TRACK REVIEWS
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (03/04/2013)
Primal Scream - 'It’s Alright, It’s OK' There are two ways to approach a new Primal Scream record in this day and age. Either you can titter behind your copy of The Lyrics Of Kele Okereke at lines such as “In this asphyxiation culture,...
The Child Of Lov - 'Fly'
Details were scant at first. The Child Of Lov seemed to be just a chopped-and-screwed photo of some guy releasing gigantic soul tracks that deserved way more than anonymity. ‘Heal’ sounded like Robert Plant fronting The Isley Brothers at their...
Jessie Ware - 'Imagine It Was Us'
Finally some new solo material from south London’s darling. Regrouping for another winning collaboration with hot producer Julio Bashmore, this slinky ’90s-style club track is the soul singer at her most fun. But it still retains her signature...
Splashh - 'Sun Kissed Bliss'
Despite being pegged as (admittedly awesome) grunge revivalists, Splashh amp up their college-rock guitar churn into something far more euphorically primal here. It’s like Bobby Gillespie flicking disco biscuits into J Mascis’ mouth across...
Vondelpark - 'California Analog Dream'
Vondelpark are from Surrey, not Amsterdam like the public park that gives them their name, but this is as laid-back and spaced out as anything some Dutch grass-lovers could dream up. “ I’m making mistakes ” sings Lewis Rainsbury over crisp...
Hyetal - 'Northwest Passage'
This new cut from Bristol’s Hyetal – taken from his second album ‘Modern Worship’ – is like a late-night drive through an empty city. Drums hammer like an engine, the synths buzz and hum and Gwilym Gold howls over the top. Fresher than a...
Dog Is Dead - 'Do The Right Thing'
I was listening to this song last Sunday when my 83-year-old grandmother got in from church. She brewed a pot of tea, told me what the vicar has planned for Easter, picked up her knitting and then, nodding towards the bleating coming from the...
Kendrick Lamar Feat. Jay-Z - 'Bitch, Don’t...
So much for Jay-Z dissociating himself from the word ‘bitch’ after the birth of Blue Ivy. He’s obviously changed his mind since then, but his verse on this remix is more than a bonus, it’s a great big slab of classic quick-rhyme that shows...
Jamie Lidell - 'You Naked'
So if Prince hadn’t disappeared entirely into the purple mist of his own ego and had instead signed to Warp and started tinkering about with futuristic-sounding electro-gadgets, he would have ended up releasing stuff that sounds like this. The...
Loom - 'I Get A Taste'
Driving, urgent rock’n’roll about the pain of love’n’loss. The ‘taste’ in question is the bitterness of seeing an ex, which I personally find can be masked by chain-eating chocolate digestives.This is so angry, loud and potent that...
