Coldplay – Fun
Fun sits sixth on Coldplay’s December 2015 album A Head Full of Dreams, and it arrives already mid-conversation. Chris Martin opens on the end of a relationship before the other person says the words. Tove Lo answers.
Roxy Music – More Than This
In March 1982, Roxy Music released More Than This as the lead single from Avalon: Bryan Ferry’s song, produced with Rhett Davies, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and a UK No. 6 that left nearly two minutes of instrumental after the vocal ended.
Gaz Coombes – Hot Fruit
The drums hit before the vocal settles. Guitar and keys crowd the midrange, and Gaz Coombes sings like someone clearing a room after a long band life. Hot Fruit was the lead single from his debut solo album Here Come.
David Bowie – Be My Wife
On Low, released in January 1977, Be My Wife sits among the short, dry rock songs of side one before the instrumental half opens the map. David Bowie writes a direct plea: share my…
Polo & Pan – Dorothy
On 22 September 2014, Polo & Pan released the Dorothy EP on Hamburger Records & Ekler'o'shock: title track, Wizard of Oz collage video by David Tomaszewski.
Blur – Coffee & TV
The guitar figures arrive thin and polite, then thicken into something you can walk to. Graham Coxon sings Coffee & TV in a voice closer to a kitchen confession than to a Britpop shout: tired, dry, almost shy. The.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – AKA… What a Life!
In September 2011 High Flying Birds issued AKA
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
In 1983 Ryuichi Sakamoto wrote the main theme for Nagisa Oshima’s film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: an instrumental built on sampled and acoustic keyboard colours, later paired with David Sylvian’s vocal rewrite Forbidden Colours.
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Four snare hits and the room jumps. Lust For Life, the title track of Iggy Pop's 1977 album with David Bowie, starts on Hunt Sales's drums before guitars and call-and-response voca…