WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 30 April 2021
The idea behind Young’s 8th album Crying On The Bathroom Floor out this August is that it will consist of covers of songs made famous by women.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 12 April 2021
MARINA’s trademark operatic vocals are much in evidence here as she imagines what Mother Nature might make of Covid-19: ‘Virus come, fires burn until human beings learn from every disaster, you are not my master’.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 23 April 2021
As we write this, the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest final in which this song competes in its original Spanish language version will take place 3 weeks today.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 8 April 2021
Starstruck is the 1st single to be taken from the 3rd album by Years & Years and the first where the band is officially the solo project of Olly Alexander who starred with great effect in Channel 4’s drama It’s A Sin earlier this year.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: Friday 16 April 2021
Think classic Blow Monkeys and there’s probably a funky saxophone bossing the groove and coincidentally there’s 1 at the heart of More Than A Miracle, the 2nd single from the band’s new album Journey To You.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: Friday 2 April 2021
Of all the drag queens in season 2 of BBC Three’s hit TV series Drag Race UK, it was Veronica Green who had the most rollercoaster ride.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 25 February 2021
Visage is a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and played the role of teacher Miss Hedge in West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie before new bandmate Faye Tozer and so perhaps it should come as little surprise that she fits so flawlessly into Lisa Scott-Lee’s shoes.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: 13 March 2021
The question of how the unofficial winner of the 2020 Eurovision-that-never-was would follow up his beloved entry was on the lips of all ESC fans immediately after it was announced by Icelandic broadcaster RUV that Daði Freyr and his band Gagnamagnið would return to represent the country in 2021.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: 27/2/21
Dotter, real name Johanna Maria Jansson, has written 2 of the most impressive singles of the last 12 months bringing to mind Florence and the Machine with Bulletproof and now Robyn.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: now
Team monstagigz is celebrating a birthday today and so it seems fitting that our newly-crowned song of the week is by this 2021 Melodifestivalen finalist who was also crucially the last Eurovision winner of the 20th Century.
