Sunday YouTube Playlist

The Cribs // Ignore The Ignorant // Released 7th Sept // Wichita

NEN Radar // Hot Beds // Christmas Started In October // 23.11.09
MySpace: Hot Beds Andy and Lena met through the internet to manufacture anthems dedicated to the frenzied paranoid claustrophobia of living in London. With an anytime/anywhere attitude to touring, Hot Beds have played across the UK and had airplay on various radio stations. “Leave Everything” featured in the Tourdates top 10 for a massive 9 weeks between August and October 2009, 5 of which at No.1. Their new single,

Jesca Hoop // Hunting My Dress // 30.11.09 // Columbia Records
MySpace: Jesca Hoop Jesca Hoop is musician who seems to have already lived about four lives. Hoop’s crammed biography includes one lifetime as a musical Mormon daughter in California in a five piece set of folk singing siblings, another in the wilderness of Arizona putting a collection of waifs and strays through rehab and yet another as a nanny raising Tom Waits’ children. Currently between states of penniless artist scrounging studio time and folk popstar championed by Mr Waits and Elbow’s Guy Garvey, maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that Hoop’s music seems to have mul

Moby // One Time We Lived // Little Idiot
Myspace: Moby When I first put this CD into my machine and pressed play, for a moment I thought I’d been sent the wrong thing and was listening to some interloper newbie who, latching onto all this electro eighties flashback bobbins that’s going on, had recorded some sort of Bowie doing Kraftwerk type thing (in other words, a Gary Numan tribute). But once those dramatic, Depeche Mode type strings kicked in at the chorus, I realise

NEN Radar // Quickbeam // FREE DOWNLOAD
MySpace: Quickbeam Every so often I get damp in the tufty club when a new band pops up on MySpace that sounds like something from another world. Not necessarily a ‘future’ world but a world that offers a transient journey to the realms of imagination and purity. I found it with this dreamy Scottish duo’s music. Quickbeam are named after a type of tree (the Rowan family, green-geeks), a tree that apparently has positive influence over the negative and is sacred to those who worship it (in mythological language anyway). It seems a fitting moniker for this duo, Monica and Drew, from Glasgow

Maps // Turning The Mind // Mute // 09.11.09
MySpace: Maps I’m not one to hold back with criticism or praise so let’s dive headlong into the ‘assessment-abyss’ right here and now – this is a fucking excellent album. There, I’ve said it. Crudely maybe, but I’ve chucked my proverbial cards on the table and brushed the doubting chips from my shoulder. Y’see, Mute, like Factory, 4AD and Rough Trade, had been at the forefront of unique music-production for some years before Mr Major-Label came along and priced them out or swallowed them up. Factory rogered themselves up the arse, financially and creatively during their closing years,