HOZIER

Do I Wanna Know? (Live at the BBC) **

Last week's Ticket cover star Andrew Hozier-Byrne could not be enjoying a hotter streak right now. Recently, he was confirmed as a musical guest on the forthcoming series of SNL, making him one of just a handful of Irish artists (The Pogues, Sinead O'Connor, Hothouse Flowers, U2) to receive that accolade in the show's 40-year history. So perhaps we should forgive him this wilful desecration of the Arctic Monkeys' signature track. Gone are the meaty guitar riffs and sneering delivery, replaced by brush drumsticks, a viola, and vocals that make Brian Kennedy sound like Robert Plant. You don't wanna know.

RYAN ADAMS

My Wrecking Ball ***

So immersed is the former Whiskeytown singer in plaid-shirted Americana it's easy not to notice he now has the same hairstyle as Robert Smith of The Cure. (Seriously, slap a bit of lipstick on him and this could be the Lovecats video!) This track from his self-titled 14th solo album is "a protest song, protesting the death of [his] grandmother", a woman who, to judge from the lyrics, liked to throw her weight around a bit.

JENNIFER LOPEZ ft IGGY AZALEA

Booty *

“Big, big booty/ What you got a big booty (repeat ad infinitum). . .” Warning: I’m pretty sure I dropped 10 IQ points just listening to this.

CHILDISH GAMBINO

Sober (rough) ****

Actor, comedian, writer, rapper and now crooner, Donald Glover gives even arch-Renaissance douche James Franco a run for his money in the multi-hyphenate stakes. It's customary to applaud the creative energy of such artists, while bemoaning their lack of focus. But in this case Glover has delivered quite an accomplished (albeit unfinished) break-up ballad, with an instrumental fadeout that is a gorgeous as it is unexpected. soundcloud.com/ childish-gambino