The Ice Cream Self-released***

"Sounds like: an orchestra that can fit in your pocket," says Grand Pocket Orchestra's MySpace page. It's a pretty accurate description of the Dublin band's sound – that is, if an orchestra was comprised of pots, pans, toy keyboards with faulty batteries and slightly out-of-tune guitars. They're a ramshackle bunch, but therein lies the quartet's charm. With 18 songs spread over just 35 minutes, some of these lo-fi indie-pop tracks are more like vignettes than fully formed tunes, and if there's anything to be faulted with their debut, it's that the band allow their profuse creativity to run a little too freely, occasionally resulting in sloppiness. Still, when there are songs as gleefully frenetic and irreverent as the bouncy Chongo Popand girl-boy duel of Crave the Flesh, it's a minor quibble. See myspace.com/grandpocket orchestra

Download tracks: Chongo Pop, Crave the Flesh