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Revelino - Happiness Is Mine 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If anyone reading this has ever wondered what became of Dublin band Revelino the answer comes in the least expected of places. Under the guise of the Beat Club, main man Brendan Tallon and drummer Shane Rafferty play to the most sussed of wedding crowds in the land. In the process the players probably earn more in one night that they earned in a year as Revelino. It's a pity because over the
One Dove - White Love 1970-01-01 00:59:59 With a chanteuse as enchanting and talented as Sarah Cracknell and Andrew Weatherall on production duties it seemed as if Dot Allison and One Dove had the world at their feet. Unfortunately the band would only record one album but Allison has remained steadily on the fringes of public consciousness with her solo career. "White
Love' with its cool electronica edges was the high point for One Dove
Busdriver - Avantcore 1970-01-01 00:59:59 On the face of it this beat beat/hip hop hybrid is far removed from what would normally nestle in my onion sack but good music is good music no matter the genre. Busdriver is the work of Regan Farquhar (hey, wouldn't it have sat well on the Shrek soundtrack too!) from Los Angelus who has had hip-hop in his blood from the day he was born. Busdriver is characterised by his word tsunamis and on "
Jim O'Rourke - Women of the World 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Now here's one to really get stuck into. Wandering soul that he is Jim O'Rourke moves from project to project with gay abandon. Music collaborator, producer (Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'), playing parts in seismic bands (Gastr Del Sol, Sonic Youth), soundtrack consultant ('School of Rock'), filmmaker and yet his name is but a ghost in the consciousness of the public. Chances are you've sat Read more:Women
, World
El Goodo - Stuckin The Sixties 1970-01-01 00:59:59 From the getgo El Goodo are shamelessly retro (note the nod to Big Star in the name). They are undoubtedly a mishmash of influences, mostly those who resided back in the swinging sixties but its obvious the Welsh combo have also swallowed quite a bit of psychocandy in their time. The results can be found on their charming self-titled debut LP that is as immediate as a ghost in the house. The Read more:Sixties
Purple Clouds - Sunshine 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Up to this year I hadn't come across an Argentinean artist that ruffled my features and now I have a pair of them. If you haven't heard of Juana Molina by now you are truly missing out, her second album "Son' is a near masterpiece. Not quite in the same league yet titillating in their own way are PurpleClouds
from the city of Campana. Federico Bianchi is the ringleader and cites his influences
Antarctica Takes It! - I'm No Lover 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Music that flies by the seat of its pants can sometimes eclipse its more polished cousins for sheer excitement. And so it came to pass that "I'm No Lover' by Antarctica
Takes It! has gotten me into a lather over the last few days for its beat up vinyl stylings. By all accounts the Santa Cruz's bands debut album "The Penguin League' was recorded using some sort of analog device that was prevalent
God Is An Astronaut - Tempus Horizon 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As with much of God Is An Astronaut
's music "Tempus Horizon' is not something that'll you'll readily pinpoint. You'll shadow the piece searching in vain for the hook that'll burn the fog and reveal the magical undergrowth. It'll take repeated listens but the seemingly incomprehensible chord gestures do eventually form an aural sketchbook to endlessly marvel. GIAA have been enthralling audiences
The Silent League - Breathe 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You'll know his mug if you've been to a classic Mercury Rev show as Justin Russo played the keyboard parts to "Deserter Songs' and "All Is Dream'. Not content with being a part of musical history Russo busied himself getting an army of musicians together and calling them the SilentLeague
(sorta like a US version of Brakes with grasshoppers and euro police thrown in). What poured from the group'
Venice is Sinking - Undecided/Pulaski Heights 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Funny that Venice
is Sinking should originate from Athens, Georgia. Not funny ha-ha, more wry smilingly so since it was from that very spot that one of indie's former champions arose. Karolyn Troupe and Daniel Lawson are the twin voices who propel ViS's delightful chamber pop sound. On songs like "Pulaski Heights
' the band germ a floatilla of noises that approximate equal parts Frames/Arcade Read more:Undecided
Can Joann - Thicker Skin 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm all for music that creeps up on you but Can Joann take the notion a step further. I have been chipping away at their debut LP "Hurt People Hurt People' for weeks now, all the while admiring their slightly camouflaged Strokes like forays, but it's only in the last few days that the hidden extras have started to reveal themselves. "Hurt People Hurt People' is superficially enjoyable but by
#41 The Shins - New Slang 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It can be hard to figure how bands like the Killers can sweep to success with comparative ease while equally talented acts like the Shins
continue to inhabit the fringes. Notwithstanding the by now compulsory appearance on the O.C. it seems the world has largely chosen to ignore James Mercer's bands languid take on the sound of the sixties. "New Slang
' is a crushingly beautiful effort, the ante
Bedroom Walls - In Anticipation Of Your Suicide 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In anticipation of the slew of rangy adjectives that would be used to describe their band BedroomWalls
decided to lend a hand by categorising their own music into the heretofore unknown genre of romanticore. Whether the term is adequate to define their smouldering output is open to question but who needs definitions when there's a weak at the knees experience to be had in the bands sophomore Read more:Anticipation
, Suicide
Oakley Hall - Lazy Susan 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What have we here? "Lazy Susan
' being a distinguished beast with a multi-faceted personality that skirts through enough genres to appeal to the broadest cross section. My Dad could have his Kenny Rogers urges sated and yet I'd also be there approximating a ridiculously impoverished attempt at a dancing Dandy Warhol. This is raw and dirty yet as aspiring as a Clinic track that has somehow taken Read more:Oakley
The Birthday Massacre - Video Kid 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There is probably a part of me that adores "Video Kid' because it could only have come from someone with an appreciation of that section of 80's music that wasn't disposable. Struggling to be heard above this songs gene pool of influences are slices of electro pop, new romanticism and a liberal spray from the Joe Elliott School of anthemic guitars. The Birthday
Massacre are from Toronto, sport
Sa Sevol - The Little Ones 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Michigan band Sa Sevol are short on the details. Apart from cobbling a myspace page together and announcing that they are working on an album called "The Sea of Showers' there is precious little other facts to be cosseted into neat little word packages. Until we know more it will be all about the music however. And what a pleasant dash Sa Sevol cut, melancholic electronica hasn't been drafted
The Sound Of Young Ireland (Vol. 2) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Tantalising titbits from the isle that scooped 3 consecutive Eurovision Song Contests. An occasional series that promises the best of Irish without the wild leg movements. KD
The Claremen pluck for a stunning chord volley.
The Walls - To The Bright And Shining Sun
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Making cool electronica a reality on the freezing western seaboard.
Cane 141 - Foxy Trot
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Bearsuit - Rodent Disco 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Bis fans, awake from your slumber because Bearsuit are about to sweep you off your lightly tinselled feet. Blasting at the face of MOR Bearsuit have been contributing fresh pieces of fantastic plastic out of Norwich since 2001 but it seems that it'll be a song that takes the name of a famous Hollywood director in vain to shoot them to semi-fame. "Steven F***ing Spielberg' is pretty gorgeous with Read more:Rodent
Explosions In The Sky - Yasmin The Light 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Leaving aside my silly attempts at trying to twist my last.fm profile into what I think it should read I'd have to say that no other group in the last few years has given me more pleasure than Explosions
in the Sky. This from a Texas band that never utters a single word, often commit constructs of interminable length and can search in vain for the holy grail that is the memorable riff yet still
Nyles Lannon - Beached 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Nyles Lannon is guitarist and vocalist with Film School. In between releasing one of 2006's best albums as part of FS poor Nyles works in a record store, records some electronic music (under the n. Ln moniker) and pushes his solo album "Chemical Friends' from a couple of years back. Of late "Chemical Friends' has been racking up some serious battery loss on my portable player. It is one of those
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Bobby Malone M... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You've got to admire Owen Ashcroft's do it yourself style. His early albums as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone took the bedroom recording process into the cupboard as battery operated keyboard met analogue 4-track cassette (Daniel Johnston springs to mind). This year's album "Etiquette' fleshed out his sound and spawned the fragile single "BobbyMalone
Moves'. Lennon's "Imagine' is initially
San Saba County - More Than Me 1970-01-01 00:59:59 San Saba County
lies on the skirts of Austin and from its dusty populace of 6,000 came forth a band headed by one John Saba with bushels on their mind. The scraps I've heard tend to suggest that San Saba County are keen to play the pleasant alt country card. "More Than Me' is perhaps a short scenic detour but it had me lassoed immediately. It's taken from the bands second album "Its Not The Fall
Sound Team - It's Obvious What's Happening Here 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Despite the heavy handedness meted down on their debut LP from certain quarters Sound
Team remain a dazzling prospect. Sure, "Movie Monster' might not have had the thrill and cohesion of their extraordinary "Work' EP but it boasted lots of dynamically challenging pieces. Included on the EP but recorded within the influential four walls of the Daytrotter studios "It's Obvious
What Is Happening
Towards Christmas I will compile the top forty-tw... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Towards Christmas
I will compile the top forty
-two songs of the year under the snazzy title of Huggers Top 42 Songs (42 has a nice ring a ding ding to it!) and our Dodgy Radio will also play the pick of the bunch. The list will be a compilation of reader votes. If you wish to contribute send your top 5 songs of the year to this location or leave your selection in the comments below. Include a
My Brother Woody - Wish I Was A DJ 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My BrotherWoody
is the work of a one man band called Michael Cleare and it's obvious he's well eared in the art of the pop hook. He's already released a 7 song self titled EP and since that didn't set the world alight he is about to go the whole hog and release a full LP. The indications are good, for a singer songwriter much of what I've heard goes beyond the delicately strummed guitar and
Lemon Jelly - The Shouty Track 1970-01-01 00:59:59 By their third album it seemed as if LemonJelly
had somehow lost the knack to write electronic wonderments to calm the soul. Artificial souls with addictive personalities were their stock in trade but by '64 - '95 the well was beginning to run dry (not so nice weather for avian friends as you can imagine). That said, there was still more than a smidgeon of satisfaction to be gleaned from the Read more:Track
Action Painting! - These Things Happen 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Aaah, Sarah Records and her heavenly (!) army of twee pop janglers. Right at home amongst the low-fringed cast were a band from Brighton called ActionPainting
! The quartet only released a clutch of 7-inch singles, including "These Things Happen', but some of their members will be best known for a stint with the uproariously disposable concoction that was Shampoo. As well as treading the boards
The Motifs - Dots Secret Address 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Motifs are quite glad that they've managed to sell out their debut CD. Ok, it was only 50 copies but little acorns and all that. And, little acorns are about as apt as you could get to describe the wispy wonderfulness that Alexis from Melbourne creates. Sweden's Music Is My Girlfriend were the canny label to snap her up, spotting how her sub 2 minute acoustic rambles could potentially become Read more:Address
Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas 1970-01-01 00:59:59 With so many Christmas
pasts and considering the build up and event can take over 2 months to play out it is surprising how few seasonal classics we have. Of course the good ones are cherishable and immune from ever becoming tiresome but each new batch rarely throws up anything that will appear the following year. The cash-in is partly the problem, a sleigh bell and a recognisable artist is Read more:Maybe
Maps - Lost My Soul 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Seems the swell of engaging electronic artists breaking through has contracted a tad of late. The genre seemed to overtake its guitar-wielding cousins for a brief spell in the early part of the century. That said there are occasional bright spots to be had like Northampton's Maps. Maps is the work of James Chapman and a revolving cast of backing musicians. His first 3 singles have been compiled
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