Yet Another Year In Pop: 32

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Having just remembered Kat's away, I shall do my part for ensuring our workplace is primarily used for creating polls-

[Poll #1442013]

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All you need to make a record is a girl, an ache, and a beat

[koganbot]

Three out of three ticks, which may be a first for Yet Another Year, though this isn't cause for wild celebration, and I like the so far uncommented-upon Ian Carey best of the three:

Tinchy Stryder f. Amelle Berrabah "Never Leave You": Quite pleased with the peppiness and poppiness of the nonstop background tune but it's not showing Tinchy or Amelle to good advantage. This is good enough for a tick but I wish they'd found an arrangement that gave rapper and singer some space. TICK.

Ian Carey Project "Get Shaky": Fast rhythm, strong guitar, the singing is effectively - what's the word for it - tremulous. A girl, an ache, and a beat: Music! TICK.

Girls Can't Catch "Keep Your Head Up": The woman's deep voice is powerful, juxtaposed with the bass throb; the chorus takes me by surprise, gets showy, pulls an attention-getting chord shift. The track is way too undifferentiated from here on, all rev-it-up, but that odd chord change hooks me every time, even if overall this track doesn't come close to the rough promise of its opening. TICK.