Single of the Week! AlunaGeorge - ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ (Island) When you have a longheld, irrational hatred of a particular band, it doesn’t taint or falter. In the same way that the embarrassments of youth do not dispel or wane after t»
Single of the Week! Pollens - ‘Helping Hand’ (Tapete Records) ‘Helping Hands’ is a sound collage in the ma-ma-manner of Laurie Anderson’s earlier work - though I should point out; there are no benevolent Art Nutbags doing voiceovers on i»
Single of the Week! Dan Croll - ‘From Nowhere’ (Racquet Records) You would not expect a single that has Raw Sex as its backing band to be full of pomp, but Dan Croll’s is. ‘From Nowhere’ is, in fact, as packed with bombast as it is poss»
Single of the Week! The Insomniax - ‘Love She Wants’ EP (Earnest Endeavours) At the tail end of summer I get on a rescue mission, clinging to singles with any kind of bright aspect, as if they could prolong what little daylight is left, befor»
Single of the Week! Lorn - ‘Weigh Me Down’ (Ninja Tune) As you should know by now, Lorn is not creating flowery music; he prefers to wallow in the weeks-rank, dank stuff at the bottom of the vase. And it is not especially subtle music, with i»
Single of the Week! White Rabbits - ‘I’m Not Me’ (Mute) ‘I’m Not Me’ has that metallic sheen so often found on Brendan Benson’s more jittery numbers. And it’s wonderfully restless; changing direction so fast with each new time sig»
Single of the Week! Gravenhurst - ‘The Foundry’ (Warp) The problem with all known recording software and studio gadgetry is that there is no button marked 'atmoss' - no easy way to automatically put air or nimbus into a song. You will need Ni»
Single of the Week! Patrick Watson - ‘Step Out For A While’ (Domino) One day I am going to get round to making a playlist of all my favourite, waltzy, merry-go-round songs – singles that go up, up, up, with the peculiar grace of gold-leafed»
Single of the Week! Django Django - ‘Hail Bop’ (Because Music) Googling the cove responsible for the liquid digital landscape in Django Django’s video saw me end up on this page. Which I share with you, kindly person, to prove that there st»
Single of the Week! Jai Paul - ‘Jasmine (Demo)’ (12” on XL) Furtive shopping is the best kind, which is why I am very fond of telling my Mum off for ‘spending all of Daddy’s money’ - especially when she comes back from Clarkses armed»
Single of the Week! Dead Fader feat. Sensational - ‘Fishsh’ from ‘work it, no’ EP (Robot Elephant Records) When press releases promise the sound of ‘unapologetic dread’ it is impossible not to have your interest piqued. Which is why D»
This week’s singles column has been given over to the Olympic theme tunes. It is also a slightly breathless rant about the restorative power of exercise. »
Alas, Roby has nipped up the road for a weekend of larks at Latitude. Jazz Monroe wasn’t so lucky, and steps in to save this week’s singles from certain obscurity..._»
What has happened this week is that I have been in a very good, excitable and giggly mood, so unless a single has been gurning at me with a face full of powdery wrongness at the same time as raising my arms aloft, I haven’t been interested: it could jog»
Single of the Week! Dirty Projectors - ‘Gun Has No Trigger’ (Domino) The handsomest band in Christendom have written a song which sounds like a warning, and it is the kind of song men ruined by witchy women sing to other chaps, to put them o»
Single of the Week! Lorn - ‘Ghosst(s)’ (Ninja Tune) When my nephew is frightened of something he will often say it is funny, because saying something is funny is easier than saying ‘Fuck this, take me HOME, WENDY’. It happened once when t»
Single of the Week! Yeti Lane - ‘Warning Sensations’ (Sonic Cathedral) Dependable, cherishable Yeti Lane have made yet another song that makes you feel sad for it. This one is a doom synth pulser with no small amount of widescreen momentum - »
Single of the Week! Dutch Uncles feat. Jonathan & Jeremy from Everything Everything - ‘Road To Roy’ (Memphis Industries, free here) Only Dutch Uncles and my beloved Everything Everything could fashion a song in which the phrase ‘group s»
Single of the Week! Hot Chip - ‘Night & Day’ (Domino) If Hot Chip are at a stage where they can command Terence Stamp to mouth the words ‘I don't play no gabba' in their video, I am definitely happy; nothing makes me gladder than their »
Single of the Week! Luke Abbott - ‘Modern Driveway’ (NoTown) Luke Abbott’s bleary-eyed efforts are that special thing; slow-builders that earn the right to their ambling pace. It seems to me his work is an exercise in patience rather than s»
Single of the Week! Here We Go Magic - ‘How Do I Know’ (Secretly Canadian) ‘How Do I Know’ is infectiously plotted, it has the sort of urgent tempo, quietly chugging bassline and itchy keyboard lines that put you in mind of blinking strob»
Single of the Week! The Magnetic Fields - ‘Quick’ (Domino) No one captures the ecstasy of romantic torment quite like The Magnetic Fields. And though there is no better song to sing after a right royal dumping than ‘I Don’t Want To Get Ov»
Single of the Week! Patrick Watson - ‘Into Giants’ (Domino) On ‘Into Giants’ Patrick Watson is not messing about, not one toy is getting left in the cupboard. And it is all quite overwhelming, there being so many things here worthy of not»
Single of the Week! North Atlantic Oscillation - ‘Soft Coda’ (Kscope) Some bands can get away with lyrics as vague as fog. North Atlantic Oscillation are one of those bands, which is why it is alright that their amiable, button-pushing, bomba»
Single of the Week! Tashaki Miyaki - ‘Tashaki Miyaki Sings The Everly Brothers’ (For Us) You could argue that a deathly pale, k-hole-occupying, curtains-drawn approach to a cover version is no different or less calculated than wanging your la»
Single of the Week! Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ from ‘Duchess’ EP (Honest Jons, snippet at around 1:03 below) ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ is a he-said, she-said. And like the bes»
Single of the Week! Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - ‘Tapes & Money’ (Polydor Records) Orlando Higginbottom continues to make droopy disco that reminds me I should not be reviewing music sitting down. And though I am told ‘Tapes &»
Single of the Week! Veronica Falls - ‘Come On Over’ (Bella Union) For the first 45 seconds ‘Come On Over’ is ‘Everybody Hurts’. After that it has some coffee, but at all times I love it, Veronica Falls just seem more accomplished at j»
This week: Kindness, T, Williams, Summer Camp, Breton, Montage Populaire and some people who call themselves I.R.O.K. »
Single of the Week! Sharon Van Etten - ‘Leonard’ (JagJagJaguwar) Presented with a lyrics sheet for Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Leonard’, the words look prosaic. Shaker-simple, their plainness nearly verges on boring – especially when you cons»
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