Now on their third EP, the shadowy Wolverhampton based duo Letherette have signed to Ninja Tune ahead of a debut record due for 2013. Drawing on Bangalter-inflected house but giving it a rumble and wing, Letherette make infectious, beat-driven music which is as fun and un-self-conscious as it is clever and technically cutting edge. From the exuberant cut-up boogie of “Warstones,” through moments of ethereal beauty on the four-to-the-floor stomper “Ettewards,” on into delicate, poised “Surface” and finally the spaced hip hop of “Wecko”.

One of the difficult things about writing about music, especially when blogging, is that you don't really get enough time to sit and down and consider exactly everything you need to consider about a band before rushing into some kind of judgement about them. So I'll just be honest and say I can't quite make up my mind about Peace; their hair, style and clothes remind me of all the reasons to avoid walking down Dalston's Kingsland Road at the weekend and their afro rhythms so ruthlessly poached that any debate about cultural tourism would leave them with little to no defence. Yet somehow I can't help think of them as the new Happy Mondays, part of some weird re-imagined trip down early 90s pills and excess, and their Delicious EP features a cover of Binary Finary's trance classic '1998', so I'm not entirely willing to write them off.

Hatcham Social have had a particularly odd career to date, they were lumped in with the South London Angular scene from the outset, and there's nothing like being lumped in with that lot to get buried amongst the plethora and almost forgotten. They released a few amazing singles, one average album, and promptly disappeared. It would appear they're back and have gone all synth pop though. It works surprising well, and 'All Summer Long' draws further links between the band's 80s outsider weirdo chic, all disaffected pop melodies, messy black hair and messy black clothes. It's a quite wonderful seven minute long piece of oddball pop perfection.