This week's new singles

Charli XCX Stay Away (This Is Music) To the Home Counties and Charli XCX, a teenage over-achiever who I like to think was named after an eBay user account. Upon discovering how old she is – she's 18 but has been plugging away at pop for years – part of me died of old age. This sulky electro lament, about discovering the parameters of love, revives a genre which has recently suffered the loss of Shakespeare's Sister's Stay to Cher Lloyd and Kim Wilde to gardening television. It deserves a tee...

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