Fly53 and Clash Music Download the Sounds of the Summer Album Exclusive Free MP3 Album

As the seasons topple into each other, the light fades and temperatures shakily wheeze themselves through our lives, summer still remains the special season where life just looks and tastes better.

So come and sample our sonic trove of summer anthems, brought to you with our friends at Fly53, from bands renowned for making thousands of people drink more matured vegetable drinks and dance about in grass as if they were children once more.

Unhinged from your trudge in a mortal life, these tracks will unleash your beast within and allow you to scarper to refreshing heights to make a mockery of Icarus. Sizzlin’ stuff.

Read on for the lowdown on the artists featured on 'Sounds of the Summer'.

Songs about girls are always a hit. And this irrepressible, clever and most of all epically memorable track from our favourite Swedish trio is more catchy than a pandemic. It’s loosely about a sex pest, forged from clumpy percussion, chunky bass and harmonised pleas for a party pooper to unhand their girl. Don’t mess with these boys. They had a Number One in thirty countries and have a fucking LOT of pals.

All hail the Foxes, whose quick rises was one of the ambient fireworks of 2008. Their crisp and gentle deployment of orchestral pop is as fresh as it gets whilst their path to headlining festivals such as End Of The Road in 2009 has been a natural and democratic path trodden well away from the bustle of hype. A mature process like a fine malt and equally unhurried. Here we are treated to the fourth track from their ‘Sun Giant EP’, which so succinctly communicates their style: soft, unsullied and super sleek - this band are as svelte as their name suggests.

We were blown away when Fujiya And Miyagi first stormed our Clash party in 2007, and their third album ‘Lightbulbs’ followed up slick style to make a corner of our hearts entirely theirs. ‘Knickerbocker’ was the lead single from their last album and is a seasonal slurp as cool and tasty as the coldest of creams. Krautrock nuance blends with icy and acerbic observations and a fiesta of Moog’d up and mixed down dancefloor chic. Melt me.

At times peddling electronic shoe gaze, at others seething narrative dance stompers. Here we are treated to the latter in this shimming slab of dance manna. Maps is one James Chapman, whose debut ‘We Can Create’ literally abducted the office stereo for a month. Now he sneaks out this blistering chunk of cosmic disco ahead of his forthcoming new album. Maps fills venues and fields. Listen to this to find out exactly why and get your ears into his locale. He’ll be easy to find.

Formed as a backing band to play a remix of an Air single, Phoenix became galvanised as a proper band when Laurent Brancowitz joined permanently after being in a band previously with Daft Punk just before they became the elusive robot rockers. As such Phoenix, Clash’s favourite French dance pop band, have never lost their love of a floor filler and happily handed over the reigns here to Alex Metric to give a tough workout to this sunshine filled summer romper.

Taken from his ‘Saturdays = Youth’ album recalling the thrill of teenage years misspent in any fashion he deemed, M83 here serves up a dish of driving electronics awash with memory. Pain drenched synth stabs and a frenetic percussive structure fuse with his album’s concept to conjure a rich and emotive musical journey. M83 will no doubt be making juveniles exacerbate their shifting actions in various towns over the summer months with his own heavenly compositions. U.N.L.E.A.S.H. T.H.E. B.E.A.S.T.

Lazy days and lazy beats. Grizzly Bear returned in the spring with another beautifully laconic shuffle of songs angled low and deep. Here they treat us to an ode to a cheerleader, clearly a subject matter de rigueur for any summer worth its salt. Grizzly’s cacophony of swirling melodies, understated washes of distortion, hints of psychedelia and falsetto harmonies combine to produce a divine shaft of seasonal delight perfect for warming any moment, regardless of where your elusive sun may be.

These boys have a song for every possible situation, so it wasn’t hard for Sparks - arch surrealists and lysergic documenters of our time - to dole out a suitable anthem to soundtrack this issue of Clash. ‘Over The Summer’ is a bawdy Beach Boys-esque romp that’s equally at home on your iPod as it is rocking a dance tent. The Mael brothers have been going for nearly five decades now and there’s few bands that have voyaged across the same spectrum of sounds and styles. Ask the KLF about Sparks and see what the cantankerous devil that is Bill Drummond says of these legends. Inbound!

Keith and co popped back into lives in March and it’s as if they hadn’t ever been away. Their new raved-up and twisted take on dance culture as ever hits the yoof’s spots as drum and bass beats smash into all the right bleeps and boops and this mild shift in style foregrounds their commitment to staying way up top of the dance tree. Liam Howlett’s ability to tune into the youth’s taste and shifting values remains almost unprecedented, and we’d salute them if we hadn’t already exhausted our waving arms.

As a cast iron headliner Simian Mobile Disco have done well to close the gap on more entrenched veterans such as Chemical Brothers and Underworld. Here, the fast ascendant Allez Allez re-jigs a monster from the new album, which is due out in August. It’s all cerebrally deadly melodies on point to frame any moment you pick across your holiday for eternity and packed with fun, sincere and euphoric tones. Welcome to the future of excellent memories.

Juan Atkins knows a thing or two about shifting ass. As one of Detroit’s originators of techno, his invention, teaching and relentless quest to disseminate electro can’t be over-quantified. You may be aware of anthems such as ‘Night Drive’, yet here Atkins kindly donates a new belter to your digital swag bag. ‘Huesca’ is a complete kinetic stomper designed for heads and feet. The snare is as sharp as you’ll get whilst the synths shuffle and plunge about like the shifting fabric of a dancefloor well alive on the bounce.

If you ingest a bag of magic mushrooms before listening to Orbital’s ‘Snivilisation’ album you’ll find yourself approximately twenty-three times better at being a human afterwards. Forever. Believe me, it’s how I got this job. ‘Are We Here?’ is the Hartnoll brothers’ philosophical musings on the nature of life in the universe and a belting dance track to boot. Whereas much of dance music struggles to coherently operate over a full album, Orbital’s second album is packed with verve, nuance, lulls and bangers. It’s a complete recording whose ability to tune into the lysergic slant is almost unparalleled. We salute you and your tupsy-torvy world.

Naming yourself after a Roxy Music track is always a good start, and this Scouse quartet really haven’t looked back, melding together electronic pop as if it were going out of fashion. ‘Tomorrow’ is structured like any classic electro anthem, as rousing chorus meets scintillating synths levelled at the stars. Four albums have peppered the decade that has brought Ladytron into our lives and they are a perennial festival fave.

If you thought Barry Ashworth was all about jump-up ska waves in revivalist style then check out this number! Soul replaces the skank here as the ’Pistols fire out ambient salvos of keys snugly circulating over deep, deep layers of softly plucked bass. Think Zero Seven in a hammock with Air drinking Valium-laced Pimms. It’s laid back to say the least, yet these boys can bring the party at the drop of a Fedora, as anyone at Sunday Best well knows after their team effortlessly laid on the best festivals at Bestival and Rockness for the last few years running. So, lie back and think of after-sun and yet another long-supped beer.