EOIN BUTLER's guide to downloads, singles and free audiostreams
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Live Alone
Domino ****
"Wherever you are, whoever is there/I'll be here, wishing I could be there." This menacing Franz Ferdinand cover is a gorgeous recorded swansong for James Murphy co. It can be found on Domino's Record Store Day CoversEP.
IN FEAR OF OLIVE
Led Me Astray
Wire Sound **
In Fear of Olive are a waistcoat-wearing English folk trio whose music is so twee they make Mumford Sons sound like Metallica. This track is taken from their All We Can Do Is WonderEP. When you're finished wondering, boys, I'll be relieving you of your lunch money.
MILEY CYRUS
Smells Like Teen Spirit **
"If Kurt Cobain hadn't killed himself in 1994, then he surely would now," was the consensus on Twitter when this Nirvana cover appeared online last week. Funny, I seem to recall Twitter returning the same verdict two years ago when Guitar Hero 5came out on PlayStation. The internet just can't envisage any way the poor guy was going to see old age, can it? youtube.com
CRYSTAL SWING
Total Eclipse of the Heart **
Hells Angels, Marilyn Monroe costumes, a keytar – this Republic of Tellyeffort is more confusing than amusing. But at least it captures Crystal Swing's cheesy country 'n' 80s essence. youtube.com
KITTY, DAISY LEWIS
I'm So Sorry
Sunday Best Recordings ***
Having made their name as a sort of rockabilly Minipops, London siblings Kitty, Daisy and Lewis (below) turn their hands to ska, with a comeback single so laid back and breezy it's like summer in a bottle. On first listen, I'm So Sorrymight sound a little too old- fashioned to trouble the charts. But then the same might easily have been said of Amy Winehouse's Rehab.