Out This Week

So 'Big Brother' is over for another year and you suddenly have an extra eight hours in your week. Why not make a start at filling this new expanse of free time by perusing this week's offering of singles...

Girls Aloud 'Sexy! No No No...' (Polydor)
And the award for most experimental, futuristic and exciting musical innovation goes to... Girls Aloud. Again. This time, production/writing team Xenomania have taken the 'Wake Me Up' template (i.e. make a pop record that sounds like two robots kicking in your door) and added the sound a tank would make if a tank could play a synthesiser. On the downside, it's lacking a top line of melody to make it more than just an assault on the senses. And the fade out at the end is criminally lazy. But it's still one thousand times better than [rummages around in the Top 40 to find a name] Newton Faulkner will ever come up with. And they have far nicer hair.


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More...
The Rumble Strips 'Girls And Boys In Love'
Not as good as Dexys, but better than...
James Blunt '1973'
Just what was our James getting up to a year before he was born?
Reverend And The Makers 'He Said He Loved Me'
From the man who dances like a robot from 1984...
Candie Payne 'One More Chance'
A Zuton relation plus a Mark Ronson equals...
The Go! Team 'Doing It Right'
The Brighton samplers still make us want to dance like loons...
Example 'So Many Roads'
We had lunch with the rapper recently, you know...
Grace 'Sink Like A Stone'
A new category we'd like to see in HMV: Slightly Rock...
Rooney 'When Did Your Heart Go Missing?'
Something we can imagine Molly Ringwald dancing to...
Bat For Lashes 'Prescilla'
The Mercury favourite is best listened to in the woods.


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