Justin Timberlake‘s The 20/20 Experience requires more patience than the majority of traditional pop albums. Seven out of the ten tracks are longer than seven minutes, with the shortest clocking in at just under five minutes. This approach isn’t atypical for the former boy band […]
Indie foursome Vampire Weekend have broken their three-year silence with a double A-side single, “Step” and “Diane Young”. The pair of tracks act as the first taste of their upcoming album Modern Vampires of the City, which lead vocalist Ezra Koenig has described as “darker […]
There’s a decent breakdown and analysis of Beyoncé‘s new song “Bow Down/I Be On” over here if you’re interested. For me, it sounds like she listened to Azealia Banks‘ “Van Vogue” and Rihanna‘s new record far too many times, rolled into the studio with producer […]
Up-and-coming Swedish singer Beldina is influenced by Mary J. Blige, French DJs and the style of Audrey Hepburn. All I’m going to say is that if this combination leads to anything else as great as “What More Can I Say”, she should probably stick with it […]
If you took Katy Perry‘s “Teenage Dream“, put it through an Instagram filter and gave it a ’90s indie rock throwback makeover to sound literally nothing like the original, then you’d get Veronica Falls‘ similarly-titled “Teenage”. The song was one of two official singles released […]
The Colourist‘s “Little Games” sounds like a lot of songs on modern rock radio. If you threw it on a playlist with Grouplove, Young The Giant or Two Door Cinema Club, nobody would bother to blink an eyelash over the transition. It’s upbeat, catchy as fuck […]
If you’re in the mood for a big gay dance song this morning, then you should look no further than London DJ Duke Dumont‘s “Need U (100%)”. The track features up-and-coming, 18 year-old singer A*M*E (pictured above), delivering her best early ’90s house diva vocals. […]
Tecla is definitively not the next Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj or Rihanna. If pop stars were juice boxes, her flavor would more accurately be described as “Tropical Kelis Fruit Punch”. There’s a remarkable vocal similarity between Tecla and the eccentric, genre-defying singer, but we’d say she […]
“Is Cody Belew gay?” brings up a ton of results on Google, but I’m not really concerned with the answer to that question. He was one of few good things to emerge from the third season of The Voice, and it doesn’t matter to me if […]
Apparently all of the best music is hiding in Scotland? Yesterday, we brought you the fine indie-rock stylings of Selkirk’s Frightened Rabbit. Today, however, we’re going in a slightly different direction with CHVRCHES. The Glasgow-based trio draws inspiration from Prince, Robyn, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, Lil Wayne and […]
