SINGLE REVIEW
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
SONG OF THE WEEK: Achilles by The Divine Comedy (week beginning Friday 25 April 2025)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
It’s on repeated listens that the downbeat melancholy charms of this lead single from a new album have revealed themselves.
- Read on for reasons including how to see The Divine Comedy on tour in 2025
SONG OF THE MONTH 69 by Self Esteem (April 2025)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
69 is the 2nd single from Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s 3rd album A Complicated Woman and is as sexual as its title suggests.
- Read on for reasons including how to see Self Esteem at the Duke Of York’s Theatre in London
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
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
SONG OF THE MONTH: Disease by Lady Gaga (January 2025)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
This is the lead single from the album we are most excited for in 2025, Lady Gaga’s 8th studio collection expected in February.
- Read on for reasons including why Gaga’s upcoming album is the 1 we’re most looking forward to in 2025
SONG OF THE MONTH: Eurostar by Nemo (December 2024)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Next year’s 69th Eurovision Song Contest is in Basel, Switzerland thanks to Nemo, the show’s 1st non-binary winner, with a song that placed 5th in its televote but was the runaway jury winner.
- Read on for reasons including how to see Nemo live in London in 2025
SONG OF THE WEEK: Big In The Suburbs by Welly (week beginning Saturday 16 November 2024)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
‘Don’t spend a lifetime looking for heaven when you can find it on the A27.’ Five-piece band Welly should know because they’re from Southampton and Brighton which are linked by that major road.
- Read on for reasons including where to see Welly on tour in 2024 and 2025
SONG OF THE MONTH: Warning Signs by Loreen (November 2024)
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
The artist known in full as Lorine Zeineb Nora Talhaoui is the only woman to have won Eurovision twice and here releases an uptempo 3rd follow up to 2023 winner Tattoo and we hope there’s an album coming soon.
- Read on for reasons including how to see Loreen on tour in 2025
