1/ Li'l Wayne - 'Dr Carter' (from Every-bloody-where, but we went to Fluxblog) Thanks to the hugely anticipated Viva la Vida and Tha Carter III albums it's wall-to-virtual-wall Coldplay and Li'l Wayne on the net this week. And while Weezy's laying claim to Jay-Z's best rapper alive label, Chris Martin and co. are happy to wallow in seventh place. We've plumped for Wayne's Swizz Beatz-produced dig at the industry over any more Coldplay balladry. You've got to have the self-belief boys ...
2/ Mystery Jets - '2 Doors Down (Duke Demont Reconstruction) (from Pinglewood) Pastel jackets rolled to the elbows, jumpers tied round necks and pompadours-a-plenty - it's all gone very Eel Pie Island Vice with the Twickenham rockers recently. Thankfully, Duke Demont's remix goes off with neither a Wham! nor a whimper - it's ethereal and introspective in a way the eighties that the Jets are aping never were.
3/ Sigur Ros - 'Goobledigook' (from Pampelmoose) Don't worry. You haven't got two songs playing at once - it's meant to sound like that. Acquaint yourself with the Icelandic quartet's latest take on 'rhythm' and 'melody' here. There's a huge amount to love and you can stream the band's new album, Me Su I Eyrum Vi Spilum Endalaust (yeah, we said it), in its entirety at their website.
4/ M.I.A. - 'U.R.A.Q.T.' (Konrad remix) (from The Culture Of Me) When not making beats for the rhymes of New York rap duo Old Money, Vancouver-based DJ Konrad revitalises tracks that have been remixed to death. Recent resurrections include the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) and this M.I.A staple, which is almost deliriously dark enough to be Dubstep. Maybe the Americans do get it after all ...
5/ Sophie Ellis-Bexter - 'Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer' (from Merry Prankster) Ellis-Bexter's latest bodes well for her fourth album, due out later this year. It's a classy old riot of four-to-the-floor disco spearheaded by the kind of steel-laced home counties accent that proves one is something of a trooper. She's survived Nu-Metal, New-Acoustic and New-Rave to get here and still fares well against the similarly independently-minded Lykke Li's and Robyn's of today. Rah rah and jolly well done Bezza.
