Track Of The Day: May

"TOTD: like Match of the day, but featuring much less football and more handpicked songs from the web's finest blogs.“ Said by… well, me… not very long ago. JI

TOTD has returned in a blaze of self-professed glory and, safe in the knowledge that not very much has happened recently, I can confidently say this is at least the third most exciting thing in your life at the moment. Lucky enough to be enjoying a bank holiday? Well I’d like to implore you have a listen to this veritable feast of noisiness. If you want to connect to the Twitter account from which all this is so shamelessly nicked, just click on those fancy new social networking buttons, I’m sure they’re around here somewhere...

If you can’t get enough there’s a co-existing TOTD feature on our Facebook page – or in case you think our selections are, put politely, not very good.

These songs aren’t the most widely publicized songs of the month; they’re not an ‘Indie top 40’ (because we figure that you’ve already heard all of those); but they are rough diamonds that have wormed their ways into our consciousness over the past thirty odd days. So here’s May’s list – I suggest you pick a few at random, listen to them, and feel free to make some comments… after all TOTD is really a benign dictatorship:

Black Lips - 'New Direction' http://bit.ly/lAJHf6

Savage Nomads - ‘What The Angel Said’ http://bit.ly/iUhV95

Falcon Punch - 'Where You'll Stay' http://bit.ly/lUhZbs

Ladytron - 'White Elephant' http://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/ladytron-white-elephant

Bon Iver - 'Calgary' http://soundcloud.com/indieistanbul/bon-iver-calgary

Cults - 'Abducted' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1MXHGB8g0

Tiger Love - 'Pussy Cocaine' http://soundcloud.com/the_playground/pussy-cocaine

Deadmau5 - 'Raise Your Weapon’ (Noisia Remix) http://bit.ly/mLqpvX

Friendly Fires - 'Hawaiian air' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OswTmc2bZYQ

Benga – ’26 Basslines’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4D-hCO8Y2k

Raphael Saadiq -'Heart Attack' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJe_Cl6CpU

Jamie Woon - 'Shoulda' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUm4MHEeFCY&feature=fvst

Tune Yards – ‘Gangsta’ http://soundcloud.com/fbi-radio/tune-yards-gangsta

Metronomy - 'Corinne' http://soundcloud.com/uberkampfe/metronomy-corinne

Katy B (ft Magnetic Man) - 'Perfect Stanger' http://bit.ly/dIhjhn

Black Lips - 'Modern Art' http://soundcloud.com/barbadetres/black-lips-modern-art

Hugh Laurie - 'You Don't Know My Mind' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQsfwqIJuj8

Yeasayer – ‘O.N.E.’ http://soundcloud.com/wereofftherails/01-o-n-e

Serenades - 'Birds' http://www.swedesplease.net/2011/04/06/birds-by-the-serenades/

FM Belfast - 'New Year' http://soundcloud.com/morrmusic/fm-belfast-new-year-1

Jakwob - 'Right Beside You' http://soundcloud.com/keep-it-dub/jakwob-right-beside-you

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That’s all folks. Since you’ve reached this point why not write a reaction below, after all you’ve clearly got some time on your hands…