Panic
War of Words
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Our new pop crushes – if Girls Aloud has grown up with older brothers who liked Massive Attack, this is what they’d be making.
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Twin Rays
Gung Ho
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If Tennis came from Brisbane and had some mathy sensibilities, they’d come over like this gorgeous slice of surf pop perfection.
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Flutterby
Starlight Girls
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Brilliantly theatrical and full of knowing nods to 60′s girl groups and spooky vaudeville nights, we love. A lot.
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Middle Child Syndrome
Pet
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There’s a claustrophobic distance to this track, and if that confuses you, once you hear the way it all comes together, you won’t accept any other description.
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Teenage Doom
Dolfinz
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A gloriously lo fi surf racket just made for playing back through thru a tinny house party system whilst getting hammered on Jagerbombs.
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Never and Ever
Whales in Cubicles
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Like a kinda fuzzier Weezer with some guest tweaks from Cymbals Eat Guitars in their best Pavement mood. They’re giving this away, so go get.
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Anger
Wolf In a Spacesuit
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Full of gorgeously light touches with a great freaky disco breakdown and a vocal lying like Mr Whippy atop this electronic chamber pop confection.
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Bottle
Texture Like Sun
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Redolant of Deus’s Little Arithmetics, it has the same sweet longing and restrained, back room production feel to it and some great use of whistling – so hard to do well.
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Heavens Below
Wet Nuns
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Heavy assed blues punk n roll with a twist of redneck bottle bashery about them, this’ll get you doing that guitar face your girlfriend doesn’t find attractive.
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Falling Wood
Joseph & David
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You can check all the new names in folk & atmospherics, such as Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, Mumford, Beirut et al, but really, the vocals and arrangements are all their own.
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