This Week's Singles: 06/04/09
A victory for the little guys this week, as Hook & The Twin and My Tiger My Timing stomp all over the far more seasoned competition...»
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A victory for the little guys this week, as Hook & The Twin and My Tiger My Timing stomp all over the far more seasoned competition...»
Another week, another fine selection of new releases on vinyl, circles of silver and digitably downloadable-ness... »
An unusually pop-heavy singles column this week, but have you seen the Top 10 these days? Lady GaGa is there. Twice. Still, the Skream remix of La Roux should sort that out, in a balancing-the-cosmos sort of way.»
Big names (that's Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Glasvegas, the Noisettes) dominate this week's flavoursome broth of singles/tracks/stuff we found on the internet, but the real winners are smaller, more delicate affairs...»
Don't panic, everyone. Turns out guitar music is not dead after all and was merely in the pub when all that 'what's happening in 2009' stuff was being decided. This week's new releases, then, from Crystal Stilts, Pulled Apart By Horses (we know we're late), The Do and Antony & The Johnsons...»
The music industry appears to be back from its long Christmas holiday because there are loads of singles around this week. Most of them are very good indeed. So let's talk about the clever mix of Lily Allen's 'The Fear', a not-so-clever Britney-Diplo 'Circus', Bloc Party's new lyrical atrocity, try-hard mental-lady pop from Ida Maria and the sunny majesty of Sky Larkin...»
Traditionally, early January is a time for broken resolutions; all your friends claiming they're off the drink for a month but lasting less than a week but it's also the traditional time for a scarcity of decent singles. Fittingly, we start this weekly column with a trudge through a lot of singles which seem to have been written to a brief of "oh, any old shit will do". Roll on next week...»