Bombay Bicycle Club - Leave It

Indie favourites Bombay Bicycle Club, continuing their sharply defined knack of coming up with indelible pop hooks. Leave It sheds the dance influenced grooves of shuffle and goes for a more innocent, collegiate sound, full of a reminiscence for the past.

As always, their music seems suffused in a hazy half-remembered overtone of the past, an inescapable longing for lost teenage days.

What Bombay Bicycle Club achieved with third album A Different Kind of fix is to a degree a crystallisation of who exactly they are.

With its rounded consistency and near universal acclaim, it's the sound of a band walking with the utmost of ease into their role, and delivering on every expectation of those who've followed them from the start.

Leave It is released on the 2nd January.

Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

Lanquid, chorusy oooohs and delicately picked guitar lines - it's like those golden last days of summer all over again.

Just as Shuffle's charm stemmed from its clever mixing of a repetitive hook and a cracking beat - Bombay Bicycle Club, cleary knowing a good idea when they hear one, walk that same route again for How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep.

Rock music has a long history of pairing together the most uneasy bedfellows. Just look at the Stone Roses, triumphantly reformed this week - their rock/dance hybrid Fools Gold is now hailed as one of the defining moments of modern music, and it's sweet to imagine that Bombay's new single is in some way a distant relative of the innovation that spawned that track.

It's that age-old desire to let loose, to just... dance...

Beats and blisters, guitar strings and late nights - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep, the epitome of an indie club night if ever there was one.

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep is released on the 26th December.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Lights Out Words Gone

If Shuffle saw Bombay Bicyle Club at their most effervescent and joyous, new single Lights Out Words Gone shows what they can do when the brief is a clear one of pure relaxation. After all, with their latest album titled A Different Kind Of Fix, the prospect of varied pleasures seems an obvious one.

The track really revels in a gorgeous trippy feel. Summer might be on its way out, but Lights Out Words Gone feels like exactly the kind of song you want on when you're chilling by the pool with a cocktail in hand. Tapping in to the same kind of tropical, breezy vibe Friendly Fires constructed their Pala album around, the song oozes late-night chill out sensuality.

With the trademark bounce of Bombay Bicyle Club's guitars given something a new wave sheen here, the song positively glistens. Three albums in and the band are properly hitting their stride.

Lights Out Words Gone is released on the 17th October.