This week's tracks reviewed: Zara Larsson, Ellie Goulding and Friendly Fires | Music



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Zara Larsson
Ruin My Life

Phenomenal sad banger from Larsson, filled with trappy, reverb-drenched nostalgia for a destructive relationship. The chorus has such a pleasing rhythm that it just makes you want to hook up with an emotionally unavailable partner just so you have an excuse to sing it. More, at this point in 2018 it's nice to hear a song that does not sound as if Ed Sheeran was involved at all.

Dear Lloyd
None of My Business

Sorry but pop stars are having so much trouble getting bubbled over with sass. A sing-songy nursery rhyme feel and breezy delivery to the world did not get sent

Ellie Goulding ft Swae Lee
Close to Me

It's been quiet on the Goulding front this year (unless you can remember her cameo on Sean Paul's EP, in which case: wow), but now she's back with this horny, Diplo-produced, Swae Lee-featuring lust song. As well as rhyming "body" with "body" – which we'll forgive because, hey, rhyming is hard – it's got an almost churchy sway to the title line. Which is pleasing, since the head of the song is that Ellie is so in her important other that she wants to rut like dogs in the street.

Mariah Carey Ty Dolla ft $ ign and Skrillex
The Distance

I do not really approve of gambling but I do wish, at the height of Skrillex Fever in 2014, I was able to work with Mariah Carey. I could probably withdraw this article. Not that we're not all having a lovely time. Anyway, I can not help but feel that it is a waste for Mariah Carey to sing this small, repetitive and quite personality-free melody. She's Mariah Actual Carey – she has the range.

Friendly Fires
Heaven Let Me In

This song will have a pleasant surprise if you have not heard of it before, because you were actually Fleet Foxes. Here they are trying to get into the good place through the medium of whisper vocals, George Michael melody lines and punchy synths. I'd probably let them in. As long as they do not try to smuggle Fleet Foxes in with them.

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