Singles

SHUFFLE:Eoin Butler's guide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams

METRONOMY

Radio Ladio Because Music ****

The London trio rerelease their infectious debut single, taken from last year's Nights Outalbum.

GREEN DAY

Know Your Enemy Reprise **

Green Day are back. This taster from the bafflingly popular trio's 21st Century Breakdownalbum is supposedly a "rousing call to arms against apathy". I wouldn't go quite as far, although I did tidy my desk immediately after listening to it, which was something I'd been meaning to for a while.

HERM

Heads Catchy Go Go Records ***

Kevin Connolly is a Galway singer- songwriter based in Dublin. The eye-catching video for his latest single features him cooking and eating a claymation model of himself. No issues to work through there then. www.myspace.com/ hermwork

IRONIK ft CHIPMUNK & ELTON JOHN

Tiny Dancer Asylum ***

It’s telling that, for all the sharp suits, plush interiors, scantily clad models and impeccably delivered yo-yo-yo’s, a 10-second snippet from a 38-year-old Elton John track is still the best thing on here by some distance.

FEVER RAY

When I Grow Up Rabid ****

“When I grow up I want to be a forester/Running through the moss on high heels,” claims Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife. The video shows a zombie standing on a swimming pool diving board for three and a half minutes without jumping in. Now that’s what I call arty!

STEVE APPLETON

Dirty Funk Sony Music *

Remember Max, the well- connected “gapper” whose blog provoked such outpourings of bile on the Guardian website? Well, imagine if young Max turned his hand to making music that was, like, a mixture of acoustic, funk, pop and drum’n’base. Yeah? Think Andy Sandberg impersonating Chesney Hawkes. In a bad Heineken commercial. With a fake Jamaican accent. Except, except . . . it’s not a joke. The horror! The horror! shuffle