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Mon 05 May

Animal Collective:
Water Curses EP

Animal Collective Water Curses
18 votes
? by Samuel Strang

Difficult to pin down, ever glad to fly the nest, Water Curses gives few clues to where Animal Collective want to head next, but is all the better for providing a moment of retrospective restraint as we play catch-up…

Mon 03 Mar

Situationists:
This City Holds Us All EP

Situationists
16 votes
? by Rob Webb

This City Holds Us All possesses a wide-eyed energy and youthful exuberance - not to mention melodic intricacy - that's sadly lacking from other guitar bands of Situationists' ilk. A fine start to their recorded career…

Frightened Rabbit:
Head Rolls Off

heads roll off
15 votes
? by Daniel Ross

There's a great deal of potential for Frightened Rabbit to balloon in popularity on the strength of their new material, and this is precisely the kind of hit that could straddle the divide between murky clubs and appearances on Jools Holland…

Coheed and Cambria:
Feathers

feathers
9 votes
? by Mike Diver

This is taken from an album called Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness. These guys are clowning, right? They’re not a serious band? Good. Good…

Stardeath & White Dwarfs:
Toast & Marmalade For Tea

stardeath and white dwarfs
6 votes
? by Kev Kharas

It’s unsettling, given the posture of Half Machine Records’ admittedly small back catalogue, that the imprint’s latest release should be a cover of a song originally recorded by a Beegees side-project.…

Mon 25 Feb

Les Savy Fav:
Patty Lee / The Sweat Descends

les savy fav patty lee
12 votes
? by Kev Kharas

Single of the Week... Free of ego but pungent with personality 'Patty Lee' is classic pop-rock without the connotations of dumb machismo, devil horns and 'rawk' that the term too often seems to bring.
Read more reviews of this week's singles here…

Fucked Up:
Year Of The Pig

year of the pig
4 votes
? by Mike Diver

I remember ‘My Father My King’ well enough, but Fucked Up ain’t Mogwai, and this isn’t drawn-out post-rock for weirdie-beardies pushing 40. Nah mate, it’s punk fucking rock. Sorta…

The Cribs:
I'm A Realist / Bastards Of Young

CRIBS REALIST
18 votes
? by Samuel Strang

With bloodied lip and rotting gums, ‘I’m A Realist’ showcases all of The Cribs' intoxicating melancholy, sung like a lout’s inebriated swoon at two in the morning.…

The Hives:
We Rule The World (T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S)

we rule the world hives
8 votes
? by Mike Diver

All he touches ain’t been gold for some time now, and while Pharrell Williams is a pretty special name to have on your band’s CV so far as collaborators go, his influence on The Hives’ latest single is entirely forgettable…

Asobi Seksu:
Goodbye

asobi seksu goodbye
14 votes
? by Kev Kharas

New Yorkers Asobi Seksu Mine rock trends like Blondie, but where Debbie Harry had the cartoon gold of punk to colour her pop, Yuki Chikudate has the infinitely less distinct shape of shoegaze which, all in all, leaves ‘Goodbye’ sounding rather flat.…

Jubilee:
Rebel Hiss

jubilee rebel hiss
9 votes
? by Mike Diver

Single of the Week... Old news, ‘old new’ bands, but still they come; some welcomed, others less so. Jubilee fall into the former category – this assembly of musicians sourced from outfits of greater acclaim and infamy than their new project delivers fuzzed-up pop-rock that ticks all boxes of immediacy.
Read more reviews of this week's singles here…

Vampire Weekend:
A-Punk

A-Punk
25 votes
? by Alex Denney

On second glance, maybe it's the sheer quality of these Ivy League New Yorkers that rankles most. We like to see posh people falling over, baring their arses, muttering darkly about lost empire - stuff like that. …

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