Soundgirl - Planes In The Sky

While previous Soundgirl singles have been driven by a distinctly British sense of cool and upbeat street-smart spirit, Planes In The Sky is a song far more from the Rihanna sultry-ballad camp.

With a hushed, spoken word middle eight and delicate touches of strings surging to a full on orchestral moment in the final chorus, if anything, Planes In The Sky feels like a far bigger, more global track. This is Soundgirl getting in full touch with their sense of Americana, taking those planes right over the Atlantic.

Where Rihanna went for the all-out rock angle on her recent California King Bed, Soundgirl's track is more subdued, more grounded in the R&B roots that made their previous tracks so charming.

There's a suitably filmic scope to its choruses, a surpisingly moving tenderness that betrays a maturity far more advanced than the band's youthful looks.

Planes In The Sky is scheduled for a December release date.