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Following on from last week's landmark playlist of much innovation, this week's summing up will also be innovative. Sort of. What I really mean is that it'll be different. Mainly because I'll be trying to sum each song up in as few words as possible. Click here to access this week's edition of Spotifriday and listen away.»
Back in March, London folktronicists Tunng released their fourth full-length album, ...And Then We Saw Land, which we reviewed here. We had a brief chat with Mike Lindsay ahead of the band's appearance at this week's Hop Farm festival about touring the new record, touring with African desert blues band Tiniwaren, the troubles on building your own studio and a few other things, like most of the stuff associated with festivals and that.»
The first couple of things I knew about California's dios were that Travis Keller from Buddyhead is a big fan and also that the no»
Naming your band after a Scottish island is bound to fool people into believing that you actually hail from that place. I'd imagine that this problem occurred to Oxford's Stornoway some way shortly after choosing that name to perform under, but they decided to stick with it, eventually playing a sort-of homecoming in the town itself earlier in the year. By all accounts it was triumphant. That's one to tick off.»
The 'classic' Guided By Voices line-up will reform to play a show at record label Matadaor's 21st birthday party in Las Vegas later in the year. Matador comes of age in October and, along with the GBV reunion, there will also be performances from Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo The New Pornographers, Girls, Superchunk, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Guitar Wolf, Fucked Up, Shearwater, Harlem, Cold Cave, Kurt Vile, Jeffrey Joe Jenson and The John Spencer Blues Explosion. I think that constitutes a pretty damn cracking bill, all in all (via Pitchfork).»
Following in the recent wave of bands and artists releasing albums which feature a cat on the front cover (see also: Klaxons, Wavves) California's Best Coast have made a free download available of a track from their debut album. There's been a fair bit of talk about them in the last few months, some might call it hype, others might call it vigorous encouragement. But they must be doing something right, huh?»
The Interpol album bandwagon is exceeding in its pace. Last week the release date was put forward and a video unveiled. This week the tracklist has been revealed, as well as a little shot of the cover art [via [Pitchfork](http://pitchfork.com/news/39304-interpol-unveil-cover-art-tracklist/).»
You might be aware of White Hinterland through reading Casey Dienel & Shawn Creeden's recipes back in March. Tasty stuff. But obviously they also make music and music, I'd say, that is even better than their culinary suggestions. But don't take my word for it.»
Those eagle-eyed of you will have noticed the absence of BBC 2's Review Show this week. I think it was something or other to do with a festival called Glastonbury or something. Not entirely certain, though. Anyway, we hope you didn't miss it too much.»
The often-noisy and always-brilliant Oceansize have announced the release of their fourth full-length studio album, as well as a whole bunch of UK tour dates for around the time of release across the UK. The album is called Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up, which is a bit of a rubbish title if the truth is told.»
The release date for of Montreal's forthcoming and tenth full-length album has been confirmed. It will be - along with a whole range of other hotly anticipated records - available on September 13 through Polyvinyl Records in all the usual formats, LP, CD and digitally. »
We don't need to go into all the usual cliches about Icelandic music to tell you that we really love Reykjavik as a city. It's not really necessary and you're probably more than acutely aware of them yourself. Regardless of this fact we thought we'd bring to you the first instalment of 'Sleepless In Reykjavik', which is a project by Gunnar B. Guðbjörnsson and his brother Hlynur Guðbjörnsson.»
A new EP from Wild Nothing (great album, very great) has launched a new record label, Warmest Chord. Congratulations to both. The EP is called Evertide and is available as an extremely limited edition (one of 75). The EP art is below: »
British folk sensation Laura Marling will release a single through Jack White's Third Man record label, it has been revealed. Marling has already released one full-length album this year, I Speak Because I Can and will release another in the Autumn. This track is a new one, however. »
Owing to an earlier unplanned desperate fix of a washing machine, Spectrals are the victims. Which is a shame but, given the presence of other bands on the rest of the bill, is far from unrecoverable. The first of those support bands to shower me in melod»
Whilst other members of My Morning Jacket have been undertaking exciting side-projects with other luminaries of the indie music world, we wonder what Carl Broemel has been up to. Well, he's been working on his new album, it seems.»
When we first heard of Super Furry Animals man Gruff Rhys' new project, we were more than intrigued. Partly because it was a new venture from a man who has produced many a fantastic album and secondly because he was collaborating with a bloke called Tony Da Gatorra. »
It is often said that here exists a lack of high quality bands coming from the island known as Australia. Or rather, there aren't enough of them. That argument may have some saliency but it's safe to say that Sydney and Melbourne electronica trio Midnight Juggernauts can't be lumped in with them. That's because they're actually quite good.»
Chrome Hoof's intergalactic jazz funk (if you indeed can call it that) is something else altogether. Live, it's up another few levels again, with the band members dressed in elaborate tin-foil get-ups. Not exactly the kind of attire you'd really want to be wearing on a day like this. »
As the hordes of sunburned revellers head back from a farm in rural Somerset, trying to remember their particular highlights the rest of us look back on what could have been, if we'd have gone. It would have been at least quite good, judging by what I saw on TV.»
At last year's Indietracks festival The Manhattan Love Suicides were due to play, possibly on a train, possibly not. My memory fails me. Anyway, they didn't play a note, because they broke up very shortly beforehand which makes any kind of performance as »
It's Glastonbury this weekend. That's something to celebrate at least, even if you aren't there. The BBC's coverage has been creeping up to all-encompassing over the past few years and 2010 is no different. There's a whole lot on offer. We've selected a few, including tracks from Broken Bells, Meuersalt, Broadcast 2000 and an interview with Gorillaz by Steve Lamacq. Enjoy them all below:»
Although Glastonbury is taking place as I write this very piece, there are other festivals which are still adding acts to their line-ups. That's why this article is in existence. Not a great deal to write about, but there is a free compilation album from »
On hearing much of the grand, orchestral pop on Reykjavik seven-piece Hjaltalín's second record, Terminal, the potential for far bolder and indeed greater things is imagined – both in numbers and substance. That the base material is already so layered, carefully constructed and expertly composed augurs well. »
Will they all be as good as the current one?»
If Spectrals aren't quite well-known for their blissed-out, hazy, summery, short and sweet guitar-pop then they will be very soon. Or they at least deserve to be. »
When we got the news about LA duo No Age's new record, we really hoped it would continue the theme of 'great records being released on September 13 in the UK'. Alas, it was not to be, and it looks like we're just going to have to settle for it being a great record which isn't released on September 13. »
Right, so just after a year we've managed to rack up the Big Five-Oh, the 50th edition of Spotifriday - a collection of tracks by people who have been featured on the website in the past week or so. Simple concept. Anyway, as it is a landmark edition we thought we'd do something a little bit different. And possibly problematic. »
A quick guide (of sorts) to this year's Hop Farm Festival including TWO Spotify playlists. »
