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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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Singles Review: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Only In My Dreams
So this is Summer eh? A holiday in Morrissey’s head perhaps. Let’s all crawl our rain soaked souls into Ariel Pink’s battered old radio and feel some sunshine melodies on our limbs. With his exasperating, infuriating attitude to moderate Pitchfork-style ‘success’ (his petulant contemptuous live antics) it would have been…
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Singles Review: LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking
LMFAO are the soundtrack to the Kardashian lives. Their shiny, sticky, tacky brand of Europop shudders blankly round the hangar sized fleshpots of Las Vegas waiting to be anointed by the bootiful ones. Whereas their Euro influences were a charming rag-tag bunch of campy if not annoying characters that seemed…
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Singles Review: Beyoncé – End of Time
Is Beyoncé having a massive swear at the start of this track? Does Blue Ivy need to cover her tender ears? That’s but one of the mysteries of this banger, the other being could this have been the last great Michael Jackson song? It has all the hallmarks of Jackson…
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Singles Review: Gossip – Perfect World
Isn’t this all a bit boring for Xenomania? You’d never really believe that the folk behind some of Girls Aloud’s defining; most thrilling pop moments are responsible for something as pedestrian as this. Firstly, its chorus sounds like something Belinda Carlisle would have rejected as a b-side, hardly memorable or…
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Singles Review : Marina & The Diamonds – Primadonna
Someone has been hanging round with Katy Perry for too long. The tour buddies seem to have become symbiotic with Marina’s sub Regina Spektor delivery now having been replaced with Perry’s trademark curled “R’s” and shouty girl-choir vocals. The sizzling synths and breeze block beats are all doing their job…
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Singles Review: Ladyhawke – Black, White & Blue
It’s Ladyhawke! Remember her? Well she’s BACK, BACK, BACK! We all loved Ladyhawke didn’t we? Or was that just a laughable phase we went through a couple of years ago that involved headbands and tie-dye leggings? Anyway here she is minus her fringe and headband, singing a perfectly passable piece…
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Singles Review: Niki & The Dove – D.J. Ease My Mind
No it’s not Lykke Li. Yes, it does have all of Lykke Li’s current trademarks: pounding drums, on-the-verge-of-tears vocals, general Swedish moroseness but this is Niki & The Dove and unlike Ms Li, they like to dance. It’s Last Night a D.J Saved My Life for girls with Suffragette hair…
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Singles Review: Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love
You can actually feel it. It’s in the glittery air Azari & III are on their way to being bloody massive. Now having just bagged a support slot with the divine Ms Madgington of Madonnaville there is only one way this souped up pop rocket is going – stratospheric. In…
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Singles Review: Calvin Harris (ft. Kelis) – Bounce
Calvin Harris is the man we all remember as the silly fool who once tried to sabotage a Jedward X Factor performance by dancing round with a pineapple on his head. Apparently he also wrote some songs about such topics as girls and the ’80s, and he’s Scottish and very…
