Hi. We’ll spare you the “in times like these” clichés and simply say: thank you. Thank you for your readership, comments, song suggestions and overall support during this year. We’re taking tomorrow off, but we’ll be back on Monday 4 January, 2021 to cover the BBC Sound Of… shortlist and other new releases. But really, […]
For the last Bonus Tracks post of 2020, we have compiled links to many of our writers’ individual year-end retrospectives and best-of lists. The Singles Jukebox is all about presenting multiple opinions rather than letting a single voice dictate something’s artistic merit, and sharing such a wide variety of personal, unique takes on the year […]
Have you accidentally ruined a work meeting with this song? The TSJ team would like to hear from you… [Video][Website] [6.67] Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Until you’ve experienced the unfettered, chaotic joy of a co-worker accidentally blasting this song during the middle of a virtual work meeting, you won’t fully be able to enjoy this song […]
‘Tis the damn season… [Video] [7.07] Rachel Bowles: The Swiftian renaissance continues unabated. If folklore took us back to the old Taylor we knew and loved (perfectly honed hooks, insightful storytelling — lucid, expansive yet concise) evermore promises that this is more than just a one-album cycle. Finally shedding the self-conscious anxiety that has plagued […]
If you thought 2020 was finally going to be the year TSJ didn’t do an Ed Sheeran single, well, he and us had other plans…
…and from Brian, some K-pop disco reverie.
For the last day of Reader’s Week, Juan Carlos gave to us: spinning, spinning, spinning…
And here’s Sam with not one but two artists along those lines…
Next, Caitlin settles the burning question of the past few weeks: which Rina Sawayama single do we do?
Next, via Alexander, some throwback soul…