Rory McVicar - Now That You're Mine

You don't hear many 'shooby-dooby-doo-wahs' these days. Hats off then to this particular busker, acoustic troubadour Rory McVicar, for pulling it off in a song that's as far removed from Motown as his home town of Norwich. Now That You're Mine is the first fruits from a talent good enough to have impressed John Peel at the tail-end of his life, and who are we to disagree? Full of lilting, pastoral melodies and harmonious vocals that hint at something darker beneath the songs' boy-gets-girl exterior, it bodes well for his debut album, released later this month. More please, McVicar. [Darren Carle]