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Music Weekly: Of Montreal and M Ward

Welcome to another Music Weekly "happening". Sit down on our bean bag, engage in some interpretative dance, or just munch on a halloumi hot dog.

Yes, we're going a bit arty this week. Firstly with Of Montreal, the non-Canadians who have more aliases than Jason Bourne and put out a new record, like, every five days. They have a bit of an artistic credo too, so we dragged in our culture editor Alex Needham to get the full arty story.

Our second guest is M Ward, who in his time has formed highly fashionable and artistically inclined associations, most notably with Zooey Deschanel in last year's She and Him project. Still, he has a more regular singer-songwriter side and Rosie Swash caught up with him to talk covers and the canon.

Michael Hann joins Rosie and Paul MacInnes to review new music from Crystal Stilts, Ms Dynamite and Kid British. It's fair to say Kid British doesn't come out of it well.

Laura Barton, meanwhile, is on hand to explain the power of, er, Duffy Power in the Feature with No Name.

We've got your Faceback too, of course, and we await your comments on this week's show below.

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