Come the end of the month, come the STN month's best playlist. 23 tracks this time around, from power pop to elegant orchestration to whatever you'd call tUnE-YarDs. Remember not to listen more than five times, unless you've paid for it. And frankly if you consider £9.99 a month for all the new and old music listening you can handle beneath you, then we know why so many people are choosing to stream a compilation expressly noted as benefiting charity rather than buying it.

STN April 2011