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Posted on 09/18/09 at 05:33:21 pm

This week's new-music round-up features some woozy love-pop courtesy of Girls, "bizarre stentorian electro-rock" from Editors, and some Geordie yodelling from (yes!) Cheryl Cole.

1. Girls - Lust For Life
In The Virgin Suicides, Kirsten Dunst, as Lux Lisbon, scrawled her name onto her underwear, and thus sealed the fate of the doomed ’70s Lolita in cherry chapstick. This sweetly sepia, slightly fuzzed-out summer love song complete with fittingly lo-fi and adorable video recreates that feeling of lost youth and monogrammed pants perfectly.

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