WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 20/11
TRACKLIST: Hello; Send My Love (To Your New Lover); I Miss You; When We Were Young; Remedy; Water Under The Bridge; River Lea; Love In The Dark; Million Years Ago; All I Ask; Sweetest Devotion.
What’s that we hear? The sound of business as usual and no risks being taken.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
OUT: 6/11
TRACKLIST: Black Magic/Love Me Like You/Weird People/Secret Love Song (featuring Jason Derulo)/Hair/Grown/I Love You/OMG/Lightning/A.D.I.D.A.S/Love Me Or Leave Me/The End/ (deluxe only) I Won’t/Secret Love Song (part 2)/Clued Up/The Beginning.
A year ago Little Mix had scrapped an entire album and missed the lucrative quarter four album release slot they’d surfed in 2012 and 2013.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
Out: 9/10
Tracklist: Surrender; Some Kind Of Heaven; Why; Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us; Rolling Stone; Lights; Slow; Kaleidoscope; Wings; Wish; (deluxe version only) Perfect Timing; Weight Of The World; Policewoman.
Two years ago Hurts topped the singles chart as featured artists on Calvin Harris and Alesso club banger Under Control.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 9/10
Tracklist: Intro; Grey Tickles, Black Pressure; Snug Slacks; Guess How I Know; You and Him; Down Here; Voodoo Doll; Global Warming; Magma Arrives; Black Blizzard; Disappointing; No More Tangles; Geraldine; Outro.
John Grant’s third album is not out until Friday but we’ve had a sneak preview and can give you the lowdown here.
New Order – Music Complete *****
Disclosure – Caracal ***
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye ***
There are three new albums out this week vying to top Friday’s albums chart and, although our money would definitely be on electronic duo Disclosure, New Order’s Music Complete is the welcome surprise – a fantastic return to form.
WORTH A LISTEN?: ****1/2
TRACKLIST: Paper Gods; Last Night In The City; You Kill Me With Silence; Pressure Off; Face For Today; Danceophobia; What Are The Chances?; Sunset Garage; Change The Skyline; Butterfly Girls; Only In Dreams; The Universe Alone.
OUT: 11/9
What happens to pop pin-ups 30 years after their heyday? The fate of the iconic Duran cover art in the video for best track What Are The Chances? (YouTube clip above) gives some clues about the ideas behind the album’s title track.
TRACKLIST: Cast in Steel; Under the Makeup; The Wake; Forest Fire; Objects in the Mirror; Door Ajar; Living at the End of the World; Mythomania, She’s Humming a Tune; Shadow Endeavours; She’s Giving up the Ghost.
WORTH A LISTEN: ****
OUT: 4/9.
Five years after splitting up following a comprehensive world tour, a-ha are back with their 10th studio album and another chance to see them live.
