Download: Bullion – God Only Knows (Track) – MP3
Buy: This track is from Pet Sounds In The Key Of Dee which was released as a free mixtape - Bullion recommends you buy the original LP by the Beach Boys
Also on repeat: Say Goodbye To What You Want

New and old releases cherry-picked
Download: Bullion – God Only Knows (Track) – MP3
Buy: This track is from Pet Sounds In The Key Of Dee which was released as a free mixtape - Bullion recommends you buy the original LP by the Beach Boys
Also on repeat: Say Goodbye To What You Want


What an anthem sounds like now (you’d be forgiven for thinking it was Animal Collective).
Download: Keepaway – Yellow Wings (Track) – MP3
Buy: Keepaway are unsigned so there’s nothing to buy just yet

“Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”, says ex-boss Tom Waits, whose children she used nanny.
Download: Jesca Hoop – The Kingdom (Track) – MP3
Buy: Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress (Album)
Also on repeat: The whole album

Spooky disco that sounds just as fresh as anything by Glass Candy a quarter of a century on. Also a serious contender for coolest Christmas song ever. Really.
Download: Cristina – Things Fall Apart (Track) – MP3
Buy: Cristina – Sleep It Off (Album)

A seretonin-surger which lifts its ba-ba-da-das from the 60s but wouldn’t sound out of place in a sophisticated future incarnation of Super Mario World.
Download: The Clientele – I Wonder Who We Are (Track) – MP3
Buy: The Clientele – Bonfires On The Heath (Album)

Only an Icelandic band on a mission to create a musical antidote to three hours of daily sunlight could come up with an electro tune this merry.
Download: FM Belfast – Synthia (Track) – MP3
Buy: FM Belfast – How To Make Friends (Album)
Also on repeat: Tropical, Par Avion, Underwear… the whole album!

The sort of song Kurt and Courtney might have chosen as a wedding waltz – elegant, Beach Boys-esque pop shot with dirty, hazy guitar and bitter-sweet lyrics.
Download: Atlas Sound – Sheila (Track) – MP3
Buy: Atlas Sound – Logos (Album)
Also on repeat: Atlas Sound – Walkabout (featuring Noah Lennox)

With its shimmering, orchestral opening and soul-bearing, lucid lyrics, it’s like Johnny Cash guest-starring on 50s Broadway.
Download: Richard Hawley – As The Dawn Breaks (Track) - MP3
Buy: Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter (Album)
Also on repeat: For Your Lover Give Some Time (Track)
