TRACK REVIEWS
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (18/09/13)
The Killers - 'Shot At The Night' If you weren't already convinced that Brandon Flowers is a sentimental man, here's something to change your mind. Monday (September 16) marked the 10th anniversary of The Killers' first gig outside of North...
Filthy Boy - 'That Life'
Filthy Boy are massive pervs. Mixing Alex Kapranos’ sardonic style with Nick Cave’s tales of urban debauch, ‘That Life’ might be the only song of the year to hail a wife with “phenomenal tits” over Whitechapel alleyway blues....
Middleman - 'Helpless'
If you thought fusing the dated likes of East 17, Limp Bizkit and The Streets wouldn’t work as a pop conceit in 2013, you’d be absolutely right. Middleman, however, laugh in the face of such boundaries. ‘Helpless’ is obstinate and...
Caitlin Rose - 'Waitin''
Nashville dive-bar torch star Caitlin Rose wrings her heavy heart out in public with the sumptuously soulful ‘Waitin’’. Like Loretta Lynn singing Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ while lining up the tequila shots, Caitlin documents the...
Fenech-Soler - 'Last Forever'
This is a shameless summer tune that’s all fizzy electro squizzles, Club Tropicana cocktail-glass clinks and drums friskier than a stag weekend in Malia. Fenech-Soler have missed a trick by putting it out in September, but if you want to grab...
The Civil Wars - 'Dust To Dust'
Somewhere in Los Angeles a screenwriter is hashing out the plot of the latest Disney movie – something about a bespectacled hamster with dreams of making it in the city. Suddenly, over the radio comes this simpering duet. The screenwriter throws...
Los Porcos - 'CFW'
Former Wu Lyf-ers do the yacht-rock thing complete with the on-point hustle of Hall & Oates. ‘CFW’ is just the right amount of sleazy, pitched somewhere between your funny uncle ‘accidentally’ grinding you at your cousin’s wedding and a...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (11/09/13)
MIA - 'Come Walk With Me' A mercurial artist like MIA is most surprising when she tones down the provocation – but the initial bars of ‘Come Walk With Me’ seem genuinely toothless. “ There’s a thousand ways to meet you now/There’s...
Thirty Seconds To Mars - 'Do Or Die'
The sort of song that makes you want to write a screenplay, move to LA, suck a producer’s cock, get the green light, cast Jared Leto and film a rom-com called Speechless about a pair of starcrossed mute lovers. That’s what it’s going to...
Rainer - 'Girls'
Like a pass-the-parcel at a metaphor party, there are layers upon layers to unwrap on this offering from singer Rebekah Raa and producer Casually Here. The London duo create a latticework of warm beats and honeyed vocals around an irresistibly...
