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Singles Review: Singles of 2012
Solange: Losing You Like a perfumed ghost of the 90s it rose from the ether, a rush of glowing familiarity followed by the strangeness of its sharp coolness. Its blank simplicity and dour repetition exposing the black magic of heartache, like blinking into the sunlight from the sour daydream of the…
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Pop Life: Loving Laverne
Heroes seem to come in colossal form. Giant-size tornadoes of drama like Bowie, Dylan, Morrissey that whisked into your tiny life in the nick of time to save you from dingy normality and focus you on to the path to secret brilliance that no-one had yet recognised. They were…
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Pop Life: I’ve Heard It All Before
Apparently we’re all bored. Apparently we’re ‘over it’. When Madonna flopped out her freeze-dried strawberry nipple to wave ‘hello’ to the crowds in Istanbul recently, the world supposedly shrugged its shoulders or recoiled in horror. Twitter feeds turned into a giant bellowing Daily Mail sidebar of shame either scolding, tutting…
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Brand Spanking Q?
Good old Q magazine, without you we may have never have witnessed Jonny Borrell’s saucer eyes bulging out from the front cover turning every newsstand into a fish mongers. Whereas Mojo and Uncut favour the safely dead, Q was the place for lads that grew tired with the NME and…
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Album Review: Madonna – MDNA
It’s okay, we can all rest easy. The embarrassment of Hard Candy is well and truly over. No more hiding behind your hands, cringing and wishing Pharrell and Timberland would just leave the Candy Shop FOREVER. Soon those horrific memories of the farty beats of 4 Minutes and the utterly…
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Life Tracks: Madonna – Over & Over
There are a myriad of perfect pop confections that Jellybean and co concocted for the divine Miss M in the ’80s, every one of them a bouncy mix of the sexy and the preposterous that transformed many a young mind over the years and various other parts of their anatomies…
