We’ve long been fans of lo-fi sorts Blank Dogs [above] and Dum Dum Girls at FACT, so we were naturally excited when it emerged that the two had teamed up as The Mayfair Set.

Well now there’s a Mayfair Set album. Er, sort of. There’s no new material on Young One, which was released as a CD on Blank Dogs’ own Captured Tracks label – rather, it compiles the pair’s two releases so far, the Young One 12” EP and a self-titled 7” single.

Still, old material or not, for fans of fuzz-soaked pop with great hooks and melodies (and really, who isn’t a fan of that?), this is pretty much essential, and makes for a nice accompaniment to Blank Dogs’ superb solo album from earlier this year, Under and Under.

Also recently released on Captured Tracks is As Above So Below, a six-track EP by Silk Flowers, the New York three-piece that FACT found itself raving about quite a lot in early ’09, mostly on the strength of their self-titled debut album. Released on No Age man Dean Spunt’s label, it was described by Spunt as a “fucking four-track masterpiece”, and who are we to disagree?

Tracklist and artwork for Young One over the page.