Not Another Pop Song

Stripping back the melody to a new electronic bass line creates a simple backdrop, upon which, Aplin takes lyrical persuasion to new heights and Bastille's fresh tones softly compliment. This is a fantastic platform to unleash Fleetwood Mac to a fresh audience and on which to celebrate the discord of two unique sounds producing a beautiful, futuristic spin on a masterful piece of music.

Impatiently awaiting this Summer’s catchy new material, Kodaline's latest offering Love Like This, thankfully triggered an instant smile. A light hearted, finger-tapping tribute to the true greats of the past. Accolades to Van Morrison’s Back on Top and The Boss’ 1975 classic Thunder Road are prevalent throughout. Blasting harmonica, jovial riffs and Irish colloquialisms bring fun to a firm festival anthem. Decidedly this decade’s definition of Irish folk.

Irish band Walking on Cars' debut offering is pure, authentic pop. Stylistically producing a masterfully dramatic, yet refreshingly original sound. Beautiful lyrics seemingly extracted straight from the heart, are recited against a backdrop of intrinsically orchestrated riffs, chords and drum rolls. Catch Me If You Canwill be set to infinite repeat, as the spring soundtrack, on many a stereo. With a summer release date set for their first widely anticipated EP, an unveiling of an evolved style is to be expected and much more is set to unfold for this talented hoard.

Perhaps slightly late on the uptake here. Don’t Save Me vibrantly resonates as a sure-fire repeatable 80s throwback track. A reinvention of Fleetwood Mac’s soft rock, intertwined with notable 90s R’n”B, Haim's music is ‘current vintage’. The perfect soundtrack for 2013’s high-tech generation, obsessed with the celebration of all things antique amidst our modern day culture-trend of nineties-eighties fusion.

The 1975, spotlighted recently thanks to Chocolate - a quirky buzzsong lending itself to an apathetic youth - are a generation break from the electronic norm. Head.cars.bending showcases a style contrast to the lyrical throwaway’s of Chocolate. Haunting dub beat’s elevate the artful lyrics and electric laments, resulting in an oxymoron: a catchy, melancholic masterpiece.