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Totally agreed on the Arvo Part thing

DiS, stop trying to intellectualise your writing! we all know alan sparhawk deep down just loves led zep

If you find 'Try to Sleep' a heartbreaking Low song...

their earlier music, tracks like 'Shame' and 'Embrace' must be genuinely soul-destroying. There are better Low songs, even on C'mon

He's a double bass player

soz mate...

That's such a cool album cover

Anything with happy faces needs to happen more

they really do!

he's grown up, we've all grown up, his voice is more soulful and more assured

hmmm... review's not good enough

I think we all need to get over Apologies... really great record, but this album is, like Mt Zoomer is a rollercoaster ride, perhaps not in the usual indie rock zeitgeist of the 90s that we all look for in records, not everything can just sound like modest mouse. As we see in Sunset Rubdown/Swan Lake Krug is a great modern prog writer and Boeckner a great pop song writer in Handsome Furs. What Wolf Parade allows is a brilliant set of songs that tone down the slight overeccentricities of Krug for really heavy stompers (Black Swan sounds like a wolf parade song to me) and Boeckner is allowed to bring out his Tom Petty/Springsteen Heartland rock. What Expo 86 is is a wonderful collection of songs that you'll want to see live, any track. Yulia and Golden Age are as anthemic as This Heart's On Fire and In The Direction of the Moon is probably better than a lot of Apologies. This album is something I'd put on when i'm in the house on my own wanting to play my guitar along to as loud as possible, Mt Zoomer is a really great album too, to see WP's darker side of writing, Apologies seems dated compared to the last two efforts. Sorry.

well...

this is boring.

fuck that

they all should be writing their memoirs. becoming the fat immovable monoliths that they originally said they themselves were rebelling against. compare this to their 'poptones' and 'careering' on old grey whistle test this is just pure bad

just for toniiiight

just for toniiiigggghhht
maybe we maaaade iiiiit

here we go...a compilation from my friends

emmanuel adebayorcodenameis:milo
Matt LeTigressier
les savy ferdinand
alan the smiths
roberto carlos campesinos
lily allen thuram
tony yeboah radleys
martin keona lewis
franck lebouffalo springfield
meet me in st louis saha
belle and sebastien frey
pet chopra boys
queens of the ian woan age
gary speed you black emperor
emilli vanilli heskey
the rolling steve stones
REMerson thoma
emerson, lake and carlton palmer
electric dwight yorkestra
paul peschi-so solid crew
The James Beattieles
Lucas Neil Young
HIM Cahill
mark hughesy lewis and the news
Kasey R Keller
Brian youth McBride-gade
the Kinks-ladze
the mathieu fl-Animals
William Gallas Knight
Adam Antbonlahor
Alvaro ABBAloa
Clinton Morrison Day and The Time
The Aaron/Neil Lennonheads
Bootsy Collins John
Shola Ama-obi
Niko Kranjcar Rule
Franck Queudroobie Brothers
DNAcer Barazite
cesc pistols
pink floyd hasselbaink
john harley and the wailers
the chris eagles
earth wind and myhre
zizou top
sly and the family steve stone
ens Lehmann or Astro-mann?
Antti-Flag Niemi
Edwin van der Starsailor
Ronaldinhoko Ono
JME carragher
Luca Tony Toni Tone
Sol(ja boy tell em) Campbell
Nwankwo Kano
Theodore Unit Walcott
Emile Eski
joe hartless crew
mike wiley
alien anton ferdinand farm
taribo westlife
steve bruce springsteen
ian van dahl tomasson
Alkaline Theo Walcott
Reggie Blinker 182
Dropkick Danny Murphys
Mark Bright Eyes
The Sylvain Distillers
Ironaldo Maiden
Jimi Hendrix Larsson
Alessandro Madnessta
Marvin Tugaye
Massimo Park Oddo
Public Bellamy
Tiger Nick Barmby
Celine Dion Dublin
Gary Kelis
Fire Bergkamp
British Seaman Power
Gary Lightspeed Champion
Faustina Turner Asprilla
Youri Son of Djorkaeff
Kieron Dyer Straits
Arctic Ken Monkous
Stewart System of a Downing
Ashley Young Knives
Marlon Kings of Leon
Jose Gonzalez Mourinho
Billy Talent Davies
Peter Fear Factory
Vinnie Jonestown Massacre
Neil Sulli-van 3000
Robbie Early November
Ben That-chamillionaire
Efan Ekoku-per temple clause
John Fashanu Found Glory
john bon jobi macanuff
Alex is on Fire
Maximo Ji Sun Park
David Weir Scientists
Miguel Angels and Airwaves Nadal

there's more...

this is kinda cool

in a huey lewis 'workin' for a livin'' way, obviously alan sparhawk's fun outlet whilst away from Low and guitar hurling

Dirty Projectors and David Byrne

If ever there was a match made in heaven. this is it, plus more

WORLD FTB

you're all shit

no mention of grizzly bear, poor showing

any isn't the new dirty projectors record out next year? yeah, why no mention of the two most innovative bands in rock?

Burt Bacharach and Hal David

write better and more successful than all the above

but if i had to choose, No Age

these photos

are more interesting than the album

i like it

cos they make interpol and radiohead sound human for once

Right Said Fred

been there, done that

^ This

SERIOUSLY?!?!?!

before sam's town came 'a hundred miles off' by the walkmen, which was really dylanesque and more inline with american rock like springsteen

now, the new walkmen record You & Me, here's a blurb on insound.com

You & Me is a solid and complex collection of inspired songwriting. Romantic and celebratory, this is the sound of The Walkmen returning to classic form. The music that influenced the Walkmen to compose You & Me follows in a tradition of song writing that traces back to early rock'n'roll: the intimacy and energy of Elvis Presley's and Buddy Holly's early recordings, and the massive voice and orchestration of ROY ORBISON.

*sigh*, they'll never get big, will they?

yeah, but

at the end of the day they're just a one album band

with the current wave of 'mortgage indie' on the wane

maybe bands like mystery jets will become the next bigs stars of the UK? sure, they're indie and they're guitar music about girls, but i think stylistically different and fresh enough compared to the wombats, the libertines, the kooks, the pigeon detectives, the cribs, the the the the the the the the the the... to make an impression

double shit

i kinda of wanna refund my ticket, those were my 2 things

would

^

this

aaah

what a nice video to go with a nice song

oh, the wolf parade album not out yet?

i haven't heard it, then....

I'd Go For

Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Mystery Jets - Twenty One
El Guincho - Alegrenza
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue
The Dodos - Visiter
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
No Age - Nouns
Hercules and Love Affair - S/T
Vampire Weekend - S/T
High Places - Demos

loads of good new albums!

it's probably very likely

that someone would be able to fill out a magazine of exclusively post-rock icelandic bands

Picking a standout track, singular, from Foals’ Antidotes is tough

because it all sounds exactly the same

Snakecharming

is such a tune, being here is very U2...

saw that gig at manchester

caribou bored me, born ruffians rocked

open your eyes

and it was like being inside the mind of an office boy

it's a shame cos the album is well good

where the hell is

the wild and the innocent? ranks above darkness in my opinion

you should really put in born in the usa, too, it just gets shit on cos it's all synthy, still a landmark album

highs and lows

my highlights were
The National
Saul Williams
Animal Collective
Ghostface Killah
Battles

lowlight
Atlas Sound - worst live band ever.

I love dirty projectors

will yannis

sing properly for once?

because

they're incredible

it was a shame

that you couldn't dance at Durrr

i was looking forward to him more than mystery jets

you fucking fud.

it'll be like nathan barley

'lick out courtney...then write about it'

did kirk hammett

really end up tearful after lars told him solos weren't cool anymore?

really really cool!

reminds me of jackie by jacques brel

bit harsh

the drummer got hospitalised.

all the world music aficionados

in pop culture are looking shifty right now,

soon Damon Albarn and David Byrne will start sabotaging vampire weekend

in fact

it's probably like his reward for staying clean

"right, if you go through rehab and it's all fine i'm sure the nice boys at the nme will give you something to be proud of, here's a doggy biscuit"

nothing

he just is

sheesh

they've not been getting much luck in england lately...

yeah, what a bastard

he plays guitar, arsehole

aaah

i used to not really like song, and love all the other songs, but the video makes them so cute!