In shops tomorrow: 9/1

The record industry only really gets back up to full speed next week, so no albums to speak of - good that the Strokes got in there while they could, isn't it? - and on the singles racks it's looking slightly slow too. That one that samples the Baywatch theme in the modern dance way can fuck off, for a start. Not fucking off: Coldcut unleash their idea of folktronica on Man In A Garage, early Tips For '06 candidates The Crimea try not to let on that Lottery Winners On Acid first came out a touch more than three years ago and even Sony's most expensive TV advert ever fails to make Jose Gonzalez's superior cover of The Knife's Heartbeats attractive to most of radio. Tch.