The Latest Singles Released in the UK

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THE KLAXONS - Twin Flames

The Klaxons were the KLF (or The Shaman) of the 21st Century when their area-age debut album landed in our laps in 2006. Nevertheless, they had been thankfully a lot superior. Positive, bits of the album sounded like they had been "a bunch of incredibly badly dressed jokers who had been whinging it", but it was a damn fine album nonetheless - specifically these fantastic catchy pop singles. The new album, 4 years later, sadly failed to capture the record-selecting public's imagination in the identical way.

This is a shame, as their new album consists of some nuggets, with this being 1 of them. These pounding drums and dirty strung out guitars deep in the background with the old nu-rave sound is nevertheless there, but metal producer Ross Robinson has scuzzed it up slightly and left us with nu-rave distortion. The brilliant backing vocals gives the tune the traditional Klaxons weird pop-hook. Twin Flames is hot and the Klaxons are on fire...but the pop purists may perhaps get a bit of a sore head.

Rated four out of five

THE ANSWERING MACHINE - Animals

Manchester's The Answering Machine came to our attention in 2006 when they got a bit of praise in the music press for sounding like The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand, only not pretty as fantastic as either. Nonetheless, at least they showed a great deal of guarantee.

We all know that when bands attain their second album they constantly claim to have matured. Have The Answering Machine matured? Quite possibly not. Very well, they have released a song that begins off like the Foals with fantastic twangy bits and turns into [insert what ever band we are trying to think of but we sadly couldn't keep in mind] in the chorus - which lets down the side slightly. But general the song is fun and infectious, regardless of a feeling of becoming vaguely familiar.

Rated 3 out of 5

NATALIE McCOOL - Shoot Shoot EP

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natalie McCool, 22, has been praised by the likes of DJ Mark Radcliffe, Coldplay's Chris Martin and some old geezer named Paul McCartney. You have to admit that it is kinda cool for an unknown artist to get a bit of well known support.

There is a bit of a possibility that with a bit of guidance and fantastic fortune that there might possibly be a young PJ Harvey lurking inside her. Somebody give her a copy of Polly's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea this Christmas and we shall all cross our fingers at Banana HQ in the hope that her record label don't attempt and turn her into flippin' KT Tunstall.

Rated three out of 5

LIZZIE NIGHTINGALE - Left Best Left

Glaswegian Lizzie Nightingale is a soulful-ish songstress who is signed to indie label 25 Hour Convenience Retailer, who are backed by The Libertines drummer Gary Powell. This girl appears destined to try to challenge Duffy and Adele as the contemporary Queen of Radio 2's playlist and bring about that Steve Wright bloke to get all excited.

Left Right Left is a good sufficient debut, showcasing the distinctive and spectacular voice of the "wee young lassie"! The marching drum beat is a bit annoying though and the previously talked about Duffy and Adele do not definitely search like they risk losing their crowns pretty but.

Rated three out of five

RIHANNA - Only Girl (In The Planet)

Firstly, she is not a girl - she is a woman. Secondly, there are around three,291,805,000 females in the planet. But it is undoubtedly a song about how Rihanna desires to be created to feel like she is the only girl in the world...and possibly not be utilized as a punchbag by some testosterone-filled pranny.

Anyway, this is a bouncy and breezy pop providing and lively sufficient to tick all the commercial radio boxes, but it just proves to be an additional reminder that the poor girl really hasn't had a song that comes close to the poptastic Umbrella.

Rated 1 out of five

JAMES BLUNT - Keep The Night

We are afraid that this most recent providing from James Blunt, Remain The Evening, hasn't changed our mean standpoint on the bland artist.

What has occurred to Mr Blunt here even though? We expected a heart-wrenching ballad for recently dumped simpletons and your mum. Yet, a vibrant and content little summer song pops up just to anger us as we start out to crank up our boilers to preserve warm. This is as annoying as you will have anticipated.

Rated two out of 5

CHERYL COLE - Guarantee This

Quite possibly the luckiest girl in the historical past of celebrity-ism delivers her most current single. We all know the story, a typical-as-muck Geordie lass with the IQ of a..well, a Geordie, joins Girls Aloud, marries (and then divorces) a footballer, and has miraculously managed to carve out a solo pop profession based mostly on the fact that some guys (and Simon Cowell) come across her pleasing on the eye. Nevertheless somehow this has been confused as currently being "inspirational" by some men and women.

This dull beat and synth combo provides us as a lot pleasure as the removal of nasal hairs. It is designed to grow to be both a enormous chart hit and also make appearances in nightclubs on a Saturday evening, but it is a soulless offering that has incredibly tiny going for it no matter how a large number of times you hear it.