Single: The Brakes - Hold Me In The River (Rough Trade)

9:00am Monday 4th December 2006

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Hold Me In The River is a loveable rogue of a song.

Barely over two minutes long and catchy as hell, its crunchy motorway riffing is far removed from the angular post-punk aesthetic so omnipresent these last few years.

Over the song's upbeat groove the off-kilter vocalist bounds through subjects as diverse as human liberties, the theory of evolution and Scarlet Johansen. Especially Scarlet Johansen.

It's likely that this song will never achieve hit single status.

Despite the winning grin plastered across every second, it's almost certainly too idiosyncratic and not taut enough to make it amid current trends.

But it's a classic slice of pop all the same, one that deserves to be recognised.