LEMONADE / HARD

One of the most mental and massive releases of 2014. 'Lemonade' is a dizzy love song cut from the same cotton-candy cloth as 'Bipp,' only now it's been deep fried and covered in icing sugar. This twisted little banger is bound to turn many listeners off - among its parts are high-pitched vocals barking out phrases like "ca-ca-candy boys" and synths that fizz like pop rocks. 'Hard', meanwhile, is a Fisher-Price grime tune built with stuttering drums and toy string instruments that pluck out its central melody. The basslines almost seem too big for such a tiny framework, and coupled with the Hannah Diamond-style vocal ("platform shoes, kick so hard / ponytail, yank so hard"), it sounds like a parody of machismo UK dance music.