Yuck
Get Away (Mercury)
It's not immediately apparent what Yuck are attempting to flee from here, possibly My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Boris Yeltsin and Fido Dido leaning out of a battered Nissan Sunny, waving flaming copies of Melody Maker and lobbing fizzed-up cans of Tab Clear while chasing them back to their time machine. What they do is nothing new, but it's wonderfully hooky, shoegaze-along fun. Their influences are pinned to their lumberjack shirt sleeves for all to see – and it's quite fun trying to spot them, a bit like a grunge band-themed word search.
Big Time Rush Feat Snoop Dogg
Boyfriend (Sony)
Big Time Rush are the latest gaggle of shiny mushed, sprog rock turd-golems to emerge blinking from the Nickelodeon mediocrity dungeon. There are no surprises here; the only notable aspect of this song is that Snoop agreed to appear on it in the first place. Given the age difference, he comes off like a drunk uncle trying to crack on to his nephew's friends.
Alice Gold
Runaway Love (Polydor)
Imagine Winehouse, Adele, Florence, Nash and Allen as Power Rangers. Now, picture a climactic scene where they "combine" to form a gargantuan KUNG-FU-ROBO-PENGUIN and battle an endless stream of skinny-jeaned indie ninjas, destroying Camden in the process. Well, the combined racket would sound a lot like this. Basically, it's a carefully worked out sum of some very obvious parts; quite what they all add up to is difficult to say.
Gorillaz
Amarillo/Revolving Doors (Parlophone)
This double A-side was apparently produced on Albarn's iPad, a fact we'd be more inclined to believe if each track was continually interrupted by the Angry Birds theme. Anyway, Amarillo is basically the Terminator music, recreated on a Stylophone, and Revolving Doors sounds like a particularly ambitious Adam And Joe song wars attempt at trip-hop. Without the jokes.
Twenty Twenty
Love To Life (Geffen)
Look! They're so shiny and handsome! They've got bouncy guitars and lip piercings and massive backwards haircuts! ZOMG! They're the Noosiers! It's McFly for the "Tickle Me Emo" generation! Fall Out Toddler! It's Busted's Bastard Offspring! Who cares? Your kids!
Blake
All Of Me (EMI)
So, here it is. The Royal Wedding Song. That's right, much like when football teams get to the FA Cup final, a song has been released to commemorate the occasion. Sadly, there's no-ill advised, John Barnes-style rap from Prince Wills, just four blokes from a Just For Men advert, on a beach, crooning a ballad that sounds like it was written by Barney the bloody Dinosaur.
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