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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

House Martens

PinemartenPinemarten
From: Derbyshire, United Kingdom


In the late 1970s and early 80s electronic music sounded like the future, it was daring, cutting edge, the triumph of digital over analogue. We weren't far wrong. With the advent of the home computer and tools like pro tunes, in 2011 electronic music is all encompassing, it's everywhere. But little did those early pioneers realise that, 30 years later electronic music would turn out to be so bloody boring. What once sounded dangerous, left field and alternative now sounds safe, unthreatening and establishment. Take as evidence the acclaimed producer and all round electronics genius Pinemarten's new album, If You Thought There Was Any Doubt. It's as safe and unthreatening as they come. It's blander than a cardboard rice cake and unfortunately slightly less appealing.

The album opens with 'Change Your Mind' a track that is firmly entrenched in the Dulux colour chart magnolia section. It's an amnesia inducing song that floats by without leaving any trace. I've listened to it at least ten times and I truly cannot recall what it sounded like. I just wish that 'Breathe', the albums nadir, was equally amnesia inducing. It initially sounds like interference on the phone network before turning into wallpaper music last heard on the theme tune to a poor brat pack movie from the mid 80s. If the American military are looking for something to replace waterboarding then simply put this on a loop and you'll have prisoners spilling the beans faster than you can say this album's a huge disappointment.

It's not all insufferable or instantly forgettable, the ambient, atmospherics of the first minute or so of 'On The Line' lead into a beautiful electronic ballad which sounds like a New Order b-side. Pinemarten does his best to spoil it by layering a tonne of unnecessary synth flourishes but the strength of the song breaks through the electronic smog. The instrumental final track 'Home Again' is stripped back a little and allowed to breathe making it easily the best track on the album. If only the rest of the album showed 'Home Again's' restraint.

If You Thought There Was Any Doubt is a real a curates egg of an album. When it's good it's not bad but when it's bad it's horrid. Pinemarten is a better songwriter than this album demonstrates it's just that most of the nine songs would benefit from a little more restraint and a lot more simplification. I'd love to hear a naked version of the album where the songs are allowed to breathe without being drowned in a tidal wave of synths and electronic flim flam. That would be a good album to listen to, as it stands it just about scrapes adequate.

This article was originally written by the Devil for The 405 and is published with permission.

4/10

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going home by Pinemarten

and one of the slightly less over engineered tracks...

Don't Let Me Be Denied by Pinemarten
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Communing With Ghosts

The Clouds Are Ghosts
From: Austin, Texas, United States


Austin four piece The Clouds Are Ghosts took some time out to chat to the Devil about their musical mystique, their love of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and why they made their music free.

The Devil: Why The Cloud Are Ghosts?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: There's a certain mystique to our music. The ambiguity is fitting.

The Devil: What other names did you ponder before deciding it had to be The Cloud Are Ghosts?


The Clouds Are Ghosts: The Beatles. It was taken.

The Devil: I've featured a large number of bands who have included the word ghost in their name, why do you think this is? Is it coincidence or something more psychological?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: It looks as if we're just as unoriginal as everyone else.

The Devil: Who are the biggest influences in your life and on your music?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: We influence one another as we write. We consistently try to do new things and build on what each other are doing. Oh, and we're all pretty avid Radiohead fans.


The Devil: What was the first record you owned and what was the first record you ever bought with your own money?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: The first record that was given to me was Kris Kross' Totally Krossed Out. For an eight year old, it was pretty life changing. I think the first album I purchased was Aerosmith's Get a Grip. I didn't think about it much at the time, but the album art had a nipple theme...not in an awesome way.

The Devil: What makes The Clouds Are Ghosts stand out from the millions of other bands across the world? What makes you unique?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: I think instead of focusing on a sound, we just write what we hear in our heads. I feel as if a lot of musicians start by saying "I'm going to write a 'blank' song" and then proceed to mimic their influences, which sometimes yields a pretty cool project, but more often than not, you end up with this overly derivative music, which takes away from truly creative bands. So I guess our range of sound makes us pretty different.

The Devil: Which bands or artists on the current music scene make your spine tingle with joy?


The Clouds Are Ghosts: It took a second listen, but Russian Circle's new album is pretty awesome.

The Devil: Favourite song?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Maybe the worst question to ever ask someone who makes music (I thought it was quite good - The Devil).

The Devil
: Favourite book?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is still one of my favorites. It's a bit dated, but Chuck Klosterman is such an entertaining and relevant writer.

The Devil
: Favourite Movie?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: I was thinking about books a second ago and remembered 1984. Then I remembered watching 1984 the movie starring John Hurt. It's absolutely not the best movie I've ever seen but it definitely captured the spirit of the book in a way most movie adaptations screw up.

The Devil: Favourite word?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: What. You can use it in so many ways. Threatening, questioning, etc. It was also my initial reaction to this question.


The Devil: Tell me something that you've never told anyone before.

The Clouds Are Ghosts: No.

The Devil
: If you weren't in The Cloud Are Ghosts how would you keep yourself occupied?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Well, three of us in the band are actually pursuing careers in respectable fields as well as being members of this band, leaving myself and singer Jason Morris. If Morris weren't in this band, he'd be unbelievably successful in corporate America. Think Michael Douglas in "The Game"...or anything else Michael Douglas is in except "Falling Down". I'd be getting fat in an office somewhere instead of just getting fat in this band.

The Devil
: If you were interviewing yourself what would your killer question be and how would you answer it?

The Cloud Are Ghosts: I would ask why anyone would choose to pursue such an unlikely career as a musician, to which I would answer that if you truly have something to say, whether you're an artist, writer, musician, or actor, you can't let convention and your parent's undying disappointment get in the way of that expression.

The Devil
: Is there anything else you'd like to tell the Devil Has The Best Tuna readers?

The Cloud Are Ghosts: Yes, go listen to our music. Like, right now. We made it free for a reason.

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Impact by cloudsareghosts

Canvas by cloudsareghosts

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Check out The Clouds Are Ghosts favourites Russian Circles...


Schiphol by RussianCircles

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Monday, November 28, 2011

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

Maria & The Gay
From: Manchester, United Kingdom


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Maria & The Gay
Maria & The Gay are leading lights of the Manchester queer core scene which include an old friend of the Devil's Ste McCabe (featured on the blog numerous times the latest late last year, It's Anger Time) and Vile Vile Creatures (featured on the blog back in 2009, Curt Vile).

On their scuzzy, scratchy debut album, the optimistically titled Greatest Hits Vol 1, Maria and the Gay serve up short, sharp stabs of DIY garage pop with the fi turned down so lo it's all but disappeared. The duo's bandcamp site includes the tags "bedroom council flat mess noise pop" which is as perfect a summary of the albums sound as you can get.
It's truly infectious stuff. They sound like they're having such a good time that you can't help but smile and apply to join their gang.

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Daddy's buldge by Maria and The Gay

Motherfolkers by Maria and The Gay

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Video Killed The Radio Star 27th November 2011

Video killed the radio starPicture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/

Bradley
Kick To Kill
Black Kisses



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The Devil's Round Up 27th November 2011

Round UpThis week's round up of the tracks I've not had the space to post...


Saint Motel
From: Los Angeles, United States

Catchier that a cold on a winter train trip, the latest single from Saint Motel is an anti-materialist anthem for the tent city generation.

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SAINT MOTEL - At Least I Have Nothing by saintmotel

Tiny BirdsLinkFrom: London, United Kingdom


More snaggle toothed jangly folk from Tiny Birds just don't mention Mumford & Sons.

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The Photographs That You Took by tinybirds

Mood Rings
From: Atlanta, United States

LinkWith a name like Mood Rings you might be expecting some neo-psychedelic dream pop and you'd be right. Don't you just hate it when band's choose names that make the job of describing their sound redundant?

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Mood Rings- Promise Me Eternity by doublephantom
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Lux Lisbon
From:London, United Kingdom

Lux Lisbon are back on the blog with a pop at the hooray henry hooligans of David Cameron's alma mater, the Bullingdon Club.

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Lux Lisbon - Bullingdon Club (PRE MASTER) by Stuart Rook

Dead Jerichos
From: Oxford, United Kingdom


Oxford trio Dead Jerichos sound like an angular Arctic Monkeys with much sharper edges.

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Please Yourself by Dead Jerichos



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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Cockney Rejects

The Reject Club
From: London, United Kingdom

The Reject Club are a collaboration between DJs Lord Numb and Spidersleg who, if their press release is to be believed, met in a disused cinema in Prague in the year 2089ad when Lord Numb admired Spidersleg's third eye and Spidersleg admired Lord Numb's gills. As you might gather from this this is a club where members need to either have a vivid imagination or be able to imbibe enough drugs to make an elephant sleepy.

With disembodied vocals floating over synths sharper than a well sharpened serpent's tooth Puppets Are Better Than People is an alternative electro masterpiece.


It's also worth checking out Lord Numb's solo work, in particular the sharply observed 'I Dream Of Bowie' which sounds like the result of a collaboration between the Normal and Half Man Half Biscuit.



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Puppets Are Better Than People - The Reject Club by LORD NUMB

I Dream of Bowie by LORD NUMB


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Friday, November 25, 2011

The Invention of Lion

Wounded LionWounded Lion
From: Los Angeles, United States


It is really difficult to review IVXLCDM, the new Wounded Lion album, without conjuring up images of David Byrne and his unfeasibly large shouldered suit. Lead singer Brad Eberhard sounds so like the Talking Heads singer you could swear that either they are related, there's been a Freak Friday style vocals swap or transplant surgery has been involved. This let me tell you is a good thing. There are far too many identikit vocalists who are indistinguishable from one another that it's a refreshing changes to hear someone push the vocal boat out a little further to the left field than most.

Despite the vocal similarities to Byrne there are few tracks on the album that actually sound like the Talking Heads, instead the band serve up an all you can eat indie banquet with a menu that mixes up influences with the finesse of a gourmet chef.
Album opener 'Monkeys' hits a spot somewhere between They Might Be Giants and The Modern Lovers and is catchier than baseball mitt dipped in superglue. 'Roman Values', 'Wyld Parrots' and 'Black Ops' are louder, punkier, more strident, pitching their tents in a rarely visited corner of the musical world occupied by The Dead Kennedys and Liars.

After such a raucous start 'Going Into The Unknown' comes as a surprise. It's a dose of glum rock that sounds like it's borrowed a raincoat from Echo & The Bunnymen to watch Joy Division in the Manchester rain. It's a downbeat yin to the often upbeat yang of the rest of the album. It's Wounded Lion proving to any detractors who have boxed them into a quirky garage pop punk corner that they can glum it up with the best of them. It's not the best track on the album but by god it's good. It's not long, however, before we're back to the raucous, quirky pop punk with 'Sacagewea' which sounds like grunge if it had been invented by David Byrne.

The last four tracks on the album sum up the virtuosity of the band. From the old school call and response punk of 'I'm Sad' through the Liarsesque 'Raincheck Vibrations' before finally finishing with a flourish with 'Oh Jim' a poppy little number that sounds like The Modern Lovers fronted by David Byrne.

So if you've been paying attention the albums influences include Talking Heads, Liars, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Modern Lovers, grunge, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants and The Dead Kennedys. I did tell you that Wounded Lion mix up the influences and they don't get much more mixed up than that.

On their impressive debut album Wounded Lion the quirkiness and humour was a little over bearing at times. Thankfully on IVXLCDM they've toned the quirkiness down a little without losing that spark that makes them such a joy to behold.


This article was originally written by the Devil for The 405 and is published with permission.

8/10

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If you missed Wounded Lion's debut then check this out...


Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud by S. S. Records


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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Ad Break

The Adverts
From: The Past, United Kingdom


It's advisable to take the usual PR puff that accompanies the release of any album with an industrial sized pinch of salt, unless it's calling The Adverts debut album 'one of the greatest punk albums of all time'. For once the PR people are, if anything, guilty of under-estimating how good this album is. I know that to many of you reading this it's little more than a relic from an earlier age and I'm little more than the musical equivalent of Tony Robinson and his time team excavating long buried treasures.I understand how irrelevant an album that was released 33 years must seem to most of the readers of The405. It's the equivalent of a punk in 1978 reading a review of a Perry Como re-release. But believe me this album is still as relevant today as it was 33 years ago. It's so fresh it could have been recorded yesterday. The Britain of 1978 was economically weak with plummeting living standards and rampant youth unemployment. Sound familiar? The re-release of Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts is a timely reminder that we've been here before. But if you're expecting a hyper political, snot flecked, angry tirade against injustice and hypocrisy, think again. This is not a barricade storming crie de cour, it's intelligent, witty and self deprecating, which sets it apart from most of it's snotty, angry contemporaries.

'One Chord Wonders' is a storming mass of noise that celebrates the band's musical limitations and the general public's response to punk with lyrics so pithy you'd swear they'd been recently wrapped round a citrus fruit. 'Bored Teenagers' is throwaway punk so archetypical that tongues have surely been introduced to cheeks along the way. 'Safety In Numbers' is a critique of the bandwagon jumpers that infest, and ultimately destroy, any scene. 'On The Roof' starts deceptively slowly before exploding into ear splitting life, while the angular rhythms of Newsboys were post punk before punk had even passed it's first flush of youth.

The undoubted highlight of the album is the brilliant 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' a song about the transplant of a killers eyes into an unwitting blind patient. It's one of the few punk songs that truly deserves to be called a classic. It was mystifyingly excluded from the initial release of the album, a mistake corrected by the 2002 re-release of the album and it's included on the latest re-issue no less than three times. Talk about over compensating.

As well as the three version of 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' this re-release throws in a pile of additional extras including live tracks and some songs that weren't included on the original album. Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts, with the addition of the mysteriously excluded 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes', stands up well on it's own, the added extras merely seal the deal.

It's time to put away your dubstep albums and your witch house white labels and get an infusion of old school punk into your veins courtesy of the Adverts.

9/10


This article was originally written by the Devil for The 405 and is published with permission.

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The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes by mouffettefatale

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Busy Clippers

From: IndonesiaHairdresser on fire
With a name taken from a Morrissey b-side and a sound like a pitched battle between Hole and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Indonesian punkers Haidresser on Fire! are the antithesis of so much of the anodyne, air brushed indie rock that's been manufactured to within an inch of it's life and focus grouped to death.

These firey hairdressers spit like an angry Cobra, snarl like an under-fed rottweiler and generally assault your ears with loud, raucous punk rock that'll have you pogoing around your bedroom like a demented Zebedee on speed.

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Hairdresser On Fire! - Morgue by Hairdresser On Fire!

Hairdresser On Fire! - Bionic Woman (live track) by Hairdresser On Fire!

Hairdresser On Fire! - Battle Start! by Hairdresser On Fire!
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Psychodelic Boy


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Widows Peak

Warm Widow
From: Manchester, United Kingdom


Warm WidowWarm Widow are a Manchester trio who are keeping the northern city's reputation for pushing musical boundaries alive. Cracker is uncompromising alternative post punk with a strong whiff of fellow obdurate Mancunians the Fall and King of the Slums while Ficht Heit joins the Fall and At The Drive In in unholy matromony.

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Cracker (Live at Kraak) by Warm Widow

Dogs in the Surgery (Live at Kraak) by Warm Widow

Ficht Heit (Live at Kraak) by Warm Widow

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Warm Widow - Website : Facebook : Last.FM

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Warm Widow
Lost Dog

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Motherhood and Apple Pie

The History of Apple Pie
From: London, United Kingdom

The History of Apple Pie
Why would a band saddle themselves with a name like The History of Apple Pie? The well of decent band names must be running dry and the bottom of the barrel scraped so hard it's disappeared. It sounds like a cookery book tie in with the Great British Bake Off and it's not even representative of their sound. If they were peddling sub Sarah twee indie it'd still be a crap name but at least you could kind of understand it. But they're not, the London quintet deal in dreamy, fuzz drenched guitars and airy, catchy melodies which recall long forgotten, unfairly neglected, shoe-gazing also-rans Lush.

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Mallory by The History Of Apple Pie


Mallory (Tom Furse Optimello Orchestra Mix) by The History Of Apple Pie

The History Of Apple Pie - Tug by The History Of Apple Pie

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The History of Apple Pie
You're So Cool



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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Video Killed The Radio Star 20th November 2011

Video killed the radio starPicture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/

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The Devil's Round Up 20th November 2011

Round UpThis week's round up of the tracks I've not had the space to post...

Thee Ludds
From: Leicester, United Kingdom

Thee LuddsGarage rock so primal it probably lives in a cave wearing a bearskin and eating dinosaur meat off the bone.

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From: Twickenham, London, United Kingdom

The Gummy Web
Instrumental post-rock if it'd been invented by The Flaming Lips.

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Coda by The Gummy Web by soundsofjag

The Parting Gifts

From: Memphis/Asheville/Nashville, United States

The Parting GiftsThe Parting Gifts sound like a freshly unearthed original artyfact from the first psychedelic era. It sounds like every decade since the 60s has been wiped off the map which, is not an entirely bad thing.

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The Parting Gifts - Don't Hurt Me Now by stereomacko

Secret Garden Gathering
From: Liverpool, United Kingdom


Wispy folkadelia that doffs it's cap to Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood Mac b-sides.

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Hiding Out by Secret Garden Gathering

Wet Nuns
From: Sheffield, United Kingdom

If this were any heavier it'd be on the periodic table.

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Heavens Below by Wet Nuns

Birthday Girls
From: Ottawa, Canada


Indescribable mash up of screamo and nu rave that sounds like it's been beamed in from a planet with much better musical taste than Earth.


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Blood Brothers by Birthday Girls


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Saturday, November 19, 2011

These Ghost Bands Keep Haunting Me

Ghost Mall
From: New York, United States


When I posted a track from That Ghost back in March little did I realise that 8 months later I'd still be bringing you ghost related bands. I can't believe that there are so many plying their trade across the world in 2011. What started as an interesting diversion has turned into a seemingly never ending quest to bring you as many ghost related bands as I can find. Well, for those ghost related completists out there, today you can add another to your growing collection with the mysterious Ghost Mall.

It's not even clear if Ghost Mall are still alive if their website is to be believed, but then for a band called ghost anything being dead is surely no more than an occupational hazard.


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LinkLink Ghost Mall - 40 Nugs by hardlyart

MP3 - Ghost Mall - Balloon Ideas (Acoustic)
MP3 - Ghost Mall - Johnny Appleseed (Acoustic)
These tracks are linked direct from the Ghost Mall Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Sweet Nothings

Cloud Nothings
From:Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cloud NothingsCloud Nothings new single No Future / No Past is truly astonishing. There really is no other word for it. The first time you hear it the hairs on your neck stand up. It's a real Smells Like Teen Spirit moment. It starts off all quiet and as delicate as a bone china flower which the band treat with great care until they explode like an IED smashing it into a thousand pieces. It builds and builds until it reaches an ear bursting crescendo with singer Dylan Baldi screaming "No Future No Past" until his throat is shredded and you're on the point of going deaf. It's a 21st century grunge anthem.

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Cloud Nothings - No Future / No Past by Wichita Recordings

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pepe Reigner

Pepe Deluxe
From: Helsinki, Finland


The Storm from Finnish oddballs Pepe Deluxe sounds like the theme tune to a cult TV series from the 60s. It doesn't sound like anything else that will have found it's way to your ears this year. There's a fine line between genius and lunacy and Pepe Deluxe straddle it with the agility of a Russian gymnast. A contender for top ten tracks of the year.

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The Storm (Radio Edit) by Pepe Deluxé Official

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Pepe Deluxe
Ask for A Kiss




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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Free Range Eggs

From: Lancaster, United Kingdom
The Lovely EggsLinkAllergies is yet more perfect pop from the loveliest eggs in the box. These free range Eggs could single handedly rescue the British music industry if only the rest of the country could drag themselves from the factory farmed dross of the Karaoke Factor for a couple of minutes to take a listen.

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The Lovely Eggs - Allergies by Too Pure Singles Club
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Smiths Covers

Smiths Covers
The cover of What Difference Does It Make by Stranded Horse got me thinking that there must be other great versions of Smiths songs out there so tonight I give you a Smiths covers special.

Parenthetical Girls - Handsome Devil (The Smiths Cover) by speaktoome

VANILLA SWINGERS - "Hand In Glove" (The Smiths cover) by sonshine

Baby Guru - The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths Cover) by Sound Injections

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Clayhill by GiangoLunghibarbe

Dum Dum Girls - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths Cover) by frontpsych

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths Cover) - The Lucksmiths by drixx

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths cover) by The Missing Season

And to finish off a brilliant version of a Morrissey track...

MP3 - The Bandana Splits - Everyday Is Like Sunday

This track is published with the permission of Sneak Attack Media so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Monday, November 14, 2011

Slacker Rock

Slothbear
From: New York, United States

Slothbear
If you call yourself Slothbear and deal in lo-fi, jangly indie that betrays a lifetime of intravenously injecting the works of The Velvet Underground, the entire Postcard Records back catalogue and the early b-sides of Sonic Youth then don't be surprised if the word slacker enters into any reviews. It's jangly, quasi twee, fuzzy indie pop of a kind that scientists had believed to have become extinct around the time Primal Scream discovered ecstacy.

At a time when many of their peers are professing to an, often newly discovered, love of the Beach Boys surf rock, it's refreshing to find a band who so obviously prefer the cooler, more laid back vibe of their east coast peers.

If you're getting fed up with the indie surf rock hegemony then head over for some relief to the New York quartet's bandcamp site where you can listen to and download their new ep, Canter On.

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Here are some tracks from the band's debut lp Qids to whet your appetite...

MP3 - Slothbear - Don't Taunt A Tiger
MP3 - Slothbear - The Exceptional Bastards
MP3 - Slothbear - Killed By Cars

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Slothbear
Txt Msg Never Sent (Live)


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Video Killed The Radio Star 13th November

Video killed the radio starPicture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/

Here are this week's selection of videos that have caught the Devil's eye...


Flash Bang Band

Cupid




The Weekend Hustler
Sexycalifragilisticexpialidopeness




Sunken Seas
High Rise



Monument Valley
Round & Round


MONUMENT VALLEY - ROUND & ROUND from Monument Valley on Vimeo.

Ste McCabe
Accessorise (Come Dine With Ste)


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Ellie Lawson
Change The Way




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