Sufjan Stevens – Christmas in the Room
Derek shares his love for "Christmas in the Room" by yuletide enthusiast Sufjan Stevens. A slightly less frantic way of saying "All I want for Christmas is you".
Mew – She Came Home For Christmas
Disturbing talk of blindfolds! Family trauma! CHIME-Y BITS! It's a Mew Christmas... *books flight to Denmark*
Miss Lily Banquette – My Secret Love
Gosh, "You Don't Own Me" is everywhere right now isn't it? Therefore it's the perfect time for Into the Popvoid to salute Lesley Gore, writer of this fabulous, heartbreaking and revealing melodramatic masterpiece.
Low – Just Like Christmas
Christmas time is here -and there's no better way to kick it off than with a faintly depressing song about snowfall not amounting to very much. The gorgeous, timeless and plain brilliant Just Like Christmas by Low.
Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once
U OK HUN? Is the pop star Christmas album really a cry for help?
Sky Ferreira – Everything is Embarrassing
Joe Rivers on Sky Ferreira, Miley culture and one of the best singles of the decade so far.
Paris Hilton – Screwed
It's the biggest test of pop snobbery there is: can you admit to liking a Paris Hilton record? We can.
Sam Sparro – 21st Century Life
Hook filled delirious pop? Keep your eye on the Sparro.
Parralox – Sharper Than a Knife (Pete Hammond Remix)
In which we imagine a PWL theme park, complete with a rampaging gene-spliced Sinitta.
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.
Jazmine Sullivan – Bust Your Windows
A tale of revenge which is, quite literally, smashing.
Heart – Magic Man
America had loved them for a decade, but in the UK there was a total eclipse of Heart until 1987.
Chromeo – Lost On the Way Home (feat. Solange)
A (chart) countdown conundrum for the ages: why isn't Solange a superstar?
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.
Lindsey Buckingham – Go Insane
Derek would rather Fleetwood Mac than jack.
Cher – Song For the Lonely
Do you believe in life after "Believe"?
Vince Kidd feat. Vanessa White – The Zoo
Luke wonders why Vince Kidd remains "a curiosity on the fringes of pop".
BANKS – Waiting Game
Derek makes the (upper) case for BANKS: purveyor of intense dark pop.
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