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Trembling Bells and Sleigh Bells have both blown me away with two or more of their recent albums, have been excellent live, and I'd buy any of their upcoming releases or live tix without hesitation. Phantom Band and FoTL probably fit that description, too. The Rapture recently came back from the brink (with a brilliant new album and gig). Battles stand a chance of being slow burner entrants up to that level, too (after an excellent ATP set and a lot of repeat plays of Dross Glop has had me working my way through their stuff in reverse order).

sometimes you'll think I haven't found a new favourite band in ages but then suddenly something new will come along and bam!

Most recent band I fell for was prob Johnny Foreigner, I always liked them but then the eps they put out between their 2nd and 3rd albums made me revisit their stuff and have now become an all time favourite.

Often you can't tell which band it'll happen with I just find it's the ones you keep going back to year after year. So so of the acts you just like now you might find become one of your faves next year or something.

I think I've reached my limit of bands that I love. I'm finding it difficult to approach anyone new with anything other than cynicism at the minute.

Well, I don't go in for merchandise or any of that jazz...for me becoming a "fan" of someone manifests itself purely in my enjoyment of their music. More specifically, I get to the point where I am 99% certain that I will enjoy their future output, regardless of prevailing opinion. This is especially true of Destroyer, since Kaputt acted as a sort of key to his sound, and now I love almost his whole discog (previously I only liked parts). Shortly before this, I also got this feeling towards Wild Beasts too.

well you're right you cant just be constantly picking up new bands...you'd reach the point of no return. The last time I properly searched for a few new acts to get excited about was 2010...by now, all but a couple of those (Lord Huron have an LP out soon) have released material, but I have no desire to replace them with a whole other Battalion of future promises.

I think I have everything that they put out.

See also: X is Loaded.

I love me some Second Division indie bands.

made me wonder about religion and the nature of human interaction and the possibilities of physical and spiritual transcendence and all sorts at atp on a sunday afternoon. i've been thinking of them daily since but have no wish to buy more of their records (i've a few) only to watch them live every day forever. i'd say i was into them.

i'm not sure what the real definition of a proper fan is though. But with Arthur I've bought all his albums, got the book and DVD on him and even got some demo stuff from an old friend of his. oh, i named my record label after him too.

before that probably Scott Walker.

so probably that, new music sucks x

Got into him when Cosmogramma first came out and loved it but only in the past couple of months I've really been hammering the catalogue hard, especially Los Angeles. Been scouring youtube for live clips and interviews and stuff. Actually got the Zombie t-shirt through in the post this morning and I'm contemplating whether I can afford to put in a pre-order for the deluxe edition of Until The Quiet Comes or if I have to wait till pay day after it's been released.

Also really fancy a trip down to Manchester for the Warehouse Project show but again, money - bastard!

Bloody excited to see them for the first time in November.

Not sure if he counts though seeing as he's barely put out any material. Before that it was Mark McGuire, and he's put out loads.

After a year or so of being madly in love with Dandelion Gum, i FINALLY got round to downloading their whole discography and checking out Tobacco and desperately scratting round trying to find any trace of a UK tour.

erased tapes scene

most of my super fanboy bands have been going a while and make me squeal whenever new stuff drops

Somebody mentioned them on here maybe two ago and posted one YouTube link and that was it for me. Luckily it coincided with their kind-of-but-not-really comeback, so I picked up all of the vinyl reissues, the new 7" EP, and seriously considered going to New York to see them live. It was one of those great moments when a band seems to come along who serendipitously embody everything you've been looking for in a band but didn't know was already out there. That also led to the same thing happening with Jenn Ghetto's solo project S (although I wasn't taken with Grand Archives, Band Of Horses etc). That seems to be the unifying factor in which bands are bands that I really like and which bands I'm fervently a fan of. Daughters was probably the last band that that happened with contemporaneously, while they were still a going concern. I guess, because your frame of reference is that much smaller, that's why you're more prone to passionate fandom when you're younger, because everything's new to you.

My fervent enthusiasm has led me to listen to the same album/song 20 times in a row. I've purchased everything i can on Vinyl. And in extreme cases I've set my alarm and ringtone to a particularly song.
It's rare i love an album as a whole so when that occurs it defintitely aids my fandom. An instant hit for me this year was A Whisper in the Noise and the album just grew and grew on me. The eclectic mix of genres helps because i can listen to it when i'm in more than 1 state of mind and each song has a pleasant familiarity in which I'm reminded of other artists whilst the band as a whole retains it's individuality. A Whisper ... also have a great 3 album 1 EP back catalogue, which will again increase my musical hunger.

years of rice and salt are another recent one for me and although they only put out 1 album last year and an EP, they've brought back my love of post-rock and between each listen of their album i'm going back to old constellation records and the likes of Yndi Halda and The Evpatoria Report. i have 2 copies of their 100 edition vinyl release.

Tom Williams & The Boat
Alt-J

Though I genuinely find it difficult to see myself as a *fan* of anyone properly anymore.

I'm going to see her play at the O2 :D

Can we expect DiS to be renamed 'Drowned in Merch and B-Sides'?

Hard work keeping across everything those guys were releasing. I gave up eventually, but not before amassing about 60GB worth of Emeralds and Emeralds-related material, just ridiculous.

After hearing Moonface - Organ Music and loving it, I began to delve into the wealth of previous bands and side projects. Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, all fantastic.

Electronic music is amazing. :D

Not that there's much to get beyond their first record but boy am I stoked for the follow up.

Really like their work at the mo. Fucked Up are another band I just keep trying to amass as much of their work as I can.

I suppose Down I Go, as I've pretty much made sure I've got everything they ever released in a physical format and digital, which is 2 CD albums, 1 CD-R album, 2 CD EPs, 1 Vinyl EP, the two mini cds they released that had christmas songs on. Saw them live 5-6 times, bought a t-shirt. I know they weren't around for long, or were that big but yeah, I call myself a proper fan, of their proper songs about proper disasters etc.

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More recently, probably Torche, who I bloody love.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Big Star
Wooden Shjips
Watersons

It's as likely to be an old band as a new one these days for me due to Spotify

2011: The Radio Dept.
For the last couple of years, I've immersed myself in old music in the first couple of months of the year, when there haven't been too many new releases around, hence Broadcast and The Radio Dept.

Got both the cassettes (even though I don't have the technology to play them) and the 7 inch should arrive next week. And I can't play that either.

Really love Hookworms, got the split with Kogumaza (another great band) and the S/T LP. Both fantastic and the album is out this year I believe. I've tried with Woods a couple of times but it really stuck this time, Sun & Shade is a great album. I like Kraut-esque tracks on that album...

Oh and the Goat album is great

Only been listening to for a year or so but easily in my top 5 bands, got everything I could physically buy and a few twinsistermoon isengrind records but still barely scratched the surface of their back catalogue

i've got a sat nite duets t-shirt but i never really listen to their music

I've never brought any B- Sides or rarities by any band, but that doesn't mean I'm not "into" them. The last bands I bought loads of material by were Mogwai and Dinosaur Jr.

that's the only new one I've been obsessed with recently. Can't be bothered finding out about new artists anymore. There isn't any. It's just older musicians laying eggs, dying and hatching themselves reborn.

Yesterday. Instant love at first listen.

I had their bootleg recordings, their early demos and nearly knew everysong they ever played let alone recorded.
BATS
Chrome Hoof
The Books.
Deer Tick.

slick rick

And now New Look are selling t-shirts with the design from Aesthetica on them.

Saw them support Wild Beasts and became pretty obsessed. I've moved onto Cloud Nothings now.

Amazing band, first 2 albums are marvelous, but after remarkable "No One Can Ever Know" and this year's outstanding performance at OFF Festival I'm their proper fan!..