The week's 7" get slaughtered, sorry, reviewed...Singled out!

Did someone forget to tell the Freestylers that when Five Star tried to make a come back they failed? Managing to sing this track with all the enthusiasm of a QVC presenter, this aerobic workout music doesn’t really work.  ‘Push Up’ has been released 20 years too late.  As its not 1982 anymore, this isn’t original and is just plain crap.

‘New Home New Life’ being on general release will probably coincide with an increase of suicide attempts. The most interesting thing about this dull and depressing single from The Alarm is that Mike Peters sounds amazingly like the winner of World Idol.  The Lyrics of the track tell us to "Change your voice", Mike should pay attention to his own advice.

There’s nothing positive I can say about ‘Why Wont You Talk About It’ by Swedish four piece The Radio Dept. Anyone who has dialled a fax machine by accident and heard it screech, needn’t bother listening to this, because that’s exactly what it sounds like. 

‘Do To You’ is the type of Euro trash you get used to when you go clubbing abroad, where ten seconds after you stop listening, its erased from memory.  This party track by Infusion would be better suited to one of those chat line adverts that appear on television late at night.

I Am Kloot’s collaboration with Dr Who’s Christopher Eccleston, will probably overshadow the quality of this single.  The follow up to ‘From Your Favourite Sky’, ‘Proof’ has Manchester stamped all over it.

Somehow Lucky Jim sound like retired cowboys on this new single ‘You’re Lovely To Me’. Crooning and wailing their way through this track, taken from current album ‘Our Troubles End Tonight’, My troubles ended when I stopped listening to this.

‘Summer's Here’ is a confusing piece of background music.  It’s unclear whether Magnus are just as bored by the single as I was, or whether their blandness was intentional. This is the first release from their debut album ‘The Body Gave You Everything’. It's simply not strong enough to be a single, but would be a useful filler for any group in a desperate rush to release a debut album.  Unsurprisingly, this bland piece of production has been used as the title track for the Independent movie ‘Any Way the Wind Blows’ .

Now this wouldn’t be so bad, if the vocals were removed.  The crappy All Saints type telephone conversation at the beginning of ‘Books’ is about as good as it gets.  This is a disappointing follow up to the successful ‘I’m a Cuckoo’. Belle & Sebastian have got complacent.