Bandstand Busking have lined up 25 days of musical treats from Frightened Rabbit and Sam Amidon to Hundred In The Hands and Slow Club.
December, 2010
Simian Mobile Disco – Delicacies
Subtle beats and bleeps instead of straight-up electro rock bangers – Simian Mobile Disco have got their mittens firmly on the pulse of electronic music, and it shows on their epic yet understated third album.
Those Dancing Days: ‘Fuckarias’
Those Dancing Days have returned with a brand new song ‘Fuckarias’ taken from their forthcoming album Daydreams and Nightmares.
SOTD #181 // Tall Ships – Snow
Throughout the month of December we’ll be looking back at some of the best songs 2010 has had to offer…. With parts of our nation under a blanket of the stuff our SOTD from Tall Ships is the aptly named Snow.
These New Puritans – Hidden Remixes
Tiffany Daniels reviews Hidden Remixes, and finds that although it’s not awful, it’s not These New Puritans either.
Frankie & The Heartstrings ‘Hunger’ for 2011
Sunderland’s young purveyors of romantic pop Frankie & The Heartstrings are set to release their debut album Hunger on February 21 via PopSex Ltd/Wichita Recordings.
Yuck announce debut album, UK tour
Yuck’s self-titled debut album is due for release on February 21 and will be accompanied by a headline UK tour.
Lonely Galaxy – EP2
Without wishing more heartache upon this frail young man’s shoulders, if he can continue to inspire vulnerability as forcefully as this he might make quivering wrecks of all of us.
Teen Daze release pay-what-you-like EP
Vancouver’s Teen Daze put out a free EP full of summery lo-fi pop to melt the snow.
Mark Sultan – $
Don’t let the opening 4 minutes fool you, $ is a great album…If you like the 50s sound, but always felt like it was too clean and glossy, then Sultan’s latest effort definitely hits the $.
TLOBF Introducing // Not Squares
Belfast’s Not Squares took a strange route to becoming a dance band, and are all the better for it. Their sound is by turns anarchic, willfully madcap, heavily percussive and, by their own admission, still yet to hit their stride.
Top Surprise – Everything Must Go
It’s the 1980s and the future members of Top Surprise are growing up with an awkward energy that materializes from the ups and downs of their near history, complemented by the nascent guitar music coming from America at that time.
Talons – Hollow Realm
Hereford sextet’s debut album is a visceral, vicious slab of math flavoured post-rock with heavy riffs, dual duelling violins and grandiosity as standard.
