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

JAY-Z

Glory feat B.I.C. Roc Nation **

Four-day-old Blue Ivy Carter became the youngest ever featured artist to score a chart hit when this forgettable tribute entered the Billboardcharts on January 11th. So did Jiggaman have Gloryup his sleeve beforehand? Or did he cradle his firstborn, plant a kiss on her forehead and think, y'know, I should call up Pharrell Williams, hit the recording studio and lay down some beats about this? There's a meaningless record up for grabs, yo!

CASS MCCOMBS

Bradley Manning Domino **

This track is reminiscent of Bob Dylan's Hurricanein all the wrong ways: overlong and well-meaning, with many awkwardly shoehorned-in rhymes.

THE DOORS

She Smells So Nice Rhino Records *

The first "new" Doors song in four decades (it was originally recorded in sessions for their LA Womanalbum) is a slapdash jazz/blues ditty in which an inebriated Jim Morrison rhapsodises about a lady who "smells so good I gotta sniff her once or twice". As bad as that sounds, it's actually worse again.

DELORENTOS ***

Right to Know Delo Records

This is the first single from the band's Little Sparksalbum. Delorentos' nine-date Irish tour kicks off with a gig at Dublin's Button Factory on February 25th.

LECS LUTHER

Shrine of Jehovah First Second Label ****

Ireland’s most promising young rapper has graduated from imitating Tyler, The Creator to borrowing a trick or two from Frank Ocean. He has expanded his horizons then. Somewhat.

CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT

Minister for Responsibility Reflect the Sun Records ***

Captain Moonlight’s 2007 ode to Bertie Ahern was so to the point that its title can’t be paraphrased in a family newspaper. Now the Kilkenny rapper has turned his guns on the coalition government: “The ECB is like OMG/ There’ll be no LOL when we raise VAT”. Sure, the kids talk about little else.