Ane Brun – These Days
These days autumnal precision is all we need… [Video][Website] [7.78] Edward Okulicz: Twitchy percussion and the solemn humming of the ...
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Bruno Mars – Locked Out of Heaven
Locked out of our affections too… [Video][Website] [5.86] Katherine St Asaph: Bruno Mars’ retromania has gone retroviral — in addition ...
FT Island – I Wish
Flamenco K-pop? Sure, why not. [Video][Website] [4.88] Brad Shoup: A breathless flamenco rip that lurches into pop-rock. Lee Hong Ki’s ...
Florida Georgia Line – Cruise
Nobody suggested the joke, so I will… [Video][Website] [4.43] Anthony Easton: Well, this is a variation on this year’s country theme: instead ...
Cher Lloyd ft. Becky G – Oath
We have identified a sad lack of “UNNH!”s. [Video][Website] [5.80] Britt Alderfer: Shame that the follow-up to “Want U Back” ...
Petra Marklund – Händerna Mot Himlen
We probably should’ve covered this last month for the pun… [Video][Website] [6.00] Brad Shoup: Ah, fall: conversations go longer, meditation ...
Prince – RnR Affair
But the real news about Prince’s career, according to music journalism in 2012: this mask is so totally YIKES! What ...
Bat For Lashes – All Your Gold
Leave the fur… [Video][Website] [7.38] Katherine St Asaph: “‘Cause you’re a good man, I keep telling myself” — the moment ...
Ivy Queen – Peligro de Extinción
If any Anglophones are thinking about attempting to say her name out loud, it’s pronounced E.V. Queen. [Video][Website] [6.83] Jonathan ...
The Raveonettes – The Enemy
Recorded in LA; sounds like smog… [Video][Website] [6.78] Jonathan Bradley: The Raveonettes were birthed into a niche — shoegaze guitars, ...