Since his relegation to the Monday night graveyard shift, Steve Lamacq could be forgiven for losing interest in the future of British music. But by tipping the tedium of Protokoll for stardom those BBC producers should have gone one step further and had him sectioned. Insipidly bland, debut offering Moving Forward cosily nestles amongst the generic production of Editors and the twanging paralysis of The Strokes. It's like 2001 all over again; only without any of the anticipation and all of the underachievement. Perhaps irony wasn't the intention, but with such banal recollection Moving Forward is the last thing this does. [Billy Hamilton]
This single is out on June 5.