Eoin Butler's guide to downloads, singles and free audiostreams

IVAN ST JOHN

There You Stand ***

Nestegg Records

Dubliner Ivan St John possesses a singularly odd singing voice, pitched somewhere between Antony Hegarty and Jason Segel's puppet Dracula in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That's what marks out this otherwise pleasant but unremarkable helping of chirpy acoustic pop. St John tours Ireland later this month in support of his debut album, Up to Snuff.

THE HEATLESS

And Your Wife ***

Heroically silly Beatles send-up, in which the redubbed Fab Four are made to mouth a succession of brilliantly idiotic lines, including “No, that isn’t your car” and “Humpty Dumpty, feel my love tonight”. Captain Beefheart meets Monty Python; check it out at youtube.com

IMELDA MAY

Kentish Town Waltz***

Universal

A lighter and more romantic retreading of much the same ground covered by The Pogues on their Old Main Drag, right down to the fiver in the narrator’s pocket. Little- known Imelda May fact: she’s from the Liberties, you know.

BEST COAST

Crazy for You ****

Mexican Summer

On the second single from Best Coast’s debut album, Bethany Cosentino explores the agonies of mutual interdependence. Despite the lo-fi production, there’s some serious retro Spector/Wilson- love going on here. But even that fails to explain why any young woman in 2010 should spend the whole day “waiting by the telephone”.

CRYSTAL CASTLES FT ROBERT SMITH

Not in Love****

Fiction

Here’s a cover of a song originally recorded by obscure Canadian New Wave band Platinum Blonde. File under Laughs, Barrel Of.

MARK RONSON THE BUSINESS INTL FT BOY GEORGE

Somebody to Love Me***

Columbia

The former Culture Clubber is paired with longtime Ronson associate Andrew Wyatt on this touching ballad, one of the better moments from the patchy Record Collectionalbum. Equally arresting is the video, which purports to show video footage of Boy George's 21st birthday. (Actually, it's fake, but you'd do well to tell the difference.)