The Sufi Doctrine

Gonjasufi
From: San Diego, California, United States

Last year the sound of Gonjasufi swept in from the oppressive the void of the Californian desert like a call to prayer for the jaded indie kids. A groundbreaking combination of well travelled psychedelia, street beats and Persian mysticism the Gonjasufi sound is a haunting, atmospheric, quasi religious experience. One listen and your world will change forever.


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Gonjasufi - Ancestors ((Dreamtime) Mark Pritchard Rmx) by Warp Records

Gonjasufi - Love Of Reign (Bear In Heaven Remix) by Warp Records

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Gonjasufi
Kowboyz & Indians

Handsome Devils

Everything Everything
From: Northumberland, Kent, Guernsey, Manchester, England

The temperature guage is plunging in dear ol' blighty but hopefully this video of Everything Everything's soon to be classic Photoshop Handsome will warm the cockles of your heart.

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Everything Everything - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Everything Everything
Photoshop Handsome

Dancing Queens

The Narcoleptic Dancers

From: Ile-de-France, France

The Narcoleptic Dancers are the camera shy Franco-Dutch duo Anton Louis Jr and Melody Van Kappers. They are half brother and sister who were recently reconciled through the recent death of their father, Johnny Van Kappers (a well know Dutch football player). To mark the release of their debut EP 'Not Evident' the Devil has a remix by beat destroyers Tomb Crew courtesy of Division Promotions. Check it out here….

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Not Evident (Tomb Crew's too late for carnival remixxx) by divisionpromotions

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The Narcoleptic Dancers
Not Evident

Wild Thing

We Are ENFANT TERRIBLE
From: Paris / Lille / Le Zen
France

Just in time to brighten up the first day of your working week I've managed to get my hands on a brilliant remix of Parisian electro terrorists We Are Enfant Terrible's new track ‘Wild Child’. Doing their bit for Anglo French relations East London dance popsters Chew Lips give it a unique twist.

Its released on Dec 6th on Last Gang Entertainment (Crystal Castle’s, MSTRKRFT & Death From Above’s home label). Their new EP ‘Wild Fish’ is out on January 17^th, which includes the Chew Lips remix as well as four original tracks. So todays track is a little sneak preview of things to come!

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We Are Enfant Terrible - Wild Child (Chew Lips Remix) by Last Gang Entertainment

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We Are ENFANT TERRIBLE - Myspace : Website : Last.FM
Chew Lips - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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We Are ENFANT TERRIBLE
Wild Child

Love Is All You Need

LoveLikeFire
From: San Francisco, United States

'Dust', the new album from San Franciscans LoveLikeFire (spaces are like so last year darlink), could have been recorded in England anytime between the winter of 1986 and the summer of 2009. It is a stunning blend of the retro rock of 'Porcupine' era Echo & The Bunnymen with the modern snaps and glitches of the xx. It manages to be both retro and on trend which is a difficult trick to pull off. The percussive drive and minor guitars inhale with a loosely industrial groove and exhale with lead singer Ann Yu’s captivating vocals and literate lyrics. It's a quite stunning album that will enthrall, mesmerize and entrance anyone within listening distance.

And finally a word of advice from Doctor Devil if your love is really like fire then you may need to see a medical practitioner!

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MP3 - LoveLikeFire - Saint Martin
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LoveLikeFire - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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LoveLikeFire
I Will

Set Adrift

Kid Adrift

From: Dollar, Scotland

Check out the Egyptian Hip Hop remix of Kid Adrift's new single 'A4 in Ecstasy' and the video of the original pre treatment track.

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Kid Adrift - A4 in Ecstasy (Egyptian Hip Hop Remix) by WorkItMedia

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Kid Adrift - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Kid Adrift
A4 in Ecstasy

Proper Tasty

The Proper Ornaments
From : London, United Kingdom

With a name taken from a track by obscure 60s baroque popsters The Free Design it comes as no surprise that the Proper Ornaments sound like they've just emerged in a druggy haze from a beaten up time machine. They may not thank me for this but they sound like the product of an illicit late night drunken fumble between The Dandy Warhols and Blur with the fi button set to lo. They sound like a couple of laid back surfer dudes who have decided to dedicate their lives to putting the lo in mellow.

These ornaments are proper tasty.

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MP3 - The Proper Ornaments - Shining Bright
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The Proper Ornaments
Recalling

Magic Circles

Young Circles
From: Miami, Florida, United States

Say what you will about music in the digital age it has certainly unleashed a new era of left field eclecticism. Take adventurous Floridians Young Circles for example. Their debut EP, 'Bones', is like a digital Pandora's box of cross-genre, cross generational sounds. It's a devastating and discordant sonic assault that sounds like nothing you've ever heard before and yet it sounds like everything you've ever heard before.

The EP is a joyride across musical genres with more influences than a chameleon in a wool shop. Check out the bizarre, idiosyncratic, refreshingly original Sharp Teeth which starts off like the great grandsons of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band tuning up before morphing into a Beckesque shuffle. 'Halfway Up' is a halfway house between the Jesus & Mary Chain and the Flaming Lips while the title track 'Bones' could be the Coral after a Krautrock transfusion.

This is the new music and it's not the same as the old music.

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MP3 - Young Circles - Sharp Teeth
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Young Circles - Facebook

There There My Deer

Gazelle Twin
From: Brighton / London, United Kingdom

Brighton's Elizabeth Walling, aka Gazelle Twin is a dream weaver, a dealer in ambience. She channels the spirits of Portishead, Lamb and Fever Ray into a bewitching, beguiling brew that shivers the soul. She sounds like Enya getting in touch with her dark side.

The stunning Changelings, with its existential lyrics, dramatic symphonies and dark electronica is the perfect introduction to the world of Gazelle Twin. It's chilling and beautiful, eerie and enchanting. The equally impressive video, produced and directed by Gazelle Twin herself, features an abstract world of shifting storms and changing faces of smoke and mirrors. All adding a chilly, surrealist underbelly to an already hauntingly beautiful track.

Gazelle Twin is going to be massive trust me.

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Gazelle Twin - Changelings by Cannonball_PR

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Gazelle Twin - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Gazelle Twin
Changeling

Changelings Official Video by Gazelle Twin from Gazelle Twin on Vimeo.

The Season Of The Witch... House

A Witch House Primer

Witch House is the strangest musical genre of this or any other year. With willfully obscure acts with hard to pronounce names like oOoOO, ///▲▲▲\\\ , Gr†ll Gr†ll, †‡† and ▲. It's like they've been force fed the dictionary according to Prince and it makes it bloody difficult to find them on google or Last.FM!

Witch House is a convenient catch all for all sorts of dark-hued synth rock with it's roots in dubstep, ambience and trance. The sound is characterised by a dark, nightmarish sound with pitched-down vocals and languid suffocating synths. A sound that some have likened to being trapped in a haunted house and catching a glimpse of a ghost hence the sobriquet Witch House. Some of it sounds more like music beamed in from radio Alien. Maybe it's already splitting into various sub genres and Alien House is just the first! Either way it's dirty finger nails will scratch the itch for lovers of everyone from Throbbing Gristle to Brian Eno, from My Bloody Valentine to Burial.

So this truly is the season of the witch... house.

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MP3 - White Ring - We Rot
MP3 - "†‡† - >>>>▲<<<<"
These tracks are linked direct from the artists Last.FM sites and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Theme from Picnic at Hanging Rock by matersuspiriavision
This track is linked direct from the Radar Maker blog and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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White Ring - Myspace : Last.FM
oOoOO - Myspace : Last.FM
Mater Suspiria Vision - Myspace : Last.FM
Raw Moans - Myspace : Last.FM
Modern Witch - Myspace : Last.FM
Young Cream - Last.FM

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White Ring
Roses

oOoOO
No Summr4U



Mater Suspiria Vision
In My No Religion (Zombie Rave Mix)



Modern Witch
Measure Me For Size



Young Cream
Congo Cut Cut



Raw Moans
Aqua Net

Spoon Video

Spoon
From: Austin, Texas

Check out Spoon's new video for their latest single ‘Nobody Gets Me But You’. It was shot using CCTV-like cameras from a venue in New York called the Cake Shop.

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Spoon
Nobody Gets Me But You

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Spoon - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

The King Is Dead Long Live It's A King Thing

It's A King Thing
From: Suburban Philly, New Jersey, US

It's a King Thing hail from the Haddons, the Hills and the Heights of suburban New Jersey. They're a bullish lot claiming that their songs can beat up other band's songs. Now that's fighting talk! Given that their cool yet geeky rock sounds like Weezer and Kings Of Convenience bumping fists and their songs sound like nice Ivy League kids with specs and nicely combed hair they'd be well advised to steer clear of the songs from the other side of the tracks.

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MP3 - It's A King Thing - Vegetarian
MP3 - It's A King Thing - Baby Tantrum
MP3 - It's A King Thing - My Minivan Just Died
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It's A King Thing - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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It's A King Thing
Girlajuana

The True Are Out There

True Womanhood

From: Washington DC, United States

Check out the new track from True Womanhood (first featured on the Devil's blog in May, Regain Your Faith In Womanhood). It's amazing what you can do with samples made by clanging pieces of metal around in a mile-long sewer tunnel a bass guitar, 808 drumz, and vocals run through a severely malfunctioning tape delay. One day all music will be made this way (only kidding!).

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nite prowlers by truewomanhood

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True Womanhood - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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True Womanhood
The Monk

Sheer Art Attack

Fuck Art, Let's Dance
From: Hamburg, Germany

With a name like Fuck Art, Let's Dance the German electro dance punk trio are highly unlikely to be appearing on Later with Jools Holland any time soon. But I doubt that'll have them weeping into their Hofmeister. Forward! Future! sounds like a speeded up Kraftwerk all robotic vocals and jerky electronics. By way of contrast Deja Vu channels the ghost of Robert Smith to generate a convulsive, danceable Cure-all. It's a winning combination that'll have you shaking your groove thang like a washing machine in an earthquake.

Fuck Art, Let's Dance is the rallying cry for generation Y.

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MP3 - Fuck Art, Let's Dance - Forward! Future!
MP3 - Fuck Art, Let's Dance - Trial & Error
MP3 - Fuck Art, Let's Dance - Homesick
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Fuck Art, Let's Dance - Myspace : Last.FM

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Fuck Art, Let's Dance
Deja Vu

Rev It Up

Le Rev

From: Los Angeles/Echo Parque, California United States

Check out the new video from California's Le Rev for 'Lucky You' which sounds like The Kills meets Blondie in a dark alley.

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Le Rev

Lucky You

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Le Rev - Myspace : Last.FM

Happy Bird Day

H Bird
From: London, United Kingdom

Alt-pop trio H Bird are fluffier than a lamb after a trip to a car wash! Their quirky modern pop is shot through with enough sing along melodies to satiate the most jaded of indie-pop palates. With an ex member of Devil favourites (and much missed) 18 Carat Love Affair (Time To Return To The Gold Standard), and collaborations with David Shah of Luxembourg and The Melting Ice Caps (The Positive Side Of Global Warming) it was a good bet that they'd appeal to the Devil but they're shaking up the rest of the blogosphere with both The Quietus and The Von Pip Musical Express joining the Devil in hooking their love to the H Bird band wagon.

The trio's first album 'Operation: Fascination' is scheduled for release early in the new year. Put it on your after xmas gifts for yourself list and give yourself a happy bird day.

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MP3 - H Bird - Pink Lights and Champagne
This track is published with the permission of Stephen Oakes PR so please don't claim breach of copyright
MP3 - H Bird - Winter Kiss (Demo)
MP3 - H Bird - First Kiss Lips (Demo)
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H Bird - Myspace : Last.FM

Let's Enjoy

Enjoy Your Pumas
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Enjoy Your Pumas is a female-fronted indie pop quintet that blends powerful soaring vocals with atmospheric guitars and a rhythm section that packs more punch than a boxing glove factory. Their infectious, genre-defying sound has been described as Emily Haines fronting Bloc Party covering Radiohead which is difficult to imagine so you have to go and listen.

Great music awful name.

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MP3 - Enjoy Your Pumas - Weight Of The Circles
This track is published with the permission of Green Light Go Publicity so please don't claim breach of copyright
MP3 - Enjoy Your Pumas - Like Animals
MP3 - Enjoy Your Pumas - Life Not Film
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Enjoy Your Pumas - Myspace : Last.FM


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Enjoy Your Pumas
SFRS

Generation Gap

Generationals

From: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, United States

Generationals are just two men, Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer formerly of The Eames Era for those completists amongst the Devil's readership, who just happen to have stumbled upon the secret formula for musical perfection. They sound like yesterday, today and tomorrow. They sound like open top cars, sunny days and camp fires. They sound like hope, like destiny, like the carriers of the happiness virus that they are about to spread across the world.

Check them out now and be among the first to contract the Generationals virus.

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MP3 - Generationals - Faces In The Dark
MP3 - Generationals - When They Fight They Fight
These tracks are linked direct from the Generationals Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright
MP3 - Generationals - Wildlife Sculpture
This track is linked direct from the Park The Van Records website and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Generationals - Myspace : Website : Last.FM
Label - Park The Van Records - Myspace : Website
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Generationals Angry Charlie



If you like the Generational sound then check out Joyner & Widmer's previous band The Eames Era...

MP3 - The Eames Era - Both Hands Full
MP3 - The Eames Era - When You Were A Millionaire
These tracks are linked direct from the Eames Era website and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

French Kissing In The Uk

French Kissing
From: London, United Kingdom

Something is stirring deep in the bowels of the UK's capital city. A musical underground sick of over produced, x factorised, pro-tools enhanced artificiality is casting around for purer more organic forms of music to satisfy their jaded souls. It'd over stating the case to argue that this represents a new pure musical movement and it could easily fizzle away like so many other short lived scenes. However maybe, just maybe, it's the start of the next revolution.

After the fuzzy lo-fi splendours of last night's featured band Mazes tonight's post features the even lower-fi surf popsters French Kissing. It's so lo-fi it's no-fi. Check out their cover of 'Beach Ball' an obscure track from The City Surfers first recorded in the year of the Devil's birth. It sounds like Da Do Ron Ron Ron recorded in a garage on tin cans and to these ears that's perfection.

In the battle between pro-tools and no-tools I know which side I'm on how about you?

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MP3 - French Kissing - Beach Ball
This track is published with the permission of French Kissing so please don't claim breach of copyright

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French Kissing - Myspace : Last.FM

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and if you're wondering how the original sounded then here it is...

The City Surfers
Beach Ball

Amaze-ing Ace

Mazes

From: London, United Kingdom

Mazes, who formed in early 2009 in Manchester, are the latest signings to the impressive FatCat roster. They deal in fantastically fuzzy slacker pop that get's under your skin and into your bloodstream with more hooks than a Peter Pan convention.

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MP3 - Mazes - Go-Betweens
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Mazes - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Mazes
Bowie Knives (Live)

You Ain't Seen Nothing Like The Mighty Stef

The Mighty Stef
From: Dublin, Ireland

The obnoxiously handsome Mighty Stef, who could earn good money as a Liam Gallagher lookalike, has the raw energy of Springsteen, the grit of Tom Waits and much better teeth than Shane McGowan.

His new album 'TMS & The Baptists' is about to stomp all over your record collection. It's an earth shaking, game changing beast of an album. An album so dangerous it's not being released it's being detonated. An album overloaded with dark, thunderous blues that makes your brain rattle and your teeth fracture like Nick Cave shaking a Johnny Cash machine.

I can guarantee that you ain't seen nothing like the Mighty Stef.



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MP3 - The Mighty Stef - We Want Blood
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The Mighty Stef
Sing To Me

A Leap Of Faith

Randolph's Leap
From: Highlands / Lowlands, Scotland

Lloyd, better known as the brains behind the influential Scottish blog Peenko has joined forces with Halina from the Glasgow Podcart, to form their a new DIY label called Olive Grove Records. Their first release is the stunning Battle Ships & Kettle Chips EP from Randolph's Leap a Scottish indie folk band who sound like the bastard sons of ballboy and Aberfeldy with added arran and beards. Their's is a lo-fi world of wit and wonderment. A world of humour laced with copious amounts of pathos. Check out the witty Undergod with it's trenchant lyrics and contagious lalalas and you'll understand why it's the Devil's favourite track. Just don't mention the Belle word!

Take a leap of faith and clasp Randolph's Leap to your bosom before the big boys come knocking on their door.

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MP3 - Randolph's Leap - Undergod
This track is published with the permission of Olive Grove Records so please don't claim breach of copyright
MP3 - Randolph's Leap - What Have I Done?
MP3 - Randolph's Leap - Please Don't Belong
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Randolph's Leap - Myspace : Last.FM
Olive Grove Records - Facebook :

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Randolph's Leap
Crisis

Back To The Future

Fiction Faction
From: Glasgow / Swindon United Kingdom

Check out this video from Glasgow band Fiction Faction. It's like you've just popped into a time machine and been transported back to the early 80s without passing go and without collecting £200. It's so retro it should be issued on betamax it's like a pastiche of all the most popular videos of 1981. It looks like it was recently uncovered by archaeologists clearing the Blitz club's cellar. Even the band name harks back to a simpler age.

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Fiction Faction
Apparitions

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Fiction Faction - Myspace

Good Natured Cover

The Good Natured
From: United Kingdom

Those of you who read the Devil's recent interview with 18 year old Sarah McIntosh aka The Good Natured and thought I'd love to hear some more well your wish is my command check out this brilliant cover of the Sufjan Stevens track For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti.

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The Good Natured -For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti (Sufjan Stevens Cover) by Mud Hut Digital

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The Good Natured - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Sufjan Stevens
For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti.

Glue Sniffing

The Glue Ensemble
From: London, United Kingdom

Meanwhile over in the left field undisturbed by modern trends in music and, by the sound of it, any instruments that require electricity are The Glue Ensemble, a band with a carbon footprint the size of a tribesman from deep in the Amazon Rainforest. They recently played at the Tring Apple Fayre. This could well be the world's greenest and least rock 'n roll band in the UK.

One day all bands will be this ecologically sound.

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MP3 - The Glue Ensemble - Receiver (Demo)
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The Glue Ensemble - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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The Glue Ensemble
The Devil In The Garden

I've Changed My Plea To Guilty

The Guilty Hands

From London, United Kingdom

Check out the new video from London indie rockers The Guilty Hands (formed out of the remnants of God Love You For A Liar). 'Razor' is a great way to announce your arrival. It sounds like the band have been drinking some form of illicit liquor created from the sweat of Placebo, Suede and The Killers.

The single, taken from the bands forthcoming debut album 'Desire On A Short Leash' will be released on 22 November 2010, the 47th anniversary of JFK's assassination.

The Guilty Hands
Razor

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The Guilty Hands - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

and while you're at it check out The Guilty Hands in their former incarnation as God Love You For A Liar...

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God Love You For A Liar
London You Owe Me This Much
(Note sound quality isn't brilliant)

Phil Your Boots

Phil Wilson
From: Buckfastleigh, Totnes, Southwest, UK

Those readers with long memories and a birth certificate they'd rather keep locked away far from prying eyes may recall a cool indie band called The June Brides. Well said band's lead singer Phil Wilson is back. A little older, a little wiser and a little . His new album, 'God Bless Jim Kennedy' is packed full of indie pop delights. It's like being an indie kid in an indie pop sweet shop. The album recalls heady days of summer in the early 80s (yeah yeah I'm an old fart!) lying back on the freshly mown grass with the sound of The Pale Fountains on my walkman (google it indie kids). It sounds like the point at which Love morph into Burt Bacharach.

'God Bless Jim Kennedy' is quiet pop for noisy people. It's C86 for the USB age.

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Phil Wilson - I Own It YBI19 by yesboyicecream
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MP3 - Phil Wilson - Up To London
This track is linked direct from Slumberland Records and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Phil Wilson 'God Bless Jim Kennedy' from yesboyicecream

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Phil Wilson - Myspace : Facebook
yesboyicecream - Myspace : Website

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The June Brides
No Place Like Home



The June Brides
In The Rain



and for those who have never tasted the delights of the Pale Fountains...

The Pale Fountains
Jeans Not Happening



The Pale Fountains
Thank You

Winter's Here

Wintersleep
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Check out the new video from Canadian indie darlings Wintersleep.

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Wintersleep
Preservation

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Wintersleep - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

Sandy Claws

Like Claws!
From: Seattle, Washington, United States

Todays challenge sum up Seattle trad rockers Like Claws! in 140 characters or less:

Seattle's Like Claws! are Zack Bolotin and Jason Clackley and they sound like a trans-atlantic union between Elvis Costello and Wilco.

Job done.


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MP3 - Like Claws! - Loose Teeth Don't Need My Help
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Like Claws! - Myspace : Last.FM