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

BRITNEY SPEARS

I Wanna Go Jive **

As album sales dwindle, artists are increasingly looking to secure alternative revenue streams. Britney’s latest video features what may (or may not) be a particularly ingenious instance of fast-food product placement. Check out the moustachioed man spared her opprobrium at 0:35 and decide for yourself.

ADELE

Turning Tables XL Recordings ****

The gazillionth single from Adele’s 21 album finds the chanteuse fed up with turning tables. Hey Adele, try waiting tables. Or multiplication tables. Or train timetables. Pop stars these days . . . don’t even know they’re born.

PORTUGAL. THE MAN

Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) Atlantic **

Mediocre psychedelic rock from Wasilla, Alaska’s second most famous exports (after a certain ex-governor). Portugal. The Man’s delight at elevation to major-label status is no doubt tempered only by having to continually answer the same question from taxi drivers and distant relatives at Christmas: “Portugal the what now?”

WILCO

I Might dBpm ****

"You won't set the kids on fire?/Oh, then I might." The release of any new music from this band is always an occasion for rejoicing around these parts. The first single from Wilco's ninth studio album, The Whole Love(their first since leaving Nonesuch Records), is a major departure for the band. But, if we're being honest, that's probably why we're so fond of it.

BIFFY CLYRO

Mountains (Live at Wembley) 14th Floor Records **

“I am the mountain, I am the sea/You can’t take that away from me.” While Zane Lowe reluctantly suffered Beyoncé’s Glastonbury set a few weeks ago, you just know that what he really yearned for was music performed the way God intended it: in nonsensical couplets by men in jumpers with wispy beards. Well here you go, Zane, bacon and cabbage is served!