Single Reviews

• Blue Roses: 'I Am Leaving'

  This serenely beautiful single, the second to be taken from the Bradford band’s eponymous debut album, is spectral folk-pop at its finest.

   
• Shena: ‘My Fantasy’

  Shena deserves points solely for being one of the very few doing 70s-inspired disco right now in the UK - or anywhere, for that matter.

   
• Lethal Bizzle feat. Donaeo: ‘Go Hard’

  Lethal Bizzle’s fondness for repeating his own name sits uncomfortably alongside the paucity of words that rhyme with “Bizzle” in the English language.

   
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Heads Will Roll'

  Whilst Beth Ditto gets on with the business of being appallingly famous off the back of one song, Karen O and her fellow Yeah Yeah Yeahs continue to churn out fantastic song after fantastic song.

   
• Amazing Baby: 'Headdress'

  Amazing Baby hail from the same neck of the woods as MGMT. Same college in fact. The similarities stop there though, as whilst MGMT have perfected the immensely tuneful pop song, Amazing Baby have gone in an equally melodic yet altogether more epic direction.

   
• Gallows: 'London Is The Reason'

  Now, when it seems all hope is lost (it really isn’t), along come Gallows with ‘London Is The Reason’ - a meaty slice of vitriolic punk metal that will give Gallows fans a reason to be cheerful (or not).

   
• Lissy Trullie: ‘Self-Taught Learner' EP

  Former model Lissy Trullie now finds herself fronting a four piece rock band, whose sound could be summed up with the same words you might use to evaluate a picture of its eponymous singer: trendy, but vacuous, and stylish, but boring.

   
• Billy Talent: ‘Rusted From The Rain’

  Billy Talent are back with a new album and tour, and this mellow single from their third studio album, 'Billy Talent III', is almost reminiscent of late Green Day.

   
• The Big Pink: ‘Stop The World’

  It’s not often that a band made up of only two people comes along. Even rarer is the appearance of a two-person band with a sound this rich.

   
• Lisa Hannigan: ‘I Don’t Know’

  After seven years of collaborating with Damien Rice, the Irish songbird decides to go it alone, with her own label. If her first single from album ‘Sea Sew’ is any indication, it appears Ms Hannigan’s independence will pay dividends.

   

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