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SUEDE
The Best Of

Two CD collection from the britpop band led by vocalist Brett Anderson and featuring guitarist Bernard Butler, now a renowned producer. Features all of Suede‘s biggest hits showcasing the group’s early material with outstanding new production. This is the only Suede hits compilation that has been endorsed by the band. During the band’s early years, they effectively instigated a new focus on British guitar music which had been largely eclipsed by grunge before their emergence: their inexorable rise saw them become one of the biggest groups in the country, a success which was replicated in many countries around the world. In 1999, after five studio albums, the group split. They returned triumphantly in March this year, playing three incredible and critically acclaimed shows including London’s Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

ARTIST: Suede
TITLE: Best Of
LABEL: Universal
RELEASE DATE: November 9, 2010
TIME: 127:49 min.
WEB: http://www.suede.co.uk/

01. Animal Nitrate [03:29]
02. Beautiful Ones [03:50]
03. Trash [04:09]
04. Filmstar [03:29]
05. Metal Mickey [03:28]
06. New Generation [04:36]
07. So Young [03:42]
08. The Wild Ones [04:45]
09. The Drowners [04:11]
10. Stay Together [04:20]
11. Lazy [03:19]
12. Everything Will Follow [04:43]
13. We Are the Pigs [03:59]
14. Can’t Get Enough [03:59]
15. Electricity [04:42]
16. Obsessions [04:11]
17. She’s in Fashion [04:53]
18. Saturday Night [04:29]

01. Pantomime Horse [05:51]
02. My Insatiable One [02:58]
03. Killing of a Flashboy [04:06]
04. This Hollywood Life [03:31]
05. Europe Is Our Playground [05:38]
06. My Dark Star [04:24]
07. Sleeping Pills [03:53]
08. By the Sea [04:18]
09. She [03:40]
10. Heroine [03:21]
11. The Living Dead [02:50]
12. To the Birds [05:25]
13. The Big Time [04:29]
14. The 2 of Us [05:45]
15. The Asphalt World [09:27]
16. Still Life [05:19]
17. The Next Life [03:40]

Suede – So Young
Suede – To the Birds

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CHICKEN LIPS
Experience of Malfunction

Chicken Lips regroup with a new album, now including new member Jonny Spencer on vocals, alongside the old lineup of Steve Kotey, Dean Meredith and Andrew Meecham. Their trademark analogue style is still very much intact, deploying classic synthesizers and drum machines with their cheeky floor filling sound: let’s get an Experience of Malfunction.

ARTIST: Chicken Lips
TITLE: Fire Like This
LABEL: Tirk
RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2010
TIME: 47:56 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/chickenlipsproductions

01. Loty [04:45]
02. Ronsilver [05:56]
03. No More [05:29]
04. Bounty [04:52]
05. Kudashuda [02:48]
06. On A Stick [04:14]
07. OK Now [04:03]
08. She Fish [04:35]
09. On the Box [07:37]
10. End of the Beginning [03:37]

Chicken Lips – OK Now

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THE WIREFLYS
The World We Live

After 3 years, alt rock trio The Wireflys have just released their first full length album The World We Live. Over this time, the band has surfaced only to play a few live shows, sharing the stage with the likes of British India, Grafton Primary, Kisschasy and Bluejuice. This debut (described as “powerful, harmonious, heart thumping and epic”) has been produced by the bands vocalist/bassist Chris Tester, and while illustrating inventive focus during production, captures the bands live energy and dynamic.

ARTIST: The Wireflys
TITLE: The World We Live
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: October 10, 2010
TIME: 36:11 min.
WEB: http://www.thewireflys.com/

01. Bread, Not Bombs [04:10]
02. All This Lies [02:18]
03. Take You Home [03:59]
04. Go [02:33]
05. Taylor’s Reign [03:38]
06. Brown Suits, Black Ties [03:40]
07. Paranoia Jayne [03:44]
08. Since You Noticed [02:57]
09. If Truth Were A Currency Your Pokets Would Be Empty [04:24]
10. The World We Live [04:50]

The Wireflys - Go
The Wireflys - Paranoia Jayne

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DAFT PUNK
TRON: Legacy O.S.T.

Grammy award winning electronic duo Daft Punk (who takes music as seriously as TRON fans take computer references) scored the upcoming film TRON: Legacy. It’s no accident that the group’s two visionary musicians, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, are TRON fans too: having grown up with an admiration for the ground-breaking TRON film in the 80s, Daft Punk took on the scoring of the next chapter of the story with extraordinary thought and precision. The critically acclaimed French duo composed and produced the album assembling a symphony of one hundred world class musicians in London and recorded the orchestra at AIR Lyndhurst Studios, Britain’s premier scoring facility.

ARTIST: Daft Punk
TITLE: TRON: Legacy O.S.T.
LABEL: Walt Disney
RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2010
TIME: 58:49 min.
WEB: http://disney.go.com/tron/

01. Overture [02:28]
02. The Grid [01:37]
03. The Son of Flynn [01:35]
04. Recognizer [02:38]
05. Armory [02:03]
06. Arena [01:33]
07. Rinzler [02:18]
08. The Game Has Changed [03:26]
09. Outlands [02:43]
10. Adagio for TRON [04:11]
11. Nocturne [01:42]
12. End of Line [02:37]
13. Derezzed [01:44]
14. Fall [01:23]
15. Solar Sailer [02:42]
16. Rectifier [02:14]
17. Disc Wars [04:12]
18. C.L.U. [04:39]
19. Arrival [02:01]
20. Flynn Lives [03:22]
21. TRON Legacy (end titles) [03:18]
22. Finale [04:23]

Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (end titles)

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BLOOD RED SHOES
Fire Like This

Fire Like This is the second album from Brighton-based two-piece Blood Red Shoes. Heavily influenced by American underground and punk music, Blood Red Shoes often distance themselves from the current British music scene and consider themselves part of the tradition of US punk bands. Fire Like This was recorded with producer Mike Crossey, who has previously worked with the Arctic Monkeys and The Enemy. The album is preceded by the single Colours Fade and includes a Japan-only bonus track.

ARTIST: Blood Red Shoes
TITLE: Fire Like This
LABEL: V2
RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2010
TIME: 44:40 min.
WEB: http://www.bloodredshoes.co.uk/

01. Don’t Ask [03:07]
02. Light It Up [03:59]
03. It Is Happening Again [03:40]
04. When We Wake [04:32]
05. Keeping It Close [03:21]
06. Count Me Out [03:37]
07. Heartsink [03:38]
08. Follow the Lines [03:31]
09. One More Empty Chair [04:23]
10. Colours Fade [07:08]

11. We Get Bored [03:44]

Blood Red Shoes – Heartsink

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DNTEL After Parties 1 & 2

DNTEL is the side project of Jimmy Tamborello, a.k.a. one half of The Postal Service (with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie being the other half). After Parties is his last release: a two parts EP of wonderful IDM. Listening to both of these EP’s separately is a bit hard as they both complement each other. After Parties 1 has a mellow feel to it, and works great if you’re in the mood to chill out. After Parties 2 is more upbeat and has The Postal Service feel every fan should love.

ARTIST: DNTEL
TITLE: After Parties
LABEL: Sub Pop
RELEASE DATE: December 5, 2010
TIME: 40:15 min.
WEB: http://www.dntelmusic.com/

01. After Parties [07:59]
02. Lindsey [04:48]
03. Soft Alarm [04:13]

04. Flares [04:11]
05. Peepsie [03:20]
06. Hits Line [04:31]
07. Aimless [04:11]
08. Leed [07:02]

DNTEL – Lindsey
DNTEL – Flares

GIRL TALK All Day

So here we are again: new release for Girl Talk and again we can’t do without celebrating Greg Gillis‘ mix-and-match skills. Yes, again we have to say that the beauty of Girl Talk‘s All Day is its perfect blend of post-modern absurdity and pure entertainment: mixing and morphing among a deep vein of ’80s pop classics, ’90s alternative and ’00s hip-hop tracks, Gillis’ new musical Frankenstein project recycles many of the hooks he used on his first LP (Jackson 5, Bananarama, Ludacris and Beastie Boys) Girl Talk demonstrates (again) that his ability to churn out infectious mash-ups capable of turning even the stiffest blokes into dancing machines has grown to heaven.

ARTIST: Girl Talk
TITLE: All Day
LABEL: Illegal Art
RELEASE DATE: November 11, 2010
TIME: 71:02 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/girltalk

01. Oh No! [05:39]
02. Let It Out [06:29]
03. That’s Right [05:23]
04. Jump On Stage [06:22]
05. This Is the Remix [06:02]
06. On and On [05:09]
07. Get It Get It [05:33]
08. Down for the Count [06:38]
09. Make Me Wanna [06:23]
10. Steady Shock [05:48]
11. Triple Double [06:28]
12. Every Day [05:11]

Girl Talk – On and On

TEENGIRL FANTASY
7AM

Over the course of the last year, a lot of genuinely interesting groups and artists have emerged from the “Blog-house” scene that took shape towards the end of the last decade. Joining the likes of Memoryhouse, Gold Panda and Neon Indian in producing squelchy, pastel-hued dance-pop, the already prolific Teengirl Fantasy have set the internet alight with Cheaters, the first single from their debut album 7 AM. Burying vocal samples from the Love Committee’s little-known Seventies soul track Cheaters Never Win under layers of static, synths and an old-school Chicago house beat, the effect is both euphoric and disorienting. Sounding like an unfamiliar take on an old favourite, or a big-name male diva whose name you can’t quite put your finger on, belting out guest vocals on an indie dance track, it’s one of 2010′s best songs, an instant classic that has put this full-length at the top of many people’s “most anticipated” lists.

ARTIST: Teengirl Fantasy
TITLE: 7AM
LABEL: Merok
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2010
TIME: 39:26 min.
WEB: http://teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com/

01. Vibes [05:19]
02. In An Arena [02:54]
03. In the Rain [04:01]
04. Make the Move [02:08]
05. Floor to Floor [05:04]
06. Forever the Feeling [05:32]
07. Dancing in Slow Motion (feat. shannon funchess) [03:40]
08. Koi Pond [04:17]
09. Cheaters [06:31]

Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters

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KAT BOELSKOV Amateur

“If you want something done, do it yourself”, the old wise man said.
Kat Boelskov did it, and it’s well done: Danish singer-songwriter’s debut album Amateur is a sort of box randomly filled with what you could call electro-pop-rock and a dash of acoustics and jazz, inspired by Kate Bush, Dragonette, 90′s Bjørk, Sia, Fiona Apple, Fever Ray and The Knife amongst many others. In other words, the dark and sweet sound of Amateur is a genre-confused combination of electronica, rock, and acoustics, which are nevertheless bound firmly together by the raw, emotional voice and feeling of unashamed honesty which runs throughout the album. Instead of calling on professional help, Kat chose to stay 100% in charge, handling every step of the writing, recording and production herself, resulting in a deeply personal piece of work.
A fantastic, enjoyable, lovely personal piece of work.

ARTIST: Kat Boelskov
TITLE: Amateur
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2010
TIME: 44:47 min.
WEB: http://www.katboelskov.com/

01. Everything [03:10]
02. Disengage [03:46]
03. Peace [03:05]
04. Girls in Love [02:42]
05. Tapestry [05:16]
06. This Time [04:17]
07. Mood [03:24]
08. 1 Thing U Should Know [03:24]
09. Scars [05:05]
10. Peace (remix) [07:22]
11. Stronger [03:16]

Kat Boelskov - Everything

HOLY SONS Survivalist Tales!

Emil Amos, world renowned as drummer of the illustrious experimental rock groups Om and Grails, has an increasingly prolific, though relatively unknown, solo career under the moniker Holy Sons. Home recording over 1000 songs since the project’s inception in 1992, Amos has spent the better part of the last two decades honing his song writing and production skills over a wide swath of genres in a mission to capture his internal world sonically. Survivalist Tales! is Holy Sons‘ 9th record, and represents the apex of Emil Amos‘ obsession to push stylistic genres to their breaking point while wrenching psyche-anthems out of the darkest frontiers of self-confrontation. The songs are a seemingly impossible blend of nightmarish Blade Runner-esque moog music with the darkest side of 70′s easy-listening psyche and feature some of the most unabashedly soaring choruses Amos has ever put to tape. Combining avant-sound collage with lyrics culled from the hard-won truths of self-exploration, Survivalist Tales! builds a beautiful imagining of future music.

ARTIST: Holy Sons
TITLE: Survivalist Tales!
LABEL: Partisan
RELEASE DATE: October 12, 2010
TIME: 39:39 min.
WEB: http://holysons.com/

01. Survivalist Intro [02:03]
02. Payoff [05:36]
03. From Home [02:09]
04. Look of Pain! [04:50]
05. Golden Child [03:27]
06. Reckless Liberation [04:10]
07. Sympathetic Strings [02:59]
08. Slow Days [03:36]
09. Deprivation Thrills [06:10]
10. A Chapter Must Be Closed [02:55]
11. Survivalist Outro [01:44]

Holy Sons - Slow Days

MR. OIZO & GASPARD AUGE Rubber O.S.T.

Anticipation for the release of Quentin Dupieux‘s (aka Mr .Oizo) film Rubber amongst the Gallic house loving cognoscenti is trumped only by Disney’s forthcoming Tron: Legacy blockbuster and its associated soundtrack from Daft Punk. At least Mr. Oizo has got the music perfectly judged thanks in no small part to the presence of Gaspard Augé (Justice).

ARTIST: Mr. Oizo & Gaspard Augé
TITLE: Rubber O.S.T.
LABEL: Ed Banger
RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2010
TIME: 30:16 min.
WEB: http://www.rubberfilm.com/

01. Symoh08 [01:28]
02. Rubber [04:09]
03. Crows and Guts [02:28]
04. Tricycle Express [03:51]
05. Everything Is Fake [01:38]
06. Room 16 [02:27]
07. Bellyball Road [01:08]
08. No Reason [02:11]
09. Sheila [03:27]
10. Racket [01:35]
11. Le Caoutchouc [01:46]
12. Polocaust [01:21]
13. Dump [01:14]
14. Sunsetire [01:30]

Mr. Oizo (feat. gaspard augé) - Tricycle Express

YOU SAY PARTY! RemiXXXX

It’s been a heartbreaking year for members of You Say Party! We Say Die!, losing drummer Devon Clifford in a tragic series of events at one of their concerts. The band has since made the decision to move forward, changing its monicker only to You Say Party!, with new members, an upcoming tour, and an upcoming release. The release is called REMIXXXX and includes many remixes by a number of their friends and fellow artists of tracks off their recent album titled XXXX.

ARTIST: You Say Party!
TITLE: Margins
LABEL: Paperbag
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2010
TIME: 48:42 min.
WEB: http://www.yousayparty.com/

01. Dark Days (CFCF mix) [05:53]
02. Dark Days (teen daze remix) [07:56]
03. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (mathemagic mix) [04:06]
04. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (backwith and tombstone remix) [05:54]
05. Laura Palmer’s Prom (johan agebjörn remix) [04:38]
06. Laura Palmer’s Prom (los campesinos remix) [04:35]
07. Dark Days (babe rainbow mix) [03:28]
08. Dark Days (landscapebodymachine mix) [04:44]
09. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (skullkrushers mix) [02:53]
10. There Is XXXX (within my heart) (teen daze mix) [04:34]

You Say Party - Dark Days (babe rainbow remix)

PAUL SMITH Margins

Newcastle’s Maxïmo Park were among the more thoughtful bands to emerge during the UK post-punk/new wave revival of the mid-00s, due in no small part to the acutely observed lyrics of front man Paul Smith. A year on from his group’s rather disappointing third album Quicken the Heart, Smith is back with a collection of self-penned songs recorded with a collection of north-east friends including Field Music’s David Brewis on bass. This is apparently just a side project rather than the beginning of a solo career (Maxïmo Park are currently working on new material) and Margins doesn’t represent much of a departure away from their established template.
Nevertheless, as an overall package, maybe this solo release struggles to rise above the ordinary, but fans of Maxïmo Park will not be disappointed, and also the ones approaching Smith’s songwriting for the first time will surely enjoy it.

ARTIST: Paul Smith
TITLE: Margins
LABEL: Billingham
RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2010
TIME: 47:13 min.
WEB: http://www.paulsmithmusic.eu/

01. North Atlantic Drift [03:55]
02. The Crush and the Shatter [03:01]
03. Improvement / Denouement  [02:57]
04. Strange Friction [03:17]
05. While You’re in the Bath [03:56]
06. This Heat [04:22]
07. I Drew You Sleeping [04:59]
08. Alone I Would’ve Dropped [03:29]
09. Dare Not Dive [02:32]
10. I Wonder If [03:14]
11. Our Lady of Lourdes [04:19]
12. The Tingles [04:05]
13. Pinball [03:07]

Paul Smith - This Heat

THE BLACK BOX REVELATION Silver Threats

If Kasabian took down their Screamadelica-style electro decorations, what would be at the core? Alternatively, what would it sound like if Liam Gallagher fronted Buddy Guy’s live band, his iconic whine backed up by bolshie Chicago blues? Or again, are you able to imagine The Black Keys playing Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? Well, the answer is Brussels’  The Black Box Revelation. As a two piece (Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck), this stripped down roots-rock, like that of The White Stripes, is surely a dish best served live. Nevertheless, Silver Threats makes for straightforward, irony-free listening, and fills a hole in the market.

ARTIST: The Black Box Revelation
TITLE: Silver Threats
LABEL: T for Tunes
RELEASE DATE: February 05, 2010
TIME: 44:41 min.
WEB: http://www.blackboxrevelation.com/

01. High On a Wire [03:07]
02. Where Has All This Mess Begun [05:00]
03. Run Wild [04:02]
04. 5 O’Clock Turn Back the Time [03:05]
05. You Better Get in Touch with the Devil [02:39]
06. Do I Know You? [03:17]
07. Sleep While Moving [03:03]
08. Our Town Has Changed for Years Now [03:18]
09. Love Kicks [04:10]
10. You Got Me On My Knees [03:39]
11. Here Comes the Kick [09:21]

The Black Box Revelation - Love Kicks

SAROOS See Me Not

Brand new album from German trio Saroos. On the Odd Nosdam-produced See Me Not, members Florian Zimmer (Iso68, Jersey), Christoph Brandner (Lali Puna, Console) and Max Punktezahl (The Notwist, Contriva) achieve a rare synchronicity that lends their poly-genre instrumental compositions an uncanny air, like something beamed in from a different dimension. Equal parts krautrock, musique concrete, post-rock and no wave, the album is both timeless and rooted in history, noisy and bound to a groove, completely foreign and, yet, surprisingly familiar.

ARTIST: Saroos
TITLE: See Me Not
LABEL: Anticon
RELEASE DATE: November 09, 2010
TIME: 34:02 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/saroos

01. Lobster Claw [04:05]
02. Daylight Chant [04:37]
03. Fog People [04:54]
04. See Me Not [05:21]
05. Scott [03:53]
06. Yukoama [04:38]
07. Týden Divu [04:05]
08. Outrigger [02:29]

Saroos - Scott

OH NO! OH MY! People Problems

Austin-based Oh No! Oh My! after much time passing while writing and recording, is now releasing a collection of 12 brand new songs upon the world, to collectively be called People Problems. Because most problems in life stem from people, and what better thing to write about than people, and our problems with them? A fairly dramatic stylistic departure from the previous music Oh No! Oh My! was known for, the songs of People Problems are made up in a much more somber, yet grand scale, which include arrangements for a string quartet. Recorded sporadically over 8 months in Texas at Public Hi-Fi by Jeff Byrd and Brad Bell, People Problems it’s big, it’s loud, it’s quiet, it’s short, it’s long.
It is all these things, and more.

ARTIST: Oh No! Oh My!
TITLE: People Problems
LABEL: Koenig
RELEASE DATE: January 01, 2011
TIME: 45:16 min.
WEB: http://ohnoohmy.com/

01. Walking Into Me [03:12]
02. You Were Right [04:19]
03. Again Again [04:16]
04. No Time For Talk [04:02]
05. I Don’t Know [04:28]
06. So I Took You [01:57]
07. Brains [04:21]
08. Not the One [01:35]
09. There Will Be Bones [03:37]
10. Should Not Have Come to This [05:32]
11. Circles and Carousels [01:28]
12. Summerdays [06:29]

Oh No! Oh My! - Walking Into Me