Huski - Girl.Kill.Smile (Shine a Light) [Pely Remix]

Huski are a quirky North-London based electro-pop duo and they certainly know how to craft a catchy tune. Take their single Girl.Kill.Smile (AMAZING name for a track by the way). It's equal measures Mini Viva and Ke$ha, with maybe even a dash of Girls Aloud's more 'out-there' moments thrown in too. Basically, lots of dancey loveliness - and packed with more attitude than you can shake a stick at.

Chant like choruses of 'Shine a light!', a moody, bubbling bassline and razor sharp, trancey synths - this track has got it all. The band describe their music as a visual and aural feast of decadence, delight and destruction - and it's a fairly accurate representation; decadance being the key word. Girl.Kill.Smile is dripping in vibes of pleasure and enjoyment, a futuristic dance-floor filler for the electro-pop aficionado.

Oh, and did I mention that the track is free to download from Soundcloud? Get it now, it's awesome.

Girl.Kill.Smile (Shine a Light) [Pely Remix] by huskimusic

McFly - Shine A Light

One song I’m particular loving at the moment is McFly’s brilliant new single Shine A Light. Ever since the band went all electro with the boundless energy of Party Girl, I’ve had a newfound respect for the boys. They’ve kept the youthful spirit of their early days, but combined it with a new ‘knowing’, a new intelligent and some absolutely cracking melodies.

Shine A Light illustrates this perfectly. And even better, it’s got Taio Cruz on it too. Now, when i first heard Party Girl, its sound struck me as very ‘Taio’, so it seems only right McFly are now working with him. And together these two stalwarts of British pop music have come up with a pure winner of a track. Its strength comes in its relative simplicity, the track is very ‘clean’, all breezy and light – in many ways a breath of fresh air in a world of music where tracks have become so production heavy you often feel like you’re drowning in them.

The chorus is sublime, the melody moving and powerful in equal measure. And then there’s delicate little touches like the echoing guitar hook that bookends the song, or the twinkling piano that plays gently over the end of the track. It’s things like this that revitalise McFly, shooting them out as a force that is very much still to be reckoned with.