WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Little Boots has released what is probably already our favourite album of the year so far and here teams up once again with a drag queen who is making a name for herself thanks to some brilliant pop collaborations.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
We’ve now watched rehearsal clips of all 40 entries into next Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest and this is both our favourite and the song we think will win.
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Sigrid’s sophomore album How To Let Go is released 6 May 2022 and this new single contains the defiantly optimistic lyric: ‘It Gets Dark so I can see the stars.’
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
We didn’t watch Italy’s San Remo Festival this year but were aware of the songs and gutted that our favourites could only manage 7th.
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Goldfrapp’s last album was 2017’s Silver Eye and so singer Alison Goldfrapp’s feature on this new single by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp is more than welcome.
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We last saw Charli XCX live at the 02 Brixton Academy when she was supported by Rina Sawayama and so this collaboration feels more organic than some duets sometimes do.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
Canadian Carly Rae Jepson topped charts around the world including the UK and US with Call Me Maybe in 2011 and Little Boots’ new single was written for her.
WORTH A LOOK? ****
Released at the same time as details of Henderson’s 2nd album, a full 7 years after her debut, single Brave is midtempo, anthemic and optimistic at a time when we perhaps need spoonfuls of the latter.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Welcome to the 6th single of 2021 by a solo Olly Alexander performing as Years & Years which tees up perfectly the band’s 3rd album Night Call, out 21 January 2022.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
It’s quite the feat for a band that has been releasing records for 4 decades to put out a new single that sounds both quintessentially them but also with an understanding of what made supergroup ABBA’s return to the fold this year such a thrill.
