Out This Week

The weather people are predicting torrential downpours for later this week, but that is unlikely to affect Rihanna and her seemingly titanium Umbrella. But let's see what other, less protected stars will also be battling the elements...

Andrea Corr 'Shame On You (To Keep My Love From Me)' (Atlantic)
Cute pop colleen Andrea Corr is back - without her army of siblings this time - to lavish pretty dollops of tweeness on us once more. Tin whistles, twiddly violins and soft-focus sensibilities have been dispatched in favour of an altogether more disco-poppy feel - but it's all just a bit dull. There is a hint of the cool, flat delivery of Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell about Ms Corr's expressionless trilling though, plus the lyrics have strength (this is a "protest song about conscription and war" after all.) Musically, however - particularly given the emotive subject matter - this is an insipid return.




Take That 'I'd Wait For Life'
Why are the aging boy band trying to build a rockery on Robbie's patch?
Husky Rescue 'Caravan'
Soothing Finnish sounds that never venture far off-piste.
Pharoahe Monch 'Body Baby'
Elvis meets the Big Bopper for a round of tea and scones...
Pull Tiger Tail 'Hurricanes'
The feline torturers deliver a splendidly urgent, jangly racket.
Richard Swift 'The Songs Of National Freedom'
Leo Sayer plus Beatles plus Joanna equals...
Ciara ft Chamillionaire 'Get Up'
What will be pumping out of cars all summer long.
Tracey Thorn 'Raise The Roof'
The EBTG girl has matured into a fluttery butterfly...
Kate Nash ' Foundations'
The girl we're no longer referring to as the 'new Lily Allen' (oops) comes good.
The Horrors 'She Is The New Thing'
Is there more to this lot that the silly hair and make-up?


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