Tag: Dev Hynes
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Avalanches will always love you
Missed this new excellent track from The Avalanches featuring Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange because the email went to junk, it was released a few days ago. I really love the ‘3am feel’ of this, the sort of music that shines through dark times. As their statement says: Sometimes we receive a message. Telling us…
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Daphne and Celeste ARE BACK!
Wow. Whereas other people’s lists of dream reformed bands are Oasis, ABBA, Smiths, Libertines (happened), Radiohead (they’ve not split – Fact Ed. Curses! – me) mine had Daphne and Celeste pretty high up on it. Non-ironically, I always felt that as this Tim Jonze article says they were a) punk as fuck and b) had…
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New music from Mutya Keisha Siobhan
The original Sugababes have their Dev Hynes produced single to stream ‘Flatline’, and it’s a corker. This is what pop should be about…good vocal harmonies, possible references to past band history, singalong ooh vocals for those drunken times, and a killer hook – and a come back against the odds. And the male vocal reminds…
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Reformed Sugababes lay down in a Swimming Pool
Can’t believe I’m posting about a reformed girl band, but then again Sugababes were never your usual dizzy girl group fresh from stage school, working with the likes of Richard X, and I think did an amazing thing that only a few* have managed to keep their cred and be pop at the same time.…