The Singles Club: 4 X 4

Coldplay

Coldplay - Violet Hill

Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill, on digital release from 6th May, is a whale’s width apart from their emotionally fraught debut Parachutes. Martin, a snake shedding outgrown skin, departs from his trademark vibrato, with a feverish display of electric guitars and only a chance acoustic strum. However, I fail to recognise the 'hispanic infusion' promised by the band, who revealed it was recorded in Latin American Churches. Perhaps they too realised this, opting for the subtle album title Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.

Moira

Fall Out Boy - Beat It

Fall Out Boy

It seems that Fall Out Boy will continue their attempt to become Pop Punk legends by taking on, almost self-mockingly, the classic by Michael Jackson. The fact that this could pass for a Fall Out Boy song if it was an original highlights the band's originality, but it also shows how one dimensional they are.

Albert

Ida Maria - Queen of the World

Ida Maria

Queen of the World, the brand new release from Norwegian singer-songwriter-guitarist Ida Maria, is essentially a song about getting drunk and letting your hair down. Pop-punk buoyancy and Ida's fearless vocals make this a happy-go-lucky track that seems to pass you by in a squid-tint flash. Despite this punky flavour I think the comparison to the 'other-worldly strangeness' of Björk is a little far-fetched...

Anna

We Are Scientists - Chick Lit

We Are Scientists, like lions of the musically predatory variety, prowled the pop-rock terrain with their album début With Love and Squalor. Slipping down the musical food chain, their new single Chick Lit whimpers at the water-hole like one of a pack of wildebeest. Having lost their voracity with new album Brain Thrust Mastery, We Are Scientists become one of the pack with more pop than rock beats and melodious rather than edgy vocals. Chick Lit does however retain some singalong charm that, along with some other okay-ish album tracks, might just save them from the jaws of natural pop-rock selection.

Kristy

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