Adele – Skyfall

I bet she’d pick Oddjob and fill the facility vent with proximity mines… [Video][Website] [5.60] Jonathan Bogart: The trouble with ...

Brad Paisley – Southern Comfort Zone

Ponderin’ think-pieces to come… [Video][Website] [6.38] Edward Okulicz: This feels like the Don Henley to Brantley Gilbert’s Bon Jovi. I’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...