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)

If the Avalanches had a weird uncle, he might have made something like this – musical cut-and-paste (catchy, unsettling) as you’ve never quite heard it.

Download: Chenard And The Sand – C-Side Girl (Track) – MP3
Buy: Chenard And The Sand – C-Side (Album) You can’t buy C-Side because it’s free. Its creator, Chenard Walcker, is an anti-copyright cut and paste artist – otherwise known as a plunderphonicist (word of the week!).

Begins with nostalgic, closing credit-worthy tremolo guitar and wistful lyrics, then the sentimental mask drops and joyful, Tough Alliance-style playground choruses and handclaps lift the mood from call-a-cab to cut-a-rug.

Download: Memory Tapes – Plain Material (Track) – MP3
Buy: Memory Tapes – Seek Magic (Album)

Also on repeat: Green Knight

There’s something about the way Wayne Coyne sings ‘When she’s high’ that makes your stomach flip flop and your elbows tingle – a truly Yoshimi-esque return to form.

Download: The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands (Track) – MP3
Buy: The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (Album)

Soaring airy synths and a sexy beat conjure the sweaty dance scene (and the permed, natural-bosomed heroine) from classic 80s blockbusters.

Download: Little Dragon – Feather (Track) – MP3
Buy: Little Dragon – Machine Dreams (Album)

Also on repeat: Looking Glass (Track)

Does John Lennon have an Argentinean cousin? This superb nugget of classic rock from little-known 70s group Pescado Rabioso (Rabid Fish) bears more than a passing resemblance to Abbey Road’s still-fresh ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’.

Download: Pescado Rabioso – Las Habladurías del Mundo (Track) – MP3
Buy: Pescado Rabioso - Artaud (Album)

Think The Chemical Brothers playing at the ice-cream parlour.

Download: Casiokids – Fot I Hose (Track) – MP3
Buy: Casiokids – Verdens Storste Land (EP) 

Also on repeat: Verdens Storste Land (Track)

Ever since spending most of London’s Lovebox Festival in the Horse Meat Disco tent (not just because the weather was shit) I’ve been willing the legendary DJs to release a compilation. There can’t have been more than 40 seconds between the BBC review popping up in iGoogle and me pressing the ‘Download’ button on emusic. This track’s bouncier than a Boney M. afro.

Download: KID – Hupendi Muziki Wangu (You Don’t Like My Music?) (Track) – MP3
Buy: Horse Meat Disco – Horse Meat Disco (Album)

Totally epic in a totally un-Coldplay kind of way. After the first 10 seconds I was thinking ‘Ratatat ripoff’ but a minute and a half in and I was staggered that they could jam so many ideas into one song and yet still manage to make it sound like a united whole.

It’s not immediately accessible but after the fifth listen you’ll be shouting ‘Bitte Orca, Orca Bitte!’ and doing air-punches.

Download: Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber (Track) - MP3
Buy: Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Album)