Singles for the week starting 21 May!

Dan Le Sac
Play Along
(Sunday Best)
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In which the minxy voice of Sarah Williams White gets digitally stretched into pleasingly warped shapes over some early '80s neon beats. Le Sac has provided a nicely aired electro-environment here, which I'd feel perfectly happy toning my thighs to in a GMTV workout-meets-TRON sort of way. The music doesn't express anything particularly committal one way or the other, but there you go - it 'aint supposed to be the goddamn opera is it?
Ric Rawlins



Breton
Jostle / Foam
(Fat Cat Records)
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New art popsters on the block Breton use an addictive tribal groove as the floor on which they build their Fiction-esque pop escapades on 'Jostle', which is a hookless but instantaneously enjoyable ride as it builds to a crunchy, valve-blowing climax.
Over on second A side, 'Foam' is a slightly more 8-bit and luminous affair, kicking to a New Order, 'Blue Monday' style drum machine and a meditative blanket of guitars and beeps. It's a decent, get up and go tune, though neither A-side quite shoots the dart of true love into your breastplates.
Cindy Suzuki



The Coronas
Addicted To Progress
(Lix Records)
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Nicely encapsulating that chased, night time drive feeling within an indie-rock disco tune, The Coronas are making promising waves with 'Addicted To Progress'. This is largely thanks to an imaginative interplay between siren guitars and relentless drums, a mellowly pleasing turn on the vox - and some rather tasty, Massive Attack-echoing piano parts too.
Danny Canning

TV Buddhas
Band In The Modern World EP
(TROST Records)
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Pleasingly gruff-voiced shoegaze punk rock here, in a not entirely dissimilar vain to Crocodiles. That said, Tel Aviv's TV Buddhas do have more of an urgent spring in their step: the title track here sounds like The Stooges kick boxing their way out of an intergalactic worm hole, while 'Phantom Depression' has the adrenalin and revolution-hungry spirit of The MC5. Excellent stuff!



Turnpike Glow
Inflatable Optimism EP
(Fünke Pop)
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There's a nicely fuzzy weirdness to this EP that suggest that Rome's Turnpike Glow have been accidentally hoovered up and coughed out again. Eccentricity is certainly their calling card: '1986' accents each shouty chorus with a twisted and grinning falsetto, while the more accessible 'No More Dancing' could almost be The B-52s on an '80s NME covermount casette.
Meanwhile, the hyperdelic attitude of '90s Beck is recalled by 'The Turn, The Pike And The Glow', a wild and untidy scramble for optimism that surfs its indie-pop clutter to deliver something ultimately entertaining.
Daniel T Jones

Hooray For Earth
True Loves
(Memphis Industries)
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Just in time for sun to rear its crafty head over the UK, here's a perfectly likeable burst of Big Pinkish slow-motion indie ecstasy. It won't invade your brain with catchiness, but there's still a nice balance between earthy naturalism and electro euphoria being achieved here.
Cindy Suzuki