Various: Lazy Dog (Virgin)

Those who have watched in admiration Everything But The Girl's successful flirtation with beats should take kindly to this compilation from Ben Watt's Sunday night bash in Notting Hill. There, Watt and Jay Hannon release the warm-hearted deep house grooves and the smart, sussed audience holler in approval. It's a fine double-pack, a gathering of gorgeous vocal house gems such as Lisa Shaw's Always, jazzy, soulful monsters such as Sound Of Soul's The Spiritual Groove and thunderous rhythms such as Halo Varga's Future! Both Watt and Hannon have an instinctive feel for the right moment, and their sets are built towards producing these moments in abundance - it's also clear that his Sunday nights have informed what Watt now does in the studio on a Monday.

Craig David: Born To Do It (Wildstar)

For the Southampton casanova, it is really just beginning. The UK charts have already been conquered and put to one side, and there's a feeling his US campaign may be just as successful. The main cause for this optimism is that when it comes to R&B and pop, Craig David is dancing merrily on the line between the two. Add in his dalliances with UK garage (especially his roadrunner approach where he breaks the landspeed record for words per line set by Dylan in Subterranean Homesick Blues) and you have a performer perfectly at home mixing and matching his genres. Such tracks as the lovely Seven Days and Last Night, with its new-skool Barry White loverman touches, contain the sort of mature flourishes and frills artists twice his age are still trying to find. The first of many, we suspect.