Spinning Around

Unklejam - What Am I Fighting For?
Unklejam’s last single was horrible, but this - the latest in 2007’s trend for songs that sound like they’re from the past and the future at the same time - is sublime. If there was any justice this would be a definite top-five single, despite the ridiculously brisk fade out.

Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
Age-old melancholy electro of the sort that most resembles an icecap melting inside your heart. It’s fair to say this is quite beautiful, if a little hammy.

Tiesto - Adagio For Strings
PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS IN THE AIR, etc.

Goldfrapp
Were quite good, weren’t they?

Mika - Love Today (Patrick Wolf Remix)
Or the simple act of turning the worst record of the year so far into something quite considerably better. This is completely bonkers, just like Patrick himself.

Groove Armada - Out Of Control (Song For Mutya)
This week we are especially enjoying how the bridge basically consists of Mutya having a conversation with herself about how she should probably calm down and drive safely.

Pot, Kettle, Mediocre

Apparently Mika has said that the Scissor Sisters are “so mediocre I can’t believe it”.

Now, we’re no experts on irony, but isn’t that a bit rich coming from a man whose best song sounds very much like a mediocre Scissor Sisters album track? And one off their second album at that?

There was a time when Mika seemed like quite a good pop star. Not as good as some people were trying to make out, but competent nonetheless. Recently though he’s been on a slide towards rubbishness that's culminated in a ridiculous, six-year-old-kid-on-acid performance at the South by Southwest music festival and the release of his new single ‘Love Today’.

Everything you need to know about Love Today:

1) It is probably one of the worst songs ever.
2) That’s it.

Mika: Shhhhh!