I'm still, I'm still an animal

So, the other day in the post I recieved a physical copy of Calvin Harris' new single (woo) and a business card with the below picture on it.

Being the inquisitive type that I am I searched online and found out that it is artwork for new band Miike Snow. Have a listen...

What do you think? I really like it for reasons I can't exactly work out - I just spent the last hour

listening to it on repeat and all I've deduced is that his voice sounds a bit like Phil Collins....

Daisy Dares You

I always walk towards new pop acts with trepidation and fear....you see, I secretly am a (huge) closet pop consumer. From Girls Aloud to McFly to Pink to The Saturdays - I love it all.

This obviously causes me some problems with my 'cool muso mates' when they ask what i'm listening too at the moment. My latest 'COOL' CD to drop into conversations to keep my street cred is 'Regina Spektor's new release despite the fact i've never heard it. It always gets nods of appreciation from my peers and means that we can be friends that little bit longer...

Well, it looks like finally my pop vs street cred fears have collided in the shape of Daisy Dares You. She makes the kind of credible pop that 'The Ting Tings' would kill for plus she looks like she could eat you alive in one foul swoop.

So the music - cute, fun, soulful and epic. A contradiction? Possibly, but have a listen for yourself below.

Daisy Dares You Myspace

Dasiy Dares You Free Track

Shontelle. Please sit down.

Oh my god. Where the hell did they dust Shontelle off from...1999? Or maybe the 1940's.

Horrible, sickly, sexist, terrible and bound to be huge... urgh. 'With nothing but your t-shirt on' - for gods sake. She is the anti Independent Women and might as well chain herself to the kitchen sink whilst hoovering and cooking dinner. What is she trying to say!?

I hate. You?