ALBUM REVIEW: Summer 08 by Metronomy

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

OUT: 01/07

TRACKLIST: Back Together; Miami Logic; Old Skool; 16 Beat; Hang Me Out To Dry; Mick Slow; My House; Night Owl; Love’s Not An Obstacle; Summer Jam.

Metronomy frontman Joseph Mount is explaining in interviews that he’s not going to tour this record.

  • Read on for why this may be Metronomy’s best ever album

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LIVE REVIEW: Shura

WORTH A LOOK?: *****

WHERE: KOKO

WHEN: 1/6

SETLIST: Nothing’s Real; What’s It Gonna Be; Touch; Kids’n’Stuff; Indecision; What Happened To Us?; Just Once; Make It Up; 2 Shy; White Light.

Shura must have been disappointed when she realised her biggest London gig to date earmarked for the 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire had to be rearranged from 29/5.

  • Read on for why Shura’s debut album Nothing’s Real will soundtrack the summer

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EP REVIEW: Love Is Free by Robyn and La Bagatelle Magique

WORTH A LOOK: ****

OUT: 7/8

Tracklist: Lose Control; Love Is Free; Got To Work It Out; Set Me Free; Tell You (Today)

In pop’s holy trinity of 2015 singles we’d place Robyn’s Love Is Free between current favourite King by Years and Years and Little Mix’s Black Magic.

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