TRACK REVIEW: Carrie Hawkins – Superhardcore

Contrary to the title’s suggestion of something more… hardcore, Carrie Hawkins’ shiny new single is actually a perfect, punchy piece of pop music that will stick in your head for days like a delicious piece of bubblegum. Superhardcore is the follow-up single from the Sunderland-based songwriter’s debut album Square One, and it’s all about the “misunderstood and downtrodden youth of Sunderland and elsewhere”.

It’s got witty lyrics, effortlessly cool processed vocals, fascinating albeit simple pop production, and altogether a sort of unputdownable charm which makes its four-minute span fly by. Listen at your own risk, because once you start you quite literally can’t stop. Songs like this are what they invented the loop button for.