Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn off This is a simple, charming singalong by the Marseilles band who play a slinky acoustic style that sounds like French country music. A great summer song that just won't go away. Allegedly "troubled" R B singers often write songs protesting all is well, but they're rarely as exciting as this, on which North London's premier gob-on-a-stick loudly declines to join Tom Chaplin, Pete Doherty and Justin Hawkins' ghastly-sounding knees-up around the Priory joanna, to the strains of a crackling 1960s soul pastiche.
The forthcoming Rudebox album is both ridiculous and sublime. Here, the Pet Shop Boys help craft an unexpectedly moving synth ballad about dumping a "civilian" in order to woo Mrs Ritchie. Not based on a true story.
Mrs Elvis Costello's new album fulfils the perennial human need to occasionally be diverted by beautiful jazz standards, beautifully sung. Brass-laden summer hit that never was. They're not Russian and it's not about Paul Simon.
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