The Weekly Sweep

4 Or 5 Magicians - Nice Little Earner [YouTube]

Acres, Acres - Diamonds From Coal [mp3]

Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube]

Copy Haho - Wrong Direction [Myspace]

The Decemberists - The Rake's Song [YouTube]

Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down [YouTube]

Grammatics - Double Negative [live YouTube]

Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others [YouTube]

I Concur - Sobotka [YouTube]

I Was A King - Norman Bleik [Myspace] (So work this one out. A Norwegian band write a song with more than shades of Teenage Fanclub circa Grand Prix, in particular Neil Jung. Then just to make sure, they give it that title.)

Internet Forever - Cover The Walls [acoustic live YouTube, if you can imagine Internet Forever in acoustic mode] (May we also recommend their noisy attack on Dire Straits' Walk Of Life. Note Chris' throat turning on him at 0:43)

Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation [YouTube]

Johnny Foreigner - Criminals [YouTube]

The Kiara Elles - Odio [YouTube]

Kill It Kid - Heaven Never Seemed So Close [YouTube]

Local Natives - Camera Talk [YouTube]

Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings [Vimeo]

The Lovely Eggs - Haunt Me Out [Myspace]

Mew - Repeaterbeater [YouTube]

The Phantom Band - Throwing Bones [Myspace]

Piano Magic - On Edge [Myspace video]

Rose Elinor Dougall - Fallen Over [Myspace]

Slow Club - Trophy Room [YouTube]

Stairs To Korea - Boy Bear It In Mind [YouTube]

Swanton Bombs - Doom [Myspace]

Taken By Trees - My Boys [YouTube] (Victoria Bergsman airily covers Animal Collective, with your actual Noah Lennox on backing vocals)

Tubelord - Propeller [Vimeo]

The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Trading Things In [YouTube]

Wild Beasts - All The King's Men [YouTube]

Wonderswan - Furrpile [Myspace]