Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we’ve posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think.

Black Angels – Telephone mp3

Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies

Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3

Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story of a serial killer

The Migrant – The Organ Grinder mp3

Gentle, low-key start before the swelling, insistent guitar strum builds and builds while the plaintive vocals keep pace the whole time

Efren – Stay High mp3

Psych-folk tale of trying to lose love, dreams of family past, tall boys, gambling, and whiskey stills…

TV Torso – I Can See Your Face mp3

Excellent, hypnotic pulses and sixties harmonies

Amen Dunes – By The Bridal mp3

Hazy, sunlit psychedelic folk

Nick Marsh – Best Shag In The World mp3

Like an evil Richard Hawley on smack singing something from Blue Velvet

Victorian English Gentlemens Club – A Biting Wind Followed By An Occasional Drift Of Snow (Was No Way To Cure A Hangover) mp3

Excellent new track from post–punk, art-rock weirdos

White Noise Sound – Sunset mp3

Corrosive feedback, pulsating krautrock rhythms, floating vocals and wall-of-sound guitars combine into an ear-shattering, blissed out climax

White Dress – No Solid State mp3

Noir rock, taut and quivering with all kinds of emotion poured into the vocals

Small Black – Photojournalist mp3

Lilting sliding beat dropping into a gorgeous moment of ambient wash

Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences – I’m In Love With A Hospital Receptionist mp3

Anti-folk masters of oddball lyrics, black humour, biting satire and sometimes poignant political comment

Ono Palindromes – Black Lungs mp3

Ferocious energy, vicious circling guitars and gunshot percussion

The National – You Were A Kindness mp3

New, suitably downtempo piano ballad

American Graveyard – Common Ones mp3

Debauched Americana, delivered in the timeless style of all classic protest songs

Truman Peyote Featuring Emily Reo – Turn Into Feathers mp3

Like something from a banned 1970s horror flick it quickly transforms into a delightfully skewed three minute pop song for freaks and outsiders

Haunted Windchimes – Don’t Take My Baby Away (Baby Back) mp3

Authentic, bewitching folk that draws you in and holds you tight

Baby Eagle – Day Of Our Departing mp3

A corking track with echoes of Neil Young, Gram Parsons and Pavement

We Are Trees – Dear Chan Marshall mp3

Deceptively simple song with some lovely flamenco style guitar and clever lyrics

Pepper Rabbit – Older Brother mp3

Folk with chamber leanings and a twisted, slightly psych-pop edge

The War On Drugs – Comin’ Through mp3

Strummed guitar delight from forthcoming album

Roy Paymon – Imonetta mp3

Simply georgeous, fragile pop song

Our cover versions of the month are these two:

Download Fever Ray – Mercy Street mp3

Download Mumford & Sons – Unfinished Business mp3

And three excellent new tracks to finish off with: firstly another cover – The Drums doing Arcade Fire, the new taster track from indie-folk God Sufjan Stevens and finally some superb, caustic, drone punk from The Band In Heaven.

Download The Drums – We Used To Wait mp3

Download Sufjan Stevens – I Walked mp3 (from The Age of Adz)

Download The Band In Heaven – Suicide Pact mp3 (from The Band In Heaven / Weird Wives Split Tape)