A brief message

To those of you that has been leaving me messages and e-mails, thanks you guys... these past months I have been pretty busy with my job, some side jobs, a dog that has always been nagging me from dusk till dawn, a cat that has always been nagging my dog, roof that need to be repaired, walls that need to be painted, some books that need to be read, a long list of good music that needs to be listened to, some bills to be paid, a large sum of money to be spent ( ok, this one I lied, lol) , etc...

To squeze a little time updating this blog has been dropped on my priority list and seems impossible at the moment... and for that I am terribly sorry.

But I promise... as soon as I'm through with all of my projects, my dog, my cat, my roof, my wall, my .... well you get the idea.... indiepoppies will be back to bring you all the goodness in music for you to enjoy and you can brag again to your friends at some lame parties about music they never heard before :)

In the meantime ... all I can say now is thank you for supporting indiepoppies.

The Bishops - The Bishops (2007)

1. Menace About Town

2. Breakaway

3. Only Place I Can Look Is Down

4. I Can't Stand It Anymore

5. Life In A Hole

6. Say Hello

7. So High

8. Lies And Indictments/Sun's Going Down

9. Will You Ever Come Back Again

10. Higher Now

11. Back And Forth

12. Travelling Our Way Home

13. In The Night

14. Carousel

Sometimes you feel like you've heard too many records; if you're a late fortysomething like me, any new band sounds like something you've heard before. The Bishops, though, make no apologies for their retro stylings on this excellent debut album. It's a pleasing melange of 60's Freak Beat and Mod stylings, and it's very good, simple as that. I'm glad they're not a cod Merseybeat combo like The Pleasers or something; they sound so retro, they actually sound contemporary, and at least aren't trying to be like Arctic Monkeys, or whatever today's kids listen to. A lot of fun, and well worth your entertainment Euros.]

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The Kooks - Konk (2008)

Genre - Indie Rock / Pop Rock

1. See the Sun
2. Always Where I Need to Be
3. Mr. Maker
4. Do You Wanna
5. Gap
6. Love It All
7. Stormy Weather
8. Sway
9. Shine On
10. Down to the Market
11. One Last Night
12. Tick of Time

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The Datsuns

The Datsuns - The Datsuns

1. Sittin' Pretty
2. MF From Hell
3. Lady
4. Harmonic Generator
5. What Would I Know
6. At Your Touch
7. Fink For The Man
8. In Love
9. You Build Me Up
10. Freeze Sucker

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The Datsuns - Smokes & Mirrors

1. Who Are You Stamping Your Foot For?
2. System Overload
3. Waiting for your Time to Come
4. Stuck Here For Days
5. Maximum Heartbreak
6. All Aboard
7. Such a Pretty Curse
8. Blood Red
9. Emporer's New Clothes
10. Too Little Fire

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YeahYeahYeah - Discography

Fever to Tell
Maps
Is Is EP :
Live In Mexico
Live & rare
Bonus Tracks
Live at Coachella
Karen O solo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP
Show Your Bones

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Sally Shapiro - 'remix romance vol.1'

Paper Bag Records is pleased to announce the release of Remix Romance, a remix album adapted from Sally Shapiro’s 2007 stellar debut Disco Romance, will be released on April 15th. Dancing on the excitement of her recent nomination for Female Artist of the Year and Dance Album of the Year at the 2008 Plug Awards in New York City, Sally will hit North American shores once again with this very special collection of remixes by an eclectic group of International artists.

Hand-picked by Paper Bag Records and Johan Agebjörn, the artists featured on this record were already serious fans of Disco Romance – and all jumped at the chance to be involved in the project. The idea for a remix record was inspired by Skatebård’s recent remix of ‘He Keeps Me Alive’ – as well as other artists, including Lindstrøm, Holy Fuck, and DFA’s Juan MacLean. Junior Boys were especially interested, producing a characteristically sexy remix of the pop ballad ‘Jackie Jackie.’ Canadian newcomers Woodhands and The Cansecos both integrated live instrumentals into their remixes, resulting in effervescent new interpretations of Sally’s original music.

01 I'll Be by Your Side (Tensnake Remix)
02 I Know You're My Love (Juan Maclean Remix)
03 Find My Soul (Holy Fuck Remix)
04 Anorak Christmas (Woodhands Remix)
05 He Keeps Me Alive (Skatebård Remix)
06 Hold Me So Tight (The Cansecos Remix)
07 Skating in the Moonshine (Jon Brooks Remix)
08 Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Remix)
09 Time to Let Go (Lindstrøm Remix)
10 Sleep in My Arms (Between Interval Remix)

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Requested: Amber Smith - Introspective (2008)

Track Listing:

01. Introspective
02. 1980
03. Coded
04. Select All / Delete All
05. Brazil
06. Hectic
07. Treading Water
08. Welcome to CIA
09. Simon Says
10. Father
11. My Final Plea

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requested: The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics (2008)

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Lullatone - ‘The Bedtime Beat’

"mini albumnya lullatone bagus juga, 10 lagu dr duo nagoya, japan.. Shawn James Seymour (melodies) sama Yoshimi Tomida (vocals) yang memadukan musik minimalis dengan suara electronica yg manis yg mereka sebut pajama pop... ngingetin indah nya masa kecil dulu hehehe cocok banget buat tidur pagi ini... buat yg suka piana,gutevolk,colleen or maybe deerhoof n architecture in helsinki..." - clapclapclap

translation:

"The mini album of Lullatone is pretty good, 10 songs by the duo from Nagoya, Japan...Shawn James Seymour (melodies) and Yoshimi Tomida (vocals) fusing minimalist music and sweet electonica sound that they called "Pajama Pop"... brings back the memories of our childhood heheheh.... if you like piana, gutevolk, colleen or maybe deerhof and arhitecture in helsinki you might like Lullatone as well" - clapclapclap

Genre : Indie/Electronica/Experimental-Pop

.01 – The Bathtime Beat
1.02 – Your Snore
1.03 – The Bedtime Beatbox
1.04 – Make Believe Melody
1.05 – Maborshi Ondo
1.06 – Marching To Sleep
1.07 – Mr Gondry
1.08 – Goodnight Train
1.09 – Make Believe Melody #2
1.10 – Oyasumi

Lullatone are back with their latest conceptual pop masterpiece, 'The Bedtime Beat'. This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally.

The albums opens with the infectious 'Bathtime Beat' which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hynopticbreathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school.

This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet and a future classic for sure. So come on everybody let's march to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat!

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Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (leaked / 2008)

Cut Copy took their time, but by the end of their promotional campaign for debut album, Bright Like Neon Love, they were firmly positioned as the `80s-flecked quasi-dance group it was cool to groove along to.

It certainly tired them out – they hit the highways of Australia hard and fast, then traversed the world, then came back and started all over again. The fatigue that such a schedule brings is something that they’re keen to avoid the second time around, and as such In Ghost Colours has a near universal release in all the key territories from Australia to Japan to America to Europe…and beyond!

“It all is [a promo thing],” says drummer Mitchell Scott, “but we’re playing live in a bunch of places – starting in Barcelona then to the UK and throughout Europe. These are all live shows – proper sets.”

1. Feel The Love
2. Out There On The Ice
3. Lights And Music
4. We Fight For Diamonds
5. Unforgettable Season
6. Midnight Runner
7. So Haunted
8. Voices In Quartz
9. Hearts On Fire
10. Far Away
11. Silver Thoughts
12. Strangers In The Wind
13. Visions
14. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found
15. Eternity One Night Only

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Kuryakin & Mechanical Owl (Folktronica)

Folktronica community presents:


Kuryakin & Mechanical Owl

Kuryakin :

Petter Gjöres (vocals, guitar, computers) Johan Norberg (guitar, computers)/Sweden

Petter and Johan has been making music under the name Kuryakin since 2003. They met at the university in Uppsala 2002. Petter nowadays live in Stockholm and Johan in Uppsala. The music is put together by Petter and Johan who mails samples and ideas to eachother and then play toghether a few times a month.

We are about to release a combined EP and 7" on Shelflife Records this spring. It's our first release, but to us it's like a greatest hits album with the songs we've been working on the last couple of years and not been able to release anywhere. We will also release a 7" in Japan on Fastcut Records this spring, and later this year, an EP with completely new songs.

1. Kuryakin - A parade
2. Kuryakin - Fought a war
3. Kuryakin - Birds
4. Kuryakin - Snow

Mechanical Owl :

Mike Payne / North Wales


I live in North Wales, but travel back and forth to Leeds from time to time. I write and record the songs at home, and will soon be performing them with a band at some live shows.

I also like to get together with Mr Nicolas Burrows (Glaciers) and make up songs, there are some on the 'Mrs Dice Feet' profile (see friends list.) The songs on there are a result of Nic coming to visit for a few days. Me and Nicholas also like to get together with Mr Harry dean, and play songs as 'Crayon,' (see friends,) which is little guitar/keyboard pop band.

5. Mechanical Owl - Catapulte
6. Mechanical Owl - MUSEUM BOOKS_1
7. Mechanical Owl - RSPCA
8. Mechanical Owl - You are the Summer

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Resplandor - Ambar (2002)

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Resplandor - Pleamar (2008)

"Album barunya lbh terkonsep n mirip2 sama slowdive.. coba dengerin downfall sama breathe keytrack di album ini..." - clapclapclap

translation:

"The new album is more 'concepted'and similar to slowdive... listen to "Downfall" and " "Breathe" thos are the keytracks in this album..." -clapclapclap

Tracklisting:

1.- Solar
2.- Downfall
3.- Raindrops
4.- Breathe
5.- Oeste
6.- Boreal
7.- Pleamar
8.- Whisper
9.- Twilight

Their thrid album called "P L E A M A R" entirely produced by Robin Guthrie and has collaboration from Andrew Prinz & Ana Breton from Mahogany and Scott Cortez from Lovesliescrushing & Astrobrite.

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Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming

Owl City - Maybe Im Dreaming-(Digital_Release)-2008
Genre:Electronica/Pop

1. On The Wing ( 5:04)
2. Rainbow Veins ( 4:40)
3. Super Honeymoon ( 3:20)
4. The Saltwater Room ( 4:55)
5. Early Birdie ( 4:15)
6. Air Traffic ( 3:01)
7. The Technicolor Phase ( 4:27)
8. Sky Diver ( 2:44)
9. Dear Vienna ( 3:58)
10.I'll Meet You There ( 4:16)
11.This Is The Future ( 2:53)
12.West Coast Friendship ( 3:42)

Note: 128kbit, thanks to ucsbunit for this!

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M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute, 2008)

Now that he's gotten his ambient kicks with this past fall's Digital Shades Vol. 1, Anthony Gonzalez is ready to release his fifth album as M83, titled Saturdays = Youth. The album is apparently focused on more structured songs than the Digital Shades material, though "Couleurs", available for streaming now, doesn't seem too reliant on traditional pop song structure.

As previously reported, Gonzalez recorded Saturdays with producers Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Suede, Cocteau Twins, the Sugarcubes) and Ewan Pearson (the Rapture, Ladytron). Mute will release the album on April 15.

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Young Republic - 12 Tales From Winter City (2008)

Genre: Indie Rock/Pop

The Guardian review:

"Raggle-taggle art-pop bands hoping to make our wintry lives warmer are currently ten-a-penny. Thankfully, the Young Republic are lovelier than most. Rattling towards us from a Boston music college with their flutes, violins, pianos, pedal steel and African drums, the eight members make a rich, pretty noise that brings together Belle & Sebastian's gift for melody, the Modern Lovers' brightness, plus cheeky bits of vaudeville and baroque pop. Julian Saporiti's fine, characterful voice stitches everything together. However, the choral joy of She's Not Waiting Here This Time and the energetic rush of Paper Ships are the only things that lodge in the memory. There are too many ideas here, at the expense of strong songs. "

Tracklist:

1. Girl In A Tree
2. Modern Plays
3. Excuses To See You
4. Girl From The Northern States
5. Everybody Looks Better In Black And White (A Reference To AFilm)
6. She's Not Waiting Here This Time
7. She Comes And Goes
8. Real Love (At The End)
9. Paper Ships
10. When I See Your Eyes I Swear To God That Worlds Collide
11. Blue Skies
12. Goodbye Town

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Mint – Hinterland (2008)

Country - Belgium
Release – 2008.02.15
Genre – Indie / Pop-rock
Label - Munich records

1. Brand New Toy
2. White Line
3. Giving Blood To Machines
4. Meet Me At The Morasko
5. IVR The Friendly Voice
6. I Save My Smiles
7. Medicine
8. The More I ...
9. Commuters Unite!
10. Hinterland

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Cloud Cult - Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus

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The Boy Disaster - Oh, Beatrice EP

Tracks:

1. Frozen Feet
2. Paris
3. Forget-me-not
4. Man With a Plan
5. Last Stand
6. Queen of The Fishermen
7. Matilda

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Rubies - Explode From The Center (2008)

"Setelah saia dengar, ni band asik banget. Sound disco-rock nyatu ama permainan akustik. Gak heran, dibalik karya2 yang asik2 ini, berjejer orang2 penting :
Eirik Glambek-Boe (Kings of Convenience), Feist, Dan Judd (produser Sorcerer), Maria Eriksson (The Concretes) ama Lars Skoglund (Peter, Bjorn & John).

Asik banget sealbumnya. Diawal diajak goyang di I Feel Electric. Too Bright juga kerasa banget aroma KoC nya. Sisanya makin beragam. Naik turun. Gw rekomen nih album. Bagus!" -pred

translation:

"After a few listens, this band is wicked!. Disco-rock sounds fused with acoustics play. It's no surprise, the people behind this wicked masterpiece are: Irik Glambek-Boe (Kings of Convenience), Feist, Dan Judd (producer of Sorcerer), Maria Eriksson (The Concretes) and Lars Skoglund (Peter, Bjorn & John)."

It's a fun album. It started with a dance song " I Feel Electric", you could really feel the KoC influence in " Too Bright". The rest are pretty random, full of ups and downs, I personally recomend this album. Great!" - pred


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Death cab for cutie - I will possess your heart (Single)

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The Dø - A Mouthful

Release Date: January 14th, 2008
Genre: Folk| Rock
Quality: Mp3 | 44.1 KHz | VBR kbps

The Dø is a viral phenomenon. For many months, the duo French / Finnish excite the Internet community with hundreds of thousands of hits on their myspace page, and eventually to become in a short time the pop / folk buzz from the beginning of this year!


1 Playground Hustle
2 At Last !
3 On My Shoulders
4 Song For Lovers
5 The Bridge Is Broken
6 Stay (Just a little bit more)
7 Unissasi Laulelet
8 Tammie
9 Queen Dot Kong
10 Coda
11 Searching Gold
12 When Was I Last Home ?
13 Travel Light
14 Aha
15 In My Box

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Glasvegas - Artist Promo (Sampler CD) (2008)

genre: experimental/surf/pop
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Suede (The London Suede) - Discography

Albums & Compilations
Suede
Dog Man Star
Coming Up
Coming Up (Bonus Live Disc)
Sci-Fi Lullabies (Disc 1)
Sci-Fi Lullabies (Disc 2)
Head Music
Sessions CD
A New Morning
See You In The Next Life
Singles [Part 1]
Singles [Part 2]

B-Sides, Remixes & Other
B-Sides Vol. 1
B-Sides Vol. 2
B-Sides Vol. 3
B-Sides Vol. 4
B-Sides Vol. 5
B-Sides Vol. 6
B-Sides Vol. 7
Remixes 1
Remixes 2
Live, Rare & More 1
Live, Rare & More 2
Live, Rare & More 3

Sessions & Performances
Black Session 1993
Black Session 1994
Live At Mono Club
Live Acoustic, Amsterdam 1999
Live Acoustic, Copenhagen 2002
Live On Jools Holland

Bernard Butler
People Move On
Friends And Lovers

Brett Anderson
Brett Anderson
B-Sides

The Tears
Here Come The Tears
B-Sides

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The Dodos - Visiter (2008)

"ini album bagus banget, buat yg suka psychedelic-folk-pop... experimental instrument nya mirip2 gabungan animal collective + white rabbits = The dodos" -clapclapclap

Genre : Indie/Rock/Folk/Psychedelic

Long's psych-folk-pop compositions are smart and tight and melodic and his hammer-handed, fleet-fingered acoustic attack always meets Kroeger's thumps halfway, awkward toe to toe, chin to chin, heat to intensity. And his voice is great. Warm and wobbly and familiar like a brother's or a best friend's. Except (or maybe mostly?) when he's yelling like an asylum escapee -- anguished, near-inarticulate, tonsil-baring scream-sobs..." Shake Your Fist
This artist descriuption tries too hard and fails just as hard.

Tracklist
1 Walking (2:08)
2 Red and Purple (4:40)
3 Eyelids (0:55)
4 Fools (4:42)
5 Joe's Waltz (7:21)
6 Winter (3:44)
7 It's That Time Again (1:29)
8 Paint the Rust (6:14)
9 Park Song (2:48)
10 Jodi (6:14)
11 Ashley (4:04)
12 The Season (6:14)
13 Undeclared (1:52)
14 God? (6:51)

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Santogold - Creator/L.E.S. Artistes (Single)

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The Winston Jazz Routine - Sospiri (2007)

"kalo suka indie rock model pedro the lion di mix sama the gloria record plus sdikit sentuhan electric president..." -clapclapclap

Genre : Indie/Folk/Piano-Pop

1. I See A Map
2. Peter And The Water
3. William And Betsy
4. A Ghost Beneath The Tower
5. Grandmothers Glow
6. Venice
7. The Bridge Of Sighs
8. The Central Memorial
9. An Engineered Interest
10. The Physician
11. The Conductor's Regress
12. Sospiri

The title of the The Winston Jazz Routine's latest album (and second release for Kansas City, MO-based label The Record Machine) sums up its contents accurately. Sospiri, an Italian word meaning "Sighs", is a collection of aching and dense songs that slowly unravel to majestic heights and gently float back to firmer ground. Nathan Phillips, the band's central figure and main composer, takes his gentle piano-based material and wraps it in layer after layer of a wide assortment of instruments. The album opens with him pounding his piano while drums crash and guitars siren out in the periphery. A minute into "I See a Map" the true pace of the album is revealed. The drums and bass fall deep in the background while Phillips sighs his opening line, "My composure lacked as we walked home/counting all the butterflies that flew right around you."

Most of Sospiri is performed in this way, Phillips' characters mostly anguished and stories often tragic. "William and Betsy" describes the betrayal that leads to cancelled wedding plans with its "twenty-four pictures...in a Wal-Mart bag". The offender gets on his knees and pleads initially then finally address his former lover's obstinacy a bit more dismissively. It's not how most songs of love and loss end, but it's certainly more true to life. The following track, "A Ghost Beneath the Tower" manuevers similarly. A soft brass section scales alongside the character's family loss and reaction; "What is in your closet? Boxes stacked from left to right, packed and packed for hours." Many of these songs are set in the present-tense, the characters stepping out of one frame into another, either losing baggage as they go or carrying it with them begrudgingly. "Grandmother's Glow" starts off with pleasant enough imagery; a old, graying woman stirring boiling fruit preserves, sunshine pouring in a window. It turns painfully for the worse when the boiling pot's contents end up on Grandma while her daughter runs for paper towels. Texturally, this is the most effective track on the album, replacing the gentle drums with loops designed to mimic a closet full of canning jars being jostled around. When the drums comes back, the piano twinkles in and out of the melody, stumbling and disoriented. "The Bridge of Sighs" captures the location and experience in Venice that likely inspired the album's title; a prisoner is led to his death over Ponte dei Sospiri, a bridge built in the 16th century that connects the prisons to the interrogation rooms in Doge's Palace. He sighs to himself for his plight and for the last glimpse of Venice he is subjected to for that brief & final moment. What other way is there to react?

In addition to Nathan's songwriting and multi-instrumentation over two dozen others have performance credits on Sospiri. What is captured onto the album, however, is unyieldingly cohesive. At 12 songs and just under 53 minutes in length, it's easy to get lost in Sospiri's otherworldly gaze at, and away from, such heartbreaking tales, but the beautiful arrangements act as a contrast and, ultimately, bring a balance to all the suffering.

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Near The Parenthesis - Of Soft Construction (2007)

mirip2 july skies.. dengan sentuhan electro - Kid_A

San Francisco based musician Tim Arndt brings his Near the Parenthesis project to n5MD with the release of his second album "Of Soft Construction." This sophomore effort finds Arndt luring his potent song writing capabilities to the forefront yielding something truly exceptional. Spiraling piano sonnets are juxtaposed against sweeping cascades of grainy synth-washes and agile, yet carefully executed, beat-work. Add in an occasional mid radio station listen-in on a seemingly unfinished conversation and you have an idea of "Of Soft Construction's" perfected audible DNA. Near the Parenthesis has proven that he is yet another artist to capture the n5MD ethos in its truest most honest form..

1 It's Not Even Midnight (5:22)
2 Mare Nostrum (5:55)
3 The Language Explosion (5:47)
4 Litnum (1:23)
5 The World Is Inside You Now (5:11)
6 Open Sources (5:51)
7 Trailing (5:05)
8 A Little Damaged (5:39)
9 Sitting In A Room (5:42)
10 For, From (2:29)
11 This Morning (6:32)

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GoodBooks - Control (2007)

1. Beautiful To Watch
2. The Illness
3. Passchendaele
4. The Curse Of Saul
5. Alice
6. Good Life Salesman
7. Violent Man Lovesong
8. The Last Day
9. Walk With Me
10. Leni
11. Turn It Back
12. Start/Stop

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GoodBooks - The Illness [EP]

1. Illness

2. Running Away

3. William's Boat

4. I Will Find You

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requested: Little Man Tate - About What You Know (2007)

1. Man I Hate Your Band
2. European Lover
3. Sexy in Latin
4. This Must Be Love
5. House Party at Boothy's
6. Who Invented These Lists?
7. Court Report
8. Little Big Man
9. 3 Day Rule
10. This Girl Isn't My Girlfriend
11. Down on Marie

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requested: The Cinematics - A Strange Education

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Beachfield (Glenn Thompson) - Brighton Bothways (2007)

Genre: Indie Pop

Beachfield is the musical project of Glenn Thompson, once drummer of the Go-Betweens, and an ongoing member of Robert Forster's band. During the '90s Glenn was also the drummer and sometimes singer of another Australian pop group Custard. Beachfield's debut album Brighton Bothways was released in late 2007 throughout Europe on the Tuition label, and will be available in Australia early 2008. [myspace]

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Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold

"Rilis aseli taun 2006. Kalo suka alternative-pop-elektronik-goth kaya Mono yang dari prancis, bisa dicoba. Paling asik "What's A Girl To Do". Vokalnya rada2 mirip Bjork.. cuman ga se ekstrim Bjork la .

Vidklipnya unik . Kayak Feist 1-2-3-4. Cuman lebih horor." -pred

Translation:

Released in 2006. If you like alternative-pop-electronic-goth like mono from france, it's worth a try. The keytrack is "What's A Girl To Do". Her vocal is kind of like Bjork thou not as extreme.

The video is pretty unique. Almost like feist 1-2-3-4, but a bit more daunting...

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Zita Swoon - Big Blueville (2008)

Genre: Indie Rock / Pop Rock / Folk

A nice album to start your sunday morning...

01. Infinite down
02. Looking for a friend
03. I feel alive in the city
04. Je range
05. Everything is not the same
06. Josieanna
07. People can't stand the truth
08. Quand meme content
09. L'opaque paradis
10. Giving up the hero

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The Ark - Prayer for the Weekend (2007)

This is the guys fourth and most recent album.

Again, another fabulous album with lots more great tunes. "Prayer for the Weekend" is the opening song (the video to this is excellent too), followed by their entry into the 2007 Eurovision song contest "The Worrying Kind" - with a 1970's glam rock feel to it. They have produced another potential rock anthem in "Absoloutely No Decorum", and "Little Dysfunk You" is very addictive as is "I Pathologise" and "All I Want Is You."

What more can I say? I can't wait for their next album! [amazon]

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Animal Collective - Water Curses Ep

Animal Collective's long-promised new EP Water Curses is due May 5 in the UK and May 6 in the U.S. on 12" and CD from Domino. The four-song collection is the follow-up to Pitchfork's #6 favorite album of 2007, Strawberry Jam.

The EP's first three tracks were produced by Scott Colburn at Tucson's Wavelab Studio during the same sessions that produced Strawberry Jam. The last, "Seal Eyeing", was recorded at Nicolas Vernhes' Rare Book Room Studio (home of the Living Bridge compilation), with Vernhes handling mixing duties for all four tunes. "All tracks find Animal Collective exploring strange new waters," says a press release. Sounds about right.

The Collective's tour plans, which we mentioned a while back, have slowly been getting a tad busier as the festival lineups come trickling in. Since our last check, the band have added dates at both Norway's Hove Festival and New Jersey's All Points West.
nimal Collective's long-promised new EP Water Curses is due May 5 in the UK and May 6 in the U.S. on 12" and CD from Domino. The four-song collection is the follow-up to Pitchfork's #6 favorite album of 2007, Strawberry Jam.

The EP's first three tracks were produced by Scott Colburn at Tucson's Wavelab Studio during the same sessions that produced Strawberry Jam. The last, "Seal Eyeing", was recorded at Nicolas Vernhes' Rare Book Room Studio (home of the Living Bridge compilation), with Vernhes handling mixing duties for all four tunes. "All tracks find Animal Collective exploring strange new waters," says a press release. Sounds about right.

The Collective's tour plans, which we mentioned a while back, have slowly been getting a tad busier as the festival lineups come trickling in. Since our last check, the band have added dates at both Norway's Hove Festival and New Jersey's All Points West.

01 Water Curses
02 Street Flash
03 Cobwebs
04 Seal Eyeing

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Operator Please - Yes Yes Vindictive (2007)

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Reverend And The MakersReverend And The Makers - The State Of Things (2007)

'The State Of Things' is the debut album from Arctic Monkeys associate Jon 'The Reverend' McClure. Wry and observational lyrics about everyday life are equally matched with indie guitar pop and a touch of Madchester-esque funk. Includes the singles 'Heavyweight Champion Of The World' and 'He Said He Loved Me'.

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Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong - Lonely Buoy (CDS) (2008)

1. Lonely Buoy
2. Forever Saying Sorry

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The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Promo CDM) (2008)

1. Great DJ
2. Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)

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Firefox AK - If I Were A Melody (2008)

If you like EBTG, you will enjoy this....

genre: Electro / Pop / Electroclash

01-where are we going 03:59
02-once i was like you 03:57
03-winter rose 03:19
04-the flutter of a wing 03:13
05-techno tears 02:59
06-the river 04:08
07-pushing 04:26
08-a faint idea 03:19
09-all i hear 03:13
10-shero 04:51
11-youre not lucky 03:29
12-everytime i ride my bike 03:34

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Lacrosse - This New Year Will Be For You and Me (2007)

genre: indie pop

Lacrosse is the national game of Canada. It is also the hometown of serial killer Ed Gein. But above all, Lacrosse is five boys and one girl making fantastic pop music. From a basement in Stockholm, Lacrosse brings you love and happiness in songs so catchy that you can't help singing along!

With a lot of energy, two intense lead vocalists, incredibly sweet guitar melodies and blazing drum beats, Lacrosse is the musical equivalent of endless summer nights when the world is young and beautiful and everything seems possible.

The debut album "This New Year Will Be For You And Me" was released in November and you can hear Lacrosse in Daniel Espinosa's feature film "Outside Love" in Denmark. If you're lucky, you can catch Lacrosse on tour in February 2008 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. [myspace]

my personal keytracks: No More Lovesongs, You Can't Say No Forever, My Plan, Who Will Bring Us Together?

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Various Artists - BOWIEMANIA (2007)

A tribute to David Bowie...

01. Emilie Simon - Space Oddity
02. PacoVolume - The Jean Genie
03. Yann Tiersen & The Divine Comedy - Life on Mars
04. Medi & The Medicine Show - Rebel Rebel
05. Microsillon feat. Eugénie Alquezar - This is not America
06. Los Chicros - Changes
07. The Gourds - Ziggy Stardust
08. The New Standards - All The Young Dudes
09. Ask The Dust - John I'm Only Dancing
10. Rhonda Harris - China Girl
11. The String Quartet - Ashes To Ashes
12. Botox - Fashion
13. Cocosuma - The Man Who Sold The World
14. Sacha Sieff & Manuel Armstrong - Heroes
15. Arno & Beverly Jo Scott - Jean Baltazaarrr

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Marina Celeste - Acidule (2007)

The debut of Maria Celeste of Nouvelle Vague...

Disc: 1
01. Temps Élastique
02. Ombres Chinoises
03. Fleurs
04. Coccinelles
05. Heure d'Été
06. Raplaplat
07. Sur Les Bords de La Seine
08. Mon Centre de Gravité
09. Bulle
10. Choix des Armes
11. Eve a La Pomme
12. Vent dans Les Voiles

Disc: 2
01. Samba Saravah
02. Pas Vu, Pas Pris
03. Amour, Amour
04. Max et Les Ferrailleurs
05. Chanson d'Hélene
06. Galets d'Etretat
07. Manon
08. Aller Simple
09. Sidonie
10. Aventuriers
11. Sans Lei
12. 13 Jeurs en France
13. Manha de Carnaval

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Various artists - Musique Non Stop (A tribute to Kraftwerk) (1998)

Genre: Minimal, Techno, Synth-pop, Experimental

01 - Hikashu - The model
02 - Teruo Nakano - Computer love
03 - Buffalo daughter - Autobahn
04 - Yasushi Yamashita - Tanzmusik
05 - Hikasu - Radioactivity
06 - Melt banana - Showroom dummies
07 - Kimitaka Matsumae - Atem and harmonika
08 - Satoru Wond feat. Maywa Denki - Dentaku
09 - Zeni Geva - Sex object
10 - Takkyu Ishino - It's more fun to compute
11 - Hajime Fukuma p model - Musique non stop
12 - Makoto I - Europe endless franz schubet and neon lights

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Gregor Samsa - Rest (2008)

Genre : Indie/Experimental/Shoegaze

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Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets (2008)

Artist: Blood Red Shoes
Title: Box of Secrets
Country: Brighton, England
Release Date: 2008.02.06 (japan release)
Genre: Indie Rock / Garage / Post Punk
LABEL: V2
SOURCE: CDDA
QUALiTY: 240 VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / joint-stereo


01. Doesn’t Matter Much
02. You Bring Me Down
03. Try Harder
04. Say Something Say Anything
05. I Wish I Was Someone Better
06. Take The Wiehgt
07. ADHD
08. This Is Not For You
09. It's Getting Boring By The Sea
10. Forgive Nothing
11. Hope You Are Holding Up

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City And Colour - Somtimes [2006]

Genre: folk

1.Off By Heart
2.Like Knives
3.Hello, I'm In Delaware
4.Save Your Scissors
5.In The Water I Am Beautiful
6.Day Old Hate
7.Sam Malone
8.Comin' Home
9.Casey's Song
10.Sometimes (I Wish)

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Pacific - Reveries (2008)

Genre: Electro / Indie Pop / Surf

Pacific is a band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their music's has that heavy/sweet indie-pop feel mixed with 80's synths, makes it even more fun to listen to the album. Not exactly a masterpiece (thou I'll be waiting anxiously for their next album), but definitely will takes you back in time..., and humming to their songs after a few listens.

01. disappear 03:56
02. sunset blvd 04:00
03. runway to elsewhere 03:25
04. hold me 04:22
05. break your social system 03:38
06. number one 03:55
07. hot lips 03:01
08. love isn't always on time 03:41
09. poolside bungalow 03:02
10. villanova sunset 02:43
11. sunrise 02:26
12. silent running 04:18

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