Latest singles reviewed.

DURAN DURAN
(Reach Up for the) Sunrise   Epic
***

It's the Durannies! Back on our trannies! With the original lineup! Launch the yacht, break out the Pina Coladas and let's celebrate! This is Chris Cross's Ride Like the Wind crossed with Hungry Like the Wolf, and it's totally Eighties-tastic.

MUSE
Butterflies & Hurricanes Atlantic/Taste
**

Here's an idea for the ultimate musical: Edward Scissorhands - The Opera! Muse have already got the soundtrack, and Matt Bellamy will of course play the snip-fingered lad himself. Andrew Lloyd Webber, get your people to call Tim Burton's people.

JEAN MICHEL JARRE
Aerology  Warner Music
***

It's been nearly 30 years since Oxygen, and JMJ's still got air on the brain. This chirpy little digital ditty comes in 5.1 surround sound, and sounds like the theme to a French secret agent series starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.

PAUL MCCARTNEY
Tropic Island    Hum Capitol
*

Twenty years after The Frog Song, Macca's back in kiddiepop territory with the theme from a new animated character, Wirral the Squirrel. Kids today might have PlayStations, but at least we had Yellow Submarine.

JOE COCKER
Every Kind of People    Parlophone
**

Cocker's still rockin' with this soft-soul shuffle written by Andy Fraser from Free. Think of it as a little preview of what Paul Weller will look and sound like in ten years' time. Or next week.