Jamie Skey @jamie_skey rounds-up all this week's most significant singles, plus the new songs that have surfaced online in the last seven days that you shouldn't miss...
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Voted The Best Band In The World Today at the Q Awards this year, Muse proceed in triumphantly blending rock's arena-gazing past with keyed-up, electronica vibes of now as Follow Me effortlessly fuses rock gigantism with dark dubstep energy in expansive and atmospheric fashion.
Newcomer Bo Keeney follows in Dan Clare's pop-soul-dub footsteps on Don't You Worry. Produced himself in a shipping-container converted into studio, the songh mixes honeyed, Stevie Wonder-throated harmonies and bouncing Mariachi chords before reaching a thumping, put-your-hands-up-if-you-wanna-go-faster drum and bass finale.
Katie Melua continues to spin delicate, pillow-soft lounge rock that makes Forgetting All My Troubles - taken from Secret Symphony, an in the main covers album of classics old and new - a perfect, warming soundtrack to while away the hours this winter.
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French dream gaze duo M83 have released Wait, the final video in a trilogy of short epics made for The Creators Project's channel. Directors Fleur and Manu said of the cinematic short: "We felt it was important to re-connect with a meaningful subject that would have an echo in today's world. The promise of a new cycle, seen through the kid's eyes." M83's euphoric brand of sugar-coated post-rock surges in stately paced harmony with the video's bracing, apocalyptic-yet-hopeful vision of the cosmos. Neat.
Memory Tapes, one of chillwave's foremost ambassadors, has remixed Australian psyche rockers Tame Impala's Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. The addition of hang-drum harmonies, giddy break beats and warm synths convert this already fantastic tune into a bouncy, dance floor-propelled corker.
Contrasting with their last release, the plaintive and contemplative EP What A Pleasure, it seems Brooklyn-based janglers Beach Fossils are embracing a more abrasive, post punky sound for their new album (due out next year) if first taster Careless is anything to go by.
11:00 AM | 10/12/2012
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