Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music

Ed O'Brien takes a seat on Steve Lamacq's Roundtable on BBC 6 Music, marking new singles out of ten with Huw Stephens and Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club in the week Radiohead's remix album came out. Kate Bush's “Wild Man” gets a six. She is an artist, “she's proper, she's real”, he says, but “my problem with the song is that I think she probably needs a producer”, someone like Jamie xx to focus her. Nigel Godrich adores her; O'Brien was ten when “Wuthering Heights” was number one, and by her big mid-80s album he was into the Smiths.

A young South London band, Beyhearts, set him off. He likes the ambition of “Cola” but hears a record built out of plug-ins, and the reverbs and delays on so many records now sound synthetic to him, where the old studios of Lee Perry's day had boxes that gave a sound its character. “These plugins they all sound the same,” he says. He wants the real chambers of a Scott Walker record. He gives it four, admits he is probably being a snob, and agrees with Lamacq that it is only their second single, adding that Radiohead were crap on theirs.

We Are Augustines' “Book of James” has passion and power, and would be better with a great lead guitarist on top. Jack White's setting of a lost Hank Williams lyric, tracked live in Nashville with no plug-ins, he respects without connecting to it, and gives it five. His first answer on a solo album is music to play at two in the morning. Pressed by Rebecca, he wants a dirty, filthy R&B album on real instruments, with no plug-ins.

Björk's Biophilia is the album of the week, and the last word is his. North London is no place to hear it; it wants Iceland and the natural world. The band have always respected her work with Mark Bell, but the vocal now runs on like a riff, a stream to follow with nothing to come back to, a habit he admits Radiohead share. “I really admire it but I don't feel it.”