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Just awesome and will be soundtracking my party this weekend. And probably many others too.

Do you get bad moods sometimes too? ;-)

I don't like Daisy that much. It's okay.

DiD editors could have picked a MUCH better headline quote from that interview than "I like talking to people"!

The last album stays with me always. Still never seen 'em live. Any good?

Dig for Fire new for this year (I hear they fucked up the intro a coupel of times too), Bone Machine was played on the tours from this decade but somewhat rare in the setlist

:P

not entirely correct. Dig for Fire is a new addition to the 2009 setlist. I am not 100% sure on Bone Machine but I am pretty sure that it wan't on th 05/06/07 show setlist.

THREE?

No assuming that one cannot have a 0/10 review score, a score of THREE means bang inbetween "entirely without merit" and "average". Poor in fact. This album is far from poor.

Shame on you sir. Shame.

It sounds like a very, very cynical attempt to go for commercial success. It sounds like they're aping what was popular in prior summers, the Ting Tings and The Gossip.

Ulrich Schnauss is underrated. Never gets a good review in the critical in-crowd rags. I like.

of "sophomore". It's a journalistic cliche. Would you ALSO start an article with "It is a truth universally acknolwedged..."?

It's genius.

I love this album so much the more I listen to it, it may be way up there. Time will have to tell.

Great review and I am sooooo excited about this. Will purchase.

idea. The first idea not so much.

One general comment though, not aimed at your article, is that I am absolutely fed up of the recording industry's constant bleating that the "consumer has to change", "consumer habits are wrong and have to change", "the consumer is wrong in what he is illegally doing". If so many millions of people are doing it that it dwarves the historical business model twenty to one, then I'm sorry, it's the accepted business model that is wrong and not the consumer. Call it ultimate democratic judgement if you like. Where is the value in charging a tenner for eleven or twelve tracks with (in the majority of cases with CDs) very basic tangible media (artwork, extras, packaging)? Multimedia experiences such as computer games offer much more than the single-medium listening experience and often cost not much more....new PC games are usually £18 off Play.com. Games piracy is far less, usually less than 1:1 between purchased and pirated copies.

The recording industry needs to add more value and change its model otherwise it will wither further and further, and in the meantime new artists will still come through via the new media such as Myspace. They won't get paid much but what does the consumer care?

JoFoJoFoJoFo!

Hahaha do not make me laugh. Their set this year was even worse than last year's, which must have taken some doing.

Los Campesinos! absolutely ruled the day, they make all the others look like talentless also-rans.

Also, too much Ting Tings column inches, why are you even giving these mediocre also-rans the coverage that they so clearly don't deserve?

Also also, the huige crowds for Mystery Jets mysteriously evaporated after Two Doors Down, which came several numbers from the set. What is wrong with people?

From me. It's a pretty decent album but it only makes me miss the Blood Brothers even more, which is 'nuff said really.

For me. It's a pretty decent album but it inly makes me miss the Blood Brothers even more, which is 'nuff said really.

for that. Hope everything is okay behind the scenes.

I think that is the least revelatory interview with a brilliant band that I have ever read.

bought it, it's amazing, over & out.

Is painfully unfunny, and Noel Fielding is a total cunt. That is all.

This a million times over.

Hot snakes and RTFC = decent, in fact excellent, rock bands.

Drive Like Jehu = legendary, massively influential trailblazers.

Priorities dear DiS writers.

Pixies. Who conveniently managed to TOTALLY ESCAPE mainstream media coverage of the festival despite being, you know, pretty high up the bill and stuff.

topical band name.

Oh yeah

A) Yo La Tengo

spazz.

amazing live and definitely missed. But not as much as Hot Snakes.

I only have the major-label releases from Scream Dracula Scream onwards, but I always had a problem with the amount of filler on RTFC's albums. I never saw Hot Snakes as having particularly consistent or diverse songwriting, but their sheer relentless piledriving RAWKness shone through in a way that a lot of RTFC's material doesn't.

Maybe I never really got the point.

"Scotland, Scotland"?

"Los Malvinas, Los Malvinas"?

er...

"British Antarctic Territory"?

TWO decent alterntive-rock-with-mainstream-sensibilities record reviews this week! (See Fighting With Wire). I love it.

About their songwriting - I hadn't even checked the liner of the CD. I have a suspicion that at least a couple of them are big Pixies fans.

I like this band very much, as whilst they are not breaking any new boundaries the music has a great deal of genuine charm - an attribute sorely lacking in the indie mainstream - and very effective songcraft.

Great album and one that I feel will grow and grow over the coming months as a sleeper hit. Go guys.

I felt the same about Knots, could have listened to that all day when it was recent. Actually still can. This is another one of those spikily moreish little songs that get stuck in your head without grating.

reviewer gave the Zwan LP 9/10

http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/3205

aha ahahaha

I mean

basically writing Mayonaise, one of the prettiest and most original love songs of our time (mmm that forest of burning, wailing guitars)

And co-writing (but we all know what that means Billy) Soma, massive and deliciously overblown heart-rending epic of love loss and betrayal

And I Am One

Yup, apart from those three of my top 5 Pumpkins tracks.

Droll lol

an absolute cunt. He's been plugging the same damned songs around the London circuit for years now and they're all crap.

Also, don't go to his Myspace and click on the Youtube link entitled "WATCH ME DANCE!!!11111!". It will make you want to travel back in time before his birth and castrate his father with a rusty pair of scissors.

disc has certainly had the most play of anything this year on my stereo.

For what it's worth in no particular order

Wires on Fire - WoF
the Cribs - Mens Needs
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America (borderline this year)
Malajube - Trompe L'Oeil

And QOTSA, Arcade Fire and Battles.

Bloc Party are unlikely to make my end of year top list. A good album but I found the lyrics rather gauche and the music patchy. They're best when they rock out, and I hope they realise this for the next album.

great great track.

Sometimes I take my head out my (metaphorica) arse and just wonder that the simpler joys are often the most delicious.

from one of my favourite bands in the whole world innit. QOTSA don't get the critical acclaim they deserve I feel, maybe because they ignore trends and the popular zeitgeist and just go and do their (or Josh's) own thing. Always progressing.

"if only because of their output from 94-96 where you can make a serious case that their peak period was better than that of the beatles, stones, the kinks, or dylan".

Can you?

CAN YOU?

Oasis have always been lyrically vapid, vacuous and devoid of meaning. The lyrics mean nothing, absolutely nothing. Noel and Liam have both admitted that most of the lyrics are cool-sounding rhymes strung together for sonic effect.

Dylan and the Beatles fuse amazing music with lyrics that often stand up to literary/poetic analysation.

shamefully recently from the SXSW coverage. It's a fab album. Some of the tracks are reminiscent of Cursive's latest album. Wish I knew what they were singing though.

from a consistently excellent band. Keepit Like A Secret is still my fave though.

and some good insight, although I personally wouldn't describe the band as being "solidly consistent". I find their albums patchy in quality, although the frisson of their best power-punk-pop gems outweigh the saminess that can infect much of their output.

Definitely one of my favourite bands of the Jawbreaker-influenced ilk though.

...to hell, I simply adore this track! Glad to see it's getting caned on XFM.

It'll happen, I tells ye. Bob's last album bombed after he financed it himself (again) and his blog is becoming increasingly downbeat. He's on speaking/playing terms with at least one of the others.

Uh...Mansun, but that's not gonna happen is it? McLusky - the square route of fuck all chance.

the second letter of "fuck" asterisked out in the headline? Why the misquote? Was Mike making some kind of ironic point that has flown over out heads?

he may have a little talent in my opinion - but to those who think he retains any modicum of "street" cred - he went to Reeds School in Cobham, which is a £15000 per year "alternative" type private school.

Nothing wrong in this per se, just don't think he's the sound of urban alienation or anything.

have I seen reviewers on this site use the phrase "by numbers". It's a fucking cliche and lazy journalism. Cease.

Other than that, fair review.

the biggest British band since the Beatles.

They're pretty popular here but they haven't had a huge impact in many overseas territories, especially in the States, where I reckon Bush, Coldplay and even Snow Patrol have had more success.

I just tried Googling for top selling bands but drew a blank. I reckon Oasis aren't even in the top 5.

I like the early Oasis stuff, but the last few albums have had neither grit nor real soul. They have not broken boundaries, they do not have thought provoking lyrics. It really put me off Oasis when I read that Liam just makes up random phrases that rhymes and sounds effective. (Admittedly my very own Pixies did that, but they ticked all the other boxes like being groundbreaking and subversive). Even in their own words, Oasis are derivative. They are radio-friendly, granny-friendly soft rock.

I am really surprised that this site will give Oasis a decent review when bands like The Feeling, who peddle a not-entirely-dissimilar hummable radio friendly soft sound get pelted with rancid tomatoes. In fact, I think The Feeling have come up with more memorable tunes than Oasis have in recent years.

A lot of the OC soundtracks have been pretty decent!

in agreement that Silent Alarm should have been there somewhere. They may be an NME band but they never lost credibility to me.

I would have liked to have seen My Vitriol's Finelines there, or has it been too tarnished by the sell-out accusations?

Definitely not my pick of Elliott Smith albums either.

All in all, a good list.

As the vicar said to the ladyboy. There has only been Wave of Mutilation. If there is another new best-of, as proposed, then I will be 100% richer.