The latest CD singles reviewed

THE STREETS FEAT PETE DOHERTY
Prangin' Out EMI
**

The street kid and the guttersnipe share a few lines about snorting too much "tour support" and then going a bit ga-ga. "I'm about to do something stupid," warns Mike Skinner. Yeah, like asking Pete to rap on your record.

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
Wondering Vertigo
****

Pete's old mucker, Carl Barat, may not have the heroin chic, but he does have a way with a ragged rock tune - this one makes a mockery of Razorlight's stadium rock pretensions.

ST JULIEN
Just Because SiAn Records
***

Almost named after a Julian Cope album, this Dublin band have a bit of a Ride/La's/ Supergrass thing going, and a prestigious name on the production desk (Mark Wallis). Why do I like this song? Just because.

NERINA PALLOT
Sophia 14th Floor
***

She had a big hit with Everybody's Gone to War and, now here's an elegant tune from the fragrant French/Indian/English babe, a sort of Wuthering Heights in which Heathcliff does the haunting.

PAOLO NUTINI
Jenny Don't Be Hasty Atlantic
***

The 19-year-old Nuti boy from Paisley, Scotland is enjoying chart success with his debut album, These Streets, and if James Morrison is too smooth for your liking, then this roots rocker about a girl who doesn't like 'em young should do the biz.

THE DATSUNS
System Overload Hellsquad/V2
**

Kerrang's favourite Kiwis are back, and they've loaded up the Flying Vs, Moogs and Marshall stacks for another go at retro rock immortality. The B-side is Don't Shine Your Light on Me - unless, of course, it's an original 1970s Super Trouper.

LEANN RIMES & BRIAN MCFADDEN
Everybody's Someone Curb/London **

Like a modern-day Kenny 'n' Dolly, these two are islands in the pop stream, but they can always rely on each other. Er, let's hear that Streets 'n' Pete tune again.