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...

James Blunt '1973' (Atlantic)
For anyone wondering just what James Blunt would've been doing in a club in 1973 (one year before he was born) we can help. The song is co-written by Dave Matthews Band producer Mark Batson, whose MySpace page reveals him to be 47 years old. That explains that particular lyric. For those of you wondering how the normally execrable Blunt has returned with a song that's actually a sublimely breezy facsimile of classic Fleetwood Mac-style AOR, then we reckon the same answer probably applies.


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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...
Girls Aloud 'Sexy! No No No...'
The sound of a tank playing a synthesizer, but in a good way.
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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