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Featurinig Bleachers, Heaven, Kojaque and an amazing swansong from Glen Campbell

Jack Antonoff of  Bleachers. Photograph: Lester Cohen/WireImage
Jack Antonoff of Bleachers. Photograph: Lester Cohen/WireImage

BLEACHERS
Don't Take the Money
★★★
RCA
Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff - better known for his work with Fun, Taylor Swift and Lorde (the latter of whom provides backing vocals here) - has described the band's latest single as a love song to his girlfriend Lena Dunham, who directed the video. He delivers one of his trademark big, dumb choruses. She fires back with an amusing video starring Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat, involving a hastily arranged wedding, a mail order bride and a Russian spy.


HEAVEN
Lonesome Town 
★★
Italians Do It Better
On the Cowboy Junkie' classic Trinity Sessions album, singer Margo Timmons took a bunch of rock and country standards, slowed the tempo to a near standstill and reinvented them very successfully as glacial, funereal dirges. Three decades later, Johnny Jewel- produced electronica quartet Heaven are attempting the same trick on the title track from their debut EP. (Lonesome Townis the Ricky Nelson song playing the diner in Pulp Fiction, if you're wondering why it's so familiar.) The result is too short and emotionally detached really to hit the mark.


KOJAQUE
WiFi Code
★★★
Soft Boy Records
Back in 2015, Dublin rapper Kojaque trained for weeks to shoot a three-minute video for his Midnight Flower track underwater in just one take. Two years on, he's still not taking any easy options, holidaying in what looks like the caravan from that Father Ted episode, inquiring "what's the WiFi code?"


GLEN CAMPBELL
Adios
★★★★
Universal On the title track from his 64th and final studio album, Glen Campbell performs a track written by Jimmy Webb, who composed Campbell's hits By The Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman and Galveston back in the late 1960s. This bittersweet swansong to his long career was recorded in Nashville four years ago, not long after the now 81-year-old was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.