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New CD's reviewed below - Anti-Flag, Belle & Sebastian, Boy Kill Boy, Flaming Lips, Horse, Khoma, Kubb, Streets v Bromheads Jacket, Tiga, The Upper Room |
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Boy Kill Boy - Suzie new single 8 May London based quartet Boy Kill Boy made plenty of new fans with their recent tour and Top 30 debut hit 'Back Again'. With new single 'Suzie' getting Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Track In The World Today' approval they seem set for a great year. See Boy Kill Boy headline the NME New Bands Tour with The Automatic, iForwardRussia!, and The Long Blondes in May. If you can't wait they're at london Royal Albert Hall on March 30th as part of The Teenage Cancer Trust Fundraiser with Razorlight and they play in London Trafalgar Square Rock Against Racism on 29 April. then NME gis in Cardiff, Bristol, Wolves, Glasgow, Middlesbrough, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London and Brighton. XXX www.boykillboy.com (Posted 24 March) |
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Belle & Sebastian- The Blues Are Still Blue new single 8 May Belle & Sebastian's second single from their seventh album 'The Life Pursuit' and again it's a 'nice' track, with clever harmony and arrangement ... nice is a good word to describe wallpaper because it's obvious that although critically acclaimed their material is over the heads of much of their potential audience. Shame really coz it's nice. If nasty's what you'd prefer then give a listen to their version of Thin Lizzy's 'Whiskey In The Jar'. XXX www.belleandsebastian.co.uk (Posted 24 March) |
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The Upper Room - Black & White new single 8 May The Upper Room reached No. 37 with their 'All Around This Town' and another stand-out track which has been serviced to many jock's over the last year is 'Black & White'. Quartet The Upper Room formed in Brighton and feature Alex Miller on lead vox, their record label Columbia (Sony) were hooked during a reccy to The Upper Rooms rehearsal studio and after seeing the boys play just three songs. "Coldplay watch your backs" says Arena ... the debut album 'Other People's Problems' will be released in August. XXX www.theupperroomsite.com (Posted 24 March) |
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The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song new single3 April The Flaming Lips.. of Sponmgebobsquarepants The Movie fame have come up with an equally bizarre tune here, 'The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song' runs at nearly five mins and has a neat radio edit. Unusually the albun 'At War With The Mystics' is released three weeks before this single and I'm wondering why? It's a hooky little tune, clever harmonies, a bit of a leftfield lyric, and should easily make the To 30. The Lips are here in April, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and London check their site for ticket details at the link below. XXX www.flaminglips.com (Posted 24 March) |
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Tiga - Far From Home new single 1 May Montreal based Tiga's new single 'Far From Home' is lifted from the Sexor album backed with an excellent remix package. The excellent 'Bascombe Radio Mix' at 2'50" is more or less perfect. The Speed of Sexor Reprise has an enhanced thumping bassline that will mix nicely with Human League's 'Don't You Want Me' and is followed the Digitalism Remix, try The Chicken Lips Dub Deluxe and the DFA Remix. Tiga's chums DJ Hell and Felix Da Housecat may soon envy him 'Far From Home', a chunky piece of electro which with a little radio airplay and luck could well be Top 40. XXX www.tiga.ca (Posted 24 March) |
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The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous (Bromheads Jacket Mix) new single 27 March Mike Skinner likes a little rocky guitar with his cornflakes, recently appearing on a Bloc Party track and here he is with the Bromheads. Now rearranged into a spunky, punky 2 minute epic "When you're a famous boy it's really easy to get girls, it's all so easy that you get spoiled, If you try to pull a bird who is also famous too then it's like when you wasn't famous" .... with his witty and jovial observations on the availability of loose people being less so when they become famous. Ahhh it's good artistic stuff possibly second only to 'Fit & You Know It' in The Street's Greatest XXXx www.the-streets.co.uk (Posted 24 March) |
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Kubb - Remain new single 1 May Kubb aka Harry Collier has a number one song here. 'Remain' was first released a year ago to some success, attracting play from Radio One and Radio Two since then 'Wicked Soul' and 'Grow' have seen Kubb establish themselves musically and appearance wise on the likes of TV's Jools Holland. 'Remain' is an awesome composition chronicling the feelings of bereavement following the death of a parent, "I still remain" mature soulful lyrics with a superb arrangement, did I say Number One ... if there's any justice. XXXXx www.kubbmusic.co.uk (Posted 24 March) |
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Horse - Same Old Same Old new download single 3 April Let's go back ... 1990 ... 'To The Speed Of The Beat Of Your Heart' what an awesome British Soul Rock song hailing from the very tonsils of this here Horse. Horse has an amazingly soulful voice, I feel sooner or later she will get the bit of luck needed to jump into the mainstream, it's not often you'll hear such a chiselled haunting delivery and Horse writes her own material. 'Same Old, Same Old' is released to promote her first full band tour in some time, beginning tonight Fri 24 March at East Kilbride Village Theatre, then Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, North Shields, Sheffield, London, Brum, Hebden Bridge, Leicester and Brighton on 22 April. XXXx www.randan.org (Posted 24 March) |
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