Summer’s here – as if we didn’t notice! – and here is a soundtrack for those long lazy sunshiney days, preferably with a long cool drink in hand. We’ve got the most memorable horn riff of all time – so good we’ve got it twice! – and artists from Lisbon to Madrid and Mexico, ending in a poignant tribute to the late lamented Glen Hansard.

When I first heard the adrenalin rush of those guitars at the start of Girl From Mars, I was instantly transported back to the first wave of punk in 1977.

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Mourning Service are an American goth band in thrall to the gloom-mongers of the early Eighties nearly half a century later.

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Such sad news about the far too premature death of musician and actor Glen Hansard in a motorcycle crash in his hometown of Dublin.

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Saint Etienne changed direction from their ambient dance style to a retro Sixties vibe on You’re In A Bad Way.

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I’m so not the target audience for Canadian hyperpop singer 8485, but this song is such an earworm I can’t resist it.

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Shoun Shoun is the project of Bristol-based Annette Berlin, who describes her band’s sound as “lo-fi anxiety and raucous tales of bad behaviour.”

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The Beta Band burst on to the music scene in 1997 with the first of their three EPs, kicking off with this tune, Dry The Rain.

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The Flaming Lips sang this poignant, melancholic and beautiful state-of-the-world ballad on their third album back in 1990.

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Body Type are a four-piece female band from Sydney, Australia, whose brand of noisy garage-punk is now drifting into a calmer place.

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