The Super Happy Fun Club - Way Back (The Conflict)

We're generally rather cynical about Valentine's Day (ok, make that very cynical), but when it serves as the inspiration for a free download, we'll usually be tempted. And in the case of Chicago group Super Happy Fun Club, we're more than happy to partake in precisely that. I mean, with a name as cheery as that, how could you not?

The track in question, Way Back (The Conflict), is a hefty dollop of perky power-pop stuff, big piano chords and an even bigger chorus. It's the kind of hearty fare that American living is built on, larger than life, an up-and-at-em! anthem of super-size proportions.

Plus, it puts a smile on our face - and anything that does that is good by us.

Rebel Territory - Falling For You

It might be getting a Valentine's Day release, but Rebel Territory's Falling For You is certainly no romantic ballad designed to woo your sweetheart. Instead, it's a frantic, passionate wall of guitar noise - a full-pelt, insistent plea for affection.

A bit like a British take on the Strokes, Falling For You feels both clinical yet gritty - big choruses pair with  a live-wire energy that while sounding like it'd have been more at home in the musical climate of five years ago, marks a new-found potential for UK guitar bands to make it big again.

Having wowed the NME with their live sets, its fitting that self-same rawness filters through to their music - Falling For You is full of it, an unbridled anthem to pints-aloft rock glory.