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So the reign of Rihanna's 'Umbrella' is finally over. Timbaland snatched it off her and blew with all his mighty pop strength into it until it was all inside out and broken. Something that this week's role call of pop hopefuls will probably be quite happy about ...

Brinkman 'Change It' (His Master's Voice)
We can't help feeling that a lot of this 'new' music that seems to do very well in the charts and gets people like Fearne Cotton excited is starting to sound a lot like re-heated dad-rock. And therefore makes us want to reach for a gun. Take Brinkman, for example. Three young lads writing perky pop rock, slightly tainted by The Kinks or The Who yet lacking either of those bands' vitality, made more anodyne by modern production clarity and manly, uninteresting vocals. It's no surprise they're supporting Travis and Paul Weller on tour. Good grief. Did we fight in the electro wars for nothing?

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Nelly Furtado 'In God's Hands'
How does she fit so many singles on just one album?
Cribs 'Moving Pictures'
Does this explain why Cribs haven't broken through?
David Guetta 'Love Is Gone'
Has love gone or has it just nipped off for a weekend break?
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster 'In The Garden'
Two members of The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster walk into a bar...
Maps 'You Don't Know Her Name'
How to be on the wrong side of the paparazzi in not the usual way...
Rufus Wainwright 'Rules And Regulations'
Someone should hypnotize our Rufus and have a word.
Lumidee 'Crazy'
Can Lumidee top the out of tune brilliance of that 'uh-oooh uh-oooh' one?
Wallis Bird 'Moodsets'
From Imbruglia to Bedingfield in one quick movement...
Laura Veirs 'Saltbreakers'
Like falling in love in a pot of gooey treacle...


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