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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.This week, Joe is under the weather. A crap week for weather, a great week for singles (in the UK at least - we couldn’t possibly comment on any other country’s sunshine/music ratio). Heading up the avalanche of four-minute mini masterpieces are South Coast Byrds-alikes The Delays, who’ve strapped a throbbing disco undercarriage to their sound for their latest number, Lost In A Melody (Rough Trade). Pitched somewhere between The Stone Roses and Kraftwerk, it’s undoubtedly their finest single to date and should hopefully see them translating their acres of press coverage into actual record sales. With the days growing greyer, grimmer and shorter all the time, there’s no better time to welcome back the ever summery Lemon Jelly, who offer up a much-needed shot of pure aural sunshine with their newie, Stay With You (XL). The equally cheery lo-fi mash-up Ladyflash by The Go! Team (Memphis Industries) also gets a single release. Further beatific beats can be found on West London skankers The Dub Pistols’ Official Chemical (Distinctive), which features a super-positive hook designed to give you that freewheeling festival feeling: “Be what you want/Be what you like.” And for that sweet summer lovin’ sensation look no further than The Streets’ ultra-cute Could Well Be In (679). Anyway, enough daydreaming. Let us return to the midwinter mist with some slightly more shadowy sounds. Mildly sinister Liverpudlian art rockers Clinic bring the claustrophobic piano rock pressure on Circle Of Fifths (Domino); The Chalets drop a chic and angular indie pop bomb with Nightrocker (Setanta); and Newcastle’s Maximo Park combine the lab-coat funk of Franz Ferdinand and the perpetual motion of The Futureheads on the superb The Coast Is Always Changing (Warp). Be warned, however - the latter is a limited-to-500, seven-inch-vinyl-only release, so move swiftly or suffer grievous disappointment. Fans of Warp’s more traditional output, meanwhile, should keep an eye/ear out for London blip-hop chap Pedro’s fine Fear And Resilience EP (Melodic), which features remixes of the title track from the likes of Prefuse 73, Danger Mouse and the ever amazing Four Tet, whose epic reworking clocks in at an astonishing 22 minutes. Bargain. Downloads then. Fans of rocket-powered glam rock troupe Mooney Suzuki should head over to the Hardplace website forthwith, as a free four-track EP awaits them. (You will have to register your details). And, if you fancy a bit of slinky sci-fi drum’n’bass, download the sublime Shimmer from the homepage of Morgan Packard, one of the rising stars of the US avant-jungle scene. It’s “what a school of sardines sounds like while carrying out the orders of a sea god”, apparently. You maybe asked for your personal details to download these tracks.
Joe Madden
All singles are released on 22 November 04.
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