This week's singles round up was brought to you late in association with too much red wine on a Sunday afternoon.

Mos Wanted Mega (feat. Janee) - Touch My
Grime at its most catchy, Mos Wanted Mega's Touch Me is an infectious tune that could break into the mainstream over the summer. Not usual TMF fare by any stretch, but Janee's vocals soften the edges of what would otherwise be a much harder grime track. Recommended. (CP)

Team Waterpolo - Letting Go
As a taster of their upcoming album, this is a pretty good, eighties influenced, track from the Franz Ferdinand / Editors mould lacking the usual dreary MOR sound that we've come accustomed to with the more established bands. Already garnering plenty of praise in its demo form, this rehashed version of the song is a much more rounded piece that benefits rather than suffers from improved production. (CP)

Cymbals Eat Guitars - ... And The Hazy Sea
What sounds like the bastard love child of an unholy union between Radiohead and the Stereophonics taking all of the worst, most depressing elements of those two bands and creating a whole new level of dirge. Excuse me while I go slice off my ears. (CP)

Little Boots - Remedy
The record company have clearly decided that shiny pink campery is the way to recoup their investment. Dolts. Like just about everything on the irresistable 'Hands', 'Remedy' convinces by dint of execution as well as construction, but there are meatier moments within it's silvery walls. If the quivering magnificence of album apex 'Stuck on Repeat' is just not obvious enough for those doing the sums, then you'd think their cynicism would lead them to plump for the Phil Oakey-led 'Symmetry' instead. Or 'Mathematics', with its gymnastic wordplay and multiple choruses. Forgive me for spoiling the fun and all that. 'Remedy' is fantastic as far as it goes, but all its overt synth-pop styling does is tell the wider world, who clearly don't want to be spoon-fed, that they were right to stick most of their chips on the one with the quiff and the one with the legs. (GK)

Ghost Cat - This is a Bust
Shame this doesn't light the fuse like the blurb would have you hope. Talk of Kilburn art collectives, singer Ali Cat (snigger) growing up alongside Crystal Castles, guerilla art aspirations, name-checking the Kills and Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, plans (of course) to take over the world. Pfft. I tell you what - it's a good job they also mention The Ting Tings in the press gubbins but even that level of hubris isn't enough to divert me : the exact same jerky beat, the semi-petulant vocal stylings, the outrageously similar middle eight ... That's not your song ! That's not your song ! 'This is a Bust' is such larceny, and it's far from grand. (GK)

The X Why - Down2YourLow
A blend of funk-soul attitude and dance reminiscent of Plantlife. (Better known reference points provided by the PR agency are Justice, Prince, Sly Stone, Soft Cell and Marvin Gaye.) It's not bad, but falls short of the mighty heights of, say, When She Smiles She Lights The Sky. The Dogsax remix seduces with a piano hook not far removed from that in Liquid's rave classic, Sweet Harmony. (JD)

Single of the Week

Dan Arborise - You'll All Get What's Coming To You
This is the second week in a row in I've been sent a single by a male singer-songwriter which has challenged my prejudices. You'll All Get What's Coming To You is the sort of quality twisted folk/country that could easily have sat on the wonderful Dead Man's Shoes soundtrack. Epic b-side, Cries, begins in a typical acoustic manner but introduces subtle guitar effects which put me in mind of Doves. Our own Steven Burnett reckons the album is a corker. You can read his review here. (JD)

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