All tracks can be downloaded for free, right now, over at the NME site.

Those who favor the tangible can bag a physical copy of the sampler by entering the magazine’s new contest. Just comment on the NME site with your favorite summertime tune, “one track that sums up lazy days in the park with good friends and a few ciders.” Winners will be chosen on Monday, May 24.

Better Pop Music
01 There Will Be Fireworks – “Foreign Thoughts”
02 The Forest & The Trees – “To the Forest”
03 Acrylics – “Molly’s Vertigo”
04 Miniature Tigers – “Cannibal Queen”
05 Fitness Club Fiasco – “Forest City”
06 Class Actress – “Journal of Ardency”
07 Memory Tapes – “Graphics Remodel Edit”
08 Caribou – “Odessa”
09 Ceremony – “Someday”
10 Jessica Lee Mayfield – “Kiss Me Again”
11 Freelance Whales – “Generator 2nd Floor”
12 The Silent League – “When Stars Attack”
13 Air France – “GBG Belongs to Us”
14 Washed Out – “Feel it All Around”
15 New Moods – “Dying Trying”
16 Memory Cassette – “Surfin’”
17 Phoenix – “1901 (Memory Tapes Remix)”
18 Fear of Tigers – “Please Don’t Leave”
19 Rest – “Drinking Again”