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Bachelorette – Blanket
Republic of Music
Bachelorette - Blanket by souterraintransmissions
With an opening that invokes happy recollections of Air's Sexy Boy, Blanket by Bachelorette (real name Annabel Alpers) is a great, funky, synth-tastic tune just perfect for hazy summer days spent lounging in Hyde Park. Or for a bike ride. Maybe by a canal. Strangely enough. I don't know why, this track just says “bike ride” to me.
The Indie crowd are gonna love this song, if it doesn't show up on the soundtrack of a Joseph-Gorden Levitt film I'll be bloody amazed.4.5/5
Dan Sartain – Fuck Friday
One Little Indian
Dan Sartain - Fuck Friday. Fuck Saturday. Fuck Sunday by One Little Indian Records
So days of the week seem to be quite the thing right now. That person who was big on Twitter for a day or two – I've forgotten her name already – made an (admittedly very brief) career from singing about Friday. And now it's Dan Sartain's turn.
'Fuck Friday' is 55 seconds of sneering faux-brattiness, which is basically just silly and fun. “I don't wanna do what you want me to,” Dan sings. “Oooh.” And you can't really argue with that. 4/5
Kitty Daisy and Lewis – I'm So Sorry/I'm Going Back
Sunday Best Recordings
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - I'm So Sorry / I'm Going Back by PIASGermany
With Jedward pissing over all reasoning that siblings can successfully make music together, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis show up with a new record hoping to restore our faith.
With their 2 track single ‘I’m So Sorry/I’m Going Back’ acting as a punchy, upbeat rockabilly offering, it’s released just in time to make it onto my summer playlists. With impressively strong vocal talents, the tracks are a heartfelt nod to an era of music seemingly forgotten amidst a mass of overly edited records. 4/5
The Sound of Arrows – Nova
Geffen Records
The Sound Of Arrows - Nova by nunooz
Slightly camp electro-pop always feels like it's been rolled around in sunshine like an ice cream cornet in a gaudy dish of hundreds and thousands.
With 'Nova' being as good as a sonic postcard from a roasting hot beach holiday, this track was always going to be released in the Summer. Any other time of year and it would have felt as unnatural as finding that Santa had left a heap of Easter Eggs under the Christmas tree. Saying that I might appreciate the change- I'm sick of coal. 3/5
The Leisure Society – The Phantom Life
Willkommen Records
This Phantom Life (Edit) by The Leisure Society
This track's borderline bi-polar. It starts out dull and dreary, not going any place special. Then the meds kicks in, drums pipe up and flutes are blown out of the water, like a bit of sun has broke through the melancholy clouds.
With 'I'm a dancing bear / You're a magazine' lyrics, there are definitely some hallucinatory side effects. But it's a jaunty little number, uncomplicated and laid back.And sure, I'll while away the days in a day dream with this lot, if only they didn't la la la la laaa laaa so bloody much at the end.3/5
Lady Gaga – Judas
Interscope
Lady Gaga - JUDAS by igapromotion
Swallowing my pride like a gaggle of sour sheep’s nuts, I’ll agree with the majority in confirming that, yes, the first lady of extravagance has actually made pop music edgy again. At a time when the charts have supposedly gone to the dogs, it’s always good to see someone turn up at an award ceremony in a dress made of rump steaks or shoes made from disabled landmines…
No one really cares what I write about Gaga because it’s already been written. So let’s just settle on the fact that this raunchy pout of horny electro is not my cup of tea. I’ll take a mug of arsenic instead.1/5
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