Music Towers has been doing what all good people should be doing in this ridiculously hot weather – instead of cramming ourselves into a tube train commute before spending eight hours slaving away in a grimy office, instead we’ve been sitting out in the sun all week, and giving an airing to a few errant promos we’ve been sent on the boombox.

Look – we’ve even linked up the band names so you can go listen to what we’re on about at the same time. And even given you a few videos for you to watch. Anythign we can do to make that office seem a bit more bearable...

‘One Up On You’ – The Favours

Thumping off with all the pounding drive of a Futureheads track, the female vocals of this Hull-based band soon turn it away towards something else entirely. It’s a shame that after such a pulse-raising verse, the chorus flattens out into something more beige. It’s like buying a Yorkie bar and discovering a Cadbury’s Caramel in the wrapper instead.

‘Falling’ – The Outside Royalty

With an intro that reminds us of Joy Division, we get totally blindsided by some almost Sparks-esque vocals. Then the strings come in, and all we can think of is Roxy Music before Bryan Ferry became embarrassing. Y’know, with all that fox-hunting and Bob Dylan covers. This is power-folk. Glorious.

‘Not My Girl’ – Ejectorseat

The only thing not forgettable about this tune is the skin-grating twinkly synth stuck onto the chorus like a leech wrapped around a pond snail. And neither is something you’d want to introduce into your ear canal.

‘Louder Than Bombs’ – The Parlotones

We interviewed this lot a while back (it’s here if you missed it), and ‘Louder Than Bombs’ is a good chunky hunk of Britpop-retro to sink a beer to. Raucous without being laddish, the tunes of these South Africans goes down easy.

‘Victoria’ – Official Secrets Act

Nervous artrock with a glorious line in post-punk guitars, suddenly it spins us out with a line in doo-wop breakdowns and David Byrne vocal nods. Almost too off-kilter to have any chance to be a crossover radio hit, it’s the punters’ loss – this is infinitely more listenable than 90% of the XFM playlist.