The Weekly Sweep

The Acorn - Crooked Legs [mp3] (In truth we've only heard two songs from this - oh look - expansive Canadian collective but are very excited on that basis. Think Sparklehorse, think Fleet Foxes, think what the influence of traditional Honduran music on those might sound like)

ballboy - Godzilla Vs The Island Of Manhattan (With You And I Somewhere In-Between) [Myspace] (No Honduran music for Gordon McIntyre and co, just good honest poetic love songs to an indiepop beat. Dammit, he gets us every time with that one.)

The Chap - Proper Rock [mp3]

Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me [Myspace]

David Holmes - I Heard Wonders [YouTube]

Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker [YouTube]

Guillemots - Kriss Kross [YouTube]

The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer [Myspace]

I'm From Barcelona - Paper Planes [Myspace]

Johnny Flynn - Brown Trout Blues [YouTube]

Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Peppa & Spinderella [YouTube]

Laura Wolf - Love Was Dead [Myspace] (To be honest, we don't expect universal support for this one. Her Myspace quotes a review (from Death To Music, we think) referring to her as "a cross between Lily Allen and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone", which sounds about right)

Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth [YouTube]

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines [Myspace]

Slow Club - Let's Fall Back In Love [Myspace]

Stereolab - Three Women [YouTube]

This City - We Move [Myspace]

Thomas Tantrum - Work It [YouTube]

TV On The Radio - Golden Age [streaming from homepage]

Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa [YouTube]