Blog: XO's Middle Eight

First, Emeli's new single, Next To Me , is catchy as fck, no help from a bland performance video... Note, that is the trailer. You can watch the full thing on Vevo , which is not embeddable. But the bad news, as Popjustice said last week: Going by the very brief samples below, Emeli's album is wall to wall balladry of the schmaltzy kind. [...]