Single Reviews

• Brigade: 'Pilot'

  Taken from Brigade’s forthcoming second album, new single ‘Pilot’ starts promisingly enough with its dramatically escalating intro quickly dropping down to a thick and chunky bass riff.

   
• Duels: 'Regeneration'

  Prepare yourself for a two-in-one musical mash up and smackdown from Duels' latest single, 'Regeneration'.

   
• A Fine Frenzy: 'Come On, Come Out'

  This new, sun-drenched single from 22-year-old singer/songwriter Alison Sudol paints a delicious picture of lazy summer days spent in the dappled shade of an orange tree, counting fluffy white clouds and playing with the grass and daisies between your toes.

   
• Robyn: 'Who's That Girl?'

  Now that Girls Aloud have got a bit boring and Madonna has simply gone off her rocker (it's terrible what the menopause can do to a lass in her prime), it's up to Robyn to deliver a bit of pop brilliance.

   
• Laura Marling: 'Cross Your Fingers'

  The second single off ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’, the enchanting debut album from folk singer songwriter Laura Marling, this song is a bewitching combination of innocently cheerful, wistful melody and dark lyrics (‘Cross your fingers, hold your toes, we’re all gonna die when the building blows…’) delivered with exquisite nonchalance. And that voice…

   
• The Corrections: 'Barcode'

  Bloc Party are reborn! Well, sort of. And this incarnation is nowhere near as exciting as the original. With a spunky, crashed-out drum beat coupled with biting guitar sounds and the prerequisite energetic Angry Young Man vocals, 'Barcode' from The Corrections ticks all the usual indie pop boxes.

   
• Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly: 'Keep Singing Out'

  The new single from indie wonder boy Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (aka Sam Duckworth), 'Keep Singing Out' is an uplifting ballad for the underdog who is being kept down by Society’s closed-mindedness and the constraints of the Mainstream. 

   
• Elliot Minor: 'Parallel Worlds'

  ‘Parallel Worlds’ seems to refer to some dimension far far away from current musical trends, in which rock music remains unashamedly proud of fast riffs, anathematic keyboards, sing along chorus and cheesy guitar melodies - a sound that only the late 80s seems to have accepted in our present dimension.

   
• The Rivers: 'She Gives It Around'

  The Kooks have got a lot to feel responsible for. There are so many copycat bands around at the moment, either marginally better than said band or infinitely worse, and Brighton's The Rivers fit somewhere in between, albeit with a much better vocalist in Tom Borsberry.

   
• Vampire Weekend: 'Oxford Comma'

  Vampire Weekend are one of the most exciting new bands around at the moment and share not only the fact that they are from New York with The Strokes.

   

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