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Singles column 3 Sept 2012 - Gotye, Lostprophets, Pink, DJ Shadow & more

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Jamie Skey @jamie_skey rounds-up all this week's most significant singles, plus the new songs that have surfaced online in the last seven days that you shouldn't miss...

Singles out today, 1 September 2012

Even the Belgium-born Wouter de Backer - aka Gotye - has put up his hand and admitted his super catchy break-up missive Somebody That I Used to Know has become tiresomely overplayed. Brightening the mood on the sunshine-pop of I Feel Better - here referencing Motown through the lenses of Jamie Lidell - De Backer verifies that he is a versatile, multi-genre embracing musician and producer who is a lot more than just an understated one-hit-wonder.

Welsh alt-rock sextet Lostprophets - once revered for their skater-friendly, nu-metal - have moved further away from their screamo sound on Jesus Walks, and thus continue their line in light, anthemic radio rock tooled-up with towering synths and gang-vocal harmonies.

Almost like a trailer rather than a single, The Vaccines release Teenage Icon as a single today. Might not be the lads priority though, as their second album, The Vaccines Come Of Age is also out today.

Never one for subtlety - we once witnessed the singer begin a gig by being shot out of a circus cannon - Pink returns with the cheekily titled Blow Me (One Last Kiss), a post-post break-up song, a sort of "We've broken-up but not quite" song.

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Veteran British vocalist Terry Reid, who was once pencilled in to sing for The Yardbirds and Deep Purple, adds some gravel to DJ Shadow's Listen, which strangely sounds like a Portishead 45 played at double speed.

Bob Dylan has unveiled the video to the surfy, on-the-porch breeze of Duquense Whistle taken from his 35th studio album Tempest (out 10 September). The comically slapstick promo features a romantic stalker getting into hot water for his cocksure whims.

Thanks to inventive practitioners like Wild Beasts, Alt-J and Animal Collective, certain departments at the indie school of thought have dared to stray into more subversive, headier territories. Distinguished affiliates of this quirky set, Manchester-based
Everything Everything, continue to make the grade on Cough Cough, which blends head-spinning drum patterns, complex melodies and well-tooled R 'n' B production.

Electro-pop originals Pet Shop Boys have posted a new track from their 11th studio album Elysium (out 15 October) online. Leaving finds the duo get back into party mode after the wishy-washy balladeering of their Olympic release Winner.

Gwen Stefani-fronted ska-rockers No Doubt sound somewhat unrecognisable these days. Once characterised by their love of skanking, mohawks and cartoonish punk-rock, the Californian four-piece seem content following in Stefani's solo-project footsteps relying on synth-heavy R'n'B for the title track of forthcoming album Push And Shove.

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10:12 AM | 03/09/2012

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