Knightlife â€' Crusader
(From Discodust)
British temperatures recently limped into the low 20s, which is traditionally the cue for excitable DJs to start sweating over what the "soundtrack to your summer" might be. Melbourne house producer Knightlife's latest may not have the chorus to make their list, but he'll still be the cool choice when the heat dies down.

Charlie Wadhams â€' Someone to Kiss
(From Parasites & Sycophants)
Wadhams is an LA-based singer-songwriter who joins DentMay and Mayer Hawthorne at the cutting edge of soft soul. Three great musicians peddling a similar line in neo-Teddy Pendergrass love songs? A lesser publication would have invented a scene for this by now ...

In the Annexe â€' Mirrors
(From MySpace. Suggested by Ian M Hale)
Recommended by Ian M Hale, our favourite bright young thing of last week. London's In the Annexe rescue the Cure's legacy from those who seem to wish it nothing but harm.

Busy Signal â€' Da Style Deh
(From The Heatwave)
A barrage of rattling dancehall from the Jamaican MC, with some brilliant call and response that Heatwave blogger Gabriel, smartly associates with Ghanaian pop music. Unfortunately, Gabriel also says the tune is "ripe for a UK funky refix", at which point our critical opinions wave each other cheery-bye.

Liechtenstein â€' All At Once
(From MySpace via Punkreas)
Personnel from Goeteborg, Sweden. Sound from Mexico City, Transylvania, Seattle and London circa 1978. If only everyone sounded this interesting ...