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SHAMIR CALL IT OFF

Shamir bottles the unbridled passion for music we all felt (and still hopefully do) as impressionable teenagers, and exerts that feverish enthusiasm in bursts of pogoing bass, featherlight cowbell and dazzling electronic arpeggios. Recently signed to XL, the kid from Vegas has already dropped one official single, the infectious 'On The Regular', and with a full album due in May, we're being hypnotised by another dancefloor-ready new track, 'Call It Off'. Accompanied by more suitably zany visuals - this time a pastiche of The Muppets - Shamir's scattergun falsetto melds with generously glugging beats and zig-zagging synth. Pop, utterly without pretensions. - DC

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