The Midweek Chart

What is hot and what is not.

1) Kid Sister - Switch Board
This is the flipside to Kid Sister’s not-rubbish-but-not-exactly-brilliant-either new one ‘Pro Nails’ and was brought to our attention by the glorious Northernights, who call it “a searing 150bpm club banger” (they are not wrong). ‘Switch Board’ is basically a load of uptempo madness, improved massively by not having Kanye West drawling lazily all over the shop.

2) Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground
This Blaqstar-produced bass monster has been sending earthquake-grade shockwaves through US clubland, as 16-year-old MIA protégé Rye Rye rhymes hypnotically about shaking various things and being a “ghetto superstore” (she is probably saying ‘star’).

3) Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Obviously.

4) Zoot Woman - We Won’t Break
The latest - and quite possibly greatest - example of this year‘s major trend: records that sound like they are being beamed directly to your brain by robots from the year 3007. This one will lodge itself in your spinal column and spread gleeful futurepop endorphins through every synapse in your body.

5) The Human League - Mirror Man
Proof, if it was ever needed, that Motown would have sounded at least seven times as good had it been made by people from Sheffield.

6) Depeche Mode - Dead Of Night
Fans of BBC2’s regal fuckfest The Tudors will recognise this heavy duty number from the show’s trailers. It sounds like The Knife’s uncles doing an impression of The Knife doing an impression of an armada of ships coming to kick your arse and shag your sister. Brutal.