The unfeasibly chirpy Irish beach boys clones whack out with this great, slightly more moody track – you know they’ve missed the mark slightly when this single gets released half way through November rather than the ‘blazing summer’ days of July (ignoring the usual English weather), but its still nice to imagine, isn’t it? Complete with “doo-waa-ooh” lyrics, it forms an indispensable part of your surf holiday mix-tape.

Although you might have seen them perform a rather terrible version of this song live, be advised that it isn’t actually that bad. It isn’t amazing, but it sits somewhere in between Primal Scream and Supergrass, which can’t be all that terrible.

B&S have refined their style so much that this is possibly their catchiest single so far, a brilliant, quirky first release from Dear Catastrophe Waitress – possibly their best album to date. Telling the tale of a newly-hired waitress making a big impression, it has got rumpy-pump trumpets and flutes (conjuring images of delicately balanced, highly-stacked bowls and plates, if you couldn’t tell what ‘rumpy-pump’ meant).

You! Rock out pretty damn hard with Muse! It’s the second single from their slightly more mature album Absolution! And Its pretty good, too – not as catchy as Time is Running Out, but what it lacks in brains it makes up in big spades full of balls.

A song which can’t seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be hard rock or a kind of weird pop ballad. It doesn’t really do much as either though, nor does it really develop or build, partly due to some rather unimaginative production. Nonetheless the mix is an entirely feasible one, and might well give the little teen-rockers something catchy to listen to.

Rather unfortunately, this edit of the track is kind of reminiscent of Erasure and all the appalling synth-disco-pop of the eighties. Despite this though, it still somehow survives to deliver an alright single. Doesn’t really do very much, but the thumping bass-drum and octave ‘bom-bam-bom-bam’ bass guitar keeps it plodding along. Makes more sense on the album though, to be honest. Different versions of the single have different mixes, so try to get the one with the ‘dfa dub’ mix and avoid the others…

5 years ago, no-one would have dared to imagine that a brilliant band like the Chili’s would stoop so low as to release a greatest hits album (ignoring the representation of their unheard, pretty much unavailable back catalogue in What Hits? Which is an entirely different thing). So fast forward to today, they’ve been releasing a collection of pseudo-rock ballads, and the idea is a lot less surprising. This song is the ‘new material’ on the best of, and it sounds like they dragged it out of the very plastic of the bin itself, after the record company have pre-scraped for b-sides. Not a good sign.