Music: This week's releases

PICK OF THE WEEKAlphabeat Hole In My Heart (Polydor) Just a few short years ago, the planet positively teemed with attractive pop groups culturally uplifting the common man by making bedevilling, chart-bound music. Now there's only one of these beasts left and, like the last polar bear tip-toeing on a tiny iceberg, Alphabeat's very existence reminds us of what we have lost. Hole In My Heart is a beautifully sad celebration of love's power to crush us on sight, and it features a piano sound you'v...

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