WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Duo Roland Orzabal, born in Portsmouth, and Curt Smith toured in 2019 when we saw them at London’s 02 Arena but this is the band’s 1st new single for 13 years.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Crave is co-written by lead singer Olly Alexander and is an infectious, dancefloor friendly bop which is the 2nd single from the band’s 3rd album Night Call, to be released 7 January 2022.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Last night Danish pop band Alphabeat played their final gig in Greve as lead singer Stine Bramsen relaunches her solo career with this authentic pop gem that reminds these ears of a more muscular attempt at something as stellar as Adele’s Rolling In The Deep.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Danish/Icelandic duo EYJAA – Sara and Brynja – aren’t happy but have produced a chorus that is to die for: ”5am hurt is a habit, too late for happy thoughts, feeling a day’s worth of damage and here comes The Wrecking Crew. F*ck trying to make sense of sadness before it makes sense of me, love is as simple as madness and here comes The Wrecking Crew.’
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
It begins like Destiny’s Child sampling Stevie Nicks on Bootylicious and builds with, we’re guessing, a list of qualities wanted from a new lover: ‘Faith. Love. Spirit. Heart.’
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ Victoria Hesketh is preparing to release her 1st album since 2015’s Working Girl and this is the lead single from it.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
The film of musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie drops on Amazon Prime on Friday (17 September) and swaps out 1 of our favourite songs for this new 1.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
The Swedish supergroup had 9 UK number 1 singles between 1974 and 1980 while last effort proper was Under Attack which reached a far less lofty 26 in 1982.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
There’s something melancholic yet beautiful about the end of summer and as we write this on the UK’s last bank holiday weekend before Christmas it’s a feeling brilliantly captured here by this 20-year-old Danish/Japanese singer songwriter.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
2021’s shaping up to be a great year for Henderson with her Tom Grennan duet Let’s Go Home Together already one of the highlights of the last 12 months and now this uptempo track featuring both the House Gospel Choir and Just Kiddin dropping.
