Five songs to hear this week (May 6-12)

David Smyth rounds up the best tracks to hear online
Back again: Alicia Keys
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David Smyth6 May 2016

Radiohead’s return was the big news this week. It was hard to decide which was more unsettling: the stabbing strings, Thom Yorke’s paranoid lyrics or the Wicker-Man-in-Trumpton video for Burn the Witch. It’s on YouTube and on sale now.

Alicia Keys is also back after a long absence. Her new single, In Common, is on sale and streaming on YouTube. It’s her first release in four years, and is quite a departure with its electronically treated vocals and Latin beats.

And in case the pop kids were feeling left out, the third big comeback of the week was Busted’s. The pop-rock trio have gone rather introspective and electronic on Coming Home, their first song since 2003.

Simen Eriksrud and Espen Berg are Seeb, the Norwegian dance duo whose remix of Mike Posner’s I Took a Pill in Ibiza sent it to number one for four weeks. Now they’re plugging their own single, an equally relaxed dance track entitled Breathe.

Speaking of Mike Posner, he’s attempting to capitalise on his single success with an album, At Night, Alone, out today. It turns out to be full of more straightforward singer-songwriter fare, such as Be As You Are, which is on YouTube now.

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