Best tracks of 2021

45 x 45's of 2020 Crap year for life generally, but - silver lining! - pretty good year for music. Results are in for the toppermost...

JessIe Ware has made a perfect slinky, smoky album for the early hours of Sunday mornings, proving that when the lights go up at 3.00am,...

This being the week of the Eurovision that never was, here is a look back at at the last decade of Eurovision highs, more highs,...

Back to the future with Dua Lipa, as she makes a stab at classic status by harking back to the past. It may be by accident rather than...

What could have been a disaster in the slick R;n'B world of 2002, turned into a brilliantly brazen, occasionally bizarre, accidental...

Pet Shop Boys outlook: Lukewarm in places with a biting political cold front coming in from the East, but enough sunshine to make it feel...

Club-pop’n’house blasts of pleasure for the controlled millennial hedonist. What constitutes thrill seeking for the on point millennial...

Stock, Aitken and Waterman then? Purveyors of a golden age of chart dominance, a Motown for the late 80’s. Or formulaic trash peddled by...

A look back at the best tracks of 2019

OMG U R SO OVER-RATED!

Look what we could have won? It's hard to keep track of music in this weird and (not very wonderful) decade but here goes... "It's the...

PULP IN TEN SONGS

LATE NIGHT FEELINGS -MARK RONSON

A BATH FULL OF ECSTASY - HOT CHIP

As we in the "United" Kingdom belly flop into a fresh pool of hell (seemingly on a daily basis), there's always redemption to be found in...

To speak in Smash Hits magazine copy, where would pop be without “ver Pets”? An erudite ex music journalist and an awkward, fun loving...

On the night we choose our next cannon fodder to finish 22nd, a brief reminder that with our travails in Europe (as in life), the UK...

Sweden may get all the kudos in the pop music world (more of which later) but Norway has had a fair few moments in the sun...albeit a...

45 x 45’s of 2018 Catching up with the modern music*, kids. So that was 2018, and here are the tracks that soundtracked it. Spotify link...