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The look is very lockdown: singer Theo Hutchcraft has longer hair than we’ve ever seen him sporting before and multi-instrumentalist Adam Anderson’s beard is fuller than we remember.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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‘One day when the lockdown is over, We’ll get on the ferry at Dover, We’ll drive down to Spain, to say: ‘Hola!’ again, Te amo, Te amo España.’ Derry boy and Divine Comedy frontman Neil Hannon has Eurovision form.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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At just 162 seconds, this pop gem manages to combine so many influences and on first listen we’d describe it as very classic Eurovision sounding, both very ABBA and Ace of Base.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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Coronavirus may have caused the cancellation of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest from Rotterdam in May but 41 songs were selected for it and this was our favourite.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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The 3rd single from album Hotspot (out on 24/1/20) is more uptempo than predecessor Burning The Heather and is a dancefloor blast that reminds of the 80s yet doesn’t sound out of place on 2020 radio.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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Welcome to Robbie Williams’ best song since She’s Madonna, his 2007 duet with the Pet Shop Boys.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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Ladies – start your engines. We’re big fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and so, when monstagigz favourite MNEK appeared to produce rival girl groups, we thought the results would be good but we weren’t quite prepared for two fabulous versions of a great original song.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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It would be fair to say we were surprised that sophomore Years & Years album Palo Santo was released last year without this track.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
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They’re from ’85, they ain’t gonna lie and they don’t know what’s cool anymore.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
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This is the stand-out tune from the 6-song cabaret MUSIK starring character Billie Trix played by Frances Barber from 2001 Pet Shop Boys musical Closer To Heaven.
