Download of the Week: Envy & Other Sins – Highness

After coming back from the brink to win Channel 4’s ‘indie X-Factor’, mobileAct Unsigned, at the end of last year, Birmingham-based four-piece Envy & Other Sins  certainly have a lot to look forward to in 2008 – and it all starts with Highness, the band’s debut single.Having been locked away in a London studio for the last five weeks working on a debut album with producer Danton Supple – whose previous clients include Elbow, Coldplay and Morrissey – the band are ready to prove themselves to their public on a huge UK tour that hits London tonight.mobileAct viewers (that’s pretty much anyone who spends Sunday mornings in bed with a hangover) will be familiar with Highness as the song the band performed on the final show. It’s the sound of Franz Ferdinand having a pillow fight with the Kaiser Chiefs while the Bluetones play Britpop covers next door and it’s just a little bit catchy.Here’s a challenge for you: listen to Highness and try not to hum the chorus immediately after the song’s finished. Can’t do it, can you? Thought not.www.envyandothersins.co.uk

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home