We’ve been playing this song over and over on the radio show for weeks now. We love it so much that, even though there’s not a proper video to go with it, we just had to post it on Radio Caroline TV. Race Horses used to be called Radio Luxembourg, so we love them already. Benidorm is the shiniest pop anthem we’ve heard all year.

Fairewell may be just one guy, Johnny White, but he’s made a brilliant and expansive record with a psychedelic wall of sound that takes the listener on a trip…. a bus trip.

Fairewell’s dream pop shows that there is poetry in the simplest things that we see all around us. In fact I found myself captivated by the lyrics that from what I could make out seem to be about going to the shops – on the bus – when it’s snowing.

A winter warmer and just what we need now the nights are drawing in.

Deep Sea Arcade must have been trawling through some old record boxes recently. This brilliant single is spy movie music that has enough of a nod to the past to soak up some really good influences, but not too much to stray into pastiche. But where they held back with the music, they really went to town with video – complete with ‘groovy’ graphics and Ready-Steady-Go dancing-girls. A top tune.

We liked the last single from Let’s Buy Happiness so much (Fast Fast in case you’re wondering), that we played this new one on our radio show without even giving it a listen first. We just love living on the edge. Did we regret it? Play it six times in a row? Turn it off half way through?  Invent our own ‘record of the year’ feature so that this could be it?Look, stop asking so many questions and listen in for a change! We actually really loved it, and that’s why we’ve posted the video here. Great pop song.

I’m ecstatic to see the return of David Thomas Broughton. I first stumbled across David, mid performance, late one night at the End Of The Road Festival. I had never seen anything like it before, or since come to think of it. David is a compelling performer, building layers of live  guitar and vocal loops, and subtly adding sounds from the on-stage equipment, or things left lying around. On that first night in a tent in Dorset, he left the stage through a gap in the side – I thought the show was over and turned to leave – only to find DTB heading back towards me, diving back on stage and creating even more sonic wonderfulness. A truly unique and talented artist, his new record, Outbreeding blends the looped elements of his live show with perfectly composed song structures and wry, witty storytelling.  A real understated genius.