It's New Music Friday and we're here to guide you through the worst and best tunes released today. Click the titles to listen!
Worst
Worst
The Chainsmokers - Sick Boy
The Nickelback of the EDM world have returned to haunt your nightmares. This is easily the worst song of the year so far and unless Ed Sheeran churns out more vanilla shite, it'll probably hold that award throughout 2018. It's unadventurous, bland and lyrically drab. The Chainsmokers' attempt at attitude seems clumsy and falls terribly flat.
Kylie Minogue - Dancing
Let's not beat around the bush here, Kylie Minogue had some bangers back in the day. Unfortunately this new one is a shocker. The euro-pop finger-picked guitar combined with dated synth work and claps, all combine to create an awkwardly unadventurous attempt at sounding current. Also, it's time to ban the vocal sampled drop that's in every pop song now. It's so annoying.
Callum Beattie - Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes
This genuinely sounds like a song written by some kid who's just learnt his first four guitar chords. Beattie's voice is weak and all over the place, also please don't get us started on those awfully soppy lyrics. The whole tune is just one massive cringefest and we deserve better.
Example - The Answer
We genuinely thought this bloke had vanished into the pop ether for good. It wasn't to be. Your 'Carling drinking mate's favourite artist who saw him at a local festival performing on the back of a truck with a random DJ' is back and is worse than ever. The drop is boring, the vocal melody is monotonous and the rap is so bad it hurts. 'Go the distance like Mo does' is one of the worst lyrics we've heard.
Honourable Mentions
John Gibbons - My Reflection
Burna Boy - Heaven's Gate Feat. Lilly Allen
Justin Timberlake - Supplies
Tom Grennan - Sober
Best
Mouse On Mars - Dimensional People Part III Feat. Justin Vernon
German DJ duo Mouse On Mars have enlisted the help of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to create a beautifully warped first single which is off their upcoming project 'Dimensional People'. The track is a soundscape of Vernon's beautiful layered vocals, saxophone notes and stringed instruments. It's one of those tunes where you hear a new element after each listen and we love it.
Gengahr - Before Sunrise
'Before Sunrise' is the latest single off Gengahr's imminent album 'Where Wildness Grows'. The track is fun, and brilliantly performed with a great groove that locks perfectly with the bass. The lead guitar riff is catchy and is accentuated by lovely synth work. 'Before Sunrise' is going to be a sure-fire summer festival hit.
Mount Eerie - Distortion
Phil Elverum is back with an eleven-minute epic of a track. Elverum is as captivating as ever with his storytelling as the song builds with vocal harmonies, pianos and dark guitar strums to create a musical atmosphere that's impossible to not get sucked into.
Jimi Hendrix - Mannish Boy
Jimi Hendrix's previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters' 'Mannish Boy' was recorded at the famous Record Plant in New York way back in 1969. Accompanied by his Band of Gypsys, Hendrix sounds as timeless as ever. It's the first single from the new posthumous album 'Both Sides of the Sky' released in March of this year.
Honourable Mentions
Geowulf - Sunday
S. Carey - More I See
Young Fathers - In My View
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