This is news...

Amidst P!nk-in-amazing-new-album frenzy and Girls-Aloud-in-probably-amazing-new-album-despite-shocking-cover news... Shiny & New have been giving the new Sugababes album, Catshites and Dogshites, a few spins.

IT IS OK.

The production levels are impressive, even if completely derivative, and the songs are certainly completely listenable in a way that Cannibal Corpse or 'Bring Me The Horizon' will NEVER be, BUT... there's just the slight whiff of sheer desperadoes about the whole affair.

Also, when you get lyrics like 'trying to get into my knickers/this shit is getting ridiculous' (we know...) it really makes you appreciate the cornucopia of amazing lyrics on offer in both P!nk's latest offering and Girls Aloud's entire back catalogue. Also it takes the pressure off-of Madonna as having the worst lyric of the year, usurping 'see my booty get down' and completely eclipsing its terribleness.