Hot Chip are back. And if the rest of their fourth album is anything like the title track, One Life Stand, this return is likely to be as emphatic as Made In The Dark's was in February 2008.

Joe Goddard has taken a musical sabbatical from Hot Chip to create a veritable fruit smorgasbord of electro tracks on an album which is an indulgent, unashamed homage to the sounds closest to his heart using the musical toys he likes to play with best.

With an album title like The Theories Of Dr Lovelock from a band with a name like the Chemists, you’d be forgiven for hoping for a musical treat – a mad scientist type concoction of blended genius using a mix of styles, influences and instruments.

Sometimes the lines between the tracks do get blurred and all that wholesomeness can start to sound like the backing track to a stock cube advert.

Ruth Davies takes a look at this week's singles by Charlotte Hatherley, Lostprophets, Kill It Kid, Zico Chain and Johnny Foreigner.

With his second album Turning The Mind released this week and a tour fast on the approach, TMM chatted to Maps about Mercury Prizes, misappropriation… and erm, Eminem.

With a bit of imagination, the hazy smoke-machine induced fog that hung over Hockey’s Nottingham Bodega Social Club leg of their tour could have given the gig a touch of Stars In Their Eyes about it.

The Longcut were once tipped to be the next darlings of Manchester.

Sometimes music is best first listened to with an unprejudiced, objective ear and a blank canvas with no preformed opinions on what a band sound like.