Ouch. This has been a week of especially high-calibre music finds, and this has been the toughest Rated Ox edition I’ve had to do in the short history of this weekly retrospective featurette. I mean real tough. I listened over and over again to each song I wrote about, then selected these five from an already skimmed down shortlist, after re-listening to each track about a dozen times each.

Don’t agree? Well why couldn’t you tell me what you think? Or better yet, you could try to beat some sense into me…

At any rate, no matter how hard it was, here is the list of my five favourite songs I wrote about in the past week.

• Freddie Stevenson - Easy Now
• Cut Copy - Lights and Music (Radio Edit)
• Wolf Parade - Call It A Ritual
• Cinderpop - Blonder
• No Age - Eraser