WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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A Christmas Wish is a banger with sleigh bells, a seasonal theme and a Phil Spector-goes-Motown energy.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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MARINA last played in London a year ago and said then from the stage at the Eventim Apollo: ‘This has been the perfect last show for me for a while. I won’t play here for a year or two.’
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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Hot Chip caught our ear earlier this year with a fine remix of Daði Freyr’s Eurovision winner-that-never was (clip below) but it is with this dancefloor juggernaut that they really strike gold.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
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We were supposed to be seeing the 29-year-old singer-songwriter from Buxton, Derbyshire, this month at the 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire but COVID-19 has now pushed that back to April 2021.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
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There’s always a sense of trepidation when a friend recommends a song they think you’ll like.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
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It’s quite something that pop star and songwriting genius Sia thought her tune What The Future Holds would be best sung by this reformed boy/girl band quintet.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
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We’ve only seen Norwegian electro pop star Annie live once we think, supporting St Etienne in October 2009 at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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Fingers Crossed goes immediately for the pop jugular with a hook that is so captivating in its high-pitched kookiness it could be a sample of Kate Bush or Florence Welch at their most commercial – but probably isn’t.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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What do you get if you introduce arguably the world’s most exciting pop star of the moment to a British singer-songwriter and a Compton rapper/producer?
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
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Get Yourself Together, the lockdown collaboration between Blow Monkeys’ frontman Dr Robert and Youth, was the first time we’d listened to any of the band’s new work for a long while.
