This week's new singles

The Big Pink Stay Gold (4AD) Like most of The Big Pink's output, this sounds like it was written at the end of a two-day bender as a desperate plea for a duvet, a cuppa and someone to cuddle. Yet there's something infinitely hopeful about this stadium-sized comedown. A nod to Robert Frost's paean to youthful innocence Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stay Gold bristles with naive optimism – all shimmering guitars and declamatory idylls. It's a song lying to itself: "Maybe we'll get up early and go t...

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