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ORGAN #198 > MAR 15th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
Multi-coloured flying monkeys and following the signposts on the organbrick road...
“I have turned the country upside-down and there is a frothy wake everywhere” said the Empress of beautiful chaos, don’t ask us, we’re not to blame when our family runs riot. Did you miss us last week? Another surreptitious, flagrant, reptilian, reprehensible, forlorn edition of your on line Organ. No time to blame fixture congestion, forty-hour flights of fancy and more reptiles feasting on blood over on the Northern line. All that and the flying monkeys and the fallout from the very secretive not very secret Secret Society set of incidents that seems to have deliciously confused those who are so easily confused – why do you need it all so safely packaged and marketed at you all the time? What ever happened to rule breaking and letting the music do the talking. 

We’re off to see the wizard and the blizzard and hang on while we hit the big red eject button and detonate this dreadfully dull demo. That’s better, I’m sure they’re very nice people and we’re sure they’re always kind to animals and orphans and their mothers probably love them lots and lots but hey, we don’t need no average demos from tedious rinky-dinky bands who clearly aren’t ever going to offer anything worth anyone’s time, effort or emotional cheese on toast – we do not need average music stinking up our over crowded busy busy day. We have standards, stop sending us your average compromised music, we don’t need your general mediocrity cluttering up life’s essential qualities, send it to the NME wannabes.  Time to fight off the flying monkeys and the clueless industry types, time to go nail up some more blatantly obvious signposts. Please do go follow the signs to the good, the signs to the bad and the ones that lead to the leftover crack. Oh look a letter from the castle, not the out of reach tower, they haven’t got a clue what day it is up there, they’d never dare to look down the Organbrick road, no, this one is from the crunchy castle...

“Hi. Just a quick line to thank you for introducing me to M*** M****** N***** (name removed to protect the guilty and the sanity of the innocent). I'll tell you what, for ALL the bullshit that inhabits the other 99.9% of MySpace and everything else, I'd willingly sacrifice it for the likes of M*****, G******, G**** etc who I'd NEVER have hooked up with if it weren't for Organ. But then I quess this was what it was all about though wasn't it? Yeah okay, the music's paramount, but those damn signposts of yours sometimes have the lovely, unpredictable habit of leading travelers like me down wonderful alleys. Ta.  'Follow the Organbrick road my friend' I'm often telling people...it's that multicoloured thing that meanders off into the distance..." but beware of Crunchenstein Castle ~ evil flying monkeys and stuff ...Baaaaaad place.."

Yes, Dr Crunch, it is mostly about the music that can be found down all those multi coloured broken-bricked roads with the thirty foot tall pink windmills made of junk and scrap and cheap essential scenery. It is about the people involved and all that revolves around the music just as much as it is about the music. This week’s Organ is as much about the positive energy of the Leeds Ladyfest crew or the art of Eric Drooker or how George Tabb is doing today or what’s going on in the land of SchNews or...  It is about the music but hey, if you choose to just allow yourself to consume the music they want you to consume and you choose to just let them treat it as mere product and allow yourself to be treated as nothing but a gig going consuming customer, there to have your wallets and purses emptied at the concessions stands, then you’re missing out on so so much... 

The signposts we put up are just to point you vaguely in the direction you need go to help you find all these wonderfully exciting inspiring inviting musical things waiting to be found out there every single week. It really is up to you to decide which signs you want to follow - nothing is compulsory, if your happy with the View then stick with the view, if you think that signpost we just put up there sounds like it points to something interesting then go have a look for yourself, just click on the link and find out for yourself.. You got all the links and you have your minds (you do still have your minds don’t you? You didn’t let the marketing men and their mainstream media take it away did you? You can make up your own mind can’t you? You didn’t trade it in for last year’s Download ticket did you?) Just work out which signposts and signals interest you most, choose the ones you want to follow and go get involved, you’ll find lots of good people waiting to feed you and include you and involve you and share with you and get in to what you’re doing today and it really is still all about contacting and switching the other. Don’t just be a consumer and don’t say we didn’t warn you about those flying monkeys... watch out for those flying monkeys!!
 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
nO DON'T BOOKMARK US, THOSE sUBBA CULTCHA people know what's really going on... 

SINGLE OF THE MONTH - A SECRET SOCIETY - THIS TIME - ORG RECORDS - The not so secret disguise for 00's rock saviours My Vitriol, return with another excellent representation of rock brilliance, those Posies-licious melodies, the deep sense of melancholy and those teutonic riffs and bleeding guitar noises - it's as if they've never been away – A welcome return from a not so secret band. - www.subba-cultcha.com


AKERCOCKE TOUR WITH BON JOVI - Gentlemen death-metallers Akercocke have confirmed a UK headline tour with Cephalic Carnage and Ted Maul in May to celebrate the release of their new album (as yet untitled) through Earache records in May. Okay, we lied about the Bon Jovi bit, here’s the tour.: AKERCOCKE, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, TED MAUL May: 15th The Attic Rushden (Akercocke only), 16th Nottingham Rock City, 17th The Music Box Manchester, 18th Belfast Spring and Airbrake, 19th Dublin voodoo lounge, 20th The Cathouse Glasgow, 21st Rio's in Leeds (hang on person who sent me these dates, isn’t that in Bradford?), 22nd The Park in Peterborough, 23rd The Academy Birmingham, 24th Sheffield Corp, 25th Cardiff TBC, 26th The Nexus Southampton, 27th The Underworld London. 

AKERCOCKE are also playing 2 *intimate* shows on 29th March at Colchester Arts Centre and 31st March at Water Rats, London. “Catch an exclusive preview of their new album at these shows” said an Earache spokesperson

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
THE SMEARS have been added to the Ladyfest Leeds bill on 15th April, more details as soon as we have them, Ladyfests are going on all over the land, indeed all over the world, there’s been over 100 Ladyfests all over the world since 20000. Go get involved, create is still the main word. Here’s some words from the Leeds team  - “Ladyfest Leeds is a festival celebrating creativity, diversity and gender equality, taking place from TUESDAY 10th to SUNDAY 15th APRIL for the people of Leeds and Yorkshire, as well as visitors from around the Ladyfest Leeds aims to break down the barriers between the art world and of us who are creative every day – we want to celebrate the talents of all women”. Check out the website at www.ladyfestleeds.co.uk

The Smears will also be playing a hometown show on 13th April at Nottingham’s Rescue rooms 

Meanwhile, talking of Ladyfests and such, SAUCY LIL TART in conjunction with LADYFEST LONDON 2008 Presents the LADYFEST LONDON 2008 LAUNCH on APRIL 2nd 2007 @ THE OLD BLUE LAST with The Bobby McGees, The Congregation, Tom Hatred and Naomi Hates Humans. Doors are ar 8pm and entry is free. The Old Blue Last is next to the Nailgun Arms at 39 Great Eastern Street London ECE

And the Saucy Lil Tart herself would like to say “those of  you wondering what the f Ladyfest is will probably benefit the most from getting involved... It all started many moons ago, first came love: riot grrl in the nineties in America, then came Ladyfest - a DIY festival. o don't know when the first Ladyfest was, Wikipedia reckons it was 2000, but I reckon it was before that. The last one in London was 2002 - that's 65 periods ago for most of us... The next chance to rip it up in London is 2008, which is f**king ages away... but we have a fix for you ahead of time. Come and meet and greet the crew of Ladyfest London 2008, soak up the vibes and spread the word. it's free so you have no excuse...

www.myspace.com/saucyliltartpromotions
 

WILL HAVEN SCRAP TOUR - Will Haven have virtually scrapped all of their previously announced UK tour. The only date left is Metro in London on April 12. This is to allow them to go back to America and finish their comeback album.

EVERYTHING MUST GO are out and about again, it isn’t like they were going to let St Paddy’s day go by without letting off a musical bomb or two is it. E.M.G play the annual St Patrick’s Day Punk Rock Bash this coming Saturday March 17th with Alcholholocaust (a gig promoter who does things the  right way). It all happens at the rather fine ELBO ROOMS in San Francisco and the bill also features NO ALTERNATIVE, LA PLEBE, FRACAS, MIDNIGHT BOMBERS, THE VILLAGE PISS. 

MY VITRIOL have just announced the release of a new single 'War of the Worlds', the single will be released on May 21st 2007 via all digital outlets, e.g.  iTunes, etc Pre-order details to follow in about a week so say the band, I guess the best place for news will be via their My Space page or the rather good looking myvitriol.net (although both of those pages haven’t told you who A Secret Society are yet, don't ask me, it's a secret guv) 

ME FIRST & THE GIMMIE GIMMES play London Kentish Town Forum June 29, Birmingham
Academy 30, Newcastle Academy July 1.

MICHAEL J SHEEHY, he of SAINT SILAS INTERCESSION and indeed DREAM CITY FILM CLUB has a rather fine sounding solo album out on April 2nd.  The beautiful thing is on Red Eye/Glitterhouse I do believe. We’ve been waiting for this to come out, if the album features the same material that we heard last year then you’re in for a very fine treat (the so far unreleased Saint Silas album is excellent as well). Get a taste of Michael’s album over on his My Space page http://www.myspace.com/michaeljsheehy

A SECRET SOCIETY’s This Time was featured on Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio One show last night as one of the “hottest five tracks in the world right now”, Mr Lamacq seemed to think the true identity of the band was “the worst kept secret in rock”, I don’t know, I thought we’d kept it to ourselves rather well up to now

LESS THAN JAKE are to play the Mean Fiddler in London from September 11-16. The band will play a different album each night. The records in question are 'Pezcore' (1995), 'Losing Streak' (1996), 'Hello Rockview' (1998), 'Borders & Boundaries' (2000), 'Anthem' (2003) and 'In With The Out Crowd (2006)'. The band have yet to determine which albums will be performed on what dates. 
 
John on the phone......
MIXING IT: TERMINATED AT BBC RADIO 3 RESUSCITATED ON RESONANCE 104.4FM 

In February 2007 stalwart new music programme Mixing It was inexplicably dropped by BBC Radio 3 Controller Roger Wright after 16 years of broadcasting. This was perceived by many as a grave moment for composers and performers of experimental music, since a major highway to mainstream audiences had been denied, it is also reflective of the increasing conservatism that BBC Radio 3 has been infected by since the appointment of Roger Wright as Controller. However, Mixing It is back on the air courtesy of Resonance FM. 

"Resonance FM has always welcomed refugees - with regular programmes by Somalian, Congolese, Iranian and Serbian groups. We're equally happy to provide a haven for broadcasters expelled by the BBC," explains programming director Ed Baxter, who recently wrote a Guardian feature about the influence of "Mixing It".  Mixing It's first broadcast goes out on Wednesday nights.  from 11:00 - 12:00pm. See www.resonancefm.com


The new year long series of ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every   Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY 173. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.15pm.

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 
 


ORGAN TV - WEDNESDAY 14th Mar -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 so you probably missed it, but but but you still have time to catch the repeat that's  on OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 18th March at 11.15pm

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

ANTI PRODUCT - Better Than This 
AMON TOBIN - Verbal 
ChthoniC - Quasi Putrefaction 
THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch 
CULT OF LUNA - Leave Me Here 
CIRCLESOUND - Can't Blame Me
ZERO CIPHER - Stupid People Make Me Angry
 

NEXT WEEK expect, oh I don't know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards  and put our own people in charge. We have nothing to lose except fun and the joy of watching... That and the words of the good Doctor
 

Now that's what I call music TV. 

Want to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted 

DEMO TIME
Like we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos, we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood

DEMO OF THE WEEK
THE SCARLET LETTER UNION - Two Love Songs - This week’s token Explosions In The Sky style nice polite twinkle-bright and delicately warm post-rock band are The Scarlet Letter Union. Actually TSLU is a one piece mostly instrumental band from Winchester and this two track recording  (limited release of just 200 in impressive inviting handmade covers) is a well crafted emotion journey in to polite melody and dissonant emotion. Sounds like lots of things that are coming our way right now though and we’re crying out for a little more identity - but hey Rome wasn’t built in a day and this is ambiently good in a 65 days of very very calm static kind of way, worth your time and let us hope for lots more - www.myspace.com/thescarletletterunion

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TORQUE ARMADA – Users And The Wasted Youth - A rather decent rather energetic rather busy punky/grungy/indie-rock three piece of a band from deepest Essex. Full albums worth of material, impressive amount of committed gig activity and hard work going on here. Nothing that really stands out from the musical crowd yet but there are the seeds of ideas and moments that demand attention in here, could be worth watching and seeing what develops. They certainly don’t want to just ape their record collection and they’re more concerned with the music than the latest emo haircut. There’s an anthemic hint or two of potential left-field creativity here and  it is good to see a band just getting out and doing it with the right attitude and commitment rather than sitting there and waiting for a knock on the door. Nice one. I’m guessing their intention is to release this as an album themselves then gig like hell in every pub and toilet venue in the South... respect to them.  www.myspace.com/torquearmada

Last week's demo of the week - KOE

Previous demo's of the week - DEATH LIST FIVE / BITCH SLAP BARBIE / STRAY BORDERS / FOUR LETTER FRIEND / ALSATIAN / THE VIPERS / LILY GREEN / THE VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI / FANTAPLASTIC / CLUB LE SHARK / THEY DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / LEAVE THE CAPITAL / GRAVANZIA / CHET / LADY PROMISE / FTSE100 / STEAL GANDHI / ALL DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE / THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH / THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS / BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

' BURN THE... 
No, don't burn things down, buy things goddamn 
'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
SHINING – Grindstone (Rune Grammofon) - Just how good is this album! We’ve been drinking in the roller-coaster of intensity again and again for weeks and weeks now and I still have no idea how to tell you about it. We could just cut to the chase and go for one of those lists and talk of driving Henry Cow and manic Cardiacs and Jazzy Gong and Walter/Wendy Carlos and Ligeti and Ornette Coleman and Jaga Jazzist and Mahavishnu Orchestra but that would only give you a very vague idea. We could talk of weird space operas and futuristic filmoid widescreen soundscapes and A Clockwork Orange and A Space Odessey and John Williams and John Carpenter and no one here makes a sound, standing up or sitting down and Van Der Graaf Generator or King Crimson or Messiaen or Two Lone Swordsmen or 65Daysofstatic or Beethoven (Clockwork Orange again...) but the list would have to go on and on and end up being far too long and out of control and... Oh, this is a stunning good and highly original album. There’s all these fleeting flavours and ah that bit sounds like X and no, hang on, now it tastes of futuristic Mozart made on synths in 1975 days of static style glitch-prog and no, hang on, lush strings now... no hang on... Really this album sounds like nothing you’ve heard before (there goes another big lump of Cardiacs orchestration followed by some filthy King Crimson death metal and more glitch-prog and post-rock junglist genre smashing and some delicate synth and...).  And the weather keeps on changing, one minute sunny and bright, then we’re in a gushing blizzard of noise. Right now things are all squelchy and almost entirely instrumental although strange voices and vocoder-like words occasionally come through the fog and the static. And those glorious chords and that gothically baroque Metropolis angel and... Track one is called In The Kingdom Of Kitch You Will Be A Monster, that title will give you some kind of idea (maybe?). No, no idea how we’re going to explain how good this album is.  Multi instrumentalist writer and mainman, Norwegian Jorgen Munkeby (one time member of Jaga Jazzist) leads us (and his four piece band) through all kinds of genre-hoping and complex riffing and filmic landscapes and jazz and... Classical and modern composition and... No, no idea how we’re going to tell you how good this is, no, we’re stumped this time – brilliant album. www.shining.no

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2

LEFTOVER CRACK / CITIZEN FISH – Deadline (Fat Wreck) - So are we animals just machines being used by our own sneaky genes so that they can carry on? No time to deal with that kind of question right now, or the skulk or the dialectic of it all, we got a Leftover Crack/Citizen Fish double header throwing questions and demanding answers (or at least some thought), don’t go cop-calling on us now, that won’t get you anywhere. The Fish and the Crack combusting together on one fine album and no changing channels is gonna make this one go away, what a double header! Fifteen slices of politically charged question-throwing authority-baiting edge-of-the-seat creatively good punk rock tunes for all you Government loving fundamental Christians out there. Oh yes, there’s still hope when there’s bands like this prepared to still not compromise – a match indeed made in the squats around the back of heaven. No need for laughing as a sign of self-defense and  no going back to square one now, not while getting along is still top of the list and silence can never be wrapped in a flag. Two of anarcho ska-punk’s powerhouses - and packed with cameos from the likes of Jello, MDC’s Dave proctor and that guy with the mohawk from the CIA (you know the one, always asking too many questions and handing out too many flyers, you’ve seen him, pink hair, started his own record label..). Ah look we love Leftover Crack and Sturgeon and his train-hopping, garbage-eating gravel-hoarse vocalized politics of the street, we just love the guy okay.  Empowering energy and anti-whatever-you-got to get anti about this week. Musical chaos in the face of the impending apocalypse and a buttress as a metaphor for something or other. Ah look we love those subhuman Citizen Fish even more than we love the Crack, we love their smashing and side swiping at the capitalistic dream and those ford cortinas and household pets and does your lifestyle contradict the words you sing? There are still some out there you know you can put your hope and all your faith in - Hang on that’s Leftover Crack ripping through a Subhuman song. And all wrapped in the finest Eric Drooker artwork tooo, go check out Eric when you have a moment. Long live Sir Dick Lucas and his positively insightful socio-political lyrics and more importantly just who is Philip The Sock Monkey anyway?  So, new material from two of the finest punk rock bands out there, both sounding as strong and challenging and up for the fight (what ever that fight is) as ever. Two proper punk rock bands, you’re not going to catch these two playing Download for Clear Channel, no Anti-Flag compromise so we can reach more people crap here. Good looking artwork, fine sounding music, argument-provoking, debate sparking lyrics to invest a thought or two in - good everything. Good. Can you live without the whole damn cake? No you damn well can’t, go buy it, hang on, no, um, no,don’t buy stuff....  And the thing is, when you strip away all the politics and the sentiment and the good energy and the demanding drive and the shots at war and hate and the call to arms and smashing the new world order and you just strip it down to the basic craft of the song then this is still first rate tune-making and these are two damn fine and rather talented front line bands. Two of the very best bands out there and don’t let no gun-toting god-fearing government agent in an earth-destroying SUV tell you otherwise – burn down the malls, burn down whatever they don’t want you to burn down. Oh look the new world order has downsized and the savages on the other side of the wall are trying to break through, only punk rock can save us now, don’t buy more stuff besides this stuff and don’t burn down the malls that sell this stuff, hang on, no, that’s not right, yes burn it all down, burn the lot, burn you computer. Who are these Organ people anyway? Who funds them? Can someone please join the dots up. Two great bands, both on top form, one great album, covering Choking Victim and Subhumans songs and making the world just a little bit better than it was this morning. Don’t go burning anything down now. Don’t go burning anything down now, you got to find different ways of dealing with the disappointment of humanity – there are good people out there thinking like you and hey you can trust the authorities not to burn your house down can’t you?.  www.fatwreck.de / www.fatwreck.com / www.drooker.com / www.citizenfish.com
 

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ANDENSUM – Lucky Witness (Crash) - Decent enough melodic nu-metal that crunches where it needs to crunch and bites where it needs to bite. They’re from Oxfordshire, they sound rather like of lot of things we already heard far too many times, but then so do a lot of bands far worse than this - www.andensum.co.uk

PORNOHEFT – Frantic and angular and very stylistic and Germanic and uber-new wave punk crash and burn and and and another fine album from our favourite Germans. They’re like some kind of Motorhead or Mudhoney for people who like positively charged weird/wired Kraut rock and unpredictable operatic punk and strangely obscure European new-wave Pere Ubu flavoured bands from 1981. Think Ramones in a healthy ruck with Einsturzende Neubauten and you’ll be somewhere near getting there. Things seem relatively straight froward this rime around, relative is the key word though, last time around Pornoheft were extremely extreme and very left field - this time they seem to be relatively accessible – still weird and wired and rewarding and just as gloriously recommended and as worth you valuable time as last time around though  www.pornoheft.org

DAATH – The Hinders (Roadrunner) – Some kind of subtle as a brick to the head sledgehammer onslaught of a technical death metal show-off band. The sort that those serious metal people who never ever smile like, all technical guitar wankery and Trivium/Maiden/Queensryche posing. Growling grunting death/black metal style cookie monster vocalist, cram as many bombastic notes and keyboard runs in to it every bit of it while the drummer with the small-dick complex hammers away – no time to ever think about space or light or shade, just sledgehammer it all in and look at how fast that fret wanking is. I guess they’re really good at it, impressive musicians with serious technique and I guess if you like this kind of stuff then they do it rather well. Not doing much for us, we like our metal with a bit more raw attitude or an edge of danger or maybe to be really out there and challenging the boundaries of genre rather than this safe conservative option that Daath are offering us. This kind of death metal fret wanking is just not clever, still everyone to their own thing and they do do their chosen (rather unoriginal) thing rather well. If you like the sound of it then follow the sign posts and go find out more, each to their own and blah blah blah  - www.daathmusic.com

THE PONY COLLABORATION – The Pony Collaboration (Series 8) - Maybe it helps that the sun came out and right now we’re basking in the beauty of a breezy spring afternoon? Or maybe this would be just as charming and refreshing on dull wet day? Yes, I think it would. Whatever, this really is delightfully uplifting and positively charming. Delicate, refined, relaxed, very English sounding Americana if you can have such a thing – you can’t, but you know what I mean don’t you? A tea and fine bone china take on that Calixico easiness. Very easy, unforced, natural and they really do sound like they come from Cambridge. Just perfect pop, perfect tunes, perfect production, perfect textures, everything feels just so right. Loaded with warmth and soul and maybe even a hint of breezy Northern Soul in there with the strings and the glockenspiel and melodica and the refined percussion. Positively lazy pop to get lost in for hours and hours - recommended   www.theponycollective.com

THE MIGHTY ROARS – Swine And Cockerel (One Little Indian) – London’s rather infectious Mighty Roars with their Yeah Yeah Yeah style spiky bolshy sometimes scratchy and rather electric indie rock. – www.themightyroars.com

BLACK STONE CHERRY – Black Stone Cherry (Roadrunner) – From Edmonton Kentucky with some Southern flavoured classic hard rock. A reasonably modern retro flavoured take on early Aerosmith, on the mighty Molly Hatchet, on those Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd and maybe a hint of Nickelback... Neat Southern sounding version of the Yardbirds classic Shapes of Things (covered by many, few have done it this well). They got a great big groove, they got soul, they’re the real deal, they’re hardly revolutionary - sometimes a musical revolution just isn’t necessary. They do their thing right and they do it well - www.blackstonecherry.com
 
 
Last week's album of the week - THIS ET AL

Previous album's of the week - FRANK TURNER  / CAR BOMB / MONOGONO / BILLY NO MATES / APSE / HOLLY THROSBY / MINSK / BLACK ELK / NUM 9 / SHORT SHARP SHOCK / DEATHSKULLS / FUCKED UP / INTRONAUT/ MICROWAVES / RONDELLUS / DUSTIN’S BAR MIZVAH / CRIME IN CHOIR / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON / DON CABALLERO / REIGNS / STREET DOGS / ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES / ALEUCHATISTAS / BLUT AUS NORD / CATS AND CATS AND CATS / I LOVE POLAND / HOLY SMOKES  / GALLOWS / SICBAY / THE LOST PATROL BAND / SQUAREPUSHER

terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! 
Roooooo
SINGLES
So we have three singles of the week this week, so what? We had a good week for singles and we don't mean on no hornymatch dot com either...

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

ALMOS – Silly Icarus, But You Can’t Really Blame Him For Everything (Pet Piranna) - Yeah I know it came out on the 5th, blah blah release dates, what the hell, we’ve been busy and there’s battles to fight and what the hell do we know and who cares about release dates. Rules? We shit ‘em, this ain’t one of the NME wannabe sites who give a toss about release dates, oh mummy, we can’t review that, it’s already a week old and we are oh so very important you know. This is excellent! A classic ‘proper’ single, intelligent post-rock edge to a glorious left-field clever indie-pop rush, absolutely everything you ever want from a single, put it on repeat and enjoy it for hours and hours (and hours). Their finest moment yet, Icarus has these great big hooks and so much substance, as good as a Pixies single without ever resorting to just ripping off the Pixies and their glorious formula like so many bands do. As fine as the finest Sicbay song (you can take that as a massive compliment). Almos are from Dundee (they sound positively American in the very best of ways) they’ve made some rather decent records before, nothing as breathtakingly good as this though, this moves them up a whole division or two. Hey, I’m not going to spoil it with words and trying to break it down and explain why this is so damn good – just accept that it is and go be curious and find out why, have we ever let you down? No, I am a doctor and you need this. B-side sounds a little Franz without ever being annoying like Franz always are, thr a-side is just glorious. Yes, all is well with the world and it is safe to fly close to that big bright yellow thing in the sky after all. www.alamos.co.uk / www.myspace.com/alamos / www.petpiranha.com
 

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THE DISAPPOINTMENTS – No Charades (Fierce Panda) – Bunch of seventeen year olds from the discharge wastelands of Stoke On Trent. Sounds like a lot of gloriously good in-your-face punk rock things we’ve heard a million times already from a thousand wholesome ‘proper’ bands like Rancid or Anti Nowhere League or blah blah blahdeeeeey blah. Sounds righteously good and raw and rough and spiky and straight at you with no time to mess about (and no fashion agenda or Hoxton toss either) . Not what you’d expect from those Fierce Pandas, guess there’s hope for us all. Either that or raw punk rock must be this week’s in thing with the industry. Cynical? Us, nah mate – who cares what label it’s on, this is damn fine and we can always use more attitude and energy like this, buy things, burn things down, yell lots, don't buy things, stay away from that leftover crack and don't believe anything those citizen fish tell you – www.myspace.com/thedisappointments

PORCUPINE TREE – Fear Of A Blank Planet (Roadrunner) – Typical Porcupine Tree, politely paced, as “expansive” as usual, same old well-behaved squeaky clean neo-prog. All very very conservative and on the safe side of middle-aged middle-class Pink Floyd – which of course will keep those who think Marillion are still worth anything (and Radiohead are far too dangerous and cutting edge and having more that one spoonful of sugar in your cafiene-free coffee is living far too wildly) very happy and content. Hey look, I know loads of you out there love this band and we’re not going to get in to any pointless rant about hove very unprogressive and predictable and polite Porcupine Tree always are - you obsessive Porcupine Tree fans will be more than happy and no man is an island except the isle of man and we are sane and we are not to blame - www.porcupinetree.com

LOST PROPHETS – 4AM Forever (Visible Noise) – Talking of politeness and Marillion, actually no, this is more like a radio friendly REO Speedwagon power ballad. Oh for a time machine to take this back to those hardcore punk rock demo tape touting Loztprophetz who once invaded the Organ office demanding a gig and to be on a compilation album. Now you’re probably expecting us to rip this apart aren’t you? No no no, everything Lost Prophets do has that extra bit of class. Nothing wrong with an REO Speedwagon power ballad when things are done as well as this and we’re allowed ot contradict ourselves if we want to. And I couldn’t give two hoots about how unfashionable it may be to say Lost Prophets always deliver and hey if they continue to do so then we’ll continue to say they good – and hey they never claimed to be anything they’re not. This is good, this is not the time to bring in any ship to the shore and throw away no oar, not yet anyway – you can fire your usual anti Lost Prophets e.mail at us now, you always do when we say we like them. www.visiblenoise.com

THE CONWAY STORY – Landing Light (IRL) – And hey, if you like Porcupine Tree and the fragile edge of those Smashing Pumpkins then this is for you as well - www.theconwaystory.com

TRADEMARK Come To Love (Truck) - A slick enough, well polished, cut-price D.I.Y Pet Shop Boys with a poppy OMD edge. Thing is, Pet Shop Boys are almost perfect, everyone else is going to sound like a Sainsbury’s own brand version. Trademark are good, they’re clearly ambitious, we need a little more than just a cut price Pet Shop Boys from them though, more ambition – www.truckrecords.com

Last week's single of the week - THE LOW LOWS

Previously - I LIKE TRAINS / DINOSAUR Jr  / RADIO LUXEMBOURG / HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS / KILLA KELA / CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES / TOBIAS FROBERG / THE FLESH HAPPENING / GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE / ZERO / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / DAN LA SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SCHLA LA LAS / THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT PAW / CHROME HOOF/ FRANK TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ / THE LOVES / THE EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG / SPIDERBABY

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