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Snoop Dogg ft. Justin Timberlake - Signs
This is just brilliant. Great horn sample, Snoop sounds good and the Justin bits bring to mind the best bits of Justified. Can't help but find myself singing it for hours after I've heard it and it keeps pushing me to try embaressing dance moves whilst doing the dishes. Proves the Neptunes haven't lost their touch.

Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh
Should really pick up their singles disc as they have had some great singles over the last few years and surprisingly for being the new track put on to pad out the hits comp this is fantastic. I never quite recognise it at first when the verses start off but when it hits that chorus, joy be unconfined. Easily up there with Red Alert, Romeo, Where's Your Head At etc.

The Tears - Refugees
I initially got stupidly excited about Bernard and Brett being back together even if it is simply a marriage of convenience for two underperforming careers. Suede came out at an important time for me and those first two albums and attendant singles still stand up as something special. I think the band lost a lot of what had made them important and special after Bernard left so messily, even if the Coming Up album was such a big hit; the mystery had disappeared with him.

So, here they are back together and this sounds pretty good though the decadence and mystery have unsurprisingly not reappeared. Bernard is still great on guitar, still exciting. Brett's lyrics haven't changed a jot, singing about the kids and the streets and the high rise flats. You would have thought he might have moved on but I suppose that's his style and he's sticking to it. The sound is a bit more like Coming Up than the two records that Butler was actually involved in which means rather too many trebly synth lines for my liking. They need to turn up the guitar and turn down those synths. All in all, it's not bad and the album's ok too though I'm not going to get gushy about it. Hope they get the chance to make a second record to see where this goes.

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