Fleet Foxes 'Mykonos' (Live at Glastonbury 2011) (mp3 download)

Magical, energised performance from the Fleet Foxes.

In fine voice on this track from their debut 'Sun Giant' EP. Utterly gorgeous and the equal of anything they've released so far.

Nine tracks from their Glastonbury set available over on 'Archive'.

Download Fleet Foxes 'Mykonos (Live at Glastonbury)' (mp3) (Mediafire)

Check out nine Fleet Foxes tracks from Glastonbury (mp3) (Archive: Live and Rare) (removed by request)

Listening Post - SBTRKT 'SBTRKT' (Young Turks, 2011)

SBTRKT's album is shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year.

Spectacular shifts in mood, rhythm and melody. Great stuff, delivering on the promise of tracks like 'Heatwave' and 'Wildfire'.

If this isn't working, there are previews over at itunes too.

Korallreven 'Honey Mine (ft. Victoria Bergman)' (Acephale, 2010)

A delicious, dubby pop confection.

Reminiscent of Dubstar's euphoric/melancholic indie/pop or One Dove's machine-tooled, dubbed-out soul, this pretty 7" from last year is a gem.

'Honey Mine' features the vocals of ex-Concretes singer Victoria Bergman over a pneumatic bed of keyboard bass, clattering beats and washes of synths/strings. Innately glorious and with soaring, layered female harmonies, it's up there with Saint Etienne's best including their production jobs on Golden and Oval.

Utterly delightful.

Download Korallreven 'Honey Mine' (mp3) (Mediafire)

New Music - Spector - Never Fade Away (Luv Luv Luv, 2011) (stream)

New 7" that comes on like a polite version of Glasvegas. As the name suggests, Spector rock a Wall Of Sound approach to indie pop.

Yearning vocals sit against a constantly building indie take on the Wall Of Sound production. The track builds with layers of guitars and synth, stirring and staying the right side of pomp.

Promising.

Spector - Never Fade Away by Luv Luv Luv

Microdisney 'Singer's Hampstead Home' (Virgin, 1987) (download)

Cathal Coughlan's scabrous songwriting wrapped in big eighties alt pop guise.

I've never heard much by Microdisney, despite being quite a fan of the first few Fatima Mansions albums. I chanced across this 12" in a charity shop and have grown to love its 'King Of Rock'n'Roll' production - massive, reverb-drenched snare beats et al.

Sometimes you wonder what a song would sound like underneath all the production - this is one of them. It starts off unadorned, acoustic guitar and some lovely arpeggiated electric guitar and Cathal Coughlan's rich vocal.

The lyric seems to be a dig at the detached (no pun intended) world of George Michael or some such eighties megastar. A quick Google suggests it might actually have been aimed at Boy George.

Anyway, it features some excellent guitar work, almost Sarah-ish in its spindly melodic webs. It's a real grower too, ripe for a more organic cover version.

Download Microdisney 'Singer's Hampstead Home' (mp3) (Mediafire)