New Music - Memory Tapes 'Today Is Our Life' (Car Park/Something In Construction, 2011) (mp3)

More new stuff from Memory Tapes and this one is a startling track that starts with drifting New Order indie synth moodiness and pattering Joy Division tom-toms, before exploding into a sunny, breakneck chorus.

Download Memory Tapes 'Today Is Our Life' (mp3) (Pitchfork)

Creep 'Days (featuring Remy Madley Croft of The xx)' (Young Turks, 2010) (Stream)

It would seem that the Young Turks label is on a spectacular roll at the moment. If I were them I would a lottery ticket. First The xx, then Glasser, SBTRKT and now Creep.

'Days' bursts into life with what, to be honest, is a pretty naff, curly synth sound that belongs in Blakes 7 (ask yer dad) before settling into a menancing synth bass groove and Remy Madley Croft's dulcet tones. It's cold wave-y and austere musically but the vocal is, in stark contrast, warm and intimate.

A swoonsome brush of shimmering guitar adds colour and the track shifts in intensity, creating a mood of late night, sodium-lit contemplation.

It's a real grower and a fine, fine track.

Available to buy with, like, money and shit direct from the Young Turks webshop.

YT053 - Creep - Days by Young Turks

Listening Post - Arctic Monkeys 'Suck It And See' (Domino, 2011)

Full stream of the new Arctic Monkeys album 'Suck It And See'. Crisp and less lumpy in its rocking-out than the previous album. Alex Turner's twisty wordsmithery is given a chance to shine and it's a songs like 'Black Treacle' show a return to indie roots.

Released on Domino on June 6th.

Kraftwerk 'Ruckzuck' (Philips, 1970) (mp3)

A lot has been written about the genius of Kraftwerk and the clean lines, hydraulic motion and pure melody of their music. For a long time I thought it remarkable that they hit straight upon their own brand of machine-tooled perfection with 1974's 'Autobahn' album and maintained a run of perfect albums for the next ten years or so. Little did I know...

One Friday, whilst enthralled by BBC4's superlative Krautrock documentary, some live footage of Kraftwerk appeared - and one of them was playing the flute! This wasn't the hermetically perfect, proto-trance, played-by-robots Kraftwerk that I was used to. It was a more Krautrock-styled, organic version of their motorik groove. And it was played on old-fashioned instruments - not via electrodes on the end of car aerials and hidden triggers in the lapels of their cold, grey suits.

A bit of research showed up three whole other albums from Kraftwerk which I'd never heard because, well, they weren't available. But one day I parted with a pretty ridiculous amount of money to pick up what I have to assume are bootlegs of these three rare albums.

'Ruckzuck' is the opening track of 'Kraftwerk I' and, lo, it's the track with the crazy, hyperventilating flute on it from the BBC4 documentary. Its organic delivery and peaks and troughs give it kinship with Can and Neu, a more improvised feel that the carefully architected soundscapes of 'Autobahn', 'Radioactivity' or 'Trans Europe Express'.

'Ruckzuck' somehow manages to communicate the same sensations as 'Autobahn' - unrelenting motion along a chrome-plated future-highway - but it's created not from electronics but from drums, bass, organ, flute and, I think, a piccolo.

It is a staggering, irresistable track and it's hard to see why they've kept it unavailable all these years. Maybe the pension pot will need topping up some time soon and they'll release them properly.

Download Kraftwerk 'Ruckzuck' (krautrock mp3) (Mediafire)

The Superimposers 'Would It Be Impossible' (Little League, 2005)

The Superimposers deal in mellow, 60s-influencers pop with hints of library music, lounge and Bacharach & David and even a treated folksy feel like Tunng.

Songs are clearly crafted and arranged carefully then embellished with samples and found sounds, layered over beats and live instruments such as luscious electric piano and bass. It has the same looped-up, breakbeat feel as early Saint Etienne or Lemon Jelly. The Superimposers, however, add hints of Ghost Box/Broadcast/hauntology through the use of sound samples and vaguely Radiophonic sounds.

'Would It Be Impossible' opens with what makes me think of an old 70s TV ident then bowls along on a luscious groove of almost horizontally laidback bass, keys and percussion. There's loads going on in the sound, extra samples, counter-melodies, atmospheric recordings. The harmony vocals of Dan Warden and Miles Copeland weave through the track, suitably gentle and wistful.

I think The Superimposers are still around and whilst this created a stir at the time, I can also hear its influence in the likes of The Leisure Society.

The Superimposers' debut album (which features this track) is nigh on perfect and well worth a listen too.

Happy Sunday.

Download The Superimposers 'Would It Be Impossible' (mp3) (Mediafire)