Tag: Single Reviews

Despite coming up with the goods by producing this year’s Horehound LP, The Dead Weather still have to shake off the annoying side-project tag. Regardless of this handicap, White, Mosshart

Funkier and tighter than previous efforts and not as embarrassing as the quite turgid ‘Might Like You Better’, Amanda Blank’s second single is arguably one of the better tracks off

After being the subject of much adulation for what seems like aeons, it’s hard to believe that this is the first ‘proper’ single from official Next Big Thing Marina and

With a chosen moniker like O Emperor, you’d be forgiven for expecting the Waterford natives to have delusions of grandeur. ‘Po’ is a taster of upcoming first album Hither Thither

Although it first featured on their early 2009 album Temporary Pleasures, Simian Mobile Disco have re-released Cruel Intentions as a single. While re-releases often smack of laziness and greed, the

Oh Bizzle, you’re the shizzle. This wild-eyed spasm of a grime track was lovingly thrown together from the finest MC-ing, samples and robotic beats, with Armand van Helden no-where in

The achy-breaky vocals and naive spanish-ish guitar at the start of this song might lead you to think Mika has downgraded the glitter and gone all Born Ruffians on us.

The name employed by duo Oskar Gullstradand and Stefan Storm seems to prefigure darts of criticism, but second single ‘Into the Clouds’ is an engrossing and dreamy affair. The former

Just when Rickrolling went away, comes a soft-rock non-entity that just never gives up but consistently lets you down. It’s frankly hilarious to think of Dave Grohl and his cohorts

Anthony trades his quavering soul for crunk with an impassioned reworking of the Bootylicious pop anthem. Meanwhile the bewildering but reliably gorgeous ‘Aeon’ sounds like a transvestite Joanna Newsom accompanied

Like Franz Ferdinand and the rest of their 2004 ilk , Bloc Party have always come up with tracks for girls to dance to. Shuffly, stilted dancing with your hair

Flo Rida spits out that he has a ‘mouth full of cavities’, in perhaps the closest rap music comes to an explanation for diamond tooth grills. For all its author’s

Passion Pit’s hand-holding optimism takes a psychedelic turn with this tune, a trippy take on the cornucopia of sounds which won ‘Manners’ such acclaim. Perfect for summer, this is the

You have to be wary of a band said to have formed to sell neon unicorn jewellery out of a souped-up ice-cream truck in NY. Hearts Revolution are as enigmatic

Once billed as the ‘Black Karen O’ for her scrappy, impassioned stage performances and attic-raiding personal style, Noisettes frontwoman Shingai Shoniwa seems to have mellowed of late; their recent album

Do you remember those rumours of a few years ago about Ciara being a hermaphrodite? Ok she did look a little butch, she was quite muscly, tall with wide shoulders,

This single comes with a strange providence, as baffling as the tapestry of samples- phone vibrations, ringing cash registers and neighing horses- that make up its chorus. Some sources claim

‘He’s out on the town trying to find trouble’, but Jamie T’s latest ode to laddish exploits tells the story of an embarassingly abortive night out. When he spits out