Noel Gallagher, Two Door Cinema Club, Wild Beasts & Cathy Davey star in Free Music Friday

Having had the temerity to take last week off – our second holiday, tsk, in two years – Free Music Friday is back with its customary Protestant work ethic and another fine collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers.

Our favourite FMF thing this time round is Noel Gallagher conducting the first interview with Pep Guardiola since he took the Man City gig. Eminently better than sending Garth Crookes to do the job…

Two Door Cinema Club have premiered the video for new single ‘Are We Ready (Wreck)’, which finds Alex Trimble disintegrating in front of us. The tune itself, as you’ve probably already discovered, is a belter and trails the October 14 release of its parent Gameshow album. We’ve a big Irish LP preview in the new issue of Hot Press, out now with Roísín Murphy looking all sorts of wonderful on the cover.

Those (very) post-punk Londoners Savages were in top form when they played a sold-out Washington D.C. 9:30 Club gig recently. You can feel their dark malevolence below…

Our American NPR pals also have first dibs on the new albums from The Julie Ruin who include former Bikini Kill and Le Tigre woman Kathleen Hanna in their ranks; muscular Richmond, Virginia rockers Inter Arma; veteran rocker Jeff Beck whose Loud Hailer rolls back the years quite superbly – the nod to Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘The Revolution Will Be Televised’ is especially inspired! - and Aaron Neville, another veteran who just keeps getting better.

The excellent Donal Quinn has just unleashed ‘Massif Anthem’, a song that sounds quite unlike anything else we’ve come across this week. Which is entirely a good thing!

It’s a Free Music Friday “howaya” to Porcelain Raft, a London-based singer who treats us to a gorgeous EP about a whale who swum all the way up the Thames to Tower Bridge. For once, the hippy dippyness is to be applauded!

Cathy Davey returns to musical duty with the July 15 release of ‘The Pattern’, her first new material since 2010’s number one album, The Nameless. It’s a funkier, synthier Davey than of old with Polica, Goldfrapp and Roísín Murphy among the reference points, although Ms. D is still very much her own person. The parent long-player is due in the autumn.

We’re liking the look of Streets Of Compton, a three-part A&E documentary fronted by The Game who tells it firmly as it is.

Gold Panda responds to Brexit – he’s not happy! – with a five-tracker that you can try before you buy for a wallet-pleasing £3.

The new Irish tunes keep on coming with James Vincent McMorrow releasing this minimalist lyrics video to help you croon along to ‘Rising Water’, the flagship tune from his We Move album, which will be with us in September.

There's lots of Catalan car burning to be had in the new Wild Beasts promo for 'Big Cats'. New album, Boy King, follows on August 5 and gets a live airing at Electric Picnic.

The Big Krit comes over all freestyle on his new mixtape, which is streaming on SoundCloud and downloadable at [link]audiomack.com/artist/bigkrit[/link]

Mixtape Title of the Week goes to Young Stoner Outlaw, a one presumes autobiographic mix from Londoner Bate Nate Hussein.

BATE NATE HUSSEIN - Young Stoner Outlaw

And that’s where the Free Music Friday hook is slung for another week. Enjoy Sunday’s footie and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66