Downloads

Surfing the Web for new music, video and MP3 downloads can be a serious time investment. Tips from Times staff and contributors will help take the drag out of your click-and-drag. Some downloads may contain explicit lyrics. Except as noted, all of the selections are free and available online at latimes.com/downloads.

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“What Goes Around Comes Around”

Justin Timberlake

www.apple.com/itunes In a nearly 10-minute film, Timberlake and Scarlett Johansson enact a drama about the bad karma attendant to betrayal. The score is one of the most musical tracks on Timberlake’s current album and both music and film display the talents of all involved in loving detail. In this video, written by Nick Cassavetes and directed by Samuel Bayer, every important communication between Timberlake and Johansson is given a stop-time spotlight moment. It’s as if a noir film had been deconstructed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and filtered through Michael Mann. But as beautifully shot as the film is, the music is what truly seduces, from the opening bouzouki or balalaika figure to the wonderfully spare guitar, from ghostly harmonies on the chorus to JT’s effortless singing. ITunes is offering this exclusively for $1.99.

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“Flathead”

The Fratellis

www.myspace.com/littlebabyfratelli Who could possibly imagine a hit single featured in an iPod commercial with a sing-along part in 13/16 time signature?! Or that it could become the No. 1 single in Southern California, as it is this week. This fun Glaswegian band, whose sibling nom de noise is assumed, are storming the charts with no advance warning. Jon Fratelli’s Sco’ish accent peeks through now and then as he sings noir lines but most listeners will be spending the time singing “Bara bap bara ra ra ra bara bap bara ra-ra-ra” and attempting, perhaps, to count out that 13/16 meter.

casey.dolan@latimes.com