Good afternoon. Here’s my sick note for the next few weeks… I’ve just moved house, and it’s going to take me a few weeks to get broadband set up. Hopefully I’ll be able to fit in a few posts, but it’s likely that the full singles round-ups for the 19th May onwards won’t be up [...]
Archive for May, 2008
New Releases 12th May 2008
Posted: 14th May 2008 by MV in ReleasesTags: black lips, cassie, hot chip, ida maria, ladytron, lightspeed champion, midnight juggernauts, nick cave, the outside royalty, ting tings
Single of the Week: The Outside Royalty – Falling Controversial choice, this, for me, as it breaks most of the rules I seem to have been following this year for my favourite singles. No girl vocals, not a hint of a bleep or whoosh, and it even prominently features guitars. Shocker. At first glance, I [...]
New Releases 5th May 2008
Posted: 13th May 2008 by MV in ReleasesTags: chromeo, cut copy, digitalism, fleet foxes, kelly rowland, kylie minogue, martina topley-bird, santogold, scarlett johansson, wiley
Single of the Week: Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes Simply head-and-shoulders above everything else released this week. While it’s an entirely different prospect to previous low-key release Creator, it puts all those M.I.A. mk.II labels to the side, exposing Santi White as, if less interesting than her former tour-mate and collaborator, a little more diverse and [...]