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The Seven Inches on the train on Sunday, but it was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the weekend for me. Please give them a stage slot next year!

On doctor's orders... apparently singing to 1/10th of your country's population is wont to be bad for the throat. Arses.

Long Gone... is without a doubt the best thing they've done. Every song is brilliant in its own way. A real shame that so few people have heard it, it's one of my favourite records of the past decade.

'The Barbarians Move In' - that's going to be an absolute stormer. It's recorded and ready to go, who's going to release it? The material is streets ahead of 'The Bright Lights...' and much, much darker.
Also looking forward to:

Wild Beasts
The Lodger ('The Good Old Days' is going to be one of the singles of the year, mark my words)
and let's hope R.E.M.'s new one is better than the utter tosh that was Around The Sun. I'm dubious though - I'm Gonna DJ is one of their most cringeworthy moments ever, which hardly bodes well.

Saw them playing with Sky Larkin a while back and was reminded a bit of Urusei Yatsura. This is a very good thing.

The Last Holy Writer is possibly their best album - it's worth making the 50 for A Statue To Wilde alone.
Also missing are:

Bearsuit - Oh:Io
Napoleon IIIrd - In Debt To
Bjork - Volta

Oh, and loads of others.

I didn't realise they had an album coming out! Largs Hum gets quite a lot of play our way so this looks like it's worth a purchase. Ace.

They played at the Bingley festival a few weeks ago...

Can't wait for this - Monsters... is a blinder of a popsong and everything else I've heard suggests he's very special indeed.

He really captures the red-eyed up all night from information overload psychosis. Ace stuff. Such a fantastic video too.

I really thought I was the only person that thought this! Wonderwall is nigh-on unlistenable, it's a horrible horrible vocal. Be Here Now is a better album as long as you enjoy it for what it is - some very rich people pissing about off their faces on coke. There's no excuse for What's The Story, it's just not very good.

What's scary is that this is pretty much par for the course for iLiKETRAiNS... they're an intimidatingly sublime band. Excellent single, excellent review. Top marks all round!

...that's on first listening with it on in the background at work so it's been difficult to gauge completely, but it didn't seem quite as 'together'. And while I'd agree that Carbon Glacier is the superior album YoM had some wonderful moments on it (Lakeswimming is one of my favourite songs of recent years) - Saltbreakers might be a little too safe. I suppose it's a natural risk of gaining popularity, you lose your focus somewhat, even if subconsciously.
I'll give it a few more listens tonight but Mike's review seems quite accurate first-up. Oh well.

"On the title track singer Ricky Wilson appears to have penned his own 'Mr Writer', as 'The Angry Mob', with its "...we read the papers every day, we like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we're also easily swayed" refrain, is clearly a pop at the fickle but (in most cases) fair nature of journalists who've obviously rubbed the band up the wrong way."

Or... if you gave the lyrics closer attention, it's more likely to be about Daily Mail reader types.

Oh, and (correct me if I'm wrong) but Ricky doesn't write the lyrics does he?

The album cover's abysmal though.

There's so much great music out there that for anyone to bother with such a staggeringly uninspiring band as this is a little bewildering.

by Trembling Blue Stars would be another choice cut for this one...

I would put them up there as one of the best live bands around at the moment - saw them a few times in Leeds now and Shingai is the perfect frontwoman - and what a voice. It's a cracking single too.

Maybe you just got unlucky at Bush Hall, they were bang on form in Leeds. We could have kept them onstage another hour if we'd been able to. It was still the songs from 'Vivadixie...' that got the best response from the crowd though.

Not sure about album of the year, but it's certainly up there - also the kind of record that could feasibly end up with a Mercury nomination next year.

Horse and I is one of the best - and most apt - album openers I've heard in a long while, it just sucks you in for the next 40-odd minutes. Great production from David Kosten too.

Hey Petrunko is one of the best albums of the last 10 years, I really hope they know what they're doing by reforming - wouldn't want the history to be tarnished. We'll see.

Anyway, yes. Hey Petrunko = ACES.

The most 'up' album I've heard for a fair while... It's B&S as mischievous arched-eyebrow funkateers and it's bloody marvellous. The hooks just grab you from the first moment and you can't escape them. Fabulous.

I really can't understand how normal, sane people can think that JCB represents some songwriting pinnacle - it's as if the (admittedly very well-made) video has somehow given them a lobotomy through the screen and rendered them completely unaware that the song itself is mawkish drivel. And just because it has a nice sentiment does not make it a worthwhile piece of art or entertainment. Shockingly bad. And who really cares that they're nice people who can play their instruments to a certain level? So are the Lighthouse Family. And they're shit too.
Please please please - if you receive this animation-polished turd for Christmas from your boyfriend or girlfriend, dump them. If you receive it from your family, move abroard - Cuba or Siberia might do. If you give it to anyone, expect the same reaction. You'll deserve it.

Good interview of a very under-rated band. The amount of brilliant popsongs they have is staggering. Good luck to them for 2006.