If you like to maintain a brooding and suave, vaguely macabre tone to proceedings on your iPod/iPad/iPhone/iTunes South London scamps The Palpitations ought to get your pulse thumping and your equaliser undulating. Trading in melodramatic, if relatively demure gloom tinged with a touch of optimism, they reside in the crevices between preened and eerie early Howling Bells recordings and the unabashed grandiosity of latter-day Duke Spirit. Anxiously await their impending transition from shadows to spotlight. Forthcoming single Milk It sees the light of day this Valentines Day. The Palpitations - Shirley Valentine [FREE DOWNLOAD] by clubthemammoth