Years and Years ft. Tove Lo- Desire
★★★
Synth pop trio Years and Years teamed up with labelmate Tove Lo to record this new version of their third single Desire. The track isn't much to write home about, but the video does feature the world's first pastel-themed orgy.
Little Green Cars-Easier Day
★★★★
Among the world's great cities, Tokyo gets a bum deal in hipster circles. New York, Paris and London are all places one goes to pose, to party and to swoon. Whereas Tokyo is a place hipsters only ever go to mope. Directed by Hugh O'Connor and the band's Adam O'Regan, Easier Day is the first offering from Little Green Cars' Ephemera album. Mooching around the Japanese capital, in the footsteps of Sophia Coppola and Scarlett Johansson, singer Faye O'Rourke throws some appropriately sombre shapes. But it is her delicate vocal that really shines through the gloom.
Meghan Trainor- No
★★★
Meghan Trainor had a worldwide smash hit with All About That Bass in 2014, but looked doomed for the pop scrapheap after last year's godawful Marvin Gaye single. Now she's back in radio's good graces with this track from her forthcoming Thank You album. No is a Beyoncé-esque anthem of female empowerment, in which the 22-year-old dismisses a series of apparently lame male come-on lines including "What's your name?", "What's your star sign?" and "I ain't running game." Hmm, looks like all that leaves me is "Enda Kenny is my dad."
Tuneyards- One Day I Will...
★★★
To celebrate International Women's Day, Merrill Garbus composed this inspiring soundtrack for Tuesday's Google doodle. The partly animated sequence features women and girls from around the world completing the sentence "One day I will..." (I don't speak the lingo, but one lady's dream appears to be to put some dogs on a boat and run away!)
