I love EPs and singles. Those little bundles of three or four songs are perfectly sized for my short attention span. Since there's no room for futzing about with instrumental intros or lousy skits, bands get right to the point, side A, track one. The following is an appropriately small list of EPs I've listened to recently and can recommend. Enjoy!

Camera Obscura - Hey Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heart Broken single: Should you need an elegant and witty pop song to herald the coming of warmer days (and really who doesn't), may I suggest trying "Hey Lloyd..."? It's the first single from Glasgow six-piece Camera Obscura's forthcoming album Let's Get Out of This Country, due on shelves May 8 from Merge. Listen to "Hey Lloyd..." on MySpace.

Attic Lights - Shiver the Trees EP: Another Glasgow band, another suite of delicious pop songs. I'm a sucker for pedal steels and slide guitars and by god Attic Lights has got them. Stoner ballad "Marvin" is twang nirvana, sloppy and giddy but not excessive or twee. "Attic Lights defy their Glaswegian heritage and manage to encapsulate everything pleasant about American pop music" writes The Skinny. "The meekness of Grandaddy, the vocal harmonies of The Beach Boys and the country-clinging poppy steel guitar hooks signed by Nashville...More of this please". Attics Lights self-released the Shiver the Trees EP on April 6. You can purchase it on their site. Oh yeah, here's the obligatory MySpace shout out, but their page doesn't contain any songs from this EP yet.

Fuck-Off Machete - What's the Signal? EP: Paul tipped me off to this band, thanks for that sir. Disjointed and neurotic, F.O. Machete stagger towards chaos but hold themselves together long enough to write some devilishly great noise rock. The title track is a start-and-stop workout, two stepping madly around the room while singer Nashii Noramly asks "What's the signal? / If we need to leave?" again and again. It's when the men in white coats get there, darling. Listen to "What's the Signal" and F.O. Machete's cover of Olivia Newton John's "Physical" on, yes, MySpace.