David Cameron gave a mixtape to his fellow G8 leaders at their summit in June, and High Fidelity it is not.

The themes of the meeting in Northern Ireland were tax evasion and transparency, but the 10-song playlist had no clear unifying theme. In fact, the Telegraph reports that the songs were not selected by Cameron at all.

According to The Independent, the playlist was put together by BPI, the British record company trade association, as "a bespoke creation for the leaders."

The 10 songs constitute a smattering of the chart-topping adult contemporary fare Barack Obama or Vladimir Putin might have caught if they tuned into BBC Radio 2 while cruising around the Lough Erne Resort.

The Guardian called the mixtape an offering of "well-scrubbed young men and woman peddling polished but largely derivative takes on folk and soul, with a sideline in tastefully bleeping electronica."

The list includes "Tessellate" by Alt-j,...