Cover Drive - Sparks

Much can be said for those gorgeous, special songs that capture the aspects of love in the most reflective and sweetly heart-aching ways. If Cover Drive’s Twilight was the up-beat life-anthem, a soundtrack to tropical-kissed nights out on the town, then follow-up single Sparks is the unleashed pinning for that one and only as the night-proper sets in. That chorus hook of ‘happy to see you, setting me off like sparks, unite all the colours inside my heart’ is just divine, the kind of pop lyric that while on a base level so simple, cuts to the truth of feelings we’ve all felt so many times. Sparks wonderfully twins Amanda’s sensual Barbadian vocals with more of that dreamy EuroPop sound they put to such good use on Twilight, but now with an almost Gothic melancholy to affairs. Sparks is another definite firm step along the path of chart domination, and as a group, Cover Drive’s mixed female/male dynamic is a refreshing jolt of life into radio-friendly pop.

Sparks is released on the 23^rd April.

[Official Video] Cover Drive - Twilight

That's right - it's the long awaited second single from ace new pop act Cover Drive! Whether you were completely taken in by the group's feisty Bajan cocktail of attitude and catchy hooks evidenced in debut track Lick Ya Down or are yet to join their cause, Twilight makes for a sleek bit of dreamy, romantic dance-pop.

Angling for a more mellow, streamlined sound than the in your face sauciness of Lick Ya Down, Twilight is every bit the equal of anything off Rihanna's new album. Anyone who's watched any of the band's awesome YouTube cover versions will know what unity they have as a band as well as a proper sense of musicianship amongst them.

Above all, they're fun - and when it comes to pop, we love fun. Twilight sounds like a big, proper pop moment from a group that are at the moment standing in their own kind of twilight, that in-between state. Soon, the night-time proper will arrive, the floodlights will flick on, and stardom will beckon.

Twilight is released on the 22nd January.