Out This Week

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...

Wallis Bird 'Moodsets' (Island)
Let's get this out of the way, because it's irrelevant but fascinating: Ireland's 24-year-old Wallis Bird plays guitar despite having all the fingers of her left hand cut off in a lawnmower accident. We'll let that image settle in. Anyway, thanks to surgeons and her own ingenious decision to turn her guitar upside down, you'd never notice. What you will notice is a forceful new artist who starts off like a wiser Natalie Imbruglia and before you know it is wailing and thrashing away like an angry Natasha Bedingfield. We'll let that image settle in too.





Nelly Furtado 'In God's Hands'
How does she fit so many singles on just one album?
Brinkman 'Change It'
Is all this 'new' music just recycled dad-rock?
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?
Laura Veirs 'Saltbreakers'
Like falling in love in a pot of gooey treacle...


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