Haim
Don't Save Me (National Anthem/Polydor)

There's a fine (by which I mean not fine) tradition of rubbish sisters in pop, from the Nolans through to B*Witched, the Corrs and the Conway Sisters off X Factor. They're all Irish too. Fortunately last week's Guide cover stars Haim are neither rubbish nor Irish. They look like angsty Afghan hounds but their music is sunny, and this chugging chunk of powerpop comes over like an indie Belinda Carlisle, conjuring up images of 80s-era John Cusack driving moodily down a California coast road. Roll up jacket sleeves, don Wayfarers, wallop.

Mumford & Sons
Lover Of The Light (Gentlemen Of The Road/Island)

The Boden Waterboys take an organic minibreak from florid-cheeked, Amish-waistcoated folk stompalongs to whimper out a ballad which will make smug couples sway annoyingly at V Festival. The Waitrose Levellers have even got Idris Elba to direct and star in the video, so that's The Wire ruined as well. Cheers a bunch. Elba plays a blind bloke but he doesn't sculpt a clay head of Lionel Richie, which is an opportunity missed.

Angel
Time After Time (Island)

This R&B/grime gentleman comes from Greater London's fashionably urban London, so I like to think he named himself after his local tube station. Be thankful he doesn't live near Mudchute. Switching between geezer-rapped verses and a crooned chorus, this sadly isn't a Cyndi Lauper cover but an unrepentant paean to infidelity. The lyrics namecheck "Tiffany, Stacey and Tracey", so he seems to have done most of his dirty deeds in Albert Square. It'd work well as a B-side by the Loveable Rogues off Britain's Got Talent.

Major Lazer
Jah No Partial (Mad Decent)

It sounds like something JP from Fresh Meat would say: "You should've come to Seb's party last night, Pussyman. It was major lazer, jah? No partial. Mad decent." The single's catalogue number is probably LEDGEBANTS1. This teeth-rattling tune starts off as straight-up reggae, then goes mental with massive squelchy fart noises and techno FX. It features dubstep producer Flux Pavilion – who's a bit like a flux capacitor but, you know, a pavilion.

Florence + The Machine
Lover To Lover (Island)

Florence Welch keeps it quiet that she's secretly the daughter of Denise Welch off Loose Women. But rest assured, we're on to her. In the meantime, settle for this big baroque number from the ginger ninja. It's propelled by a nagging piano motif and pounding percussion, while she wails about salvation and heartache. Perhaps when she wrote it, Flo had just seen Mum flashing Frankie Cocozzain the Celeb Big Brother hot tub or cackling about cocks with Carol McGiffin.