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Singles; If you want me - Hinda Hicks, Molly - Carrie
Albums; Future Signs - Warm Jets, This is Hardcore - Pulp

Latest Releases from V2 including Stereophonics - Local Boy in the Photograph

New singles:

If You Want Me
Hinda Hicks
On the rare occasions that Iím not working at something I sometimes, only sometimes, switch on the TV to banal out at Richard and Judy. So I did just that. Then appearing on the screen as I idly opened the post was new singing sensation, 21 year old Hinda Hicks (who sometimes expresses with refreshing honesty that she fell into singing because her friends did it. None of this soapstar, ëIíve always wanted to pursue my musicí rubbish.) She was singing If You Want Me, from her yet to be finished debut album. I looked down at the CD I had just liberated from itís package - It was self same single! Fate says itís a hit and Hinda will be huge. The song is also pretty good for the genre. Iím glad itís got the Spice Girls donít mess with me attitude rather than the victim stance of ëwomen powerí offered by the All Saints (Superior music, bad sentiments). It is this powerful attitude that carries the song - a power a lot of R&B Boys out there would love to capture. Hinda is in control and if you want her you had better be up to it.
Hindaís will also be releasing You Think You Own Me on 20th April. Check out those titles . . .

Molly
Carrie
This gang are giving us the perfect pop for the ëthrilleniumí but we seem to keep failing on our promises to them. Their last single, played contstantly on Radio 1, didnít make the dent it should have. Some gigs have been relaxed spacious affairs. At their last performance in Cambridge the band of four nearly outnumbered the crowd. Here again is a damn catchy single in the shape of Molly. A triste on sexual preferences of the 90ís in a refreshing way. Molly takes the male from behind ëlike a boyí. Steve Ludwin, the American vocalist is talking about female dominance. Is it perhaps like the old worry of sexist rock - the female subjugating the man rendering him powerless? No it doesnít seem like it. This guy knows where he stands - he wears a dress, stocking and has shaven legs ëbut [heís] still a maní. Would you catch Jagger et al confessing that? Zac Foley of EMF fame, Dennis Dicker and Bruce Pawsey add the backing, and Ludwinís Stipeian vocals help create a happy, melodic triving tune over the careful three chord bash, the likes of we should be consuming.
Carrie are touring from March 4th to May 24th.

New Albums:

Future Signs
Warm Jets
Never Never was a great single that should have gone number one. With its running guitar lines and melody invoking the spirit of Blonieís Union City Blues, it was a classic retro-futuristic:. This album is rather ëEnglishí. Louis Jones vocals are reminiscent of the thin white duke except he would never get as laid back and trancey as this lot do such as on Autopia - the simple bass lines, tried and tested guitar riffs. He would never write something as joyous as Silver Surfer either (itís better live). Sometimes they get all punk chordy but still itís laid back. Produced by Glyn Johns of the Clashís Combat Rock fame it is worth buying. The odd production grates at first but then it smoothes you over and swallows you up.
Hurricane, is the Warm Jets new single

This is Hardcore
Pulp
Pulp appeared for a moment with the release of Help The Aged and then promptly crept back behind the wall they have built. Perhaps after the mega exposure of their last album and never ending string of hit songs they thought a hit and run approach might be better for their own mental stability. Perhaps not. Because this new album will see them doing it again. Each song will come along and politely ask the pretenders to the throne to leave and then they will sit and reign with honesty and magnamity. Jarvis you are a sick man. This Is Hardcore is released on 30th March

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