Saint Etienne meets Sixties Soul

Got the arse with The Arctic Monkeys, or bored by the current crop of Joy Division rip-offs that are currently doing the rounds?
Are you gagging for some classic '60s influenced songs and glamorous girlie vocals? I certainly am - so I'm glad I've stumbled across Lucky Soul.
The female-fronted five piece from Greenwich, South East London unleashed their debut single (on 7 inch vinyl - downloads are so last year, darling) earlier this year - and it's a corker.
My Brittle Heart is one of the finest things I've heard all year - think Saint Etienne meets Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and Motown, complete with epic strings, a sunny melody and a swooning chorus. Those Luddites out there who possess a turntable can flip it over and enjoy the brilliant B-side Give Me Love - a towering soul ballad that sounds like Sarah Cracknell fronting The Shangri-Las - yep, that good.
If there's any justice in the world, Lucky Soul, rather than any dodgy football songs, will be the soundtrack to this year's summer. Check out the band's official website herefor plenty of other top pop moments including new single and Northern Soul stomper Lips Are Unhappy, Add Your Light To Mine, Baby (basically Lucky Soul doing Saint Etienne doing The Supremes) and My Darling Anything, a tear-jerking orchestral ballad that sounds like it fell from heaven and was found in a Greenwich gutter, looking up at the stars...