EOIN BUTLER's guide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams

LEE RYAN

I Am Who I AmGeffen ***

No doubt you are, Lee. But do remind us again, exactly who is that? Total cheese-fest here, folks, from the former boyband member, soap star, talent contest also-ran here. Whichever he is, he’s angling for a role in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Nothing is surer.

B.O.B.

AirplanesGrand Hustle/Atlantic ***

His last single Nothin' On Youwas a bona fide pop classic that drunken aunties will still be belting out on the dancefloor at weddings 25 years from now, that I guarantee. This effort though, I'm quite not so taken with. Billy Ray raps that if he could have a "genie or a wish", hed go back to a "simpler place than this". Good Lord, hasn't he seen Hot Tub Time Machine?

FOUR TET

Angel EchoesDomino ****

An incoherent vocal line looped for four straight minutes with vague xylophone keys and telephone sound effects purring in the background. Call Top of the Pops– next week's lowest new entry is in the house.

PENDULUM

WitchcraftWarner *

It's Oasis meets Scooter, basically. And if that sounds like the makings of a formidable musical pairing to you, welcome to Bellevue, sucker. Taken from the UK no. 1 album, Immersion.

WOODS

Death RattlesWoodist ***

Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous died in March this year. Woods released At Echo Laketwo months later. The two events might not be entirely unrelated since, if Linkous were still alive, he could surely sue Jeremy Earl for borrowing his shtick lock stock.

JUSTIN BIEBER ft. USHER

Somebody To LoveIsland ***

From the album My World 2.0.Mildly amusing factoid: Bieber refers to his famously unhinged internet fan base as his "Beliebers". As in, don't stop beliebing, girls!