Best songs of 2021 #7

The Celt’s Seamus Enright, Thomas Lyons, Eddie Butler, Linda O’Reilly, and Damian McCarney, sift through the releases of the last year and rank their top 10.

7. Jake Hynes: Love is Blinding

Here’s a dancefloor filler from a DJ who put lockdown to good use and worked his socks off on tracks that are being snapped up by record labels galore.

Previously operating under the moniker Red J, Jake - who has two degrees in music - has left his alter ego aside and now spins the decks under his own name. Love is Blinding is proof enough of why his new found confidence is well placed. The layered sophistication to the production is unreal, and the pared back way in which track closes is class, but the real pay-off is in the chorus: it’s truly impossible not to dance to.