BORN from the pen of David McAlmont, Kennington is indelibly marked with his penchant for indulgently jazzy blues.

A CHARACTERISTICALLY charismatic, direct title from Martha here.

ADOPT an angle about 45 degrees from the speakers and pelt your face with a really high speed fan to shape an expression somewhere between surprised and enduring G-force and you've about recreated a physical interpretation of Hadouken's latest offering.

MADONNA is a canny pop star. Her Hard Candy received mixed reviews but the odd track was not met with derision and this is one of them.

THE Feeling release this third single from Join With Us and they sound more like Supertramp than they ever did, but crossed with a few riffs from ELO.

THE beginning of this track is all a bit strange.

ALL You Really Have To Do has made a long journey to get here.

FIRST impressions? Great name, although of course it asks for bad puns along the lines of, "The Dodos are ready for extinction".

LIKE Japan or The Cure circa 1983, Black Kids have an irresistible understanding of dark-disco. Hurricane Jane is about as light as their palette gets, but it disguises a sorry tale of loneliness and excess.

THE Dr Who of music (always messing about with the space-time continuum and landing in unpredictable places), Beck is at it again.

HIP-HOP legend Busta Rhymes returns with We Made It featuring multi-platinum selling band Linkin Park.

EQUAL parts Led Zeppelin (filtered through The Black Crows) and Beck's Loser, Ain't No Rest For The Wicked swaggers around a cool alt-country lick, lunging like Iggy and pouting like Jagger.

IT could be a real career staller, but Dirty Pretty Things are helplessly English to their very core.

I DON'T know what it is that makes supermodels want to sing. I just can’t explain it. Admittedly Kate Moss’ vocals on Babyshambles’ 'La Belle et la Bête' weren’t bad but to be honest Agyness Deyn’s voice is just annoying.

MARIAH Carey's diva demands are legendary, and perhaps it's those ugly displays of materialistic excess that make the equation of Mariah + Sentiment = Believable so difficult to add up.

RE-RELEASED after northern lad George Sampson bodypopped his way into the public affections to it on Britain's Got Talent, Singin' In The Rain is an iTunes ad-type of reworking of a Gene Kelly classic.

IT'S all in the title: Electric Feel, or more accurately electric grope.

IF The Courteeners have written anything to earn a reputation as Libertines-lite, it's No You Didn't, No You Don't.

THIS is the third single from the metal Welsh wizards’ second album Scream Aim and Fire and is definitely one of their best songs.

SYMPATHY is not what Edwyn Collins was seeking when he got back behind the microphone after his near fatal serious of strokes.

TWO words for you… identity crisis. I mean don’t get me wrong I’m all for mixing it up but this just does not work.

TAKEN from forthcoming Signature LP, this North London rapper’s current mixtape The Dotted Lines has been played up and down the country. 

NOT an exploratory musical journey into the weekly dramas of the Butchers and the Mitchells, no.

WHAT? Heads filled with wasp nests? Weak heart vessels? Spontaneous combustion?

DO you remember The Libertines? Do you remember why they were so good? It was their lyrical romanticism, their poetic turns of phrase, Pete and Carl's ambivalent, twisted, tragic relationship.

FOLLOWING their big hit Big City Life and worldwide tour, Mattafix have mixed unusual musical styles such as dub and ragga, electro, beat boxing with woodwind instruments and cheesy pop choruses.

SO little Joe Lean's inexplicably morphed into Gruff Rhys for this, but that's the most engaging thing about his latest record.

CELEBRATING their 20th anniversary this year, the track is taken from new album Letters from the Underground.

A SMITHS, Wham, ABC and Bros frenetic genetic freak has been spawned by the Mystery Jets, but there is no need to be scared.

SCHMALTZY, over-produced, grasping in the dark for a quirk or identity to call it own, Say (All I Need) opts for the more is more approach and tosses in every musical concept it can get its hands on.

UGGHH, that title! You know it's going to be bad when the song is called 'Miracle', full of profound wisdom and saccharine song writing that is less palatable than the thought of banging your head against a bolder-dash wall.

FOR a group so regularly accused of being boring they’re certainly never short of fanfare when they return.

THE clever video featuring the brilliant Sir Ian McKellen, the lush strings, the silky backing vocals and the romantic chorus, prove that this band have progressed.

NEVER one to let such trivialities as a life threatening illness hold him back, Jason Pierce’s glorious return is as bold, heart-warming and soulful as has ever been heard from his Spiritualized outfit.

DOUBLE-A screams that some serious bets are being hedged.

GLASWEGIANS The Fratellis sound like a band stuck in a rut (and, for that matter the local pub).

JEEPERS, keeping track of the latest musical movements in The Zutons studio is about as tricky as pinning down the boss for a pay rise.