Eoin Butler'sguide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams.

WILCO W/FLET FOXES

I Shall Be Released

To download this free track you must first tick a box promising to vote in the US presidential election. (Oops!) It's a white lie, but it's worth it.

Because whether you've experienced wrongful incarceration in your own lifetime, or simply watched In the Name of the Father on DVD, it's impossible not to get swept up in this old classic. And I, for one, will be going out the front door with Gerry.

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REPUBLIC OF LOOSE

The Ritual

Loaded Dice Records

Sometimes I suspect Republic of Loose are just putting out singles to showcase how many pink sports jackets singer Mick Pyro owns. The answer: surprisingly many.

TV ON THE RADIO

Golden Age

Interscope

*****

Low-era Bowie meets Sign O' the Times-era Prince, as performed by an all-black version of At The Drive-In. Does it get any better than this? I think not.

ARMOURED BEAR

Fall Blind

Chicken Music

West Cork's Armoured Bear inhabit a sultry space between sleep and consciousness; where dreams become reality, ignorance begets wisdom and suffering is the path to redemption; where the blind become sighted, the deaf learn to hear and cripples jump up and run marathons - or so the florid accompanying press release would have us believe.

Taken from their debut album ( Honeycomb Moon), this actually isn't a bad effort at all.