Latest Releases reviewed

MADONNA
Get Together
 Warner Bros
**

One more time on the dancefloor for Madge, with this Daft Punky electro disco tune that's sure to keep her close to the pop pulse. Still, doesn't beat an old Abba sample.

THE CHAKRAS
Dark Days
 Slip Disc
***

Come in Romeo Stodart, your magic number's up. This Irish lot are out to steal your sunshine (and your jangly, summery sound). The tune is about looking on the bright side and not letting the Irish weather get you down.

THE HORRORS
Death at the Chapel/Sheena Is a Parasite
 Loog
**

With a name and song titles like that, you can be pretty sure this record does exactly what it says on the coffin. Unless, of course, it's "ironic" and they're actually a twee indie band. No, that's dirty, corpse-grinding rock'n' roll, alright.

MARY J BLIGE
Enough Cryin featuring Brook-Lyn
Matriarch/Geffen
**

Is r'n'b the new country? Put a twang on this and it could be a honky-tonk tune about a cowboy with a cheatin' heart. What next, a gangsta rap showdown at the OK Corral?

RAY LAMONTAGNE
Trouble
14th Floor/Echo
****

Oh, lordy, trouble so hard for this former woodcutter, but he's got a good woman to bail him out of jail, drag him out of the gin joint, and inspire his best tune yet.