EOIN BUTLER'Sguide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams
LINKIN PARK
The CatalystWarner **
Fans can download this track, remix it and post the results to Linkin Park's website, with the best effort to be included on the band's forthcoming album. Meanwhile, the video for this single premiers on the EA videogame Medal of Honour. Truly, a band taking terrible music in all sorts of exciting new directions.
PHIL COLLINS
(Love Is Like a) HeatwaveWarner *
So you like Martha and the Vandellas’ classic hit but have always thought it would work even better with a middle-aged white guy from Chiswick on lead vocals? Well, boy, have I just found the CD single for you. Send us your address if you like – I’ll even post it out to you!
THE LOOKS
RomeoManazo Records ***
Dublin indie hopefuls The Looks have scrubbed up well on this their double A-sided debut single (with Enemies). An interesting side note: one of the band members seems to be attempting to rehabilitate the old moustache and bubble perm combination in a non- comedic context. Alright, lad. Calm down. Calm down etc.
THE CAR IS ON FIRE
Cherry Cordial PomatonEMI ****
Here’s a three-piece psychedelic garage rock band from Warsaw. It’s not much of a surprise, then, to find that they don’t quite sound like anything I’ve ever heard before. Their album, Ombarrops!, is produced by David McEntire (Tortoise, Stereolab, Broken Social Scene.)
ELLIE GOULDING
The WriterPolydor **
In January of this year, 23-year-old Goulding was being hailed as the “new queen of lady-lectro” and (quite possibly) the saviour of the music industry. Seven months on it’s hard to see what the critics were so excited about. The Writer sounds like a Dido B-side. Prepare to be very mildly entertained.
