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Neil Jones with the Pop Miwsig January Mix (downloadable here - [url=http://www.[spam nofollow=yes]/download/5431753347721727/]Pop Miwsig January Mix)

It’s great again to feel the incoming breeze of rebel music and energy of freedom after a few months of rather bourgeois considerations. And it’s great to say that one melody by new Ooberman project Symphonika can wipe out what seems to have been years, but what was actually weeks of “trying” to make positives out of negatives, trying to keep rebel flames flying in the face of strong winds, when of coarse positives always exist on their own and are separate of negatives anyway, and rebellion is always way past trying. The beauty of a Hermann Hesse story is not that it was adversely inspired but that it was poetically inspired. Different planes, different motives, spectacularly different results.

And actually these few weeks involved in the thrust of planning at the “Tabu project” in Cardiff have been an edifying journey into the storm. I think the best, yet most painful part of it was the night that Primal Scream came to town, and I was listening to The Jaynes at home, who we’d had play a couple of times at the club, and having to go out that night was like getting out of a warm bath in the cold, going into the packed university to see the Scream swagger and swear, rather inanely, when everything had the colour of rebel poets and affectionate Pop at home. Anyway as an ode to that look out for The Jaynes track on this oncoming mix.

So where to start? A lot has been said about twee pop of late, calls of “Kill Twee Pop” an educated reaction from the rebels who perceive the fashionable sensitivity that’s hardened around the genre. But one of the bands who’ve been acclaimed by the twee pop press have caught the ear around these parts. Norway’s Je Suis Animal are an elegantly mis-shaped bunch judging by this picture under a fashionable archway, and their ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’, which takes its title from an Edgar Allan Poe detective story based on the murder of a perfume shop assistant, has enough sophisticated allure and fascination to turn the head of a man in a neck brace. The way that singer Elin Grinstad rolls the “g” of “Roget” round her tongue in ebullient gallic fashion and bobs along with effortless wonder as the song collects and springs out into shimmering keyboard flourishes, the way an alarm bell rings on lyrical cue in the middle like an inspired, off-key insertion in a Hitchcock film, all points to Je Suis Animal’s debut album Self Taught Magic From A Book on Angular Records being a lesson in Pop cleverness, humour and mystery.

Continuing on down the path of mystery and otherly allure, and Marissa Nadler’s ‘Leather Made Shoes’ has the beauty of a rich landscape coated in light mist. A wonder shrouded in melancholy. Nadler is, unsurprisingly, a painter, excelling in “encaustic painting”, in which coloured pigments are added to heated beeswax and applied to wood, and the kind of texture that this style allows one to envisage is also evoked by her music, which has a has a dreamy, oily, colour-speckled individuality and a certain depth of warmth and beauty. One can get lost in the lyrical, swaying world of Nadler’s ‘Leather Made Shoes’, all light shades and personal wonder as it is, sweet flourishes and twists, resplendent of hand-crafted magic with a touch like a lover’s thumb on the forehead. Nadler is really something, and though she springs from Massachusetts in the US, every credit (as snooker’s John Virgo would say…) to the Cardiff label My Kung Fu for putting out her Diamond Heart / Leather Made Shoes set that this track can be found on.

Glastonbury’s Flipron have always had an otherly allure too, just the way their songs can evoke the tenderest moments amidst such dizzy melodies, the way too that they can spin the most satisfying of surreal poems to the craziest rhythms, place homely sentiments amongst exotic melodies, and ‘A Scoundrel’s Apology, Almost’ is one of their finest bits of sorcery yet, a poem of pure feeling that has an astonishing beauty, twinkling piano as if played by a weeping ghost from 1940 and a swirling-sad accordion and lapsteel running through it while Jesse Budd’s honest-to-god voice dances under good-natured stars. ‘A Scoundrel’s Apology, Almost’ is a thing of rare beauty, and one of many a variegated, brilliant cut from the band’s recent Gravity Calling set on Northampton’s Tiny Dog Records.

Flipron have a definite earthy wonder that evokes lots of genres, they feed on the most otherly-inspired corners of music history like vampires from the Outside of Everything, so it’s easy to move from them to anything under the sun. Alela Diane is a gypsy folk artist from Nevada City who taught herself to play guitar and had a stint in slow grass band Black Bear before being plucked from obscurity by the helping hand of Joanna Newsome. And Diane’s ‘The Pirate’s Gospel’ is a magnificently soothing track, full of inspiring lyricism in the finest, uplifting gospel sense and finely honed gypsy colour and sensuality, her voice a wondrous thing above it all, broad and rich, of sensuous grace. Diane’s debut LP, also titled The Pirate’s Gospel, is out now on Portland’s Holocene Music.

From Nevada City to Serbia on the gypsy gospel pirate ship via Diane, where we sail into a startling instrumental piece by Vojvodina violinist Lajko Felix and his collaborator Boban Markovic. Lajkó is known to excel in a variety of musical styles, traditional string music of the Hungarian (Pannonian) plain, Romani music, folk music, classical music, rock, blues, jazz and improvised melodies too. In concert he plays zither, but mostly the violin, either with his small group or solo, and has played with a large number of “well-known” Serbian bands and musicians, including as accompaniment for famous Japanese bhuto dancer Min Tanaka. All of which might point towards him being a crassly-brilliant circus act, except that in his playing is found an individuality and concentration of epic proportions, and this track, the mysteriously-named ‘Felix Kolo’, from a compilation LP simply entitled Serbian Ethno, is marked by whirling-dervish festivity and maverick emotional play that could hypnotise a whirlwind. Lajko’s latest LP, Remeny, is freely available from website shops, but I can’t seem to track down the label for it… More dancing Serbian ethno magic awaits.

Sailing the pirate ship on to Northern Sweden next, and Robertsfors’s Frida Hyvonen has had albums released on The Concretes’ Licking Fingers label and Jens Lekman’s Secretly Canadian. ‘London’, from her latest LP, Silence is Wild, on Licking Fingers, chimes out with dizzy opening lines of “upside down to Italy and then again – London, you’re not my friend, but you can be”, redolent of a million future dreams and adventures, with a shimmer that sweeps you off your feet. ‘London’ is a track bursting with passionate lyricism, Hyvonen’s regal voice, deadbeat, aristocratic and sumptuous over music that dreamily sways with longing and beguilement, piano melancholically trickling and keyboards lightly playing on its surface. It’s epic Pop in the shape of wonderful constellations, and Hyvonen is no doubt one to pursue further.

The romanticism of Yorkeshireman David Thomas Broughton is of a more barbed, more convoluted nature than any of the above, but still follows on down the “otherly” trail – for one imagines Broughton sitting on the very edge of New Folk, in the jester’s seat, concocting his own poems of the deep, and rubbing mud in his beard all the while. With Broughton you get none of the earnest thumb-twiddling and pretension of the beard-brigade, instead a fascinating and satisfyingly strange beguilement. ‘Execution’, from his The Complete Guide to Insufficiency, on Plug Research Records, creeps along with claps of coconuts, a pinch of humour and blasphemy, an air of deep, earthy, obsession and affection, and a dark compositional fascination. It’s as strangely affecting as you get.

Indie outsiders with yearning souls and a penchant for subtle poetic sentiments might remember Ooberman of a few years ago, who emerged from a hand-crafted world of upper-twee beauty into increasingly abstract territory, spurred on by literary, philosophic, and classical music passions, slowly morphing into Symphonika, who’s orchestral work The Snow Queen has a warmth, beauty and imagination to set one alight. The Snow Queen is an exotic adventure into the eye of a wonderful winter storm, a journey through smiles and torrents of tears, through darkness and out into bright lights, both charmingly innocent but also charmingly accomplished in the hands of burgeoning composer Dan Popplewell, and ‘Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin’, is its sweeping-most track, the spectral voice of ex-Ooberman princess Sophia Churney chiming in stunning new orchestral climes besides the strings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Popplewell has always been a substantial outsider indie figure, able to make music ring with a deeper lyrical, spiritual-poetical magic, and inspire his small fan-base to take all sorts of tangents in the wider world of art (Ooberman’s Hey Petrunko set was dually dedicated to Hermann Hesse and Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, sending wide-eyed and fascinated legions of fans scurrying out to get lost in the magic fairytales and symphonic worlds of both), and, brilliantly, he’s now completely free of commercial cares, being paid to compose music for film trailers and documentaries, so is in a position to give the whole Ooberman back catalogue away, along with a clipped versions of The Snow Queen and another recent work Dark Fairytales, all of which you can find sitting here. Please find it in your heart to put something in the contributions box though… and watch out for Popplewell and Churney’s enticingly-named Magic Theatre project this summer.

As I said earlier, Cardiff’s The Jaynes have been one of the highlights of my journey into the eye of the storm promoting a Cardiff club recently. If they ever read this I’m hoping they can reimburse me the CD I naively gave to a Merthyr millionaire on the night Primal Scream came to town (one of the band members hails from the industrial Welsh valley town so I thought the millionaire might be able to dip into his pocket for studio time for the band, or some such sponsorship), but I do have some tracks from The Jaynes’ demo left onto the computer, of which ‘Katherine’ is a short and sweet song of melancholy tones and subtle writer’s shades that equals beautiful, hand-made rebel Pop.

And then Kutosis, The Jaynes’ more commercially viable brothers, more commercially viable because there’s still a market for three-minute punk songs that kick like a mule and wear their heart on their sleeve, while Pop weeps in the margins. ‘You Told Me Devro Decides’, from Kutosis’ Yoyoyoyoyoyoyo EP, is the sound of the kids off the street smashing the right windows, reclaiming indie for the humble and excited, musically concise, rebellious, and more exciting than any bitter social commentary could ever be. It has the precocious shimmer of Ash at their best, Nu-Clear Sounds, ‘Jesus Says ’ era of course, a death rattle and bubblegum indie cool to slay Topman manikins like Sinbad did skeletons. All suffices for a decent mix I think, a small haven where the otherly meets earth and indie sparks fly.

© 2009 Neil Jones

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The January shows are ready to roll - but if you catch this announcement before Christmas ... then you might just catch a one-off special show that plays from 23:00 to midnight on 24th December. It is the lead in to this year's Festive Fifty - that starts at at midnight on Christmas day.


Festive Fifty:
Continuing a Christmas tradition started by the late John Peel in 1976, join Dandelion Radio DJs Matt, Jeff, Rachael, Pete Jackson, Mark Whitby, Neil, Simon, Rocker and Andy as they take it in turns to count down through the best 50 tracks from the last year - as chosen by you the listener! Voters picked their three favourite tunes of 2008 in October and November, and now you can hear the full results of this legendary poll in one mammoth show, repeating daily from Christmas Day until the end of January!

Andrew Morrison:
Hear Andy's musical picks of the last year, in his first show of 2009. The show features highlights from the many exclusive sessions in 2008, including Decoration, The War Crimes and Alex Canasta. There's awesome remixes of MGMT and blank + jones; album tracks from Errors, Bloc Party and Lonely Ghosts; Teresa's Tasty Tips; Scott's Funky Five Minutes; and the Atomizer track that became Andy's favourite tune of the year! Oh yeah, and you'll hear a very languid-sounding "Taz" (Teresa's cat). Don't forget that you can still hear Dandelion's 2008 Festive Fifty countdown show repeating as part of the schedule until the end of the month.

Marcelle:
The return of the Messiah

After last month's disappointing 61% vinyl guarantee Marcelle returns to form in the new year with a proud 81,1% vinyl guarantee for her January show. Furthermore the acclaimed Dutch deejay tries to attract an until now neglected kind of listener to Dandelion (babies between 0 and 2 years old) by playing not one, not two but three songs featuring babies crying (and farting and shitting).
By doing so she sneaky plays a track of her own double vinyl mix album 'DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Her Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory'. As another bonus Marcelle plays a Russian version of a familiar children's television show tune. However, Marcelle doesn't want to alienate the elderly listeners. From this month onwards she will play a 7' and a track of an album which were released 30 years ago that month. The series is called - after a famous Mark E. Smith line - 'Look Back Bore Records Of The Month' and logically features in this months show two classics from January 1979.
Some of the (now) new records by DZ & Loetech, Aardvarck, School of Seven Bells, Daniel Meteo, High Places, The Nightingales, Si Begg, Llyn Brianeno, Phokus & The Next, Duke Dumont and toxic lipstick amongst others will probably feature in the 'Look Back Bore Records Of The Month' editions of her 2039 Dandelion Radio shows.
Believe it or not: Marcelle even has the Messiah in this months show. On vinyl, what else?

Mark Cunliffe:
It's January and therefore, time for new goals. Considering Derby's strike force they'll have to be pretty big ones ...
On my show this month, Mungo's HiFi meets a Mexican called Heinz?????! prozac painkiller cheers us up with something approaching gabba ... but not quite. Polka Party turn Japanese? - D'ya really think so?? Dognoize sample a dictator (they got a Stalin tester pot from Wilko). There's some Asian psychedelia from a man called Singh. Sleaford mods are back on form at the chapel and Anthony B thinks he's Batman. There's an artist who ran out of ink when coming up with his name cos he's just called F. Kink Kong's not bothered about Ann Darrow any more, he's moved on to the campaign for the legalisation of marijuana. Enduser's copying off prozac painkiller. Queen Ifrica once again gets conscious, unlike me on New Years Eve who was more towards unconscious.
Finally we have Grievous Angel plotting to do away with The Chuckle Brothers ... and so say all of us ...

Mark Whitby:
In what has to be one of the finest ever midwinter periods in the business of foraging for new music, Mark delivers a double-handed January knockout punch in the form of the very best stuff to surface in the pre-Xmas rush as well as a whole barrage of excellent new stuff about to come your way in the early part of the new year. Among those offering relief to the old cockles are electronic winter warmers from Zombie Nation and UNUSUAL & ELECTRIC distorted new year terrorist attacks from Wavves and Grampall Jookabox among a shedload of new stuff that includes the highly anticipated album from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a much awaited demo from paraffin oil shop and a not-before-time reissue from CPC Gangbangs.
And, as the 2008 festive fifty is unveiled elsewhere in the Dandelion schedule, Mark allows himself a quick look back at the very fine festive fifty of twenty years ago and digs out some winter chestnuts including something from Stump and something else from Loop which, if they're a band who took your fancy way back when, may lead you to care to peruse the wonderful new single from a highly desirable twig from their family tree known as Pumajaw.

Matt Jones:
Describing a radio show is a bit like weighing up a boat on dry land, but with firey abstract hiphop from Oregon's owl dudes, some beautiful blissed electronica from William Fields, shouty latin samba rhythm big drum type thing from Orxata Sound System as well as a whole lot more, including a session provided for us by globetrotting Geordie Drum'n'Bass/Jungle/Breakcore artist/genius Kid Hideous, you can be sure this particular vessel is well and truly watertight, if a little overpopulated by forward slashes and comensurately lacking in full stops.

Rocker:
This month's show features live sets from The Wedding Present and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, as well as a featured LP from Hazel Winter - her new third album, entitled "Situation Normal Then". There are also new tracks from Little My; Built by snow; Dean Mcphee; The Manhattan Love Suicides; We Are Burkina Faso; and Je suis Animal.
Grace Jones gets an electro remix from Aeroplane, and there is a whole slew of aeronautical-related goodies. There is more electro from Pindrop, and Ormatie, as well as dubstep from Kode9, and plain weird shit from Plinth.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a soul 7" from 1974.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The longest artificial waterway in the world is the Grand Canal, which runs 1794 kilometres from Beijing to Hangzhou, in China.

Simon Hickinbotham:
After the absence of one whole month, its great to be back with my first show of 2009. We dive right in to the action with new songs from raw gash from Ireland, Fly Ashtray from New York, Orange Disaster from Brazil, Factory Floor from London and Pentolino's orchestra from Italy.
But we aren't just here for new stuff this time, oh no. Taking advantage of the New Year to make the point that nothing is from 2009 yet, we look back a little more than usual, to hear from festive fifty old-timers Arcwelder, a post-festive message from the Swinging Buildings, and a reminder of what went on at Bell labs in the 1970s from Laurie Speigel.
Add to all this the new "short song-long song" feature, and you have plenty to keep you happy on these long winter evenings. Enjoy!

En voyant la liste des albums les plus écoutés par les gens sur last.fm cette année 2008, je me suis dit que j'allais faire mon top (non exhaustif) aussi, alors le voici (pour l'instant dans un ordre aléatoire):

1. Library Tapes - Fragment



2. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill



3. Je suis Animal - Self-Taught Magic From A Book



4. Matt Bartram - Arundel



5. Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night



6. WHY? - Alopecia



7. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms



8. Heavïness - Heavïness



9. Growing - All the Way



10. The Lucksmiths - First Frost



11. Pumice - Quo



12. Peter Broderick - Float



13. Stereolab - Chemical Chords



14. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.



15. Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go



16. Einstürzende Neubauten - The Jewels



17. Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted



18. Horse Feathers - House With No Home



19. The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm




20. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour

Festive Fifty voting is over - and the folks at Dandelion Radio are busy finding the tracks and compiling the show - to start playing as soon as we reach Christmas Day (midnight).
Meanwhile - here are the rest of the shows that are already scheduled, including a show from new boy, Matt Jones.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's final show of 2008 celebrates both the old and the new. There's some classic selections from John Peel's past Festive Fifty polls, including The Boo Radleys, Laura Cantrell, Dave Clarke and Melys. Brand new music comes from Bloc Party, Samuraj Cities, The Race and Decoration (whose latest single is up for grabs in an exciting competition). You'll hear a track from Autons' new album that can be won in a second competition. Along with Teresa's Tasty Tips and Scott's Funky Five Minutes, you'll hear five alternative Christmas songs to get you in the mood for Dandelion Radio's Festive Fifty countdown show, broadcasting from Christmas Day until the end of January!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff marks his last show of 2008 with a three hour spectacular of this years finest head-turners (well certainly the ones that have turned his head). Top of the shop is Superman Revenge Squad who also provides December's Album of the Month with his debut 'This is my own personal way of dealing with it all'. There's another chance to hear tracks by the likes of Miami Bum Machine ,Shookz & lady ann.
First time plays of Dognoize, Kobenhavn Store & Guile. These little beauties will be joined by old favourites; Calvin Party & Dalmation Rex and the Eigentones. Also the fabulous music website Earth Monkey Productions gets a nod and a wink with two excellent examples of its electroinca brilliance.
Just in case you thought that wasn't enough the show includes two blinding live sessions by Machine Boy & Galleon. The latter will be on the bill along with The Lovely Eggs at Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night 4 at The Castle on the 18th of December. Hope to see you there.
Have a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Marcelle:
Süsswein’s premier musical education

In between travelling all over Europe to enjoy, educate and scare audiences with her wicked live sets, acclaimed Dutch deejay Marcelle has found the time to record another show for Dandelion in her cosy living room. With 7 weeks old pet hamster 'Süsswein' as her only live listener (this is not irrelevant information as Peel named his Dandelion label after his pet hamster of the same name) she recorded a three hour show which includes a glorious comeback for her favourite hiphop label Wordsound, a great mix cd from DJ/Rupture, another Ex-member collaboration and a new great duet by Robert Wyatt and a German chanteuse.
There is the usual new and brutal dubstep, the weird a cappella song and the superb religious chanting. As always in her radio shows Marcelle connects past and present: she reveals where that sample on the new Drumsound And Bassline Smith 12" comes from and plays the original 7" and she shows the brilliant musical past of the owner of the great German label Monika Enterprise.
Not to mention new records by Bearsuit, Kid 606, Death Sentence: PANDA!, Marc Houle and Food For Animals amongst others.
Totally Normal. For Marcelle it is. Comes with 61% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
It's almost Christmas and I've been on Dandelion for exactly one year now. Like the sediment in a Wilko home brew kit, I think I've just about settled.
On this month's show I play the song that a world record holder danced to in their victory celebrations. There's Caspa wondering where his money's got to. Theivery Coorperation beat up a DAB tuner and King Clarentz drops another radio bomb. Shabba D puts in a pilot for Jackanory and Zound & Ku go jungle all over us. Dungen does a bit of a Jimi Hendrix impression, El Yabo serve us some Cuban Reggaeton and Taz Buckfaster could get life for the skank he's plotting.
Finally, this show's synopsis would be extremely remiss if it didn't shout from the rooftops that Babar Luck is back with the second half of his set from The Vic in Derby.
If this show was a Christmas decoration it would be a giant bauble ..... no tinsel allowed ....

Mark Whitby:
Malory trudged home quickly in the snow. He could already hear the faint chimes of Captain Beefheart shattering the silence and he knew that what was afoot. Another Mark Whitby Dandelion Radio December special.
There's be the Listen To Me, top ten, he thought, shielding himself against the blizzard with a withered hand, featuring Whitby's favourite ten bands who introduced themselves to him during the year. And there were bound to be generous helpings of new(ish) albums by the likes of Marnie Stern, Talkdemonic and Monareta as well as tasty festive slices courtesy of Gentleman Auction House, Lowell Fulson and - he gasped almost to think of it - Jethro Tull.
He cursed into the icy wind. Why the hell couldn't Whitby leave the brandy alone? Jethro Tull, for God's sake!
But then Malory remembered the spiciest piece of plum pudding in there. A veritable selection box of Filthy Little Angels records that Whitby had sent tumbling from Santa's sleigh after aiming a dead-eye shot with his crossbow at Rudolph's nether regions. He laughed to himself. Rachael Neimann's Christmas morning would be ruined, but Whitby was churning them out to the benefit of all of us. There'd be micropenis, he didn't doubt, and Hyperbubble and that new Fantaplastic EP...and, and, and...
In his hurry to sample the goodies on offer, Malory slipped on his arse and fell face-down into the muddy slush. He was drinking the overflowing mush from the drains and he didn't care.

Matt Jones:
New boy Matt Jones steps into the palatial sonic halls of Dandelion Radio for the first time. He brings with him the varied sounds of some of the best new and unsigned music. Join him for journey into the unknown and (legally!) fill up your mp3 player along the way.
He offers up circus freak genius from the incomparable Monkeygrinder, a taste of the gypsy tinged hiphop of Degiheugi and Ghostown and an intro to the breakcore wonder of Kid Hideous. Also on the menu is a tasty smattering of digital dub, sweet, deep and mellow IDM, punk, reggae and dubstep from the likes of Talco, Gente Strana Posse and Echo_TM.
You'd be actually proper daft in the head not to listen now you've read this page. You really, really would. Cos *you might just like it... *

Neil Jenkins:
In his December show, Neil attempts to keep it a Christmas song free zone but doesn't quite manage it.
He does, however, manage to feature the LPs 'Krulle Bol' by This Is The Kit and 'Age Of Solo' by Lettie, as well as the record label Holy Roar Records.
There's also room for a couple of messages to the world from departing US president George W. Bush.
Look out too for some rather stupendous whistling going on.
Despite the relative lack of Christmas songs, mince pies and port are still MANDATORY!

Pete Jackson:
December's show features an absolute feast of festive fun. There's a brand new session from Swedish psych-popsters The Greencoats and a full half-hour of psychedelic flavours from Wooden Shjips, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, among others.
Elsewhere, there's a festive karaoke special (!) and a cheery Christmas tale from William Burroughs and Kurt Cobain to warm your cockles. Ho ho ho!

Rachael Neiman:
In honour of our very favourite time of year, December's edition of 'The Rachael Neiman Experience' is a joyous festive extravaganza, you're all invited to the Cherryade Towers Christmas party, featuring 2 hours of new Christmas songs collected over the last year.
These include tracks featured on the latest edition of the Very Cherry Christmas compilation, including The Lovely Eggs, Little My, Hotpants Romance, Fever fever, The Very Most, The Gresham Flyers, Hearts!Attack, The Seven Inches, micropenis, The Fountain and many more.
Elsewhere we have more fresh Yuletide treats from the likes of The School, Asobi Seksu, Hyperbubble, The Priscillas, Lucky Soul, Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, Holly Golightly, Shrag and many more.
Join us at Cherryade Towers for an audio mince pie and mulled wine to get your Christmas off to a great start!

Rocker:
Another packed 3-hour show, this month's featured LP is the fantastic debut from New York's Crystal Stilts. There's also new tracks from Minisnap; The Lazy Darlings; The Manhattan Love Suicides; Horowitz; Grace Jones; Je suis Animal; hot silk pockets; The Bright Lights; Luckwell; We Are Burkina Faso; wonderswan; and Killing Fields Of Ontario.
There's Dubstep from Headhunter and Mike Epic, as well as electro from Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso remixed by popov, techno from Williams, and longterm hero of the show James Holden shows how its done in the latest Radiohead remixed competition.
We include several Canadian bands this month, and discover that in Toronto at least, there seems to be a disturbing trend for bands to cover classics from the Sarah Records stable. Meanwhile back in New York, Headless Heroes cover I Am Kloot.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is an uncharacteristically maudlin track from 1959, by an artist better known as a rock'n'roller.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The world's longest conveyor belt is the Fosbucraa conveyor belt, in the Sahara desert. It transports phosphate from the mines in Bu Craa to the coast near El-Aaiun, and is 100 kilometres long.

I've just uploaded 2 out of 4 volumes of the new Eardrums compilation. The last two will be released tuesday next week. All free and legal. You can get them on http://www.eardrumsmusic.com, and please help me spread the word about these compilations.

The cover art for these two are made by the American painter/sculptor/illustrator Souther Salazar and the English Graphic designer and musician Alex Ostrowski (from Kotki Dwa).


Cover art and track listing for Volume 1:



1. Sparky's Magic Piano - Popcorn
2. Roses Kings Castles - Sparkling Bootz
3. Clay Hips - Disappointed
4. Crayon Fields - Mirror Ball
5. Pelle Carlberg - Nicknames
6. The Postmarks - 7-11 (Ramones cover)
7. Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring - I saw the lights go out
8. juni järvi - Looking at you is like looking at the sun
9. Ballads Of The Cliché - Old Friend
10. Robert Svensson - Young Punks
11. Heart-Sick Groans - Suddenly molly
12. batte - Summer Sun
13. enorma sass - Japan
14. HORSE SHOES - I can't Decide (Harvest mix)
15. Cocoanut Groove - A Gull's Wing
16. Very Truly Yours - Homesick
17. Everyday Sensations - 1 Steps 2 Step
18. afternoon naps - Postcard
19. Butcher Boy - Arbor Day
20. Wool strings - Shirley Poppy
21. The Hi-Life Companion - Jeanie Janus

Cover-art and track listing for Volume 2:


1. Like Honey - Like a song
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything with you
3. Fanfarlo - Harold T. Wilkins
4. The Kick Inside - Of Love & Flesh
5. Bonnie & Clyde - GBG 123
6. The Kabeedies - King Canute
7. Herostratos - Slumber
8. The Lodger - Falling Down
9. Silverdrop - Drown her
10. Park Hotell - Two crosses
11. Japan Air - Stars
12. Le Man Avec Les Lunettes - Apples
13. Lost in Found - November Stranger
14. Kotki Dwa - Le Beau Charcutier
15. Douglas Heart - Untitled
16. Je suis Animal - Dominating Spot in the Room
17. Boy Genius - Eleanor
18. Anthony Rochester - Special Payment Option
19. Dreamboy - You're so great
20. Irene - September Skies
21. The Hillfields - Postcard from Home
22. We Aeronauts - Fleet River

Enjoy the Good Crop Pop, and help me spread the word about this compilation!

Knut | Eardrums

Here is a list of artists and songs for the new Eardrums compilation, which I hope to have ready on the site early next week, probably on Tuesday 23. September.

The track listing is not 100% finished and putting everything together is more difficult than I expected, but all the songs have arrived (UPDATED: Songs from The Guild League and Clay Hips received today).

So, here are the songs that will be on the new 4 volume Eardrums compilation. Some are exclusive, some will be on the bands upcoming albums and some are already released.
I hope I haven't forgotten someone in the list...

Here we go, in no particular order:

The Guild League (AUS) - Incandescent
Clay Hips (GER/UK) - disappointed
The Motifs (AUS) - Notes
Ally Kerr (UK) - The truth that I have earned (acoustic version)
Sparky's Magic Piano (UK) - Popcorn
Crayon Fields (AUS) – Mirror ball
Je suis Animal (NOR) – Dominating spot in the room
BALLADS OF THE CLICHE (Indonesia) - (Song not decided yet)
Cocoanut Groove (SWE) – A gull's wing
Run Toto Run (UK) – Your face
Very Truly Yours (USA) - Homesick (Lisle from Fireflies' new band)
Paper Moon (CAN) – The one for me
Fanfarlo (UK) – Harold T. Wilkins
Darren Hanlon (AUS) – Hold on
The Postmarks (USA) – 7-11 (Ramones cover)
Pelle Carlberg (SWE) - Nicknames
Roses Kings Castles (UK) – Sparkling bootz (the solo project from Babyshambles'- drummer)
The Kabeedies (UK) – King Canute
Detektivbyrån (SWE) – Om du möter varg
The Lodger (UK) – Falling down
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (USA) – Everything with you
Melpo Mene (SWE) – I adore you
Butcher The Bar (UK) – Raspberry beret (Prince cover)
Provköket (SWE) – If I Then I But I So I
Park Hotell (SWE) – Two Crosses
Choir of Young Believers (DEN) - Claustrophobia
Rökkurró (ISL) - Heidskyr heimsendir
HORSE SHOES (USA) – I can't decide (harvest mix)
Lost in Found (JAP) – November stranger
batte (NOR) – Summer sun
Herostratos (NOR) – Slumber
Jesper Norda (SWE) - Gentle and slow with a new sharp edge
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring (UK) – I saw the lights go out
Robotboy (SWE) – Night surf
Hjaltalin (ISL) - Þú komst við hjartað í mér
Firekites (AUS) – Same suburb different park
Julie Venus (SWE) – Stumbling again
The Hi-Life Companion (UK) – Jeanie Janus
Colin Clary (USA) – Shirley Sharon
Everyday Sensations (SWE) – 1 steps 2 step
Bonnie & Clyde (SWE) – GBG 123
Dark Captain Light Captain (UK) – Questions (Chicken feed remix)
Anthony Rochester (AUS) – Special payment option
Guther (GER) – Magic
Kotki Dwa (UK) - Le Beau Charcutier
Parker Lewis (SWE) - Trouble
enorma sass (NOR) - Japan
Douglas Heart (SWE) - Untiteled
Lucy Lehmann (AUS) – Long American hugs
Richard Holmsen (NOR) – Reasons I can't explain
Wool strings (JPN) – Shirley Poppy
Butcher Boy (UK) – Arbor day
Left With Pictures (UK) – Super-8
Like Honey (SWE) – Like a song
Heart Sick Groans (SWE) – Suddenly Molly
The Kick Inside (UK) – Of Love & Flesh
The Rosie Taylor Project (UK) – Sloe gin fizz (acoustic)
Children and Corpse Playing In The Streets (NOR) – Boil in bag
Basic Shape (AUS) – White skin (the main band of Gerry Eeman from The Guild League)
We Aeronauts (UK) – Fleet river
The Heart Strings (UK) - Her new disaster
The Lorimer Sound (USA) - Notre chanson en Francais
Sambassadeur (SWE) – Crooked spine
Silverdrop (NOR) – Drown her
Boy Genius (USA) - Eleanor
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes (ITA) - Apples
Stickboy (UK) – It's OK walk away
The Hillfields (UK) – Postcard from home
Vapnet (SWE) – Jag lät bara sanningen gå
Einar Stray (NOR) - Arrows
Japan Air (SWE) - Stars
The Simple Carnival (USA) – Over coffee and tea
The Tiny (SWE) – Too heavy a burden
Dreamboy (SWE) – You're so great
Kråkesølv ) (NOR) - Hjørnebrikke
Juni Järvi (SWE) – Looking at you is like looking at the sun
afternoon naps (USA) - Postcard
Robert Svensson (SWE) – Young punks
Irene (SWE) – September skies
Knots We Tie (UK) – Blood below
Hello Seahorse! (MEX) – Won't say anything
The Asteroid Theory of Death (UK) – Where have all the blankets gone (the side-project from Fanfarlo's singer)

Does it look like it will be any good?

All of this + cover art + a pdf document with artist info will be available for free download from the Eardrums site (www.eardrumsmusic.com) next week, most probably on Tuesday the 23rd of September.

Hope to hear your thoughts and opinions!

Knut | Eardrums

Andrew Morrison:
Andy has two shows repeating every day in September's schedule on Dandelion Radio. His two hour regular show features two brand new sessions: one from John Peel faves Decoration, the other from Fidgital. Decoration's second session for the show includes exclusive versions of material from their forthcoming second album 'See You After The War' and a mystery cover version. Fidgital contribute an innovative live violin and decks set as their session tracks. There's also a live recording from Alex Canasta's album launch party in Copenhagen at which Andy was a guest DJ, as well as an exclusive new remix of a track from the album. The show also has several tracks from bands playing at September's Bestival on the Isle of Wight and the excellent 12" version of Bloc Party's new single 'Mercury'.
The latest instalment of the occasional Andy's Archives finds him once again rummaging randomly through his sizeable record collection for an hour, picking lots of excellent tracks that are at least ten years old. Choices this time around include Mansun, Billy Bragg, The Future Sound of London, Arab Strap, Dubstar, The Prodigy, All About Eve, and many more. Join Andy for this aural trip down memory lane, with classic and obscure selections for your listening pleasure.
Listen out for Andy presenting a show on Bestival FM, live from the festival site on Saturday September 6th from 9am 'til 10am - broadcasting to the entire Isle of Wight on 87.7MHz FM and the world at http://www.bestival.net!

Dubster:
As we near the end of another glorious British summer...ahem, Steve and Brian bring you 3 more hours of sunshine from Scotland's T in the Park and the Wickerman Festival. Having secured press passes for both, marvel as they try desperately to secure interviews with musical icons, struggling with recording levels and a recently aquired addiction to Pimms along the way.
There are interviews galore with some of Scoltand's finest upcoming musical talent and a few surprise guests, plus a cracking set of tracks from performers at both weekends. So don't be putting away the tent and soft bog roll yet, let us take you on one more summer festival journey before the onset of dark nights and colder weather once more drag you into the depths of misery and self pity.
Will they get to speak to Mark E Smith, Glasvegas or Annie Nightingale? ... You'll just have to tune in to find out.
Wagon roll!!

Jeff Grainger:
Hello again! My Show for September is a two hour bonanza of Myspace finds; (KateGoes and Jujuman to name two.) mixed with Northern Soul resplendence; (Could this be Bill Cosby’s debut on Dandelion Radio?) Topped up with brilliant tracks of yore from the likes of Sister Nancy and Paul Rooney and equally brilliant tracks of the ‘Now’ with Warning! Heatwave, The Beep seals and Clutter vs Susan Matthews. Gabrielle’s Wish bring us this months featured Album with the jaw dropping-ly awesome ‘Portal’. Cornerstone to the proceedings is a nod to the late great Isaac Hayes
As a final touch, in a desperate attempt, to usher in the start of Oldham’s Dandelion Radio Nights starting the Thursday 25th of September. (See News/Events page) There’s a track from each of the Bands on the bill; Bingo Jesus, Rev Porl with Teatime, My Captive Audience and Contra Mundum.
Right lets get to work on Octobers’ Goodies

Mark Cunliffe:
It's September and the leaves are going to start falling to the ground quicker than Didier Drogba feeling a puff of wind in the penalty box. On the show we have a recording of Derby's king of drum & bass, Iziah DC live from The Vic Inn. For his live shows he employs the talents of P.Fine on MCing duties and M Alton on sax.....it's BIG! As well as that we have Sugar Bill getting all boombastic on us. There's No.Lay spitting some truth and Nigel Mansell makes an appearance but only under the guidance of Brighton's Chevron. For the kids we have a visit to London Zoo courtesy of The Bug. sarandon has a Massive Haircut but hopefully not a Gianluigi Buffon. Vex'd finally gets a look in (I've been meaning to play it for MONTHS....sorry Vex'd). Top Cat goes a bit jungle on us in an old skool stylee. Damien Shingleton's found a band and has gone Tunng like which meets approval round these parts. Finally, The Rocky Nest feel things are moving in a promising fashion which is a nice positive note to end on I think.... :-)

Pete Jackson:
September's show sees us invite a few mates round to console us as summer finally gives up and disappears. The Greencoats take a trip from Sweden, Lucy and The Popsonics pop round from Brazil, and Stereolab and Dr Usui join us from space (probably) to enjoy some crazy psychedelic rock from India and Nigeria and some irreligious bluegrass from The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.
Plus we warm up for the first Dandelion Radio night in Warrington on September 19th with some classic live mayhem from headliners Lovecraft.
See you down the front!

Rachael Neiman:
In September’s very special edition of ‘The Rachael Neiman Experience’, we have two extra special guests, Ste Mccabe and Paul Forster who are joining us to talk about the forthcoming Ladybois – Men and bois who support Ladyfest’ Ladyfest Manchester fund-raising extravaganza and play some of the bands who will be performing at the event, including Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies and The Seven Inches. We also play a couple of songs from Ste’s forthcoming debut album Hate Mail. Paul and Ste also pick some favourite tracks from the likes of Tender Trap, Cars Can Be Blue and a couple of golden oldies from The Popguns and Huggy Bear.
Elsewhere we have riot grrrl goodness from Trickbabies, Violet Violet, micropenis, Postcode, dark pop from Fuck Dress, Captain Polaroid and Paul Hawkins plus sublime indiepop from KateGoes, Mexican Kids At home, Shrag, Silence At Sea, Socks and Shoes, The Deirdres, Awesome Wells, The Tony Head Experience, Hyperbubble, ShiSho, Gnu and the shrew and Cherryade's amazing new signings The Lovely Eggs. We also take a chance to celebrate the release of the Best Of Fortuna Pop! Compilation and the upcoming ‘Remembering Slampt’ festival in Newcastle by playing a classic track from Spraydog.

Rocker:
September brings another packed three hour show from Rocker. There's live tracks from the current LP by The Manhattan Love Suicides, and more new tracks than you can shake a stick at, unless you try quite hard. Or are very good at shaking sticks at large numbers of things.
There's tracks from The Wave Pictures; The Brazen; Bakers at Dawn; Je suis Animal; the Tamborines; Engine; The Bumblebees; Lonely Boy; Skream; Puerto Muerto; Coming Soon; Ballboy; Flannel; and (the) Nervous Rex. Also new singles from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart; Phil Wilson; Fuck Dress; and Pete Green; as well as techno / electro from facundo mohrr; The Chemical Brothers; Sennh; and Ricardo Tobar.
The Charlatans; Laura Cantrell; and Jeremy Warmsley all cover songs by the same act from the 80s, there's a remix of a classic 80s track by Laurie Anderson, and this month's Peel's big 45 is a seminal electronic reggae track from the same era. There's also a brace of classic 60s soul records, in tribute to two of the great singers who we have lost in the last few weeks.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The Manhattan Love Suicides are named after a series of raw and extreme erotic short films from 1985 by New York underground filmmaker Richard Kern, who also directed the "Death Valley 69" video by Sonic Youth.

Simon Hickinbotham
This month's show is a staggering 92.8% music, so that means only 7.2% glitches, mumbling, false starts and pauses whilst frantically hitting alt+tab. Of the musical content, 30% is from Britain, (including Ugly Billy, Dub Syndicate, The Polaroids and Little Boots), 7% is from Japan (Velocityut and IN CORRIDORS), and 3.5% each from Italy (Gum) and Germany (Phonotones).
We have two songs from fifties America - I didn't plan it, it just happened that way, and to give more details here would spoil the surprise. However, I can reveal that we'll also be hearing a track from Pepe Kalle - one of the African artists that, to quote John Peel "will make you dance until you bleed".

Yank Sizzler:
Come lament the end of summer with me on the Yank Sizzler this month. We will fight the coming of shorter days with awesome new music from Bodies of Water, Suzannah Johannes, Coat Party, The Wilders, Eli Paperboy Reed & Anna Kramer.
The fortifications of our spirits will be strengthened by superb classics from Dr. Alimantado, Tom Waits, Ken Boothe, Percy Mayfield and Galaxie 500.
Lastly the tunes of Bembeya Jazz National, King Khan, DJ Donna Summer, Modeselektor, Vivian Girls, Blood on the Wall and CPC Gangbangs will ensure that we do not go quietly.

Alright, so we're well past the halfway mark of 2008, and while it's a bit early for me to start making a top 20, I still like to make a journal of all the releases I've heard in a year, to keep track of them for myself, and hopefully to help someone else find something good. This will be updated on pretty much a daily basis, as I have a substantial backlog of music that I have yet to really piece together my thoughts on, or to even listen to at all. Also, I encourage recommendations, and nothing is off limits, so don't be afraid to toss something out there!

Oh, and feel free to let me know if I should perhaps re-evaluate some of these albums. Sometimes really great material can get lost in the mix, and I'm sure I'll be periodically changing some of these ratings as it is.

Italicized text indicated album ratings added at last update.

Bold text indicates albums that should be picked up pretty much no matter what. Note that these are not necessarily the albums with the highest scores, but ones that have stood out as something special. These are the best of the best.

Bolded Albums: 48
Perfect Score Albums: 4
Last Update: Saturday, December 20

Albums Rated: 141

65daysofstatic - The Distant And Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties
7/10

AC/DC - Black Ice
7/10

Adam Linder - Burning Up
8/10

afternoon naps - Can't Stop the Weather EP
6.5/10

Agalloch - The White
9/10

Alt-Ctrl-Sleep - Alt-Ctrl-Sleep
7/10

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
8/10

Architecture in Helsinki - Like it or Not
8/10

Au - Verbs
7/10

Aves - Officious
7.5/10

Beach House - Devotion
6/10

Beck - Modern Guilt
8.5/10

Big Delusion - Rock Bottom
7/10

The Big Sleep - Sleep Forever
8.5/10

Billie the Vision & The Dancers - I Used To Wander These Streets
8.5/10

Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
7.5/10

The Black Keys - Attack & Release
6.5/10

Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
7.5/10

Black Mountain - In The Future
8/10

Blank Dogs - On Two Sides
6.5/10

The Blue Seeds - The Blue Seeds
8/10

Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling
7.5/10

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
9.5/10

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
5/10

Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears - Flight Of The Knife
7.5/10

Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street
7/10

Cat Power - Jukebox
9/10

Clark - Turning Dragon
6/10

Coldplay - Prospekt's March
5/10

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
8.5/10

Cranes - Cranes
7.5/10

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
8/10

Damiera - Quiet Mouth Loud Hands
7/10

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
9/10

Dawn Landes - Fireproof
7/10

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
6.5/10

Deerhunter - Microcastle
9/10

Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont.
6/10

Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
8.5/10

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
2/10

Don Chambers & GOAT - Zebulon
8/10

Dosh - Wolves and Wishes
9/10

The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia...
5.5/10

Echo Is Your Love - Lion Tamers vs. Tigers
8/10

Electric President - Sleep Well
7.5/10

Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
8.5/10

Envy / Jesu - Split
8/10

Fiction Nation - Altered State
6/10

The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life
7/10

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7.5/10

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
9/10

Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
7/10

The Funeral Drums - Songs of the Collective Age
8/10

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
8.5/10

Glasvegas - Glasvegas
8.5/10

Glissando - With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea
9/10

Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
5/10

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
8/10

Guillemots - Red
8/10

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
4/10

Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
8/10

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
7.5/10

I Call Shotgun - I Call Shotgun
6.5/10

I'm From Barcelona - Who killed Harry Houdini
8.5/10

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
6/10

The Imaginaries - Another Side Of The Imaginaries
8.5/10

The Imaginaries - Exoskeleton
7/10

The Imaginaries - The Imaginaries and Nico
8/10

The Imaginaries - Spider Legs EP
7.5/10

Je suis Animal - Self-Taught Magic From A Book
7.5/10

Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
10/10

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong - Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
7/10

Johnny Flynn - A Larum
9/10

Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'til It Was Light
7/10

Justin Gray & The USB Orchestra - I am ok
8/10

Karkwa - Le volume du vent
9/10

Killing the Dream - Fractures
8/10

Kind of girl - Lonely in a modern way
6.5/10

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
9/10

The Living End - White Noise
4.5/10

Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
9/10

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
9/10

Lykke Li - Youth Novels
6/10

M83 - Saturdays=Youth
10/10

Marnie Stern - This Is it and I Am it and You Are it and so Is That and He Is it and She Is it and it Is it and That is That
8.5/10

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
6/10

Meiko - Meiko
8/10

The Meltdowns - Them Letdowns
6.5/10

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5/10

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
9/10

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
9/10

Nada Surf - Lucky
5.5/10

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
8/10

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
6.5/10

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
8/10

No Age - Nouns
4/10

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
5/10

of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
7.5/10

Opeth - Watershed
6/10

Oxford Collapse - Bits
6.5/10

Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws - Weather's Coming...
10/10

Pompeii - Nothing Happens For A Reason
8.5/10

Porn On Vinyl - I spent the night thinking, with short periods of sleep, interrupted by visions
7.5/10

Portishead - Third
8.5/10

R.E.M. - Accelerate
9/10

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
7/10

Rivers Cuomo - Alone II: The Home Recordings of RIvers Cuomo
8/10

Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
7/10

Set The White Flags On Fire Slowly - [album artist=Set the White Flags on Fire Slowly[/album]Even If The Proletariat Takes The Power Into Its Own Hands, The Spring Will Be Left For Us, And The Aims Of War Will Remain The Aims Of War[/album]
8/10

She & Him - [album artist=She & Him]Volume 1[/album]
6.5/10

Shearwater - [album artist=Shearwater]Rook[/album]
8/10

Sigur Rós - [album artist=Sigur Rós]Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust[/album]
9.5/10

A Silver Mt. Zion - [album artist=A Silver Mt. Zion]13 Blues for Thirteen Moons[/album]
9/10

sister city - [album artist=Sister City]Foma[/album]
7/10

Skipping Girl Vinegar - [album artist=Skipping Girl Vinegar]Sift the Noise[/album]
8.5/10

The Smashing Pumpkins - [album artist=The Smashing Pumpkins]American Gothic[/album]
4/10

The Sound of Animals Fighting - [album artist=The Sound of Animals Fighting]The Ocean and the Sun[/album]
8/10

Sparks - [album artist=Sparks]Exotic Creatures of the Deep[/album]
7.5/10

Spiritualized - [album artist=Spiritualized]Songs in A&E[/album]
7/10

Starfucker - [album artist=Starfucker]Starfucker[/album]
9.5/10

Sugar Daddy - [album artist=Sugar Daddy]This Ain't No Party This Ain't No Disco[/album]
9/10

The Summer Set - [album artist=The Summer Set]In Color[/album]
8/10

Susan Tedeschi - [album artist=Susan Tedeschi]Back to the River[/album]
7.5/10

The Tallest Man on Earth - [album artist=The Tallest Man on Earth]Shallow Graves[/album]
9/10

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - [album artist=Thao with the Get Down Stay Down]We Brave Bee Stings and All[/album]
8/10

That's Adultery - [album artist=That's Adultery]Prostitution, Promiscuity, and a Bunch of Other Things[/album]
7/10

Thee Oh Sees - [album artist=Thee Oh Sees]The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In[/album]
6/10

This Town Needs Guns - [album artist=This Town Needs Guns]Animals[/album]
8.5/10

Tilly and the Wall - [album artist=Tilly and the Wall]o[/album]
8.5/10

Tim Ten Yen - [album artist=Tim Ten Yen]Everything Beautiful Reminds Me of You[/album]
7.5/10

The Ting Tings - [album artist=The Ting Tings]We Started Nothing[/album]
6.5/10

TV on the Radio - [album artist=TV On The Radio]Dear Science,[/album]
8.5/10

Tyler Ramsey - [album artist=Tyler Ramsey]A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea[/album]
7/10

Vampire Weekend - [album artist=Vampire Weekend]Vampire Weekend[/album]
7.5/10

Various Artists (Broken Social Scene, FemBots) - The Tracey Fragments OST
8.5/10

We Versus The Shark - [album artist=We Versus the Shark]Dirty Visions[/album]
8/10

Weezer - [album artist=Weezer]Weezer (Red Album)[/album]
8/10

White Guys Jumping - [album artist=White Guys Jumping]Outside[/album]
7/10

WHY? - [album artist=Why?]Alopecia[/album]
10/10

Wolf Parade - [album artist=Wolf Parade]At Mount Zoomer[/album]
8.5/10

Women - [album artist=Women]Women[/album]
7/10


Check back often for updates, and again, feel free to critique my list and/or give suggestions!