If You Got The Money

Tipped as a cross between The Streets and Badly Drawn Boy – not a cross-pollination that sounds particularly edifying on paper, whatever the individual merits of each act – Jamie T actually manages to gel his disparate influences with no small amount of style. I’d say Dizzee Rascal’s frantic, high-pitched flow combined with The Magic Numbers’ sunny guitar pop is a more accurate description of ‘If You Got The Money’ – making it one of the more compelling singles of the fortnight, if not the year.