TONIGHT JUST BECAME THIS MORNING.

I was never overly fond of Jack Penate's fresh-faced guitar sounds, but after initially hailing him as their new wonder boy, the alarming swiftness with which the UK music industry and press seemed to turn their collective back on the young troubadour was staggering to say the least. Penate could have easily put his tail between his legs and wandered off into obscurity in the aftermath, but

BY THE POOLSIDE STARING INTO GLOWING BLUE.

Earlier this month we waxed lovingly about Friendly Fires' debut album and called "Jump In The Pool" the most blissful dancefloor-filler you've ever heard or something like that, and now the lovely people at Beggars have been kind enough to toss us the MP3 for posting. Paul Epworth's lone production credit on the band's eponymous debut, "Jump" is all swirling atmospheric beauty and ethereal

THE BUBBLE WILL BURST.

Mystery Jets are just about the greatest band in the UK right now. Fact. They're responsible for what is this writer's nigh-on uncontested Album of the Year and a string of some of the best singles to grace Radio One in eons, and their latest offering "Half In Love With Elizabeth" is more of the same. The original is three minutes of classic Britpop bliss in it's own right, but now Delorean have