The White Stripes – The Hardest Button To Button (XL Recordings)

Yet another great track from Elephant with yet another great bassline. There’s a good reason why everybody loves The White Stripes. It’s because they’re fantastic - head and shoulders above the competition. The single’s backed with a live version of St Ides Of March, a track by fellow Detroit blues combo, The Soledad Brothers. The CD version also features the video.

Ludes – She Was Just A Girl/Your Dog Don’t Bite (Double Dragon)

The first double A-side from London’s Ludes. Despite coming from the capital they have something Liverpooly about them with a pleasing gypsy-blues aesthetic. Really good.

Primal Scream – Some Velvet Morning (Columbia)

The Scream rework a track from last year’s Evil Heat to promote their Greatest Hits. Bizarrely featuring Kate Moss, it sounds like a souped-up electro version of the Get Carter theme.

Radiohead – 2+2=5 (Parlophone)

The opening track from Hail To The Thief and the one that most lives up to the “it’s like OK Computer” claim. A short sharp burst of weird energy, it could only be Radiohead.

The Tenderfoot – Waking Me Up Again (5:15 Records)

A melancholic, melodic scruffy shuffle from Brighton, cut from the same cloth as The Super Furries and Badly Drawn Boy. A delicate acoustic wash of catchy niceness.

Matt Walton 14 November 03

All singles released 17 November 03.