WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Find Xanadu is the debut single from Alison Goldfrapp’s sophomore solo LP Flux, out 15 August.
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’.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
It’s on repeated listens that the downbeat melancholy charms of this lead single from a new album have revealed themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
