SONG OF THE MONTH: Disintegrate by Suede (June 2025)

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Lead singer Brett Anderson describes Suede’s new album Antidepressants as ‘broken music for broken people’ and this lead single wears its goth-flavoured punk influences defiantly.

  • Read on for reasons including how to see Suede in London this year
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SONG OF THE WEEK: What Was That by Lorde (week beginning Friday 9 May 2025)

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Lorde wears ‘smoke like a wedding veil’ and navigates the aftermath of a break-up in this synth pop track reminding of the strength of her sophomore LP Melodrama.

  • Read on for reasons including how new album Virgin is shaping up to be special
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Spike Island by Pulp (May 2025)

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

We last saw Pulp live at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo in July 2023 and wrote: ‘We absolutely yearn for new material as good as those songs like Common People which soundtracked and shaped our adulthood’.

  • Read on for reasons including how to see Pulp live at London’s The 02 this summer
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Abracadabra by Lady Gaga (March 2025)

WORTH A LOOK? *****

Mother Monster’s best single since Born This Way in 2011 finds her experimenting with industrial house and sampling/giving songwriting credits to Siouxsie and The Banshees as she tees up new album Mayhem.

  • Read on for reasons including how we haven’t been this excited in years for a new Gaga album
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Ich Komme by Erika Vikman (February 2025)

WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2

The controversial exclusion of One Morning Left’s hard rock novelty song Puppy from Finland’s Eurovision selection show UMK on 8 February leaves this sticky and sexually explicit joy the clear favourite to triumph.

  • Read on for reasons including how Vikman popped her Eurovision cherry with Cicciolina
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