Mark Kozelek (previously of Red House Painters) has the kind of melancholic voice you mostly have to be in the mood to properly appreciate, but every once in a while he throws out utter gems, like Never Ending Math Equation, that regardless of your mood, will have yourself soaring. In case you’re wondering, it’s from an album made up, curiously, of Modest Mouse covers, all given that unique Kozelek treatment.

I don’t really know how it could be any better.

Do you like rock music? Good. So do I. And so do British Sea Power, judging by their new album Do You Like Rock Music?, from which this, ahem, quarter’s Track of the Week is taken. It’s pretty much perfect 3 minute-single fodder — a chuggy guitar riff, pounding drums, and great vocals, none of which let up until that three minute mark.

It’s probably my favourite album of the year so far too. Play loud.

I highly recommend the fantastic video too. 100% brilliant.

There’s at least three great ingredients to this week’s Track Of The Week: the fantastic plinky, plinky banjo and bass line, the unlikely lyric “I think I’m hearing somebody saying, I’m gonna spank you ‘till you can’t sit down” and, of course, the crazy sounding title — a place in Canada, I believe, from where TBGT’s hail. Soak it up.

I’m favouring regularity over eulogising over each and every Track of the Week at the moment, but suffice to say that listening to this makes me anything but cranky.

Very Shins-y, very catchy, very lazy post, very much gets my seal of approval.

I don’t really know what this track is about, but somehow that doesn’t seem the point. It’s lovely, and I could happily listen to it for far longer than the all too short 3 minutes 48 seconds it lasts for.

The Ecstasy of Gold is almost certainly my all time favourite instrumental piece of music. Part of Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, it’s epic beyond beyond belief. Sit back, enjoy, and feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

The Verve recently announced that they had reformed and are part-way into writing a new album. Whether this is a good idea remains to be seen, but if they record anything as good as this outtake from the Urban Hymns album, I will be a happy man. This Could Be My Moment was never released as a B-side, and only saw light of day as a hidden gem on the singles album This Is Music a few years back. Nonetheless, it’s pretty fantastic. “There’s one life, one chance, come on — let’s hit the floor!”

Sunday, Bloody Sunday, as a track, almost certainly needs no introduction. This particular version, recorded the day of the Remembrance Day Bombing in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, however, is one of the most powerful live tracks I’ve ever heard by any artist. Even though it didn’t go down well in America at the time, I’d highly recommend both the Rattle & Hum film and album too, although the album doesn’t include this track.

To leave things on a lighter note, I’ll leave you with a quote from an episode of Alan Partridge, a British comedy series, on that very song:

Alan: Now, I must say I’m very grateful you’ve come over. Big fans of all the Irish stuff. Love your pop music, Enya, and the other one – ripped up the Pope, bald chap? And… I think that’s it.

Aidan: Well, there’s U2, of course.

Alan: Oh, well, yeah. Fantastic. “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn’t it? You wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you’ve got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think “Sunday, bloody Sunday!”.