This week's new tracks

Faye Water Against The Rocks (Best Fit Recordings) It's often said that a great vocalist could sing the phone directory and we'd still listen. Faye seems to have taken this as a challenge here and has the audacity to sing: "Feed my cat, it's scared and cold" and make it sound like the most desperate, emotion-packed line. It helps that she does so over gorgeous, understated Swedish synth-pop. The feline chat is a clever trick, too – puncturing the normal heartbreak blandisms with a symbol of do...

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