JASON MRAZ: Make It Mine.Gloriously uplifting soft soul funk – the kind of song that proves spring is more than in the air. You can’t help but love it. A warm breeze on a lazy summer Sunday in music form.

THE VIEW: Temptation Dice.The View have leaped onto the dance floor with this one and then gone crazy there. A shakin’ swivel.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS: There’s No Secrets This Year.Big buzz, tumbling drums from a revved band whose metallic edge is homed by melodic sandpaper. If there is such a thing as soft focus aggression, then this is it. A taster from their second album, Swoon.

BLUE OCTOBER: Dirt Room.The start belies the ferocity about to fling itself right at the listener’s face. Produced by Steve Lillywhite – synonymous with U2 – this becomes a shout-it-out metallic explosion before subsiding into violin solo.The voice is even more staccato than the guitars. Out to be different. And is.

METRONOMY: Radio Ladio. Funky synth from their second album, Nights Out. Think of Kraftwerk at carnival time – if that’s remotely possible.

FUGATIVE: Jimmy Shoe.Teenage rap pap from the 15-year-old that can’t see beyond its teen shades. One up from a nursery rhyme.

DOVES: Kingdom Of Rust.This has been 18 months in the making and they’ve secreted themselves away in a Cheshire farmhouse to record it. The fruits of their extended labour is an album that’s cerebral and eclectic – experimental even. At times they’re wind-up merchants, building up a fever-pitch sense of anticipation without ever flourishing into the longed-for killer chorus. Others range from a Chemical Brothers-kind wallop through to Who-like meandering rock anthems – and that’s before the quiet, orchestral rock intensity and far-off shimmerings. As for where the Lancastrian Spaghetti western-sounding title track fits in – well, it doesn’t.

FLO RIDA: Roots. The big fella takes samples and bends them with muscular musical simplicity to his own ends. The victims here include Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Round on the current single Right Round and Mark Knopfler’s Private Dancer made famous by Tina Turner. He’s got his famous mates popping up all over the place – Nelly Furtado, Akon, Kesha, Ne-Yo and Wyclef Jean. A varied offering from the dirge through jaunty nursery rhyme and slick-tongued hyperactivity to Flo Rida getting, well in touch with his soft, soulful side.