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Welcome back to a sex-crazed Singles Club all in the name of week 5 fun and frolics. This week we have a fit little foursome of epic proportions. Enough to satisfy all your sensual musical needs.

Hercules and Love Affair - You Belong

Hercules and Love Affair’s new floorfiller doesn’t live up to the sweaty stamina of their orgasmic debut, Blind. There are tinny whistles and little electronic beats and finally their loooovely boyband-esque lyrics. But it doesn’t quite impress the local ladies at the disco…or anyone else really. Their valiant efforts result in You Belong, which is more of an embarrassing sticky stain dance-trance-something than a proud grinding minute or two. Despite the odd brilliant disco spasm, they might just need to wipe themselves down with a damp cloth, ring their mums to pick them up, and start again.

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Moby - I Love To Move In Here

Like a drunken one-night-stand that just shouldn’t have happened, Moby’s I Love To Move In Here is a blurry encounter between two incompatible species: house and old-school hip-hop. Genres that are certainly more sexual rocking it out on their own. When Grand Master Caz interrupts proceedings with his Fresh Prince rappin’ for some kind of sordid threesome, you know it’s time to bail out through the back door.

Much like the thought of your mum and dad at it, this track just shouldn’t do it for anyone.

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The Pigeon Detectives - This is An Emergency

This is An Emergency squawk The Pigeon Detectives as they suck you into their latest offering. The Leeds quintet play with an uplifting urgency akin to Take Her Back and I’m Not Sorry, maintaining their popular, but by now generic, fast-pace throughout. The simple, if overly-repetitive lyrics, roll rapidly off Matt Bowman’s tongue. Beefed-up guitars and darker-than-usual riffs add much needed depth, subduing the cries of oral simplicity that pioneer a new direction for the band.

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Whole Sky Monitor - Cinenema

Whole Sky Monitor’s new track Cinenema isn’t the rough probing punishment that you might expect from a title of such dubious promise, and upon stipping away the exterior layers your’re pleasantly surprised by what’s beneath. Actually the best new single out this week by my reckoning, even B-side Sick Sick Sick leaves you with a wide smile on your face from a band who make like they’re going to batter you senseless, but end up treating you oh so right.

Ben Pahari

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#1 Richard Mitchell
Mon, 19th May 2008 7:54pm

I love the classic house elements in the first 2 tracks, Hercules & Love Affair more so than Moby. The Moby track is just so kitsch while I love how You Belong blends the classic sounds with more modern arrangements & production.

More 90s house!

#2 Anonymous
Tue, 20th May 2008 6:26am

Sexy stuff!

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