Singles for the Week starting 24 October!

Tribes
When My Day Comes
(Island Records)
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Sometimes it takes a band who write tunes to remind you that most bands don’t. ‘When My Day Comes’ has the feel of a tune with big regrets but the optimism to save the day at the last minute, in this case an age-old friendship which has fallen on the railway tracks. Quality guitar pop.
Chris Canning

The Leisure Society
Dust on the Dancefloor
(Full Time Hobby)
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With its folky tinge, melancholy lyric and yet merry temperament, ‘Dust on the Dancefloor’ is a lovely thing very much in keeping with Mr Belle and Mrs Sebastian. Building as it does to a swelling “la, la la” climax (ahem), it certainly makes you want to check them out further.
Stuart Gadd

Beaty Heart
Slush Puppy / Cola
(Worry Free)
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This new EP from South London three-piece Beaty Heart shares some hallmarks with Animal Collective’s tribal psychedelics, but has enough voodoo of its own to stand proud. ‘Slush Puppy’ feels like a thought bubble floating through a cavernous rainforest, with the BBC’s Safari Orchestra on hand to strike up the marimbas and join the chattering macaws for a boogie.
Elsewhere, ‘We’re All Friends Here’ is the best track. With a gently strummed acoustic keeping the song anchored as the vocal floats up to the ceiling, this could be a widescreen Brian Eno production of native African music, with chanting and traditional rhythms melting into a puddle of electro drool.
Stuart Gadd