Birdie – Folk Singer
Summer is coming.
Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra – Deep in Vogue
An extravaganza.
Tanya Lacey – Now That You’re Gone
New contributor Elliot on one of our finest pop-stars-in-waiting, it's the very lovely Tanya Lacey.
Japan – The Art of Parties
1981. There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?
Des’ree – Stand On My Own Ground
This is what happens to a pop career when Life gets in the way...
Dame Shirley Bassey – After the Rain
Very few people would make you wait fifty years for their best record. But that's exactly what Dame Shirley Bassey did.
Mint Juleps – Docklands
Girl Power, a decade early: it's the brilliant Mint Juleps.
Siobhan Fahey – Bitter Pill
Because sometimes there's nothing better than a cheap fix of dirty electronic pop.
Tom Baxter – My Declaration
Coshed by a Blunt instrument, Tom Baxter's "My Declaration" could find a second life as a winner's song...
Kate Bush – Hammer Horror
1978's Hammer Horror - one of the few occasions on which we decided Kate Bush was just a little too strange for the charts.
La Roux – Let Me Down Gently
Pop abhors a vacuum, so it's a brave person who takes five years to follow up their debut album. Stewart on the bulletproof (but not time-proof) La Roux.
Vince Kidd feat. Vanessa White – The Zoo
Luke wonders why Vince Kidd remains "a curiosity on the fringes of pop".
Danny Wilson – Never Gonna Be the Same
Danny Wilson and the problem with perfection - how Mary's Prayer turned into a curse.
Electronic – The Patience of a Saint
Completely brilliant grump-pop from the best ever supergroup.
Lewis Taylor – Satisfied
Joe Rivers on "an absurdly talented artist who really didn't want to play the game".
Florrie – I Took a Little Something
From the file marked "Why Isn't This Person a Huge Star Yet?", it's the quite brilliant Florrie.
CHVRCHΞS – Clearest Blue
The success and ubiquity of some bands is a little perplexing, and Scottish synth pop specialists CHVRCHΞS are a great example. To date they’ve had one ‘hit’ (The Mother We Share, no.38) […]
Tanita Tikaram – Stop Listening
Tanita Tikaram releases absolutely brilliant song entitled "Stop Listening". Record buyers unfortunately take it as an instruction.
Girls Aloud – Miss You Bow Wow
The tricky art of going out on a high and how almost no-one gets it right.
Vegas – Walk Into the Wind
The union of Frowning Concepts Terry Hall and Dave Stewart produces unexpectedly uplifting results.
Into the Popvoid 