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This week's singles
2003-03-10
For this week's singles, read on, but for this week's albums, please click here
Radio 4 - Eyes Wide Open
Already widely hailed as one of the best new bands to emerge last year, Radio 4 return in 2003 with a double A-side that's all set to cement their rock credentials in stone.
Featuring the brilliant 'Eyes Wide Open' (a definite album highlight), this release also displays the band's diversity as they rope in Adrian Sherwood and Mark Stewart to deliver two contrasting new dub remixes.
Buy this single here
F C Kahuna - Hayling
Originally released as a very limited 10" at the back end of 2001, FC Kahuna's sublime laidback gem, 'Hayling', resurfaces in 2003 (with hot new mixes) on the excellent Skint label.
A sensual downbeat delight with vocals from Hafdis Huld, this is one of those timeless tunes that manages to remain as essential as it did when it first, quietly, arrived all that time ago.
Whilst the new mixes, from the Super Furry Animals (in a particularly leftfield mood here), Ils and Chicken Lips, all add outstanding new twists to a totally inspired track.
Buy this single here
Sugababes - Shape
As if just to confirm their positions as the UK's premier girl group, the Sugababes return with the fourth, and some would say best, single from their brilliant album, 'Angels With Dirty Faces'.
Using the vocals and hook from Sting's 'Shape Of My Heart' in the chorus, 'Shape' is another sophisticated slice of r'n'b doused pop from a trio that, at the moment anyway, don't seem to be able to put a Gucci heeled foot wrong.
Whilst both formats also include exclusive bonus live and remix tracks.
Buy this single here
50 Cent - In Da Club
Walking it like he talks it, 26-year-old hip-hop sensation 50 Cent crashes the UK's senses this week with his floor-quaking debut single, 'In Da Club'.
Already a staple on any urban floor worth its salt, this Dr Dre produced hip-hop monster from the Eminem protege is sure to cement his rep as one of the scene's most exciting new talents as well as shoot a cursory glance at all those rappers merely coasting on their rhyming laurels.
An awesome release, underground cut 'Wanksta' also appears as a bonus track.
Buy this single here
Gareth Gates - Spirit In The Sky
Wow, is it a year already? Comic Relief time is upon us again, and who better to musically represent the cause than Gareth Gates and TV's hilarious Kumars. Getting down, and having great fun in the process, on this Bollywood influenced pop update of the classic 'Spirit In The Sky', both Gates and The Kumars lend much needed, tongue-in-cheek support to a very worth while cause.
Both formats include bonus tracks and exclusive video footage.
Watch the video for this sinlge on our Red Nose Day microsite
Buy this single here
Missy Elliot : Ludacris - Gossip Folks
Not only does Missy Elliott look great, but she's also sounding better than ever! Her latest album, 'Under Construction', moved the hip-hop production goal posts, AGAIN, whilst last single 'Work It' showed that she still has what it takes in the rhyming department.
Her latest, Gossip Folks', is more of the same Missy hip-hop sass. Featuring funky assed Timbaland production and a guest appearance from Ludacris, it also stands out thanks to a slamming housed up version by Mr Fatboy himself, Norman Cook.
Buy this single here
Cardigans - For What It's Worth
The first track from their forthcoming, fifth studio album, The Cardigans' 'For What It's Worth' is one of those rare treats that's been more than worth the wait.
A sublime taster of what we can expect from that long-awaited album, it is, in the words of lead singer Nina Persson, 'an up-tempo beautiful pop song'.
Whilst non-album bonus tracks 'Das Model' and 'The Road' are brilliant extras alongside another simple, yet striking video from the band.
Welcome back!
Buy this single here
Jennisfer Lopez - All I Have
It seems, at the moment anyway, that a month doesn't go by without the increasingly prolific La Lopez having either a song in the charts or a movie about to open somewhere.
Well, having scored a Top 10 hit with the funky hip-hop stoked vibes of 'Jenny From The Block', the Latin diva returns with it's equally cool, if slightly more chilled, follow-up, 'All I Have'.
Seeing the singer going line for line, and verse for verse, in a battle with THE original Ladies Lover, LL Cool J, this is a subtly seductive ballad, and one that cements J-Lo's rep as one of the biggest female singers around right now.
Buy this single here
Placebo - Bitter Wnd
They may have been away for a while (though not that far, Brian Molko's rarely been away from the rock pages); but Placebo, on the evidence of 'The Bitter End' anyway, have almost certainly been keeping their collective ears to the current music scene.
Wrenching open the guitar cupboard and piling into a driving chordstorm, it's a powerhouse return, and sounds almost as if the band have had a hard-rocking transfusion from the Queens Of The Stone Age themselves.
Can't wait for the album!All formats also include exclusive bonus tracks.
Buy this single here
Adeema - Insomiacs Dream
Having already toured the US with the likes of Linkin Park and Disturbed as well as blowing away the OZZfest and Sno-core bills; Adema have already managed to build up a pretty rock solid fanbase.
Well their latest, the sprawling 'Insomniacs Dream EP', looks like the release to earn them the wider appreciation they deserve. Containing seven tightly wound tracks that perfectly capture where the band are coming from (not-to-mention where they're heading), it's a pretty rough ride, but one thatgets better and better everytime you get on.
Buy this single here
Dirty Vegas - Simple Things
Rounding off an incredible year or so for the Brit house trio (that's included US success, hit singles and culminated last month with a Grammy for 'Days Go By'), Dirty Vegas return with their brilliant new single 'Simple Things'.
A down-tempo, guitar-led vocal track (with a stunning video featuring super-model Helena Christiansen), it also comes with a whole host of exclusive new remixes and live tracks with the vinyl aiming at the dancefloor with Flatline and Alex Neri rubs.
Buy this single here
Jeevas - Once Upon A Time In America
The Jeevas have, in a relatively short space of time, managed to make quite a name for themselves. Winning plaudits from all corners of the rock press, through top live shows and a very well received debut album, they've already started to build a considerable fanbase.
Well, their latest won't do them any harm whatsoever! The fourth from the trio's recent album, 'Once Upon A Time In America' is already a fave with fans and deejays alike, and serves as a perfect reminder of the musical prowess of frontman Crispian Mills.
All formats include bonus tracks.
Buy this single here
Queen/Vangaurd - Flash
Not only is this remix fully endorsed by the remaining members of Queen but, despite expectations, it's also actually very good. Big with all the trance scene's top jocks, Vanguard's update of 'Flash' is another typically driving dancefloor pounder from the Nebula label that, as you'd expect, also comes complete with another superb remix package.
Vanguard deliver two, a straight-up trancer and a rather nifty electro version, whilst Smith & Selway get down and dirty on a poundingtech tip and Tomcraft comes up with another uplifting, if slightly more commercial German trance mix.
Buy this single here
Shania Twain - Kerching
Having burst back onto the international music scene last November with the typically feisty 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good', country-pop chanteuse Shania Twain returns in 2003 with the second, slightly tongue-in-cheek, single from her comeback album. Another immediately catchy slab of infectious no-holds-barred pop goodness, 'Ka-ching' might be a little cheeky, but it's still Shania through and through - and at the end of the day that's only a good thing!
Both formats also include bonuslive tracks with CD two adding the video to last single 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good'.
Buy this single here
The Thrills - One Horse Town
Very quickly becoming one of THE most talked about bands to emerge this year (well, the back end of last year anyway), Dublin boys The Thrills return in 2003 with a sublime new single that goes along way to proving the hype machine does indeed get it right sometimes. Another simple, melodic and utterly captivating single, 'One Horse Town' is a beautiful start to the year for a band that look destined to make a very big, if laidback, splash in 2003. Both formats also include exclusive bonus tracks.
Buy this single here
Ladytron - Blue Jeans
Following the huge success of Ladytron's excellent debut album and last single 'Seventeen', the ice cool electro-pop foursome return to the fray this week with more of the same, erm - ice-cool electro-pop.
Already described by many as one of the standouts from the album, 'Blue Jeans'' sci-fi electro clatter is also complimented by a typically brilliant remix package.
Interpol and Slam each turn in very worthy, equally contrasting versions, but it's Josh Wink's acid-tinged techy house rub that's been wrecking dancefloors, and should, easily, for the foreseeable future.
Buy this single here
For this week's singles, read on, but for this week's albums, please click here
Radio 4 - Eyes Wide Open
Already widely hailed as one of the best new bands to emerge last year, Radio 4 return in 2003 with a double A-side that's all set to cement their rock credentials in stone.
Featuring the brilliant 'Eyes Wide Open' (a definite album highlight), this release also displays the band's diversity as they rope in Adrian Sherwood and Mark Stewart to deliver two contrasting new dub remixes.
F C Kahuna - Hayling
Originally released as a very limited 10" at the back end of 2001, FC Kahuna's sublime laidback gem, 'Hayling', resurfaces in 2003 (with hot new mixes) on the excellent Skint label.
A sensual downbeat delight with vocals from Hafdis Huld, this is one of those timeless tunes that manages to remain as essential as it did when it first, quietly, arrived all that time ago.
Whilst the new mixes, from the Super Furry Animals (in a particularly leftfield mood here), Ils and Chicken Lips, all add outstanding new twists to a totally inspired track.
Sugababes - Shape
As if just to confirm their positions as the UK's premier girl group, the Sugababes return with the fourth, and some would say best, single from their brilliant album, 'Angels With Dirty Faces'.
Using the vocals and hook from Sting's 'Shape Of My Heart' in the chorus, 'Shape' is another sophisticated slice of r'n'b doused pop from a trio that, at the moment anyway, don't seem to be able to put a Gucci heeled foot wrong.
Whilst both formats also include exclusive bonus live and remix tracks.
50 Cent - In Da Club
Walking it like he talks it, 26-year-old hip-hop sensation 50 Cent crashes the UK's senses this week with his floor-quaking debut single, 'In Da Club'.
Already a staple on any urban floor worth its salt, this Dr Dre produced hip-hop monster from the Eminem protege is sure to cement his rep as one of the scene's most exciting new talents as well as shoot a cursory glance at all those rappers merely coasting on their rhyming laurels.
An awesome release, underground cut 'Wanksta' also appears as a bonus track.
Gareth Gates - Spirit In The Sky
Wow, is it a year already? Comic Relief time is upon us again, and who better to musically represent the cause than Gareth Gates and TV's hilarious Kumars. Getting down, and having great fun in the process, on this Bollywood influenced pop update of the classic 'Spirit In The Sky', both Gates and The Kumars lend much needed, tongue-in-cheek support to a very worth while cause.
Both formats include bonus tracks and exclusive video footage.
Missy Elliot : Ludacris - Gossip Folks
Not only does Missy Elliott look great, but she's also sounding better than ever! Her latest album, 'Under Construction', moved the hip-hop production goal posts, AGAIN, whilst last single 'Work It' showed that she still has what it takes in the rhyming department.
Her latest, Gossip Folks', is more of the same Missy hip-hop sass. Featuring funky assed Timbaland production and a guest appearance from Ludacris, it also stands out thanks to a slamming housed up version by Mr Fatboy himself, Norman Cook.
Cardigans - For What It's Worth
The first track from their forthcoming, fifth studio album, The Cardigans' 'For What It's Worth' is one of those rare treats that's been more than worth the wait.
A sublime taster of what we can expect from that long-awaited album, it is, in the words of lead singer Nina Persson, 'an up-tempo beautiful pop song'.
Whilst non-album bonus tracks 'Das Model' and 'The Road' are brilliant extras alongside another simple, yet striking video from the band.
Welcome back!
Jennisfer Lopez - All I Have
It seems, at the moment anyway, that a month doesn't go by without the increasingly prolific La Lopez having either a song in the charts or a movie about to open somewhere.
Well, having scored a Top 10 hit with the funky hip-hop stoked vibes of 'Jenny From The Block', the Latin diva returns with it's equally cool, if slightly more chilled, follow-up, 'All I Have'.
Seeing the singer going line for line, and verse for verse, in a battle with THE original Ladies Lover, LL Cool J, this is a subtly seductive ballad, and one that cements J-Lo's rep as one of the biggest female singers around right now.
Placebo - Bitter Wnd
They may have been away for a while (though not that far, Brian Molko's rarely been away from the rock pages); but Placebo, on the evidence of 'The Bitter End' anyway, have almost certainly been keeping their collective ears to the current music scene.
Wrenching open the guitar cupboard and piling into a driving chordstorm, it's a powerhouse return, and sounds almost as if the band have had a hard-rocking transfusion from the Queens Of The Stone Age themselves.
Can't wait for the album!All formats also include exclusive bonus tracks.
Adeema - Insomiacs Dream
Having already toured the US with the likes of Linkin Park and Disturbed as well as blowing away the OZZfest and Sno-core bills; Adema have already managed to build up a pretty rock solid fanbase.
Well their latest, the sprawling 'Insomniacs Dream EP', looks like the release to earn them the wider appreciation they deserve. Containing seven tightly wound tracks that perfectly capture where the band are coming from (not-to-mention where they're heading), it's a pretty rough ride, but one thatgets better and better everytime you get on.
Dirty Vegas - Simple Things
Rounding off an incredible year or so for the Brit house trio (that's included US success, hit singles and culminated last month with a Grammy for 'Days Go By'), Dirty Vegas return with their brilliant new single 'Simple Things'.
A down-tempo, guitar-led vocal track (with a stunning video featuring super-model Helena Christiansen), it also comes with a whole host of exclusive new remixes and live tracks with the vinyl aiming at the dancefloor with Flatline and Alex Neri rubs.
Jeevas - Once Upon A Time In America
The Jeevas have, in a relatively short space of time, managed to make quite a name for themselves. Winning plaudits from all corners of the rock press, through top live shows and a very well received debut album, they've already started to build a considerable fanbase.
Well, their latest won't do them any harm whatsoever! The fourth from the trio's recent album, 'Once Upon A Time In America' is already a fave with fans and deejays alike, and serves as a perfect reminder of the musical prowess of frontman Crispian Mills.
All formats include bonus tracks.
Queen/Vangaurd - Flash
Not only is this remix fully endorsed by the remaining members of Queen but, despite expectations, it's also actually very good. Big with all the trance scene's top jocks, Vanguard's update of 'Flash' is another typically driving dancefloor pounder from the Nebula label that, as you'd expect, also comes complete with another superb remix package.
Vanguard deliver two, a straight-up trancer and a rather nifty electro version, whilst Smith & Selway get down and dirty on a poundingtech tip and Tomcraft comes up with another uplifting, if slightly more commercial German trance mix.
Shania Twain - Kerching
Having burst back onto the international music scene last November with the typically feisty 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good', country-pop chanteuse Shania Twain returns in 2003 with the second, slightly tongue-in-cheek, single from her comeback album. Another immediately catchy slab of infectious no-holds-barred pop goodness, 'Ka-ching' might be a little cheeky, but it's still Shania through and through - and at the end of the day that's only a good thing!
Both formats also include bonuslive tracks with CD two adding the video to last single 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good'.
The Thrills - One Horse Town
Very quickly becoming one of THE most talked about bands to emerge this year (well, the back end of last year anyway), Dublin boys The Thrills return in 2003 with a sublime new single that goes along way to proving the hype machine does indeed get it right sometimes. Another simple, melodic and utterly captivating single, 'One Horse Town' is a beautiful start to the year for a band that look destined to make a very big, if laidback, splash in 2003. Both formats also include exclusive bonus tracks.
Ladytron - Blue Jeans
Following the huge success of Ladytron's excellent debut album and last single 'Seventeen', the ice cool electro-pop foursome return to the fray this week with more of the same, erm - ice-cool electro-pop.
Already described by many as one of the standouts from the album, 'Blue Jeans'' sci-fi electro clatter is also complimented by a typically brilliant remix package.
Interpol and Slam each turn in very worthy, equally contrasting versions, but it's Josh Wink's acid-tinged techy house rub that's been wrecking dancefloors, and should, easily, for the foreseeable future.
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