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

SLEIGH BELLS

Tell ’Em

Mom & Pop/ N.E.E.T.****

Last year's extraordinary Crown on the Groundwas always likely to be judged as either an epoch-making masterpiece or an out-and- out fluke. On the evidence of this follow-up, I'm pumping for the former. So Brooklyn duo Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss are definitely ones to watch this summer.

BOYZONE

Love Is a Hurricane

Polydor **

One moment they’re writhing around naked in a sauna- come-mud wrestling arena. The next they’re seguing directly into some heartfelt intergroup still-missing-you- Steo bear hugs. Never really a dull moment with the Boyz, is there?

TEENAGE FANCLUB

Baby Lee

Merge ***

At this stage in their careers, Teenage Fanclub have been doing The Byrds shtick far longer than The Byrds themselves ever bothered to. So I assume by now they must own squatters’ rights to that jangle pop sound. Of course, no lukewarm Fannies review would ever be complete without its author conceding that the band “certainly do know how to pen a tune”. Which I have now duly done.

THE MINUTES

Secret History ***

Dublin band The Minutes may be about a decade too late to catch the garage rock bandwagon – Secret History bears more than a passing resemblance to The White Stripes’ Black Math. Still, they make up for that with a whirlwind of frenetic rock energy. They play Dublin’s The Academy on May 13th. theminutesireland.com

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

Drunk Girls

DFA ****

James Murphy, Spike Jonze, drunk girls . . well, what’s not to like?

ELLIE GOULDING

Guns and Horses

Polydor **

Ellie Goulding was originally touted as the sound of 2010. Then her debut album ( Lights) was released in March to lukewarm reviews. On the third single, she pulls out all the stops with a video that's a cross between Thrillerand Stand and Deliver. But this writer remains unconvinced.