Glasvegas: 'Daddy's Gone'

It's a sign of Glasvegas's blossoming greatness that 'Daddy's Gone', a track that was ranked in NME's Best of 2007 list, can be re-released in August 2008 and still sound as fresh and thrilling as when it first surfaced. While many fans will be clamouring for new material from the Glaswegians - their debut LP lands September 8 - for now, we'll have to be content with a few more spins of this brooding beast of a single.

Showcasing the group's fascinating mixture of '50s doo-wop and Jesus And Mary Chain-style thundering guitars, 'Daddy's Gone' is very much the band's calling card. There are gorgeous "ay-ay-ay" harmonies, plenty of chest-beating vocal crescendos and it's all underpinned by a heart-wrenchingly earnest tale of absent fathers. Truly magnificent stuff that really whets our appetite for the album.