WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
RELEASED: 25 June 2021
We’ve had a listen of The Blow Monkeys’ new album Journey To You released in September and this 3rd single from it is the 10-track collection’s opener as well as a brilliant introduction.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
RELEASED: Friday 18 June 2021
There can be few things more joyous than a spoken word middle eight of a pop song and the interplay here between 2 of our favourite pop stars immediately ushers this to the front of the queue to be our favourite song of the week.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 28 May 2021
We last saw Sigrid live at a sold-out Eventim Apollo headliner show in November 2019 and 18 months later she releases her 1st new material since Home To You made The Aeronauts soundtrack.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
RELEASED: 21 May 2021
This fantastic collision sounds like Donna Summer going Goldfrapp and contains a pivotal lyrical moment which may be a signpost for further such delights to come.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
RELEASED: 28 April 2021
One of the gifts of lockdown for us has been the time it has allowed us to listen to a wider range of music and as a result we are delighted to have finally succumbed to the charms of Jessie Ware and a little embarrassed it took us 4 albums to do so.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: Friday 7 May 2021
The 2nd single by the Clapham drag queen after her respectable showing in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and this collaboration with Cahill finds Kofi on surer footing rather than her 1st, much darker effort.
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.
