Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Loog)

There are some things in life that you just know aren't going to end well. Getting a ticket for The Lizzie McGuire Movie, going on a blind date with someone who proceeds to laugh more than Tickle Me Elmo, or attending a club night featuring "Hot Chip DJs". So when we saw Memory Tapes being described as a "Balearic beats band" we were quite sceptical, but Bicycle is just lovely. Chanty, dancey and quite irresistible. Like New Order + Passion Pit + Yeasayer irresistible.

Speech Debelle Feat Micachu - Better Days (Big Dada)

With its stark acoustic guitar chords and eerie strings, Better Days sounds like something you might hear on a haunted house ride at a funfair. The pairing of Speech and Micachu might be strikingly odd, like getting Lynn Faulds Wood and Melody from the Pussycat Dolls to star in a remake of Sweet Valley High, but it works. Speech's desperate, end-of-her-tether rap fits perfectly against Micachu's world-weary vocal style - basically sounding like she's a couple of syllables away from squawking "Twenty quid for a fix?" Dreamy.

Flo-Rida Feat Nelly Furtado - Jump (Atlantic)

Being self-employed has its benefits. The good bits? Eating cereal at 2pm in your pyjamas. Also, being able to dance to bangers like Jump without fear of being pelted with a barrage of insults and badly sharpened pencils from the Debbie Downer sitting opposite you at your workstation. The bad bits? Zero social interaction and finding out you don't have any hobbies other than drinking. Once it got so bad that I had to sexually harass myself.

Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend (Sony)

Calvin Harris used to get us apoplectic with rage. Songs so identical they were basically the Hitler Youth of the charts. And the persona of someone who'd defend Roger Federer's personally monogrammed shiny trackies by saying they were "pretty smart". But after the great Dance Wiv Me we're so over being angry. Now, when we see the words CALVIN HARRIS REMIX plastered on every song that's ever been released in the history of releasing songs we don't feel the need to get a fast-track application to the Bounty Hunter Training Academy. And so while Ready For The Weekend starts off like Mika on an aphrodisiac, we can now see through the red mist and admit that its two-choruses-in-one chorus is pretty brill.

Pink - Funhouse (RCA)

Given the right situation, listening to Pink is perfect. We like nothing better than sticking on Just Like A Pill while we're painting pictures of sad clowns, or jamming to Who Knew while writing poems to our cat. But Funhouse is just terrible, like Red Hot Chili Peppers B-side terrible. It's also co-written with No Doubt's Tony Kanal. The man who's inadvertently responsible for relaunching Gavin Rossdale's career after dumping Gwen Stefani. Thanks a bunch, Tony.