The Script were collaborating with Will.I.Am, because in my head the two types of music I typically associate with each artist are practically on opposite sides of the spectrum. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the result, named ‘Hall of Fame’. I don’t think that it’ll be an incredible commercial…
The xx return with new single Angels, a song of sparse emptiness and foreboding percussion. It’s not the new dancefloor direction promised, but a teaser of what’s to come.
‘Vegas Girl’ is teenage heartthrob Conor Maynard‘s second single, following on from the success of his debut single ‘Can’t Say No‘ which went to number 2 in the UK charts in April. ‘Vegas Girl’ follows a similar path to his first single with his *NSYNC style, breathless vocals and catchy R&B beat. The lyrics are…