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Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Carrie
Carter USM
Martin Carthy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Cast
Caterwaul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
The Charlottes
Chas N Dave
Cherry Ghost
The Cinematic Orchestra
Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing
The Clerks
Clinic
The Close Lobsters
Coldcut
Coldplay
John Cooper Clarke
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Coral
Elvis Costello
Cousteau
Cranebuilders
Crazyhead
The Creatures
CUD
The Cure
D
The Darling Buds
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
The Delgados
Delphic
Dodgy
Doves
Dreadzone
Dub Pistols
Dubtribe Sound System
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
E
Steve Earle
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echoboy
The Eighteenth Day of May
Elbow
Electrafixion
Electric Soft Parade
Electric Sound Of Joy
Embrace
F
Fairport Convention
Th' Faith Healers
Faithless
Faith No More
The Fall
Fields of the Nephilim
Five Thirty
The Flaming Lips
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
Four Tet
The Free Association
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Fun Loving Criminals
The Futureheads
G
Ganger
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Ghost Dance
Glasvegas
Global Communication
Godflesh
Goldrush
Gomez
Jose Gonzalez
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
The Go! Team
Grand Drive
Grass-Show
The Grave Architects
Gravenhurst
Al Green
Green on Red
Groove Armada
Guillemots
Guns N' Roses
H
Nick Harper
Rolf Harris
The Heart-throbs
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Kristin Hersh
The Hidden Cameras
Micah P. Hinson
Hole
Jools Holland
Holy Fuck
House of Brothers
The House of Love
The Housemartins
Howlin' Rain
The Hunters Club
I
I Am Kloot
Idlewild
Interpol
Iron And Wine
It Bites
J
The Jack Rubies
Matthew Jay
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Johnny Domino
Joolz
K
Keane
The Killers
David Kitt
Kula Shaker
L
Lambchop
Leatherface
Leaves
The Levellers
The Libertines
Loop
Low
Lowgold
Lush
M
The Magic Numbers
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Majesticons
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maps
Marillion
Marion
J Mascis
Massive Attack
Mega City Four
The Memory Band
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mercury Rev
MGMT
Mia Doi Todd
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mission
Modest Mouse
Mono
The Montrose Avenue
John Moore And The Expressway
Morrissey
The Motorcycle Boy
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
Mylo
N
The National
The Necks
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The New Folk Implosion
New Model Army
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Scout Niblett
Nirvana
Now It's Overhead
O
Oasis
Okkervil River
Ooberman
Orbital
Beth Orton
P
The Pale Saints
The Parkinsons
Pavement
Penthouse
Pitman
The Pixies
The Pogues
Emma Pollock
Polytechnic
Pond
Pop Will Eat Itself
Primal Scream
The Primitives
The Prodigy
The Prudes
Public Enemy
Pulp
Q
Finlay Quaye
Queens of the Stone Age
R
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Snapper
REM
Reverend and The Makers
Ride
Rival Schools
RJD2
Roots Manuva
Tim Rose
Run DMC
S
Saint Etienne
Saint Joan
Salvation
Samamidon
Ulrich Schnauss
Scott 4
DJ Scotch Egg
Mr Scruff
The Sea and Cake
Seafood
Shack
DJ Shadow
The Shins
Michelle Shocked
The Shortwave Set
Silver Sun
Simian
Six.by Seven
The Sleepy Jackson
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Snuff
Sonic Youth
Soul II Soul
The Soup Dragons
Space
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Spear of Destiny
Spin Spin The Dogs
Spiritualized
Spring Heel Jack
Starsailor
St. Germain
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Streets
Joe Strummer
Subkicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Sun Kil Moon
Swans
T
Tapes N Tapes
Teenage Fanclub
The Telescopes
Texas
That Petrol Emotion
Them Crooked Vultures
Richard Thompson
Throwing Muses
Glenn Tilbrook
Tindersticks
The Ting-Tings
Travis
Tricky
Tunng
Turin Brakes
The Twilight Sad
U
Ultrasound
Under Neath What
Underworld
V
The Verve
Voice of the Beehive
W
Martha Wainwright
The Walking Seeds
The Walkmen
The Waterboys
The Wedding Present
We Show Up On Radar
Whistler
White Lies
The White Stripes
Wilco
Robbie Williams
The Wisdom of Harry
Witness
The Wonder Stuff
World Domination Enterprises
The Wurzels
X
X-Press 2
Y
Yam Who
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Z
Zero 7
The Zutons

Nach einem langen Jahr des Wartens war es am 18.02.2007 endlich wieder so weit - Goldrush live. Entdeckt als Vorband der einfach großartigen Nada Surf, war ich bereits letztes Jahr sehr beeindruckt, dass es eine Vorband schafft genauso gut anzukommen wie der Hauptact…ganz zu schweigen vom völlig überfüllten Merchandise-Stand am Ende der Show. So war es aus persönlichen Gründen zwar schade, dass ich dort oft hören musste „Sorry, already sold out" aber für Goldrush hat es einen dann doch sehr gefreut!

Aber zurück zum anstehenden Gig in Hamburg. Die ansteigende Vorfreude wurde dort erst einmal gedämpft, da ich doch etwas erschrocken war, wie wenig Leute zu dem Zeitpunkt da waren. Lag´s am Billy Talent Konzert oder am drohenden Montag Morgen? Sicher in Hamburg kann man viel machen aber etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit hätten die Jungs schon verdient!
Die erste Vorband des Abends waren The Sea (aus Hamburg) und überzeugten mit wirklich gut gemachter Musik und viel Charme. Als herausstechenstes Merkmal erwiesen sich etliche Gitarrenparts (ganz großes Kino!) sowie die „Ich-spiele-immer-in-Socken" Performance des Sängers… bis er merkte, dass die Bühne nicht ganz scherben- bzw. splitterfrei war. Was allerdings nicht ganz optimal war, war der Ton. Der war leider zu laut eingestellt, so dass es vor den Boxen etwas schwierig war die Musik wirklich zu genießen.
Als zweiter Supporting-Act war dann FOURDAYSFROMAUGUST an der Reihe. Eine Ein-Man-Show mit Acoustic-Gitarre. Phil (so heißt der Gute) überzeugte mit einer Stimme, die unter die Haut geht, sehr sanft und doch sehr eindringlich und das alles mit nur einer Gitarre. Meines Erachtens wäre es allerdings besser gewesen, ihn zuerst spielen zu lassen, gefolgt von THE SEA, denn wie er zu Beginn seiner Show sagte „We are going to slow things down" … das war aufgrund der wenigen Zuschauer schon eigentlich kaum mehr möglich. Dennoch hat er mit wundervoller Stimme und später noch als fleißiger T-shirt-Verkäufer und Aushilfs-Musiker bei Goldrush überzeugt. Daumen hoch an dieser Stelle ;-)

Dann kamen auch schon Robin und Nick auf die Bühne, eben kurz Instrumente stimmen und schon folgten Joe, Garo und G … sowie FOURDAYSFROMAUGUST und die komplette THE SEA- Fraktion. Mehr hätten es aus Platzmangel auch nicht sein dürfen…was für ein Anblick! Zusammen stimmten sie mit jeder Menge „Ah Ahh Ahhh" „Aperture" an, welches direkt überging in „The Story of the city" Robin begrüßte alle recht herzlich und zeigte sich trotz überschaubarem Publikum äußerst gut gelaunt. Im Anschluss folgte ein schöner Mix aus „Ozona" und „The Heart Is The Place" Songs zwischen denen die Jungs immer wieder charmante und lustige Anekdoten zum Besten gaben. Ich würde an dieser Stelle gerne eine Setlist präsentieren aber leider hab ich keine und mein Hirn kriegt die Songreihenfolge und -auswahl nicht mehr ganz zusammen. Songs, die glaub ich dabei waren:
-Aperture (zusammen mit The Sea und Fourdaysfromaugust)
-The story of the city
-Every one of us
-Can´t give up the ghost (mit Joe und Nick im Background)
-Sun in your eyes (Bläser-Trio Joe (Trompete), Phil (Horn) und Robin (Posaune?))
-Goodbye cruel world
-We will not be machines
-The heart is the place
-Yours and mine
-Come on come on
-Wait for the wheels
-Each moment in time
-all the faces ?
-Same picture ?
-Counting Song ?
-24 Hours ?

Allgemein bestach Joe durch sein unglaubliches Talent sämtliche Instrumente zu beherrschen. Das einzige Instrument, an dem er sich nicht zu schaffen machte, waren die Drums. Von Gitarre über Bass, Trompete, Geige, Keyboard wurde alles bearbeitet…und natürlich auch seine geliebte Kuhglocke, die er anscheinend etwas zu doll „geschlagen" hatte, denn sie hatte gegen Ende der Show etwas an ihrer Form eingebüßt (aber ein Gig in Bayern steht ja noch an, da kann er sich ne neue besorgen). Mich würde wirklich interessieren, wie viele Instrumente er spielen kann!? Aber auch Nick wechselte von Bass zum Keyboard sowie Robin von Gitarre zur Posaune (sofern das Teil so heißt). Vollblut-Musiker wie sie im Buche stehen, toll!

Aber natürlich soll auch kurz der lustige Teil erwähnt werden. Als Robin kurz etwas zum Vogelgezwitscher von „Goodbye Cruel World" sagte, fühlte sich das Publikum gleich animiert auch etwas rumzupfeiffen…anscheinend hatte Robin damit nicht gerechnet, denn sein leicht verstörter Blick war zum Brüllen. Er fand aber gleich darauf Gefallen am allgemeinen Gezwitscher, so dass sie prompt den passenden Song anstimmten. Als Einleitung für „Sun in your eyes" wurde verkündet, dass dies jetzt sehr traurig wird, da alle sterben aber im nächsten Song alles wieder gut werden wird. Dies brachte den Jungs ein allgemeines „Oohhhh" ein, was von ihnen wiederum mit jeder Menge „Grouphugging" und viel Lachen quittiert wurde. Natürlich sei an dieser Stelle auch der sehr merkwürdige „Drunken Man from Glasgow" erwähnt, der irgendetwas in Richtung Bühne nuschelte (mehr ging aufgrund des Alkoholpegels nicht mehr). Sicherlich versucht man zuerst so etwas zu ignorieren, was aber ab einem bestimmten Lärm-/ Brüllpegel nicht mehr ganz funktionierte. Also Flucht nach vorne und darauf eingehen, dachten sich anscheinend Nick, Garo und Robin. Ich hab nicht wirklich verstanden um was es ging, nur das plötzlich von Make-up die Rede war…Hä? Aber die Jungs sind sehr souverän und mit einer ordentlichen Prise englischen Humor darauf eingegangen. Als Garo dann noch so frei war auf Wunsch einer speziellen Person eine kleine Jimi Hendrix Nummer darzubieten, war dann auch wieder Ruhe und alle konnten weiter die Show genießen.

Technisch gab es so einige Problemchen, was aber teilweise am fast nicht vorhandenen Soundcheck lag, da die Jungs sich verfahren hatten und daher viel zu spät dran waren (immerhin wurden sie so prompt gleich zweimal hintereinander geblitzt…muß man auch erstmal schaffen). Ergebnis dessen waren immer wieder Probleme, so dass entweder Keyboard oder Drums für die Jungs nicht richtig zu hören waren. An dieser Stelle nochmals Gute Besserung für G´s Ohren. Auch er konnte seine Drums nicht richtig hören also gabs Zeichen nach hinten, dass mehr Power erwünscht wird… naja, irgendwann steckte der Stecker anscheinend richtig, denn G bekam die volle Dröhnung aufs Gehör, was er mit einem liebevollem Mittelfinger Richtung Sound-Engineer Stu (nicht Roadie ; )) kommentierte. Nach kurzer „Absprache" zwischen den beiden ging´s mit einigen Lachern auch schon weiter im Programm.

Insgesamt ist da natürlich noch jede Menge Potenzial. Nächstes Mal einfach pünktlich sein für einen vernünftigen Soundcheck. Lichtshow (meist in rot und blau gehalten) war nett aber auch nix außergewöhnliches, aber muß ja auch nicht immer sein. Rein musikalisch kann man eigentlich nicht viel bemängeln, denn es war ein schöner Mix aus alt und neu. Hin und wieder verhaute Robin mal einen Ton aber das macht Live-Konzerte auch so liebenswert. Und das die Jungs einfach klasse sind, spontan, gut gelaunt und anscheinend immer bereit sind das Beste aus einer Sache zu machen, bringt ihnen meinen vollen Respekt ein. Es war ein langes Jahr des Wartens aber es hat sich gelohnt! Sie haben auf ganzer Länge überzeugt und ich kann einfach nur hoffen und beten, dass sie mehr Aufmerksamkeit erfahren und von einem größeren Publikum entdeckt werden…denn die Kritiker wissen bereits, was Goldrush zu bieten haben! (Und ich nerv in der Zeit einfach alle meine Freunde weiter ; ) )

If its one thing that 2007 taught me, its that music can be a fickle thing and you can never quite pin down your opinion on an album until you’ve heard it, no matter how highly opinionated you are of a band based on their prior material. For instance, if anyone had told me last year that I would like the new Hard-Fi album more than the forthcoming Ash LP I would have laughed in his/her face. That The Thrills would release the best album of their career or Thirteen Senses would let enormo-flop Contact upon the world after the ethereal masterpiece of The Invitation?! I just can’t fathom these things anymore and find it best to go with the flow, if I toss expectations aside then maybe I won’t be so let down all the time, and pleasantly surprised more often. So anyway, my top 50. And if you disagree furiously with any particular statement on this list then do not fret and remember this…I like Jamiroquai. Enjoy!


Albums 50-6 are scored 8/10
Albums 5-1 are scored 9/10


50. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

Possessed dance-rock that’s pure adrenaline rush from start to finish, the maniacal chanting and crude, tattered aesthetic of the instrument-playing deliver a relentless thrill.

Download – ‘Atlantis To Interzone’ ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ ‘Two Receiver’s’


Magick


49. The Shadow Project - A Beauty To Fight For

Electronic post-rock in the same vein as Sigur Ros, the Suffolk quintet create a gentle aura enfolded in haunting ambient textures and serene, glacial melodies with enough rare forays into urgent riffery and quickening pace to give the whole experience significant impact.

Download – ‘Being Here (So Confusing)’


48. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Not a major departure on the lauded debut but rather an expansion, heightening the drama and internal torment to produce an album that is simultaneously majestic yet joyously OTT.

Download – ‘My Body Is A Cage’ ‘Ocean Of Noise’ ‘No Cars Go’


47. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War

Unmistakeably Stars, this is lovelorn romanticism honed to something not quite resembling perfection but pretty damn close. It’s when the band are at their most melodramatic, revelling in the heartbroken angst that they’ve become accustomed to, that the material excels. Fortunately there’s plenty of that to keep any weepy sap busy until the next failed relationship.

Downoad – ‘The Night Starts Here’ ‘Life 2 – The Unhappy Ending’ ‘Bitches In Tokyo’


46. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Tweedy reverts back to the soulful 70’s country rock of early Wilco, all swathed in a pastoral loveliness and rootsy charm. This is music in which to take solace, its steady pace and homely sounds a pleasure to invest time in.

Download – ‘Shake It Off’ ‘What Light’ ‘Either Way’


45. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit

Inbred J-pop dementia that flings any notions of conventional pop out the window with a unique and jubilant brand of intricate acoustic-guitar plucking to accommodate the bluegrass/folk stylings, an influx of vast instrumentation and off-kilter samples featuring, among others, looped bird calls and school whistles. Think early Beck being buggered by the banjo boy from ‘Deliverance’.

Download – ‘Parachute’ ‘La La Radio’ ‘Button’


Parachute


44. The Hives - The Black & White Album

Free of the unflinching, going-nowhere-fast garage punk that restrained them on Tyrannosaurus Hives, Sweden’s most comical band emerges with a slight experimental streak, giving them a (much needed) new lease of life. Here The Hives lay waste to any genre they can wrap their huge gobs around, the disco groove of T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. likened as a dropkick to a glitterball, while the casiotone ambience of A Stroll Through Hives Manor is both spontaneously hilarious and distressing. This variation on the formula makes the standard rock ‘n’ roll stomps like Return The Favour and Bigger Hole To Fill fresher instead of being bogged down in familiarity.

Download – ‘Return The Favour’ ‘Try It Again’ ‘It Won’t Be Long’ ‘Puppet On A String’ ‘T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.’


43. Cherry Ghost - Thirst For Romance

Simon Aldred turns his back on a series of failed bands to tackle a solo career and do things his own way…good move. This is alt-country that feels like its been lived in, magical textures superimposed over gritty tales, brimming with a poignant genuinity that only one man’s devotion to his own cause could have wrought.

Download – ‘4AM’ ‘People Help The People’ ‘Roses’


42. Minus the Bear - Planet Of Ice

Hyperkinetic prog-rock, all stuttering rhythms, spazzy keyboard effects and dizzy guitar that adds up to a voyage as fun as it is fabulously disorientating. When they do slow things down the results are equally rousing, with the sultry grooves of White Mystery being a particular highlight.

Download – ‘White Mystery’ ‘Throwin’ Shapes’ ‘Knights’ ‘Double Vision Quest’


41. Interpol - Our Love To Admire

By Interpol’s standards Our Love To Admire is a sub-standard effort. Its sorely missing the themes of loneliness and isolation that marked their debut such a melancholic masterpiece, instead opting for standardized sex and drugs bravado. What’s more, virtuoso and key-member Carlos D has his bass too low in the mix and the overall progression from Antics is slim at best. By any other bands standards however this is more expertly crafted post-punk, brooding with a tense, sardonic edge that radiates with a confident expertise. The jangly guitars still slice with ruthless precision and the rhythm section as taut as a bowstring. But they’re going to have to stray from the formula for the next album if they’ve any wish of staying relevant.

Download – ‘Rest My Chemistry’ ‘Pioneer To The Falls’ ‘The Heinrich Maneuver’ ‘The Scale’


40. Ghosts - The World Is Outside

Unabashed pop bliss that sets itself apart from the plastic puerility of the Feelings and Hoosiers of the world thanks to Simon Pettigrew’s unblemished falsetto and the compelling though subtle jazz/electro undertones, adding a substance and dexterity to the deceptively simple ditties.

Download – ‘Musical Chairs’ ‘Temporary’ ‘Something Hilarious’


39. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal

Synaesthetic shoegaze splendour that sounds like its arrived from another planet as conventional melodies are buried under a wave of reverb and countless assortments of extraterrestrial noise. Twins Lauren and Robin Daniels top the whole wraithlike haze off with their apparitional vocals. Unique.

Download – ‘5:15 Train’


38. Cornelius - Sensuous

Hardly the sonic leap forward one would expect of Oyamada, but who’s complaining when his sound is so distinctive. Sensuous’ bizarre concoction of technicolour pop and otherworldly electronica carries the journey along the same road but by inviting so many other genres like funk (Fit Song), ambience (Omstart) and rock (Gum) into the mix, many fascinating side-paths are explored.

Download – ‘Music’ ‘Sleep Warm’ ‘Breezin’’


Music

37. Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone

More utterly entrancing atmospherics from the instrumental Texan post-rockers, arrangements that say so little yet speak volumes. The new addition of piano into the mix only heightens the sheer grace with which they execute these aural vistas.

Download – ‘The Birth And Death Of The Day’ ‘What Do You Go Home To?’ ‘So Long, Lonesome’


36. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars

Demonic riffs, cosmic synths, face-melting psychedelia, ghostly female vocals and songs that last over 40 minutes long…it has to be the work of Acid Mothers Temple. Guitar God Kawabata Makoto and his fellow stargazing freaks reform to a cleaner production while honing the usage of jam sessions to present a mysticism meticulously moulded to the point of drug-induced perfection. Just remember what Mr Mackay says.

Download – ‘Electric Psilocybin Flashback’


35. Sam Roberts - Chemical City

Canadian singer-songwriter Roberts sounds like he’s hit a zenith with his combination of clean-cut classic rock and trippy acid-fuelled psychedelia, the styles never once waning, even in the more quieter moments where the pathos and passion still shine through.

Download – ‘Uprising Down Under’ ‘The Gate’ ‘A Stone Would Cry Out’


34. Mumm-Ra - These Things Move In Threes

Shimmering, luminous, twinkling…okay enough with the space-related adjectives. This is indie of limitless imagination and exuberance, yet it’s all contained in a starry-eyed naivety that’s compacted into sizeable pop chunks. An album worth investigating for modern pop-classic She’s Got You High, a song that somehow manages to achieve an elevating majesty and playful boisterousness in one fell swoop. At its best These Things Move In Threes provides great background music for those lengthy sessions on We Love Katamari.

Download – ‘She’s Got You High’ ‘Out Of The Question’ ‘Now Or Never’


She's Got You High


33. The Strange Death Of Liberal England - Forward March!

Barking mad post-rockers that come across like a fusion of Arcade Fire at their most temperamentally operatic, and the maritime squalor that Modest Mouse are invested with. All amid some extra morbidity and scurvy thrown in for good measure.

Download – ‘Goddamn Broke And Broken Hearted’ ‘An Old Fashioned War’


32. The Thrills - Teenager

They’ve always had it in them and now the Irish, West Coast-inspired poppers finally release their first consistent album. Laced with unrelenting melodies, hooks and harmonies, it’s an album marked with watertight precision, so concise that ne’er a second could be considered filler. Its all topped off with Conor Deasy’s marmite whine, his voice and song writing never stronger, wracked with a genuine bittersweet nostalgia. Delightful.

Download – ‘This Year’ ‘Should’ve Known Better’ ‘The Midnight Choir’ ‘I Came All This Way’


31. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

An album that needs to be listened to in its entirety to work. Two tracks in and From Here We Go Sublime begins to flow with a seamless fluidity, the looped synths, samples and beats creating a white noise that’s hypnotic and transfixing to the point of lulling the listener into a blissful state of mind.

Download – N/A


30. Yourcodenameis:milo - They Came From The Sun

Debut effort Ignoto was an ill-conceived splurge of metal-rush incoherency, so frantic that the only lasting impression it left was a huge migraine. With their sophomore album however Yourcodenameis:Milo lend the usual post-hardcore, pathological assaults with much needed direction, songs like About Leaving and I’m Impressed boasting a flair for electro-laden hooks while retaining the rabid impulsiveness. And, shock horror, they even manage to achieve the unthinkable with sci-fi love story ‘Understand’, a rare divergence into something oddly touching. It’s a shame Yourcodenameis:Milo have split up, they were just getting good.

Download – ‘Understand’ ‘About Leaving’ ‘Pacific Theatre’


29. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away

James Mercer remains one of the best songwriters putting pen to paper today, his lyricism unmatched in its intimacy and thoughtful detail. This time however the surrounding music manages to be of the same quality, Martin Crandall’s scattered trip hop beats on Sealegs and the lovely, slumbering effects that suffuse Red Rabbits ensuring that The Shins are no longer a one man band and as a result sees them a more balanced, brilliant whole.

Download – ‘Sleeping Lessons’ ‘Girl Sailor’ ‘Red Rabbits’


Sleeping Lessons


28. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

The chilling chronicles of a neglected teen are laid bare through an explosion of heavily layered guitar distortion and scabrous Glaswegian vocals that truly expose the dark core this album uncompromisingly contains. Powerful stuff.

Download – ‘That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy’ ‘I’m Taking The Train Home’


27. Saybia - Eyes On The Highway

The Danish balladeers shed the overwrought theatrics that oft appeared in previous album These Are The Days to deliver these tightened, superior anthems. If Jess Jensen’s harmonious piano reigns supreme, the band rarely strays into MOR territory, mainly thanks to Søren Huss’ enormously fervent bellow.

Download – ‘Eyes On The Highway’ ‘Angel’ ‘Pretender’


26. The National - Boxer

Boxer’s triumph is in its restrained approach which shields, simultaneously, an understated beauty and a painfully disquieting melancholy that with each listen gets under the listeners skin and refuses to leave.

Download – ‘Fake Empire’ ‘Ada’ ‘Racing Like A Pro’ ‘Squalor Victoria’


25. Blonde Redhead - 23

15 years into their career, Blonde Redhead have realized their most gratifying long player yet. This cinematic dream-pop creation, draped with swirling, lush instrumentation and doused in Kazu Makino’s alien vocal is a spectral pleasure. Sometimes eerie, sometimes tense, always invigorating.

Download – ‘Spring And By Summer Fall’ ‘23’ ‘SW’


24. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West

Miracles never cease to happen, since when were Hard-Fi this good?! Whereas other current purveyors of the dreaded lad-rock genre are content with churning out the same lowest common denominator pup-rock drivel (I’m looking at you Twang, Enemy, Reverend, Pigeons, ad infinitum) Hard-Fi actually take risks and aren’t afraid of progression. Woeful lyrics still abound but honestly…who cares! I Shall Overcome is the greatest Justin Timberlake song never written, the euphoric party rave of Little Angel is pure ecstasy and, best of all, Help Me Please is a achingly touching lament to Richard Archer’s departed mother. With such eclecticism in sight they practically transcend the chav image they’ve been saddled with. That cover is still retarded though.

Download – ‘I Shall Overcome’ ‘Little Angel’ ‘Help Me Please’ ‘Tonight’


23. cokiyu - Mirror Flake

Debut album from Japanese artist Yukiko Ito whose blend of gentle electronica and meditative vocals create such a warm hue of tranquillity, one is both transfixed by its innocent beauty and slightly concerned by an insatiable urge to grab a blanket and a mug of hot chocolate.

Download – ‘Star Takes A Rest’ ‘Piano And Frog’


22. Holler, Wild Rose! - Our Little Hymnal

Immense sound waves of such insurmountable epicness, Holler, Wild Rose! make Longview look like Jose Gonzalez. What at first is a daunting listen (songs range between 6 and 11 minutes long and are imbued with religious allegory) soon blossoms into something wholly endearing and embraceable. The all-encompassing shoegaze guitars and John Mosloskie’s sonic falsetto cast them into the perpetual stratosphere and beyond. Put in layman’s terms, you won’t hear a bigger album this year.

Download – ‘Captive Train’ ‘Holler, Wild Rose!’ ‘Poor In Spirit’


Marylawn Hair


21. Patrick Watson - Close To Paradise

Elegiac slowcore that doesn’t just rely on Watson’s sweet croon but rather the band’s joint effort in order to deploy the atmosphere-dripping mood-pieces regimented here, whether it be on the gleeful church gospel of Bright Shiny Lights or the dusty, midnight road trip setting for The Storm, every deviation in tone rings true.

Download – ‘Slip Into Your Skin’ ‘Weight Of The World’ ‘The Storm’


20. Dragons - Here Are The Roses

With a pedigree as fine as Levitation and Dark Star, veteran drummer David Francolini’s pet project could hardly have gone wrong. Combining the vice tight claustrophobia of Joy Division with the synth-led electronica of Depeche Mode, Dragons may sound derivative but not at the expense of the songs. Albert Tombling Jr.’s all-enveloping clarion-call lends the goth-dance an unswerving gravitas and oppressive weight, while the smart song writing paints a wealth of sinister imagery. One of 07’s best ‘dark’ albums.

Download – ‘Forever’ ‘Where Is The Love’ ‘Here Are The Roses’


19. Eluvium - Copia

Copia could score a Terrence Malick film and accomplish the seemingly impossible feat of outshining the exquisite cinematography one would undoubtedly witness, its sheer grace, grandeur and beauty so unparalleled. It’s ambient/classical music that demands repeated listens for it’s heart-achingly stunning compositions to click, but once it does the results are endlessly rewarding.

Download – ‘Indoor Swimming At The Space Station’


18. iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies To Lessons Learnt

Mankind, will it ever learn from its mistakes? A resounding NO would be the answer according to these enthusiasts of the past as once again they flicker through histories vast array of royal screw-ups to present to us…a whole lot of misery! iLiKETRAiNS ARE depressing, but only because they portray human despair so solemnly, whether it be through David Martin’s deeply unsettling baritone, the wryly introspective lyrics or the bruising crescendo’s that knock you about like a rag doll.

Download – ‘Spencer Perceval’ ‘We Go Hunting’ ‘Death Is The End’


Spencer Perceval


17. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly

Imagine if Casablanca featured a Humphrey Bogart far more interested in doing the jitterbug as opposed to bitterly reminiscing over a past love. Or maybe Nazis more willing to tango through the night rather than…well, rather than being total bastards. THIS album could score THAT film! Ska, old-school salsa and indie merge to form a distinct sound, delivered with a riotous energy and exotic flavour that is never less than captivating. Bravo.

Download – ‘Kid On My Shoulders’ ‘While We Go Dancing’ ‘Dinner Party’


16. Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.

Hot Hot Heat return with hot hot heartbreak as Steve Bays’ split with his long term girlfriend guarantees that their frantic, ADD pop now comes intact with sweeping orchestra and glum observations of a romance doomed never to last, despite all attempts to make it work. It’s not the marvel Make Up The Breakdown was and occasionally the self-wallowing becomes wearisome. Yet despite, or perhaps because of, HHH’s hysterical art-pop catalogue, the newly unveiled sense of vulnerability on offer is startlingly touching (Outta Heart remains one of the most accomplished ballads of the year). Happiness may be limited but HHH’s pop prowess is boundless.

Download – ‘Outta Heart’ ‘Give Up’ ‘So So Cold’ ‘Let Me In’


15. Electric Eel Shock - Transworld Ultra Rock

Bulging with all kinds of awesomeness, the Japanese rawk trio thrive on cliché-ridden lyrics, preposterous exclamations blurted in broken English and monolithic metal riffs that bludgeon their way into your cranium and ensure you’ll be humming them for days on end. Hugely infectious and, in all the primitive connotations of the word, ‘fun’.

Download – ‘Baby’ ‘Kill The Weekend’ ‘Lovin’ You’


14. Air Traffic - Fractured Life

The Coldplay comparisons aren’t entirely justified, I’d like to see Chris Martin and chums balance thrashing bumblegum-pop with the usual earnest, stadium-sized ballads in such a fluid package. That these guys do it with ease is a testament to their inherent skill. All in all a self-assured debut, containing some of the most seamless guitar/piano interactivity heard in a British indie band.

Download – ‘Shooting Star’ ‘Charlotte’ ‘No More Running Away’ ‘Time Goes By’


13. Radicalfashion - Odori

Newcomer Hirohito Ihara has crafted the seminal ambient package of the year in Odori, an album that’s anything you want it to be, conjuring one’s chosen imagery and emotions gained from these delicate passages and cementing them in mind and heart forever. The beauty is in Ihara’s subtle, minimalist aesthetic as classical piano gently soothes until the intrusion of whirring, clinical electronica threatens to steal the utopian harmony away from the listener. It’s this almost silent battle that forges the understated emotional impact within and marks Odori as a haunting experience.

Download – N/A


12. Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times

With maturity comes newfound ambition and now Kings Of Leon seem to have evolved once more, the smoke filled garage-rock of yore largely discarded to make way for a newfound, expansive breadth that echoes the stadium glory of U2, thankfully without the severe delusions of grandeur or silly glasses. This willingness to venture into such varied creativity is admirable and it’s all carried out with sufficient aplomb. It’s difficult to see how they’ll surpass this.

Download – ‘On Call’ ‘Charmer’ ‘Black Thumbnail’ ‘The Runner’


11. Kubichek! - Not Enough Night

Fuming with frustration and disillusionment, these nocturnal anthems rocket at breakneck speed, displaying a breathless array of punk dynamics that’s all killer and no filler. The band themselves are as intricate as a Swiss watch but its (former member regrettably) Alan McDonald’s bravura guitar skills that truly excel, his spiky guitar riffs coat every intro, bridge and coda with memorable hooks that sting with a merciless rage.

Download – ‘Start As We Meant To’ ‘Outwards’ ‘Roman Is Better’ ‘Nightjoy’


Outwards


10. Fields - Everything Last Winter

A dazzling, occasionally berserk cacophony of unnerving hailstorm folk and spacey synthesizer work. This stark contrast of influences is fascinating when melded together, the luscious shared harmonies of Nick Peill and Thorunn Antonia Versatile stun and Henry Spenner’s scatter-gun drum beats pervade with a trademark finesse. If only all tree huggers were this perversely entertaining.

Download – ‘If You Fail We All Fail’ ‘Charming The Flames’ ‘Song For The Fields’


9. The Hours - Narcissus Road

British music scene veterans Anthony Genn and Martin Slattery condense all the highs and lows of the past 15 years into 11 hugely impassioned piano-led laments on drug addiction and departed relatives. It’s all delivered with an acute confidence and integrity, the sound of someone finally in control of their own life after overcoming all sorts of hardships. A deeply cathartic experience.

Download – ‘Ali In The Jungle’ ‘Icarus’ ‘Murder Or Suicide’


8. The Bees - Octopus

Isle Of Wight’s best (only?) musical export revert back to the multi-genre ingenuity of debut Sunshine Hit Me with Octopus showcasing a band that are becoming increasingly hard to pigeonhole and all the better for it. Where else would one find themselves in the middle of a blues/psychedelia/reggae/60’s-era giddy-pop hybrid? And that’s just the first track! It’s not easy to indulge coherently with a palette of widespread musical styles, but to master such a technique with seemingly effortless breeze is something else. So The Bees then, they remain one of the greatest, and most loveable, bands around.

Download – ‘Got To Let Go’ ‘(This Is For The) Better Days’ ‘Listening Man’ ‘Who Cares What The Question Is?’


Who Cares What The Question Is?


7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

Having wowed everyone who dismissed them with masterpiece Howl, BRMC return to their early garage-rock sound while this time incorporating some of the more traditional instrumentation and genres that the previous album was full with. And while it never quite matches the heights reached by the aural overhaul of that aforementioned classic it is rarely less than electrifying, thriving with a vigour rarely found in even the most youthful of today’s acts. There’s no stopping them now.

Download – ‘Am I Only’ ‘All You Do Is Talk’ ‘Killing The Light’ ‘Weapon Of Choice’


6. Maps - We Can Create

One of the breakthrough talents to emerge from Britain this year, James Chapman is destined for great things if his own brand of electronica and shoegaze can be kept to this bewitching standard. It’s the mesmerising heights that these songs reach which proves most startling, bouts of ecstatic euphoria that are unbridled in their ability to elevate the listeners spirit and soar up to the heavens. It’s all accomplished with Chapman’s soothing, everyman whisper, drenched in all manner of widescreen feedback and crystalline keyboard melodies. A celestial feast for the ears.

Download – ‘Don’t Fear’ ‘So Low So High’ ‘To The Sky’ ‘Elouise’


5. Siberian - With Me

Teeming with both wide-eyed child-like wonder and erratic intensity, these astronomical guitar-driven compositions combine the wistful tones of Bends-era Radiohead with the windswept grandiosity of The Open to staggering effect. All the ingredients come to a perfect finale in the emotionally charged, pulse-racing Islands Forever, one of the finest album closers 2007 has seen.

Download – ‘Islands Forever’ ‘Belgian Beer And Catholic Girls’ ‘Georg Bendemann’ ‘Futuristic Kids’


4. The Little Ones - Sing Song

Jaunty summertime indie-pop that wouldn’t shame prime Shins, hell it even surpasses them. It’s to The Little Ones credit that the consistently joyous tunes bop along with a harmonious delight that never veers towards becoming too saccharine, thanks to the complex song-structures and resentful lyrics. If anything to go by the LP out early next year will be pop perfection…full-length style.

Download – ‘Lovers Who Uncover’ ‘Let Them Ring The Bells’ ‘Face The Facts’


3. Editors - An End Has A Start

The transition from indie gothdisco to stadium-rock can’t be an easy, or sensible, one but Editors accomplish it marvellously, Tom Smith’s booming baritone being particularly well suited to the huge desolate soundscapes these anthems occupy. Though the contemplative themes of death mean the songs are always in danger of becoming oppressively disheartening, the trademark whirlwind-tremolo courtesy of guitarist Chris Urbanowicz and Edward Lay’s flourishing juggernaut drums means proceedings are kept exhilarating amidst the morose setting.

Download – ‘Bones’ ‘The Weight Of The World’ ‘An End Has A Start’ ‘Push Your Head Towards The Air’


2. Goldrush - The Heart Is The Place

‘Life-affirming’, a term perhaps too bold to be realistically described as a quality music can offer. And yet nothing seems more aptly attributed to The Heart Is The Place, which is less a collection of songs and more a healing process for an aching soul. It’s all in Robin Bennet’s tender, breathy vocals, which are at once naturally uplifting yet tinged with a forlorn sadness. And if the reflective lyrics occasionally sound like they’re teetering towards despair in the face of an impending future, the rapturous horns, Garo’s psychedelic guitar licks and the glorious keyboard hooks reassure that everything’s going to be okay. It’s these ‘life-affirming’ virtues that mark the album as a classic, the optimism burning brightest at the end. Consider the final line of the album…“And love, that’s the only thing, keeping us here, in spite of everything”. If you leave the album not feeling the slightest bit of warmth inside then you’re either a zombie or Simon Cowell. Or both.

Download – ‘Can’t Give Up The Ghost’ ‘Yours And Mine’ ‘We Will Not Be Machines’ ‘Aperture/The Story Of The City’


1. The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own

Unfairly maligned upon release by both critics and fans alike, the truth of the matter is that this wildly diverse collection of songs effortlessly showcases just how much colossal range and talent The Cooper Temple Clause were capable of. From the wounded electro-pop of Connect to the monstrous prog-rock terror of All I See Is You (their ‘heaviest’ moment) to the heart-wrenching piano-led farewell of House Of Cards, the album marks itself a visceral triumph, so stark is its variety, yet the constant changes in genre never become jarring. So what if Waiting Game mimicked, to an extent, Snow Patrol’s calculated MOR anthemics, TCTC do it with more refinement and style, especially when ravenous metaller Homo Sapiens and ambient/jazz psych-out Once More With Feeling are within short hearing distance away. The Cooper Temple Clause were always about change and progression, the rest of the world just couldn’t keep up. Ben, Tom, Kieran, Jon, Dan, please…come back.

Download – ‘All I See Is You’ ‘House Of Cards’ ‘Head’ ‘Damage’ ‘Connect’


Homo Sapiens

check it:
-Arthur & Yu
-Au
-Au Revoir Simone
-Band of Bees
-Battles
-Benni Hemm Hemm
-the choir practice
-Dan Deacon
-Datarock
-Goldrush
-Oh No! Oh My!
-The Mercies
-Page France
-Parenthetical Girls
-The Presets
-Sea Wolf
-Snakes Say Hiss!]

Mint Records
Famous Class Records

The band is recording in June with producer Rob Campanella (The Black Angels/Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dead Meadow/The Quarter After). The band will have members featured on the album from Fono and Romak And The Space Pirates .

Hope to have another journal up soon!

BPFSFonoRomak and The Space PiratesThe Quarter AfterGoldrushThe Black AngelsBrian Jonestown MassacreDead MeadowBlack Patterns From Saturn

Aaaaah, Britpop. Them were the days!

100 GREAT BRITPOP ALBUMS!
Compiled at MAC.



The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs & Sherbert (1999)
Aqualung - Aqualung (2002)
Ash - 1977 (1996)
Ash - Nu-Clear Sounds (1998)
theaudience - theaudience (1998)
Audioweb - Audioweb (1996)
The Auteurs - How I Learned to Love the Bootboys (1999)
Babybird - There's Something Going On (1998)
Babylon Zoo - The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes (1996)
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast (2000)
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish? (2002)
Bernard Butler - People Move On (1998)
Bis - The New Transistor Heroes (1997)
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah! (1995)
The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly (1996)
The Bluetones - Return to the Last Chance Saloon (1998)
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
Blur - Parklife (1994)
Blur - The Great Escape (1995)
The Boo Radleys - Wake Up! (1995)
Campag Velocet - Bon Chic Bon Genre (1999)
Cast - All Change (1995)
Catatonia - International Velvet (1998)
The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories (1997)
The Charlatans - Up To Our Hips (1994)
Clinic - Internal Wrangler (2000)
Cornershop - When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997)
Dodgy - Homegrown (1994)
Doves - Lost Souls (2000)
Echobelly - Everyone's Got One (1994)
Echobelly - On (1995)
Echobelly - Lustra (1997)
Elastica - Elastica (1995)
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (2002)
The Electric Soft Parade - Holes in the Wall (2002)
Embrace - The Good Will Out (1998)
Garbage - Garbage (1995)
Gay Dad - Leisure Noise (1999)
Gene - Olympian (1995)
Goldrush - Don't Bring Me Down (2002)
Gomez - Bring It On (1998)
Gomez - Liquid Skin (1999)
Hurricane#1 - Only The Strongest Will Survive (1998)
Ian Brown - Unfinished Monkey Business (1997)
Kenickie - At the Club (1997)
Kula Shaker - K (1996)
Linoleum - Dissent (1997)
The Lightning Seeds - Jollification (1994)
Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out (1996)
Lush - Lovelife (1996)
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go (1996)
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern (1996)
Mansun - Six (1998)
Marion - The Program (1998)
meanswe@r - Nuisance (1995)
Monaco - Music For Pleasure (1997)
The Music - The Music (2002)
Northern Uproar - Northern Uproar (1996)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Oasis - (What's the story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Oasis - Be Here Now (1997)
Ocean Colour Scene - Marchin' Already (1997)
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals (1996)
Ooberman - The Magic Treehouse (1999)
Paul Weller - Wild Wood (1993)
Placebo - Placebo (1996)
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point (1997)
Pulp - His 'n' Hers (1994)
Pulp - Different Class (1995)
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
Republica - Deconstruction (1996)
Ride - Tarantula (1996)
The Seahorses - Do It Yourself (1997)
Shed Seven - Change Giver (1994)
Shed Seven - A Maximum High (1996)
Shed Seven - Let It Ride (1998)
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid and Sunburnt (1995)
Skunk Anansie - Stoosh (1996)
Sleeper - Smart (1995)
Sleeper - The It Girl (1996)
Space - Spiders (1996)
Spacehog - Resident Alien (1995)
Starsailor - Love Is Here (2001)
Suede - Suede (1993)
Suede - Coming Up (1997)
Suede - Dog Man Star (1994)
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic (1996)
Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997)
Supergrass - I Should Coco (1995)
Supergrass - In It For the Money (1997)
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
The Supernaturals - It Doesn't Matter Anymore (1997)
Travis - Good Feeling (1997)
Travis - The Man Who (1999)
Ultrasound - Everything Picture (1999)
The Verve - A Northern Soul (1995)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)

Thanks to everyone at the Britpop Desk.

Albums:

Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
American Music Club - Love Songs For Patriots
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
The Style Council - The Collection
Embrace - Fireworks (Singles 1997-2002)
The Little Ones - Sing Song
L. Pierre - Dip
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Jesu - Conqueror
Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
Antipop Consortium - The Ends Against The Middle
Brand New - Deja Entendu/Your Favourite Weapon (box set)
Mark Oliver Everett - Music From The Film Levity
Mercury Rev - Stillness Breathes: The Essential Mercury Rev 1991-2006
Orbital - Work 1989-2002
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Superchunk - On The Mouth
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
Fence Records - Dont Fudge With The Fence Made
Hood - Compilations 1995-2002
Epic 45 - Drakelow EP
The Triffids - Calenture
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

Singles:

The Pastels - Unfair Kind of Fame
Alamos - Silly Icarus, But You Can't Blame Him For Trying
Idlewild - No Emotion
Tracey Thorn - It's All True
Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family - She Painted Pictures

Downloaded from eMusic:

Goldrush - The Heart Is The Place
Hey Mercedes - The Weekend EP
Hey Mercedes - Unorchestrated EP
Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This
Minus the Bear - This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

General Downloads:

Duke Special - When The Bear Bytes
Belly/Tanya Donelly - Star (Demos)

Listening To =
Albums I'm Especially Looking Forward To

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust
Travis - The Boy With No Name
67 Special - The Devil May Care
Holly Throsby - Under The Town
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Used - Berth
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak
Silverchair - Young Modern (New Album 2007)
The Rakes - Ten New Messages
The Bravery - The Sun And The moon
Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This (2007)
The Horrors - Strange House
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
Idlewild - Make Another World
Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad And The Queen
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Spoon - Stroke Their Brains
iLiKETRAiNS - Spencer Perceval
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Mumm-Ra - These Things Move In Threes
Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times
Air Traffic - Debut Album (Jan/Feb 2007)
The Maccabees - Debut Album (Jan/Feb 2007) - About Your Dress
Little Man Tate - About What You Know
The Pigeon Detectives - Debut Album (Jan/Feb 2007)
Elle Milano - Debut Album (Jan/Feb 2007)
GoodBooks - Debut Album (Jan/Feb 2007)
The Cinematics- Strange Education
Interpol - Moderation
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Jamie T - Public Prevention
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
Field Music - Tones Of Town
Aqualung - Memory Man
The Hours - Narcissus Road
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
!!!(chk chk chk) - Myth Takes
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer
Low - Drums And Guns
Ghost Stories - Quixoticism
Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8
The Little Heroes - Cinematic Americana
a New Breed of Monkey - Fiendish Gadgetry
The Bird and the Bee - The Bird And The Bee
Mouthful Of Bees - The End
Wolf and Cub - Vessels
DARTZ! - This Is My Ship
Little Barrie - Stand Your Ground
Blue King Brown - Stand Up
Sea Wolf - Leaves In The Mirror
Norah Jones - Not Too Late
Rosie Thomas - These Friends Of Mine
The Higher - On Fire
Willy Mason - If The Ocean Gets Rough
The Early Years - The Great Awakening
Help She Can't Swim - The Death of Nightlife
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own
Scissors For Lefty - Underhanded Romance
The Fall - Reformation
The Frames - The Cost
Jarvis - Jarvis
Fountains of Wayne - Weather and Traffic
John Butler Trio - Grand National
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Living With The Living
The Snake the Cross the Crown - Cotton Teeth
Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
Julie Dorion - Woke Myself Up
The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear
The Go Find - Stars On The Wall
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter
Goldrush - Heart Is the Place
The Electric Soft Parade - No Need to be Downhearted
The Broken West - I Can't Go On I'll Go On
The Papercuts - Can't Go Back
The One AM Radio - This Too Will Pass
Woods - At Rear House
The Affair - Yes Yes to You
The Ripps - Long Live The Ripps
Ratatat - 9 Beats
Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
The Electric Cinema - The Electric Cinema
Les Incompétents - End Of An Error (2004-2006)
The Bees - Octopus
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs
Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson
Thirteen Senses - Contact
Yourcodenameis:milo - They Came From The Sun
WinterKids - Memoirs
Switches - Heart Tuned To D.E.A.D.
Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear
The Electric Soft Parade - No Need To Be Downhearted
Grinderman - Grinderman
Feist - The Reminder



Plus New Albums To Come From:
Editors
Cribs
British Sea Power
The New Pornographers
The Postal Service
Wolf Parade
Kisschasy
Nine Black Alps
The Rasmus
Franz Ferdinand
Athlete
Missy Higgins
Rogue Wave
The Raconteurs
The Boy Least Likely To
Harrisons
Van She
Phantom Planet
Hot Hot Heat
Voxtrot - Debut Album
Futuro - Debut Album
The Lines - Debut Album
The Rumble Strips - Debut Album
The Voom Blooms - Debut Album
Reverend and The Makers
Hadouken!
New Young Pony Club
The Twang
Harrisons

More Info To Come

For any of those that aren't ticked, or are not on this list and you think i might like. Please Let Me Know. cheers :)