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...

The Rumble Strips 'Girls And Boys In Love' (Island)
Standing behind The Fratellis in the queue for indie anthem success are Devonshire four piece The Rumble Strips. We first paid attention to The Strips because we'd heard them compared with Dexys Midnight Runners, though they actually sound more like the less-vibrant Dexys spin-off group The Blue Ox Babes (and if you've heard of them then we know you by name and have probably been to your house for tea). Anyway, what we're saying is that The Rumble Strips are not as good as Dexys Midnight Runners, but then who is? They are, however, much better than The Fratellis, though they sound nothing like them. And here we see the problem with comparisons.


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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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