I made a vow that this week I was going to listen to as much new music as I possibly could so as to make this week's column as fresh as possible. I forgot though, so it's a mixture of a forty year old track, a twenty year old track, some old people that are still making music and a random track that sounds like it could have been made twenty years ago..

First up it's the return of ex-Stone Rose Ian Brown, and his new Stellify EP. I was all too ready to give this a proper pasting, but the piano riff of the title track is just too damn infectious. It's not a classic by any means - and one of the other tracks falls into Brown's most common of traps by sounding like a horribly cheap Timbaland pastiche - but it's significantly better than we expected. Also, the video shows him in now traditional grumpy old sod form, which is still funny..

You know that guy on telly who advertises car insurance, and never wears a top? The one who's like Michael Winner but a bit wacky? Well, in a horribly cynical move, he's only gone and tried his luck in the music business! This is a pleasant enough if utterly throwaway piece of jangly new wave, with said insurance salesman providing markedly off kilter backing vocals. Stick to the adverts Mr Iggy Pop. If indeed that is your real name.....

Apparently Delphic are Manchester's great new hope. Manchester, evidently, is fucked, as 'This Momentary' sounds like The Beloved. Why does all indie dance sound so positively rubbish nowadays? It wasn't like this in my day, etc.

I'll leave you for this week with two superb golden oldies, in honour of two more classic albums about to be remastered and rereleased. Firstly, Nirvana's Bleach is to be reissued. For an album that positively revelled in its cheap, raw sound (even posting just how cheap on the back of the album), the idea of a remaster is somewhat perplexing. Here's Kurt's first great pop record, 'About A Girl'.

Finally, we have Bowie's 'Space Oddity'. The album of the same name is to be rereleased for its fortieth anniversary, and is still pretty wonderful. See you next week, and please send us more stuff to include in this section. Even if you're rubbish. In fact, especially if you're rubbish.