RECORD ARCHIVE - records in February 2004
This is the breakthrough track from Polly's debut album Scissors In My Pocket due 26 April.  It's a real killer...

Polly Paulusma
I Was Made To Love You (Tell It Like It Is)
This is the breakthrough track from Polly's debut album Scissors In My Pocket due 26 April.  It's a real killer...
... Label: Island
We like this band - they sound like Slade meets post- Smiths Britpoppers Marion and we mean that as a compliment....

Kid Symphony
Meet You On The Other Side
We like this band - they sound like Slade meets post- Smiths Britpoppers Marion and we mean that as a compliment....
No soundclip. We first championed this track in January 2002, when we were at The Tip Sheet (click here for...

The Darkness
Love Is Only A Feeling
No soundclip. We first championed this track in January 2002, when we were at The Tip Sheet (click here for...
No soundclip. Ex-Universal dance A&R Dave Lambert turned us on to this months ago - a gorgeous, classy, soulful dance...

Seraphim Suite
Heart
No soundclip. Ex-Universal dance A&R Dave Lambert turned us on to this months ago - a gorgeous, classy, soulful dance...
Rufus's Want One album of last year just came up as a thread on our messageboard with several people raving...

Rufus Wainwright
Oh What A World
Rufus's Want One album of last year just came up as a thread on our messageboard with several people raving...
We heard Chris Moyles suggesting this should be reissued and we thought "What a stupid idea". Then we saw the...

Peter Andre
Mysterious Girl
We heard Chris Moyles suggesting this should be reissued and we thought "What a stupid idea". Then we saw the...
No soundclip. This production team (aka North Starz plus Pez Tellett) are big in the North and we've been saying...

Northern Heightz
Look At Us
No soundclip. This production team (aka North Starz plus Pez Tellett) are big in the North and we've been saying...
As a follow-up to the huge club and radio hit It Just Won't Do, Mundaya deserved an awful lot more...

Tim Deluxe feat_ Shahin Badar
Mundaya (The Boy)
As a follow-up to the huge club and radio hit It Just Won't Do, Mundaya deserved an awful lot more...
When our friend Toby Slater tipped us off about this smash it had just climbed ten to #26 on the...

Eamon
Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)
When our friend Toby Slater tipped us off about this smash it had just climbed ten to #26 on the...
No soundclip. We've supported this Goldfrapp album to the hilt. They make music that's futuristic, otherworldly, but also melodic. The...

Goldfrapp
Black Cherry
No soundclip. We've supported this Goldfrapp album to the hilt. They make music that's futuristic, otherworldly, but also melodic. The...
No soundclip. There aren't too many people in the industry who would have championed this record based on the grooves...

DJ Casper
Cha Cha Slide
No soundclip. There aren't too many people in the industry who would have championed this record based on the grooves...
This is is Keane's first proper single for Island and it's our favourite Keane song to date, being a totally...

Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
This is is Keane's first proper single for Island and it's our favourite Keane song to date, being a totally...
Remember Your Neon Jesus, a Record of the Day from nearly a year ago? A special song and performance, like...

Sneak Attack Tigers
The End of All Good
Remember Your Neon Jesus, a Record of the Day from nearly a year ago? A special song and performance, like...
One of our favourite Midem finds was this gem, picked up as a bedroom demo and then produced to their...

Left/Right Switch
Holderman
One of our favourite Midem finds was this gem, picked up as a bedroom demo and then produced to their...
No soundclip. An important single going into 2004 for our #1 tip of last year. It introduces the co-lead vocals...

Damien Rice feat. Lisa Hannigan
Volcano
No soundclip. An important single going into 2004 for our #1 tip of last year. It introduces the co-lead vocals...
A mini album by this Birmingham four piece came out in November on indie Necessary Records and we've just discovered...

Distophia
Joanne
A mini album by this Birmingham four piece came out in November on indie Necessary Records and we've just discovered...
No soundclip. Here's one of the most extraordinary things about the success story that is The Darkness: they had the...

The Darkness
Friday Night
No soundclip. Here's one of the most extraordinary things about the success story that is The Darkness: they had the...
Several weeks ago we wrote that Beenie Man's new single is destined to be huge. Now it's on the Radio 1...

Beenie Man & Ms Thing
Dude
Several weeks ago we wrote that Beenie Man's new single is destined to be huge. Now it's on the Radio 1...
Fountains Of Wayne haven't changed a bit since they first emerged in 1996 (even their A&R is the same -...

Fountains Of Wayne
Stacey's Mom
Fountains Of Wayne haven't changed a bit since they first emerged in 1996 (even their A&R is the same -...