Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting On A Sad Song

Earlier this year I received an email from Blood & Biscuits (an indie record label who distribute some of my favourite bands: Three Trapped Tigers, Gallops, Tall Ships, etc) introducing me to Sleep Party People. As is usually the case anything that is distributed by Blood & Biscuits is awesome so I promptly went off hunting for their work.

I found I’m Not Human At All and immediately fell in love with them.

Now this is the part of the music industry I don’t like. The only way to get their debut album was to get it from iTunes. I don’t use iTunes. In the past I’ve bought things then had to convert them into MP3s or wavs just to get them onto my non-Apple mp3 players. Now though, I’ve uninstallled iTunes and will not be using it again. It is terrible.

So, I’m sorry to say I had to illegally download their debut album Sleep Party People. I then listened to nothing else for a good couple of months. It was brilliant.

Now though, I get to pay the artist back as they’ve released a new cd. It’s available in the shops and I could buy it directly from Blood & Biscuits. Thank god.

It turned up a fortnight ago and I’ve been playing it over and over. And also wearing the awesome t-shirt I got in the bundle pack.

I hate to say what an artist sounds like by comparing them to other bands but if I had to I’d say something like Sigur Ros crossed with shoegaze. So if you like Sigur Ros you will like Sleep Party People. If that still hasn’t sold you then continue reading…

The album starts with A Dark God Heart which is a straight continuation of the last album. Beautiful piano blended with his weird vocal – all I have come to expect from Sleep Party People. But no, he has a surprise for us. Midway through the track explodes like Explosions in the Sky and by Jove, it is glorious!

The majority of the album is immediate, bright, and beautifully constructed. Often it changes direction suddenly, not content to sound the same as a previous track and frequently emerges sounding different from anything I’ve heard them do before. Specifically the title track We Were Drifting On A Sad Song which has a much more synthesised arrangement and sounds incredible.

The only problem I have with the album is Chin. This is the single and I have to be honest – I just don’t get it. It’s good but after several listens I still can’t shake the feeling that this is an amazing song that has an ill-judged looped drum beat dropped over the top. It’s like when you mix down a song and leave the metronome on. Oh well. Maybe it’ll grow on me!

I love the end of Things Will Disappear Like Tears In The Rain which turns into something off Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile. The end guitar/synth just reminds me so heavily of that. Stunning.

Overall, for me, this is one of the best things released in 2012 so far alongside Burial’s Kindred EP.

Finally: I live in Edinburgh but work has taken me down South for the week so will be lucky enough to see Sleep Party People at their Brighton gig on 21st April. Should be amazing.

Standout Tracks: A Dark God Heart, We Were Drifting On A Sad Song, Heavy Burden

Tags: A Dark God Heart, Chin, Gazing At The Moon, Heaven Is Above Us, Heavy Burden, Melancholic Fog, Sleep Party People, The City Light Died, Things Will Disappear Like Tears In The Rain, We Were Drifting On A Sad Song

Eurovision 2012 – The Reviews

Hello again my little chicadees! Glad to see you have returned for another wonderful journey through the unwavering constant awfulness of Foreign Musak. My name is Don and I’ll be your guide. Right then, let’s get to it.

Montenegro: Rambo Amadeus – Euro-Neuro

Oh lord. You have wasted 30 seconds of your song with some blurb and a bad soap opera laugh. All I can think of is “in soviet Russia music makes you” kind of voice. This is genuinely bad. Not even in a funny way. Just random instruments parping out poops of sound while some Russian IT support technician speaks a load of bollocks.

Good part: He is called Rambo Amadeus
Bad part: Vocals and music. No chorus. Instantly forgettable.
Verdict: Will not qualify

Iceland: Greta Salóme & Jónsi – Never Forget

Ah, yes. Hello Eurovision. Ooh, nice female backing. A duet too! I misjudged duets last year. If it’s a duet it’ll usually do well. Okay, maybe later I’ll think this is terrible but I quite like this right now. Mostly cos that first song was FUCKING AWFUL and this is the first proper song I’ve heard today. It ticks all the cheesy boxes, with a funny little violin solo.

Good part: Nice dual vocals. Really good arrangement.
Bad part: Could have come from any Eurovision contest previously.
Verdict: Qualify

Greece: Eleftheria Eleftheriou – Aphrodisiac

Interestingly, this song is about how aroused Greece get when they squander all of the bail-out money Europe gives them. Apart from this clearly being a song sounding like it was dialled in by someone requesting “uptempo Greek song” it’s quite good. Love the dirty synth on it and her vocals are very karaoke. – too loud in the mix for my liking.

Good part: Chorus is strong, like the maniac/aphrodisiac line.
Bad part: Thinks it is modern but sounds like it’s 20 years old.
Verdict: Qualify & Top 5

Latvia: Anmary – Beautiful Song

Awful. Terrible backing sounds. Ironically, this song is about a beautiful song and all it does is reinforce everything that this song isn’t. Lyrics are so bad. It’s like someone wrote random words on a piece of glass then stuffed it up their anus and shat out the broken bleeding pieces into a poop libretti.

Good part: I still have my health
Bad part: Every cell-killing second
Verdict: Not qualify

Albania: Rona Nishliu – Suus

Yay! Piano ballad. Jk. It’s shit. It better not just be this gutter waste of emotive exploitation for the whole song. Oh. This is ghastly. Fucking shut up with your wailing screechy noise, you boring cow. A badly realised instrumental break is the only let up before her banshee shriek comes in again. This is the worst type of music. If I was in the audience I would throw rocks. Or dirty nappies. It’s just an adult baby wailing for their toys for 3 minutes over a badly arranged orchestra.

Good part: I’m 3 minutes closer to death.
Bad part: Sounds like a baby crying for 3 minutes
Verdict: Cot death.

Romania: Mandinga – Zaleilah

Oh cool. I like this Balkan flavoured stuff. Big fan of gypsy folk, etc. This is very silly sounding but you know what? They sound like they’re having fun. And after that last one I’m willing to forgive them for anything. Don’t expect this mood to last long. But yeah, like this.

Good part: Made me move the razor away from my wrist
Bad part: Was probably entered last year
Verdict: Qualify

Switzerland: Sinplus – Unbreakable

Snow patrol/Goo Goo Dolls, etc, and all the guitar bands that don’t matter anymore. Whoa. This sounds like Andreas Johnson. Remember that Glorious song from years ago? These vocals do not sit well on this song. I think there is a better vocal melody for this song. Sounds a bit arrogant and “I could do better” but I think I could.

Good part: Sounds like he says “wrecking ball” and not Unbreakable. Haha.
Bad part: Crap chorus
Verdict: Won’t qualify

Belgium: Iris – Would You?

NUL POINTS. Only kidding. Her vocals are lovely. Is she hot?

ARGRGHGRGHRHGRG. This one has taken me by surprise. I think it’s brilliant. Yep, all I can say.

Good part: I love the chorus. It is beautiful.
Bad part: See photo.
Verdict: Win.

Finland: Pernilla Karlsson – När jag blunder

Ooh, unfortunate that this comes after that last one. Quite similar. Last one in English, this one is jabbawookie. Chorus is unremarkable, not enough instrumentation and not dynamic enough. Verse is better actually. Big mistake.

Good part: Pretty verse.
Bad part: Ugly chorus. Too kooky for my taste.
Verdict: Not qualify

Israel: Izabo – Time

Funny hearing people from Israel saying they’ll “obey”. Not from my experience. (Palestine, ceasefires, not massacring people, etc). Although a different style this feels very much to me like a T-Rex song for some reason. Bit of glam stomp on the drums and the chorus vocals and all daft. Yeah, this one is amusing enough. And after too slower ones will of course do well.

Good part: Reminds me of T-Rex.
Bad part: Sounds like it was stitched together from spare pieces. Badly produced/edited.
Verdict: Qualify

San Marino: Valentina Monetta – The Social Network Song – Oh Oh-Uh-Oh Oh

WUT? It appears that San Marino have just got the internet and Facebook. Other countries will laugh out fucking loud at this one. I know I am. Expect a fucking train wreck.

Good part: So you wanna make love to me. Am I really your cup of tea? Is the best lyric of all time.
Bad part: Every. Fucking. Second.
Verdict: Not qualify.

Cyprus: Ivi Adamou – La La Love

Whoa. This is basically Rihanna. Yep, a toned down Eurovision version. Not as filthy or cum-slurping as a Rihanna song but very like S&M, etc. Cheesy synth but used in a way that still sounds like current musical trends. Who wrote this? Bastard.

Yeah, if a ballad/duet doesn’t win and they go for an uptempo one. Then this will do very well.

Good part: Music is dead.
Bad part: Well of course it’s awful. But it sounds like trending pop music so it will do well.
Verdict: Top four.

Denmark: Soluna Samay – Should’ve Known Better

Review writes itself. Oh it makes me think of another song. Gah! Can’t think what… Nice little pop song. SEAL! It sounds like Crazy by Seal! Well then it will do pretty good.

Good part: Familiarity breeds points.
Bad part: Lyrics are hilariously bad.
Verdict: Qualify

Russia: Buranovskiye Babushki – Party For Everybody

WELL JUST FUCKING LISTEN TO IT. DISTRACT EUROPE WHILE MILLIONS OF COMRADES STARVE TO DEATH OR GET PUT IN DEATH CAMPS. SMILE AND DANCE OR WE WILL KILL YOU.

EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Good part: False entertainment is quite amusing
Bad part: Putin is a mass murdering cunt.
Verdict: Qualify as no one will fuck with Russia.

Hungary: Compact Disco – Sound Of Our Hearts

Really nice drum programming. Wowey! A glorious chorus. GLORIOUS MOTHERFUCKER. Good bit of glitch and dubstep synth but not overly reliant on it. Song stands strong on its own and it is beautifuckingful.

I love you Hungary. Also, thank you for Sziget last year. I had the best time ever.

Good part: Makes me reminisces an extraordinary orgasm. The chorus is me cumming.
Bad part:It is not 2 hours long.
Verdict: Qualify

Austria: Trackshittaz – Woki mit deim Popo

Whoa. For a second there seeing Austria and Trackshittaz made me do a doubletake and I thought it said Auschwitz.

Well, maybe not such a bad double-take. This is about as enjoyable. Joyless, soulless and really badly produced.

Good part: It sounds like they’re saying “poo poo.”
Bad part: The more I hear it the more catchy it gets. ARGH, By the night I’ll probably think it’s ace.
Verdict: More fun would be had at Auschwitz.

Moldova: Pasha Parfeny – Lautar

I can’t give you an opinion on this. It could be good. It might be diarrhoea clinging to a smelly bottom. I’ve just been too bombarded with stuff that sounds like this. Feels too long even for 3 minutes. Not enough changes, is boring by the end, just kinda stops. Needed a grand stand finish but instead limps home like a rapist with terminal cancer.

Good part: It is quite jolly.
Bad part: Just feels dead inside.
Verdict: Not qualify

Ireland: Jedward – Waterline

Everyone’s favourite. Still a huge fan of Lipstick insanely. Great pop song. This is much more middle of the road. Not as fun. Feels too serious and not as exciting melody wise. Sounds like it was written for a boy band and then given – inexplicably – to Jedward. Chrous is good but not much else about it does it for me.

Oh and they are still, very much, absolute twats.

Good part: They are ridiculous and hopeless.
Bad part: Not as good as Lipstick.
Verdict: They are on last in the semi final, They will qualify. They will come Top 5.

Serbia: Željko Joksimovic – Nije ljubav stvar

Shit.

Verdict: Sounds like a Lord of the Rings theme with a paedophile singing. Not qualify.

Macedonia: Kaliopi – Crno i belo

Same song as Serbia with a woman singing. Finally gets lively halfway through. I like how it builds all the way through. Yeah, okay. Terrible guitar solo though. Doesn’t fit but will be fun for the audience so can’t see it not doing okay.

Verdict: Qualify.

Netherlands: Joan Franka – You And Me

It’s a Joanna Newsom song. Can’t see anyone taking to this. Not a Eurovison song at all and wonderfully ignorable. Crap ending.

Verdict: Not qualify.

Malta: Kurt Calleja – This Is The Night

Most obvious song ever. Love it when they put a huge dance beat on and it falls massively flat on stage. Music not loud enough. None of the music sits against the vocals or compliments it. Hugely underwhelming. Hated it.

Verdict: Qualify

Belarus: Litesound – We Are The Heroes

Sounds like the last one. Fuck me, I have to say the second semi final is absolutely conventional shitty Eurovision. This is just like anything else. Music I would never listen to.

HAhahAHhahHAhAH. He said “We are the wieners” on the chorus. HahahAHa. You stupid Belarus dildo chomper. THIS SONG SHOULD BE CALLED WE ARE THE WEINERS.

Chorus is winning/wiening me over.

Verdict: Will qualify will not wien though.

Portugal: Filipa Sousa – Vida minha

Ah yes, what we needed was another pathetic sludgefest of accordion. So patronisingly void it’s an empty coffin or a uterus after an abortion.

Verdict: Will not qualify

Ukraine: Gaitana – Be My Guest

Ooh, after a shaky start I quite like the disco/90s dance vibe. Vocal is too FX’d. Shame they tried to do a dubstep wub bass. It is an octave too high. Song is pleasant enough but really it’s just a tune written for Reikartz Hotel adverts or some shit.

Verdict: Will def qualify

Bulgaria: Sofi Marinova – Love Unlimited

Limited amount of love for this one. Vocals are too nice for a song like this. Very Faithless sounding. Nice bit of shuffle going on with rhythm. Pretty sure it doesn’t work. Definitely sure an audience will not understand it. Feels too stressful for the listener. Nice but try harder.

Verdict: Will not qualify.

Slovenia: Eva Boto – Verjamem

A ballad, per chance? Not much going for it. Very much a film score piece of music. Imagine horses riding into the sunset, or a man and woman in love dancing in a circle. All those clichés. Yep, it’s every Eurovision ballad ever. And while not awful it doesn’t endear itself to me.

Verdict: Top Five.

Croatia: Nina Badric – Nebo

Nah, not feeling anything for this. Absolute nothing of worth here.

Verdict: Will qualify

Sweden: Loreen – Euphoria

Their production is always flawless. Dicks. Again we’re in 90s dance music territory but the arrangement is incredible. Great dynamics. Not sure about change from chorus to verse or middle. A bit cobbled together. That “up-up-up-up” bit reminds me again of Rihanna of course.

Verdict: Qualify and top 3

Georgia: Anri Jokhadze – I’m A Joker

Catastrophic fail after Sweden. None of this song works. Has one thing and does it over and over a fucking gain. Bends space and time to make 3 of your minutes as hellishly repulsive as foreignly possible,

Verdict: Comes last.

Turkey: Can Bonomo – Love Me Back

What I hate most about this is the rapist revealed in the lyrics. We all know stories about Turkish waiters fucking our girlfriends on their summer holidays. This is very much a song about that. It’s very much a “I know you don’t want to but I AM GOING TO FUCK YOU. Later, when you’re crying with cum and blood are dripping out of all your holes and you beg me not to kill you I find some way of reasoning that what I have done was forgivable. After all it was you that lead me on in the first place, wasn’t it?

Disgustingly evil, unrepentantly arrogant and gloatingly sexist. On a level par with Chris Brown and a notch up from Anders Behring Breivik.

Verdict: Aids.

Estonia: Ott Lepland – Kuula

Well. I am listening. And nothing is happening. (1.15)

I suppose that was a chorus. (2:05)

Oh, drums. (2.10)

Don’t care.

Verdict. Qualify.

Slovakia: Max Jason Mai – Don’t Close Your Eyes

Bon Jovi. Middle of the road rock. As unimaginative as you can picture. Like when the Sterophonics thought they were being rock and roll. Lots of guitar flourishes.

Terrible ending too.

Verdict: Qualify as it’s the only rock song so far.

Norway: Tooji – Stay

Oh yes. Much better. Adore that synth hook. Massive chorus. Ticks all the fucking boxes, If they go for an up tempo one this will win by a billion points.

Verdict: Win (uptempo vote)

Bosnia & Herzegovina: MayaSar – Korake ti znam

So, testicle cancer. If you’re a guy you need to be thinking about it. We’re all getting older and you need to check your balls. I myself had a scare earlier this year and it was a seriously daunting time before the scan turned out fine.

Waiting for results and being haunted by your life potentially being changed instantly while putting on a brave face and pretending everything is okay is summed up perfectly by this disease of a song.

Verdict: Malignant.

Lithuania: Donny Montell – Love Is Blind

Very similar to the last one but vocally more engaging I guess. Sounds like someone remixed this and added lots of badness halfway through. Typical funk bass and four to the floor beat. Shame it didn’t go the full way and include sidechained synths.

Verdict: last song in the semi? Qualify then lose heavily in final

United Kingdom: Engelbert Humperdinck – Love Will Set You Free

What can you say about this? Quite downbeat and melancholy but with little sparks of tenderness. Totally bumsexual and music even your mum wouldn’t listen to. But Engelbert will nail the performance so no worries about that. Could do very well.

Verdict: Top five

France: Anggun – Echo (You and I)

Makes no sense. Muddled beginning. Just plain shit opening to be fair,

Not enough for me to get into. Too skittery and all over the place. Needs to settle and let what they’re trying to express breathe. Too messy.

Verdict: Poked down the plughole with a big toe.

Italy: Nina Zilli – L’amore è femmina (Out Of Love)

Very like Lena’s song from two years ago. Very like Amy Winehouse/Duffy 60s sound. As cheap and obvious as a Berlusconi chat up line. And as dull as one of his scandals.

Verdict: Flushed away.

Azerbaijan: Sabina Babayeva – When The Music Dies

Bad and boring.

Verdict: Mega amount of points.

Spain: Pastora Soler – Quédate conmigo

EXACTLY the same as Azerbanjo for first minute. Chorus is better than Azerbaijans but in the same way a sandwich made out of your dad’s poo would be better than a sandwich made out of David Cameron’s.

Verdict: Awful Awful awful. Probably win for no good reason.

Germany: Roman Lob – Standing Still

Very nice. In fact quite a shock. Usually something I wouldn’t like but overall quite pleasant. Germany always do well so this can’t go too badly wrong. Can’t be harsh about it really.

Verdict: Top five

Top 6 Verdicts in no particular order.
Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK, Hungary, Iceland

Tags: Anggun, Anmary, Anri Jokhadze, Aphrodisiac, Be My Guest, Beautiful Song, Buranovskiye Babushki, Can Bonomo, Compact Disco, Crno i belo, Don’t Close Your Eyes, Donny Montell, Echo (You and I), Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Engelbert Humperdinck, Euphoria, Euro-Neuro, Eva Boto, Filipa Sousa, Gaitana, Greta Salóme & Jónsi, I’m A Joker, Iris, Ivi Adamou, Izabo, Jedward, Joan Franka, Kaliopi, Korake ti znam, Kurt Calleja, Kuula, La La Love, Lautar, L’amore è femmina (Out Of Love), Litesound, Loreen, Love Is Blind, Love Me Back, Love Unlimited, Love Will Set You Free, Mandinga, Max Jason Mai, MayaSar, När jag blunder, Nebo, Never Forget, Nije ljubav stvar, Nina Badric, Nina Zilli, Ott Lepland, Party For Everybody, Pasha Parfeny, Pastora Soler, Pernilla Karlsson, Quédate conmigo, Rambo Amadeus, Roman Lob, Rona Nishliu, Sabina Babayeva, Should’ve Known Better, Sinplus. Unbreakable, Sofi Marinova, Soluna Samay, Sound Of Our Hearts, Standing Still, Stay, Suus, The Social Network Song – Oh Oh-Uh-Oh Oh, This Is The Night, Time, Tooji, Trackshittaz, Valentina Monetta, Verjamem, Vida minha, Waterline, We Are The Heroes, When The Music Dies, Woki mit deim Popo, Would You?, You And Me, Zaleilah, Željko Joksimovic

The Worst Songs Of 2011

Okay cunts. Been quiet on here for a while but it’s the end of the year and I’ve heard some fucking terrible shit. Couldn’t be arsed to review the albums as I was too busy fucking.

SHIT THAT SHOULD BE DESTROYED:

Skrillex – First of the Year

As with all Skrillex this sounds like a 2 year old made it. Not only that but it also sounds 2 years old. No new ideas, obvious and heard-before techniques. Look you prick you’ve managed to kill dubstep – which is probably a good thing – but you need to evolve now. You have a stereotyped sound which comes across as uninspired – much in the same way as when you hear a new Nickelback tune you go “oh god”. Oh and your video is basically 20 years out of date. Didn’t Aphex Twin do this with Come To Daddy? Shut the fuck up and get your hair sorted pissface.

Jay Z and Kanye West – Otis

Look, if you guys had really been Watching the (porcelain)  Throne this turd of a song wouldn’t have crawled out.

Jessie J – Who You Are

(as per my review earlier this year:) A fake. A charlatan dressed as an Emo princess. The cover suggests a strong female, potentially transgender, dark and mysterious. Instead I appear to be listening to an unreleased Girls Aloud album. No, that’s not fair on Girls Aloud. They at least knew pop tunes and had killer hooks. This has NO FUCKING HOOKS. It’s fucking godawful sphincter clenching trash. Cheesy like a teenager’s unwashed bellend and as musically clumsy as a virgin trying to stick it in.

*edit* Also, you can’t sing.

Battles – Ice Cream

(from my review earlier this year:) Allegedly a single; however, no one still knows who the fuck they are. Basically starts like the music to Willy Wonka at his most paedophilic. Nice riff when it gets going though. Anything past the verse is unbearably messy though. Like a turd bakesale. Just an incoherent mess like Scrappy Doo playing the guitar after getting trashed with Shaggy.

*edit* Interesting to note based on how much attention and “OMG this is amazing” reviews it got when it came out that it does not appear on anyone’s best of 2011 list. I was correct. Fuck you, Battles.

Fucked Up – Queen Of Hearts

Keep hearing loads of chatter about these guys and it appears that all of it is nonsense. It’s like someone telling you The Fall are good – you know to ignore everything they ever say. Basically, Fucked Up are a grim bunch of broken coke vials that someone menstruated on. A speculum of Worzel Gummidge politics and loud dumb noises. Five-year olds being hit with articulated lorries make better sounds.

Lady Gaga - Yoü And I

What can I say? I’ve already reviewed the album and didn’t think this one was so bad. However, I did state I hate this kind of music, but, as a troll myself, enjoyed this regurgitated Shania Twain vomit being spewed onto the Madonna cover album that Born This Way is. Just to fuck with people. You forget however that people who buy Lady Gaga albums buy music based on music videos or celebrity magazines. The rest of their album collection will be X Factor winners or Now That’s What I Call Music. So they all lapped it up.

Just to confirm, I actually don’t have an issue with Now albums and X Factor winners. That stuff is pure shit (usually) but you have your music and I’ll have mine. I’m just saying this song is an infected gash.

Black Eyed Peas – The Time (Dirty Bit)

Okay, except this and the next one where it would appear I do have a problem with that Now album shit. Do I even need to talk about this one? Apart from sampling the worst song from the most overrated film this side of Twilight it’s a mixture of heard-it-before production sounds and another swagger/Jagger rhyme. The fact it was number one says all you need to know about how many people buy singles anymore. Cancerous.

Pitbull (featuring Chris Brown) – International Love

One of the main things we learned in 2011 is that if your name is Pitbull you will appear on everyone’s songs at the drop of a hat. Pitbull reminds me of Brick from Anchorman. You know, the retarded one? His chat on songs fades away and all I hear is “I love lamp” or “I ate a big red candle”. A furious, pouting fountain of inane words tumble out across each song while you look around at other people’s faces to see if they’re also going “are you hearing this?”.

Also, this song has Chris Brown on – the female-hating cunt – who I hope dies soon.

The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?

Okay, so I liked The Rapture’s last album. Was silly and fun so Pitchfork and other neon-glasses wearing abortions hated it. They loved this though as it was a twee snoozefest. Like Fleet Foxes or BonfuckingIver. I checked it out and just came out of the coma last week. Fuck me, six minutes of this? Who do you think you are? Porcupine Tree?

Bon Iver – Holocene

Bon Iver are basically a hipster version of the goth two-step movement. Dressed up in their scratch and sniff clothing I can see their fans holding the back of their hands against their foreheads and pretending to mock-faint. Seriously, this insipid virus corrodes your ear canals and their vocals are like a nappy rash.

The pause between plugging in a usb device and your computer recognising it has more dynamics.

James Blake – The Wilhelms Scream

(from my review earlier this year:) It’s like Radiohead on Kid A without any melody or rhythm. Like the bit you get after a song is finishing after its crescendo and this is the section that fades out, and if you listened carefully enough you may catch your favourite artist cough or laugh or something before it disappears. Bit of beat came in. May have been hearing my own pulse though.

In a nutshell, it’s the sound of someone prolapsing at 20bpm.

And lastly, if I missed anyone, if you do somehow have the same opinion as me and agree with all of that then I still think you’re an idiot.

Click HERE for the Spotify playlist containing this awful shit.

Tags: Battles, Black Eyed Peas, Bon Iver, Chris Brown, Fucked Up, James Blake, Jay Z, Jessie J, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Pitbull, Skrillex, The Rapture

Battles – Gloss Drop

Crapples - Arse Plop?

I saw Battles live awhile back with Fourtet and they were amazing. Really dynamic and controlled. Loved every moment. This was before their debut album which didn’t really captivate me in the same way. I was in two minds about this new album. Would it be back to that incredible controlled chaos I saw live or just a lot of polyrhythms stuck together? Let’s find out together shall we?

Africastle

Okay. Couple of minutes of nothing. Then a kick and lots of plinky plonk. Just like Tori Amos at her worst. Plinky plonky plink. Forgettable.

Ice Cream

Allegedly a single; however, no one still knows who the fuck they are. Basically starts like the music to Willy Wonka at his most peadophilic. Nice riff when it gets going though. Gah, anything past the verse is unbearably messy though. Like a turd bakesale. Just an incoherent mess like Scrappy Doo playing the guitar after getting trashed with Shaggy.

Oh wow. the album got interesting and started talking abut tigers and stuff. Oh no, wait. It was a Spotify advert for the Zoo. As you were.

Futura

A sad little man’s guitar dream would be a better title. Bland, insipid and more dangerously completely self-indulgent. I thought the whole point of instrumentals/IDM/Post-Rock was to make it sound like it didn’t need vocals? Everything so far just sounds like it’s missing a layer.

What’s worse is the drumming is TERRIBLE. Recycled beat patterns repeated over and over is not fooling anyone. (well apart from drooling fanboys who would grin like shit-eating sycophants even if they’d released a reworked soundtrack to Wayne’s World).

Inchworm

Could be the same song. That shuffling rhythm they keep using is unbearable. As fruitless as wanking a dildo hoping to get it to cum.

Wall Street

Better! Still Tori Amos plinky plonk. Same tones even. But more energetic. Feeling it a lot more. Awful ending. As with everything here. They just don’t know how to start or finish their songs. They always sound like unrehearsed jam sessions that just fall apart and then they noodle around for a bit.

My Machine

As if to hammer home what I said before – this has vocals and is significantly better than everything else before it. Mostly cos it isn’t just one riff played several different ways but looped for SIX FUCKING HOURS.

Dominican Fade

You spelt “fail” wrong.

Sweetie & Shag

Phew. I’m so glad we could get you out of bed to do vocals on our track. We really want you to be engaged and give us a great performance.

Oh.

Could be a UB40 vinyl played at 45rpm instead of 33.

Toddler

Soundtrack to a spaceship’s doors opening in a 1970′s sci-fi film.

Roles Bayce

WOW! Great opening. Messy deep tones really waking you up. FFS, then straight back into plinky plonk shit. Again.

White Electric

Cut and paste random bits of the above words into a new review. It’s what Battles did with their album and this song.

Sundome

Absolute garbage. Helpfully reminding us why no one will ever speak of this album again in 6 months time. Like 65daysofstatic’s last “effort”, it’s something for fanboys to mercilessly hype and still no one to actually like it.

Summar.

• Flat
• No ideas
• Unable to begin or end songs.
• All the songs sound like someone winding a Jack In The Box that has been superglued shut. Thereby begging the question why bother winding it at all? I personally wish they hadn’t bothered.
• Emotionless, erectionless wallpaper.
• Piss off, Crapples.

Tags: Battles, Crapples, Gloss Drop, Ice Cream

Emmy The Great – Virtue

For a similar experience play the soundtrack to a Wim Wenders film whilst simultaneously listening to the TV drone on. After the first album I was wounded – she went for the throat. Here, there is nothing.

Tags: Emmy The Great, Virtue

Lady Gaga – Born This Way

You have got to be fucking kidding...

First things first. That cover. O.M.G. It’s been a while since I saw such a stinker of a cover. It’s like a warning to all saying “hey, in a couple of years time you will be so embarrassed by this record you may as well just not buy me now”. Clever ploy by Gaga… ah, fuck is it. It’s a crusty speculum of an album cover. As hopeless as sitting on a glass dildo, singing a high C so it shatters and then trying to pull out the shards. Nasty.

Also, portraying yourself as a bike is just asking for misreadings. And by that, I mean pretending to be something you’re not. For all this chat of being “Born This Way” Gaga seems to do an awful lot of pretending. Lots of kissy kiss and near nude romps in her videos. Well, I don’t believe it. Cock tease is all she is. At least you knew Madonna fucked the dicks off most of her social scene back in the day. Hell, I’m sure back in the 80s and 90s she considered it a bad night if she didn’t wake up with at least ten types of fluid from different donors in or on her. And full respect to Madonna for that. Gaga has probably never had a dick in her mouth and would throw a tantrum if you spilt wine on her sofa (not a euphemism).

So that for me is the failings of Lady Gaga. I just don’t believe the act. Not yet anyway.

Now, let’s listen to the new record and see what we get:

Marry The Night

Simple rule of song writing. Start by singing the chorus slowly to imprint it into thick people’s heads. Then start the song and repeat it. It’s quite nice. Was expecting more really. Sounds like the theme music to a children’s tv show made in Japan. Nice thick side chain synth (which I love). Or maybe it’s just a really 90s song with a bit of new spangly production. By the last minute or so we enter what I call the Perpetual Chorus Syndrome. Gaga tries to break it up by stopping everything for a clapping section but it sounds pretty tired. In the last 50 seconds a new synth comes in which is great but probably a minute too late. Yeah, too long.

Born This Way

Enough’s been written about this. Find someone else’s review. All I will say is I’ve never heard Madonna’s “version” but this is still a great track. Really brilliant chorus. Maybe could do with more backing vocals in the mix but otherwise it’s ace.

Government Hooker

Oh god. This is a shoegaze opera singer saying “Gaga” over and over. This isn’t really anything exciting. In fact the chorus has a striking similarity to Groove Is In The Heart by Deee-Lite. Not the chords or anything just the overall sound but darker. Mixed in with a load of European EBM done badly. Way too fucking long. Shut up you silly woman.

Judas

Starts like Bad Romance. Yeah, this is good. Isn’t so much a song as an out and out remix. Oh cocks, awful chorus though. Her voice isn’t right – too plain and basic. Almost Britney-like with her hamfisted  attempt at singing nicely. No power or feeling there. Maybe Girls Aloud. Too bad. This album is clearly a mixed bag. Previously her releases have been hit and miss but on this album the song structures and compositions are hit and miss! So a song is good for a bit then rubbish. Just runs out of steam and stops. Blah.

Americano

This one is FUCKING DREADFUL. Sounds like I’ve heard it before too. Has an OOMPA OOMPA rhythm section and could easily have been a null point Eurovision entry. Do yourself a favour if you’re ever in a car with someone and they put this on – take your seatbelt off and crash.

Hair

So corny. Girl band fodder. Haha, although saying that the chorus is great. Nice arrangement. Sounds like eurotrance Sasha-esque mixed with Lars Ulrich from Metallica on drums. I think the whole album has had maybe two drum patterns on it. Hideous. This song is good though. And the lyrics are fantastically dumb – It’s about how she’s as “free as her hair”. #facepalm

Oh shame on you for fading out though.

Scheisse

Oh good. It’s Gaga doing her spoken word thing. I do wish she would shut her fucking trap once in a while. The spoken word routine is getting annoying. Good backing though, great synths. Not sure about the Faithless Insomnia bit. Yeah, by the chorus it’s lost all that it was at the beginning. Really very, very similar to songs on Apoptygma Berzerk’s Harmonizer album. Sounds like someone took loads of old songs and cut and pasted them together. The backing female vocal is directly taken from that Justin Timberlake Sexy Back song.

Bloody Mary

Vocally anaemic. Sounds like she just woke up then did the vocals. Wrong pacing, tempo is a little off. This really sounds like another album I’ve had for ages. I just can’t place it. It’s so astounding uneven and wasteful. This track especially could be on in a supermarket and you’d not realise it. You might buy extra toilet paper though.

Bad Kids

Ha, got some crazy guy screaming at the beginning. Oh hang on, that’s Gaga. Again with the fucking drop in thickness for the chorus. Starts off guns blazing and then collapses into another Betty Boo mid-paced snore fest. Fuck’s sake this is pissing me off now. We’re into the filler of the album and it’s so incomprehensible vacuous I feel my testicles drying up.

Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)

Again, strong start. Are you going to collapse into nothing? No, we get a nice sub bass. Ooh yeah, this is ace. Like the use of space and sinister driving bass. Oh fuck off. Then the chorus comes in and she sings it in her all pleasant voice. Then all the song texture is dissolved A-FUCKING-GAIN for a diseased eurocrap chorus. Fuck you Gaga. That “We Can Be Strong” chorus makes me physically sick. I’m going for a shit… BORED THIS WAY

Heavy Metal Lover

Oh man, all these songs are 4 minutes. That’s like Jessie J and it’s not right. All of these would be much better at 3 or maybe 3 and a half mins. That extra 30 seconds is killing these.

Fucking loving the side chained dubstep bass on this. Bit ruder lyrics = good. Could do with being a bit more engaging. Only enough ideas for 2 minutes here though and it’s 4 minutes long. Go away.

Electric Chapel

Could be the riff from any heavy metal album. Much better, she sings it straight and then when the chorus comes in it feels a lot more natural. Sounds like she doesn’t care sometimes. Could be Your Favourite Game by The Cardigans. Vocally and everything. Too long. Of course.

You And I

Love it. Doesn’t fit on the album at all. Imagine a song written by Nickleback and Cher. This would be it. I mean, kinda like what she’s trying to do. I just loathe this type of music. Texas will love it.

The Edge Of Glory

Back to the eurosynths, back to the toilet.

Summary

Move along people, nothing to see here. I was expecting more than this. I thought it was supposed to be shocking? This is just some twee girls hopes and dreams sang meekly. Some of the songs here are on a par with the output from Ark Music (of Rebecca Black fame). I’m not saying it’s bad like “Friday” but some of their other “artists” sound just like the majority of this album.

You wonder if Rebecca Black had dressed up in a meat suit a couple of years ago she’d be who everyone was banging on about. Lyrically, I can’t tell the difference.

There’s nothing awful here to be honest. There’s just nothing to get too excited about. If your music taste is undeveloped you’ll maybe get something from it. But if you look around elsewhere you’ll find pop songs billions of times better than anything here (bar the song Born This Way maybe). They won’t be prancing about naked or being more annoying that Morrissey though.

Still, if Ms Gaga wants to prove that she’s out to shock and is really about sexual empowerment I shall be waiting for her to pop over. It can be her next video. She’ll need to do a song that’s less than 3 minutes though.

Tags: Americano, Bad Kids, Bloody Mary, Born This Way, Electric Chapel, Government Hooker, Hair, Heavy Metal Lover, Highway Unicorn (Road To Love), Judas, Lady Gaga, Marry The Night, Scheibe, The Edge Of Glory, You And I

Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Another year. Another Eurovision. I don’t remember there being this many songs last year. 43 tracks. That really is more than is reasonable. I have not heard ANYTHING from this years entries. All I know is that Jedward and Blue are somewhere in here. And surely, no other country can be as bad as Jedward?

Poland – Magdalena Tul – Jestem

Er, this is Womanizer by Britney Spears. Same vocal melody. Chorus isn’t good. I guess I’m comparing it to Womanizer’s chorus which is wicked. This is not.

Bosnia – Dino Merlin – Love In Rewind

Dino Merlin? Really. The wizard dinosaur. That should be AWESOME. Instead we have a ballad. Oh my, some bad lyrics here. School/Cool rhymes. Weird feel -bit of a sea shanty almost. Then in comes a beat that doesn’t fit on the track. I accept that this exists just not that it’s a song.

Latvia – Musiqq – Angel In Disguise

Sounds like something from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack. The guitar production I mean. Okay, lyrically rubbish. But quite catchy. Nice chorus… Yeah, I reckon if they can build this up a bit more this has a good chance of a few votes. Very cheesy rap that sounds like it was taken off someone else’s record. Like when East 17 or 5ive tried to do a middle bit with a rap in? I am expecting Blue’s song to have a section like that. Oh, shame about the song structure. It has a middle rap bit then the chorus then into a weird high bit and collapses into the ending. Should have been better.

Norway – Stella Mwangi – Haba Haba

It’s funny how all the bass drums have been the same on every song so far. It’s like a mash up of songs that already existed and were bad in the first place. Now I could be wrong but I believe this song is about a girl’s Grandma selling her into the sex trade. Whilst telling her “Hubba Hubba” which is the universally accepted acknowledgement that a girl is hot. So why Grandma is saying it… Very sinister. Oh who am I kidding – it’s fucking mince.

Austria – Nadine Beiler – The Secret Is Love

Oh shut up. Michael Jackson write this I reckon. Awful hamfisted attempt at emotion. Horrid in every way. Like one of the worst examples found on the Jessie J album.

Albania – Aurela Gaçe – Feel The Passion

This has been produced by someone who is deaf. Hidden away in this song are some balls. Except they turned down the guitars and solos. Atrocious in every moment. Live, however, this maybe amazing.

Holland – 3JS – Never Alone

This is Beauty & The Beast from the Disney film. “Tale as old as time, ect”. Bland. Doesn’t engage me or my emotions.

Armenia – Emmy – Boom-Boom

I’m tiring of all these positive messages about making the world a better place. You can all go get fucked. It makes me to go hi-five Slobodan Milošević. Chorus was written by someone else. Doesn’t fit and stunnningly awful. I quite likes the verses which was quite well constructed then it pisses it all away for the chrous.

Belgium – Witloof Bay – With Love Baby

Oh my fucking god. Yeah, I like punching swans in the fucking face, glassing newborns and shitting in old folk’s toasters. But I do it with love so it’s all okay. Quite simply the worst accapella breakdown of all time. I hate everything this stands for, you boring bunch of frogs.

Slovakia – TWiiNS – I’m Still Alive

Yay. Time for a ballad. After that it can’t be bad. Oh fuck off. They ruin it with a rock drum beat. Far too harsh, not enough change in the pattern either. Really like the deep synth underneath everything. Chorus and vocals are nice. Shame the drum beat is the SAME ALL THE WAY FUCKING THROUGH! WTF. ARE YOU THE FUGEES? Hate it for the drum beat, like the rest of it.

Turkey – Yüksek Sadakat – Live It Up

Again, guitars turned down. Joan Jett was louder than this. Oh hang on, there is a second section in the verse which is great. The chorus is quite nice. The singer is shocking though. Oh my god. Is that what the chorus is? Is he saying “Kill yourself” on the chorus? Hahah. That is excellent. Tell those whiny emo fucks to just put up or shut up. Half these fools on medication should at least try suicide instead of moaning about it all the time. Good stuff. A positive message at last.

Oh hang on, just looked up the lyrics. He says “Give yourself a break” and NOT “kill yourself”. BOOOO! BOO! BOO!

Ukraine – Mika Newton – Angels

Nice arrangement on the opening and verse. Oh wow, that’s the chorus? Not really anything there. Was expecting some attempt at something epic. Glad there wasn’t. Like this one.

Serbia – Nina – Caroban

Many years out of date. Could have won in 1985. If Serbia hadn’t been bombed into the stone-age a few years back and were taking their time catching up I’d rip this one further. Could be the music for a gameshow or a terrible sitcom where everyone has bowel cancer.

Russia – Alex Sparrow – Get You

Worst song. Chorus makes some way back to save it.Still, it features a mongospazztard bashing a bass drum for 3 minutes. Will do well as a) it’s Russia and b) it’s Russia. Great advice too: “if you want to have fun tonight – just scream”. I’m sure Madeline McCann lives by this advice.

Moldova – Zdob si Zdub – So Lucky

Hahah. Could be Gogol Bordello. Very silly. Will bomb unless they have a crazy as fuck stageshow – but I like it.

Switzerland – Anna Rossinelli – In Love For A While

Is Eurovision over yet? I need to put ear condoms in to stop this infection spunking shit into my hearing canals. We should nuke Switzerland for this. DIE.

Sweden – Eric Saade – Popular

Whoa. Finally proper production. Love the electro feel on this one. Fuck me, the chorus is massive. Ignore my previous comments. This is how you do Eurovision. Terminally catchy. Love it.

Georgia – Eldrine – One More Day

Could be a demo. Badly thought-out instrumentation that tonally doesn’t work. Yeah, this is bad. Feels much longer than 3 minutes too.

Cyprus – Christos Mylordos – San aggelos s’agapisa

Lovely. And in foreign so I can’t be put off by bad lyrics. Just hope it doesn’t do a go crazy for the chorus… oh fuck off. Really muffled distorted guitars come in. Shit. Really was hoping it would stay in one genre. Sounds MUCH worse after chorus.

Finland – Paradise Oskar – Da Da Dam

Oh, a story. Oh, this is like that Tom guy from last year. Fuck, it’s really good. Bit mawkish but against the awfulness so far it shines – this will do top 5 no doubt. The chorus is really quite moving. But I’m a sucker for this shit. I’ve no shame saying I don’t mind James Blunt and all that singer songwriter stuff. Colour me surprised.

Bulgaria – Poli Genova – Na inat

Oh fuck off. Are all the countries only allowed to use the same instruments? Another song with a awful distorted guitar and low end synth. Could be something released by an X Factor contestant. Nice bit of piano after the middle section then into it’s wallpaper-in-a-nursing-home chorus.

Malta – Glen Vella – One Life

Comedy trance. Could be Culture Beat from years ago. Oh, the chorus isn’t very good. I was expecting more. You promised a lot more, Malteaser. Doubt this will even make the final. It’s not awful it’s jut not very anything.

Macedonia – Vlatko Ilievski – Rusinka

I’m not hearing anything anymore. I can’t tell what this is. I’ll try and focus a bit as the overall awfulness has beaten me a little. I guess it’s okay. It’s very Balkan-y, accordians, Gogol Bordello, etc. Alright.

France – Amaury Vassili – Sognu

Could be the National Anthem for a country that shouldn’t exist.

Israel – Dana International – Ding Dong

Will do well as she’s half-famous. Reasonable in a forgettable way. Tempo feels too slow – could probably get more momentum if it was sped up a bit. Ah, the middle section tries to rectify this. Key change after the middle bit? Ha, Eurovision with your cliches you are really spoiling us. High note at the end? Thankfully not. Think it would have been better with a half-decent vocalist though.

Italy – Raphael Gualazzi – Madness Of Love

Wild start. Then gets boring in a Harry Connick Jnr way. Love the Cab Calloway bit in the middle. Takes too long to get to the climax – much in the way of an Italian lover.

San Marino – Senit – Stand By

It’s safe to say we can ignore this. The first 10 seconds could be any 10 seconds from the rest of the song.

Croatia – Daria – Celebrate

Party time? Feels like a song that’ll build… Whoa, loud backing vocals. Oh fuck it. I’m just gonna go with this one. As camp as Paradise Lost. Not half bad attempt at a dubstep middle section. Better than Britneys on her last single. Like it.

Slovenia – Maja Keuc – No One

Starts VERY SERIOUS. Then X-Factor vocals come in. I don’t like this at all. However, this is exactly the type of shit idiots clog the charts up with. Even a bit of Spanish guitar. Basically this song is out of date but so are Slovenia. Aguilera’s nobcheese.

Romania – Hotel FM – Change

No where near as good as Saddam Hussain’s I Can Change from South Park: The Movie. Worst song of the competition. Also it just talks about changing the world. But not necessarily in a good way. So instead of donating to Amnesty and Unicef like I do I’m going to use the money to frequent brothels where I’ll get a much more hands-on approach to those lucky Romanian orphans who’ve been sold into the sex slave trade. Yep, I’m feeling better already. (edit. Two references about the sex slave trade in one post? Well, we are dealing with Europe here – what did you expect?).

Iceland – Sigurjón’s Friends – Coming Home

So jolly. I hate it. Makes me want to turn off life support machines in the Burn’s Unit.

UK – Blue – I Can

Er, those vocals didn’t fit so well against that melody at the start. Okay, lovely vocals I guess. Where is the melody tho? Haha, you know what? This isn’t too bad at all. For 90′s boyband with trance influences it’s pretty alright. Positive messages of course. But not quite as awful as I expected. This could bomb quite badly onstage as it’s so vocally driven. Yep, pretty acceptable stuff.

Estonia – Getter Jaani – Rockefeller Street

Let’s hope this doesn’t come after Blue. Worse vocals but the chorus is just trance synth and beat – much like the Blue song. I’m not feeling this at all. Not enough going on in the chorus. Don’t like. Oh, terrible be-bop middle section too.

Hungary – Kati Wolf – What About My Dreams

Ha, this song should be called Hungary Like The Wolf. Instead we get some Bryan Adams guitar with really insidious female vocals. Into disco territory for the chorus though. Nice side chaining on the synths I guess. Comes good by the end. Real thickness by the end. Good backing vocals but over-too-soon ending.

Portugal – Homens da Luta – A luta é alegria

Probably what music sounded like before instruments were invented. Astoundingly irritating.

Belarus – Anastasia Vinnikova – I Love Belarus

This will get votes because not giving it votes suggests you hate Belarus. I don’t know anything about Belarus. Except it sounds like a cross between Bell-end and Walrus. For me, it gives me heartburn and makes the hate well up inside me. Lights dim and deep reds flash in my eyes. The country should be bombed for this ear rape crime.

Germany – Lena – Taken By A Stranger

What? Didn’t she win last year? This is fucking unbelievably shit. I want to kick this fucking whore RIGHT IN THE FUCKING CUNT FOR THIS SHIT. HAVEN’T YOU DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE GERMANY? FIRST AUSCHWITZ. THEN LENA.

Lithuania – Evelina Sasenko – C’est ma vie

Disney. Aids.

Denmark – A Friend In London – New Tomorrow

First line = “Cum on boys. Cum on girls”. So that’s why you have a Legoland Denmark you massive bunch of paedos. Seriously though, this is harmless fluff. Could be anything – but I wish it was anything else. Could probably win.

Azerbaijan – Ell and Nikki – Running Scared

I’m a little beaten into submission with these songs now. Sounds a bit like Imogen Heap on the chorus. It’s quite nice. If this girl is hot it could do well.

Ireland – Jedward – Lipstick

Well, of course it’s awful. But in comparison against the rest of Eurovision? It’s catchy and sounds quite modern. Great bass tone. Vocals are as good as you could hope for from these two jokers. Live they will camp it up and fail heavily I imagine. But actually, this is great.

Greece – Loukas Giorkas feat. Stereo Mike – Watch My Dance

Oh why can men from Greece not sing? They do that gruff talking nonsense. If they set out to write the most excruciating unlistenable song of all time I think they overachieved. Nil points.

Spain – Lucía Pérez – Que me quiten lo bailao

Sounds traditional. Sounds good. The first two steps of winning Eurovision. Sounding modern or traditional is fine but the second step is to write something good. This is nice. Yep, I like it.

Summary

Okay and that’s it. Have I missed any? Apologies if I have – I’ll guess it was poop.

I’m not that impressed with this year’s line up. Not many outright shockers, or by contrast, outright amazing ones. Most of the songs are trying to do everything. So instead of just being a rock song or a ballad or a dance song. They do everything they can in 3 minutes and end up with no identity.

Lastly, so many were about making the world a better place and shit. Personally, if the amount of effort that’s been put into writing these songs about changing the world had been put into actually helping people out a lot more good would have been done.

So get off your arse and do something about it, cunts.

Each way bets: Finland, Spain, Sweden, Croatia and Moldova.

Tags: 2011, 3JS, A Friend In London, A luta é alegria, Alex Sparrow, Amaury Vassili, Anastasia Vinnikova, Angel In Disguise, Angels, Anna Rossinelli, Aurela Gaçe, Blue, Boom-Boom, Caroban, C’est ma vie, Celebrate, Change, Christos Mylordos, Coming Home, Da Da Dam, Dana International, Daria, Ding Dong, Dino Merlin, Eldrine, Ell and Nikki, Emmy, Eric Saade, Eurovision, Evelina Sasenko, Feel The Passion, Get You, Getter Jaani, Glen Vella, Haba Haba, Homens da Luta, Hotel FM, I Can, I Love Belarus, I’m Still Alive, In Love For A While, Jedward, Jestem, Kati Wolf, Lena, Lipstick, Live It Up, Loukas Giorkas feat. Stereo Mike, Love In Rewind, Lucía Pérez, Madness Of Love, Magdalena Tul, Maja Keuc, Mika Newton, Musiqq, Na inat, Nadine Beiler, Never Alone, New Tomorrow, Nina, No One, One Life, One More Day, Paradise Oskar, Poli Genova, Popular, Que me quiten lo bailao, Raphael Gualazzi, Rockefeller Street, Running Scared, Rusinka, San aggelos s’agapisa, Senit, Sigurjón’s Friends, So Lucky, Sognu, Stand By, Stella Mwangi, Taken By A Stranger, The Secret Is Love, TWiiNS, Vlatko Ilievski, Watch My Dance, What About My Dreams, With Love Baby, Witloof Bay, Yüksek Sadakat, Zdob si Zdub