MIA - PAPER PLANES

A welcome re-release for the briefly controversial-this-summer MIA who shows that it is possible to wear amazing and directional fly-colour all-in-ones and not look a total prawn. When we reviewed this for The Guardian the first time round, we made it single of the week over Great DJ by the Ting Tings - and we stand by that very firmly for very many reasons. Not least because this actually sounds like a song a great DJ would play, and Great DJ did not have cash registers on it.

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WILEY - SUMMERTIME

Though we are not entirely happy with the practice of using massively obvo samples (that means you, Kanye Lazyface), Summertime verily fills us with joy. Not least because the video is a big splodge of Keith Haring-style lo-fi (but hi-colour) leopard-print graphics. And there are ladies wearing shiny-shiny short-shorts. It is all a bit RosiePerezInTheTitlesOfDoTheRightThing, though not quite as mad. Likely to piss off the purists, but Wiley really should not trouble himself on that score.

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THE SATURDAYS - UP

We would normally be all for this sort of thing, but there is something a little too fully-formed, expected and drilled about The Saturdays which stops us from entering into a full-on Aloud-style pash. Also, when we watched Never Mind The Buzzcocks this week, there was quite a lot of 'I'm stupid, me! Ha, ha!' going on with Frankie, which is not something we are keen to encourage in young girls. Forced to pick a favourite, we will have Mollie - and it is her vocals which save this from being too shiny for its own good, as she does the minor key bits (and is the one in pink tights, just so you know).

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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - HALF ASLEEP

Look everyone, shoegaze is back! And yet, do you know, this is rather glorious - a misty cloud of Cocteaus-redolent vocals which are muddied into a wash of pleasing electronic crackliness that gets fuzzier as it gathers pace. Apparently named after a school for pickpockets (good backstory, SOSB), this lot hail from New York and have been produced by Robin Guthrie what was actually in the Cocteaus. No one bought their first single which is a shame, because this is pretty special, especially if you misspent your youth listening to Chapterhouse like what Roby did.

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ELECTROVAMP - DRINKS TASTE BETTER WHEN THEY'RE FREE

Electrovamp have no one fooled despite persuading small independent record shops to stock this on 7" as if it were some sort of incredibly secret, under-the-counter white label. They are in fact just two very ordinary Welsh lasses who have been roped into ropiness by the people who made the Toby Young film. Fat-free, sugarless S.A.W. electropop-lite is upon us, readers, and it does not sound good.

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