Here are four corking singles for you to listen to and, should you be so inclined, subsequently purchase.

First up are Scumbag Philosopher and their second single, God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead. It is typically English in it’s odd spoken word style, wry black humour and deadpan observations of the ludicrousness of life. Out on May 23rd, visit their website here for more details.

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Long time MM faves, The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club also plough their own singular furrow of often spastic art-rock. Latest single, A Conversation is a conversation between a woman and her executioner just before her beheading. It’s made of one hundred and ninety-five seconds of a mandolin like a fairground, a guitar like an organ, falsetto singing and lots of heavy breathing. There’s no bass, and no drums in the chorus – this is on the sound advice of the late, great Buddy Holly: ”take the drums out of the chorus and you’ll have a massive hit on your hands”. Here’s hoping…get it from iTunes here.

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Barry Sean’s favourites Chapel Club follow their excellent debut album Palace and sold out UK tour with a new single on May 16th. Blind is taken from the LP – watch and enjoy.

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Buy the album here or a signed copy of the single here.

And lastly we have The Wave Pictures another resolutely British band and their new single Little Surprise the first from the new album Beer In The Breakers. Buy it here.