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Milagres

Glowing Mouth

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MI0198LP

Release date

16 Jan '12

‘Glowing Mouth’ is the breathtaking debut album from Brooklyn five piece Milagres (Portuguese for ‘miracles’ pronounced mil-ahh-gris).

From the opening bars of ‘Halfway’ this is an album of languorous splendour and easy grace, the ambitious musical scope matched by main man Kyle Wilson’s swooping, soaring vocals.

Milagres deliver recurring images of empty beaches, shafts of light, isolated mountain ranges and memories of childhood.

With Kyle Wilson’s vocals sitting comfortably in the lineage of great rock falsettos, from Prince to Wild Beasts, ‘Glowing Mouth’ is a record remarkable for its confidence and poise, dynamics and drama.

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Darryl says: A fabulous debut album from this Brooklyn five piece. Delicate and intricate with an effortless swooning grace, this is intelligent and thoughtful music that belies the bands tender years.

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Elephant

Assembly EP

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Debut EP from hotly tipped London based band.

Elephant are Amelia Rivas (vocals, keys) and Christian Pinchbeck (guitars, computers).

French-by-way-of-Pontefract chanteuse Amelia Rivas met Christian Pinchbeck back in May 2010, since when they’ve been quietly creating some hauntingly fragile songs with a sense of mystery and history that belies their teenage years, picking up strong radio and press support along the way.

Elephant are heading out on tour for the first time, supporting Chapel Club and Casiokids, as well as appearing at SWN Festival

Currently writing toward their debut album which is due some time in 2012.

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Darryl says: A beautiful debut EP, from this duo with lots of promise. Recalls the likes of AR Kane and Microdisney at their pomp. Can't wait for the album!!

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The Go! Team

Rolling Blackouts

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The Go! Team return with album number three, including guest appearances from Bethany Best Coast and Satomi from Deerhoof. If you bought the previous two Go! Team albums then you're in for another treat here, albeit one that doesn't differ much from its predecessors. Charging headlong into a blistering mash-up of b-boy hip hop breaks, catchy indie guitar hooks, easy-pop melodies and bratty rap (all with nuff treble to make your ears ring), "Rolling Blackouts" is like being mugged by hand-clapping ADD tweenies in an inner city playground. Boisterous, energetic, and with an infectious charm, it's hard not to love The Go! Team's sunny demeanour.

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The Phoenix Foundation

Buffalo

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MI0170CD

Release date

24 Jan '11

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"Buffalo" is the latest album from kaleidoscopic pop group The Phoenix Foundation, whose last album "Happy Ending" (originally released on the legendary Flying Nun label), had critics hailing them as New Zealand’s best kept secret.

From intelligent and infectiously catchy pop / rock gems, to epic, psychedelic prog rock, "Buffalo" combines sun bleached harmonies, chiming guitars, progressive synth scapes and subliminal rhythms to glorious effect.

“Surely the most potent band to come out of New Zealand since the far-off days of the Chills… Gorgeous” - The Independent (5 stars)

“The future, and the past, seldom sounded so delightful” - Q.

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Martin says: While most bands are supernovae, all explosive energy and creativity expended in one brilliant moment before quickly fading, there is another rarer form that reaches maturity more slowly, honing and developing its craft and tending to have a much longer productive life. Auckland’s Phoenix Foundation have taken 10 years to realise the sublime, effortless meander of “Buffalo”, and it’s quickly apparent from the album’s opener, “Eventually” that it’s been well worth the wait. Its drifting, captivating languor sets the scene for the rest of the LP, which manages that difficult balance of being entirely good natured without being trivial and laid back without being soporific. Their engaging psychedelic pop is easily carried by vocal harmonies and hooks that stick, earworms that caress rather than annoy. If you haven’t been reeled in by the gentle glow of “Golden Ship”, which closes the album, then you probably never will be and, frankly, there’s probably something wrong with you.

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1. Eventually
2. Buffalo
3. Flock Of Hearts
4. Pot
5. Bitte Bitte
6. Skeleton
7. Orange & Mango
8. Bailey's Beach
9. Wonton
10. Golden Ship

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Frankie Rose And The Outs

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"Frankie Rose And The Outs" is the debut album from ex-Vivian Girl Crystal Stilt, and Dum Dum Girl Ms Frankie Rose.

Frankie, with her former bands, has been at the forefront of a scene that mixed the sounds of lo-fi garage, big reverb-drenched Phil Spector-produced 60s girl groups, the noise aesthetic of the Jesus And Mary Chain with a touch of Velvet Underground and a strong DIY ethic to create a sound that’s influenced a new generation of bands around the world.

On her new group’s self-titled Memphis Industries debut, Frankie Rose And The Outs have their heads in the clouds a bit more than Rose’s previous projects.

Listening to the ghostly golden oldie grooves of songs like "Candy" and the pedal-pounding "That’s What People Told Me", it’s as if the Cocteau Twins and Shangri-Las made a split album with the help of a time machine and a freshly-acquitted Phil Spector.

STAFF COMMENTS

Darryl says: Riding on the current wave of cute 60s bubblegum sounds ala Best Coast comes Frankie Rose's new band. Lo-fi meets Spector-esque reverb meets JAMC's noise aesthetics, and hits now!

Abs says: Includes a gorgeous version of Arthur Russell's "You Can Make Me Feel Bad".

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1. Hollow Life
2. Candy
3. Little Brown Haired Girls
4. Lullabye For Roads And Miles
5. That's What People Told Me
6. Memo
7. Must Be Nice
8. Girlfriend Island
9. You Can Make Me Feel Bad
10. Don’t Tred
11. Save Me

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Tokyo Police Club

Champ

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MI0157CD

Release date

19 Jul '10

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Initial quantities will be accompanied by a free bonus CD featuring Passion Pit and DOM remixes of "Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)", a collaboration with Born Ruffians, and bonus track "Young Vincent Price".

The follow up to 2007’s mini album "A Lesson In Crime" and the 2008 full length debut "Elephant Shell", "Champ" was recorded in spring on 2010 in LA, with Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith) on production duty. "Champ" manages to encompass the compelling tautness and energy of "A Lesson In Crime" with the sweet melodic introspection of "Elephant Shell", ending up as Tokyo Police Club’s most fully realised work to date. Stand out songs include the electronic pop of "Bambi", the curiously titled opening duo "Favourite Food" and "Favourite Colour" and the urgently anthemic "Boots Of Danger (Wait Up)".

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Darryl says: After loving their first mini album, "A Lesson In Crime", and being a bit disappointed with the full lengther "Elephant Shell" I wasn't sure what to expect with "Champ". But I'm pleased to report that Tokyo Police Club are back on track, "Champ" showcases a bright and fresh sound with melodies falling over themselves in urgent abandonment.

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01 Favourite Food
02 Favourite Colour
03 Breakneck Speed
04 Boots Of Danger (Wait Up)
05 Bambi
06 End Of A Spark
07 Hands Reversed
08 Gone
09 Big Difference
10 Not Sick
11 Frankenstein

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Field Music

Field Music (Measure)

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Cat Number

MI0149CD

Release date

15 Feb '10

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Gatefold double CD.

Following a self-imposed three year hiatus Sunderland's Field Music return with a new 20 track double album. Powered, as ever, by brothers and co-front men Peter and David Brewis, "Field Music (Measure)" is a gloriously rich LP that entwines the brother's renewed love of the rock music cannon with a rediscovery of some of pop's overlooked adventurers.
From the dissonant funk of "Let's Write A Book" (a call to arms for the perpetually apologetic), the mutated blues of "Each Time Is A New Time" (a riposte to misplaced faith in repetition), the chopping and splashing pop of "Them That Do Nothing" (perhaps about a valiant willingness to make mistakes), the multilayered riffery of "The Rest Is Noise" or the epic found-sound song cycle that starts with "See You Later" "Field Music (Measure)" is the sound of one of the UK's finest bands in supreme and confident control.

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1. In The Mirror
2. Them That Do Nothing
3. Each Time Is A New Time
4. Measure
5. Effortlessly
6. Clear Water
7. Lights Up
8. All You'd Ever Need To Say
9. Let's Write A Book
10. You And I
11. The Rest Is Noise
12. Curves Of The Needle
13. Choosing Numbers
14. The Wheels Are In Place
15. First Come The Wish
16. Precious Plans
17. See You Later
18. Something Familiar
19. Share The Words
20. It's About Time

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Theoretical Girl

Divided

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Recorded last autumn in North London, "Divided"s twelve tales of unrequited love, mistakes and regrets are juxtaposed against twisting melodies and grooves, as evidenced on features recent singles "Rivals" and "Red Mist".

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Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards

Saltwater

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Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards is the new project from the voice of Absentee. "Saltwater" ushers in a starker, more fragile sound. Melancholy has never sounded so inviting. The album features contributions from The Rumblestrips, The Magic Numbers, Broken Family Band and Fields, amongst others.

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The Week That Was

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New album from the Sunderland based Field Music stable this time helmed by Peter Brewis. An epic 32 minutes, sonically inspired by the Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Japan and Peter Gabriel. A loosely conceptual album based around a dreamt up murder mystery and the strain between the public's reliance and distrust of mass media.

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El Perro Del Mar

From The Valley To The Stars

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El Perro Del Mar is the alter ego of Sarah Assbring. Her second album is an opus, chock full of non-traditional folk songs that explore the world at large. She's joined at times on the record by members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphonic Choir.

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The Ruby Suns

Sea Lion

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"Sea Lion" is a massive step forward from the critically adored 2007 debut record. Whereas the first leaned heavily on the influence of Brian Wilson, "Sea Lion" displays a dizzying breadth of musical styles from African and Polynesian folk music, to flamenco, to eighties synth pop, to Disney movie soundtracks.

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Arthur & Yu

In Camera

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Arthur & Yu are Seattle's answer to Nancy & Lee. A beautifully hazy record, "In Camera" is the perfect album to compliment the coming of Autumn. Think drifty, 60s, folky pop, half Velvets for its lo-fi simplicity and half West-coast dreamland for its otherworldly laidbackness. Lovely.

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Blue States

First Steps Into...

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Having mutated into a trio for the last Blue States album "The Soundings", Andy Dragazis is back on his own as a one-man band again for the follow up. "First Steps Into..." is one of those upbeat downbeat albums, taking that anthemic indie-rock song template and applying it to instrumental music, or bringing us the kind of breaks-driven cinematic UNKLE are so fond of. Chock-full of lush strings, soaring synths and strong melodies, this album is sure to find space in your CD collection.

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Field Music

Tones Of Town

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The second album from Sunderland's Field Music, and it's an absolute beaut! It's a prog/pop meltdown with lush Beach Boys' harmonies being constantly scuppered by the maddest arrangements and crazy/cool detours. Some of the playing is of the highest order but there's nothing pompous here, it's a completely playful record. The only band who come close are XTC. Now that's a recommendation for you!

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The Black Neon

Arts & Crafts

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Formerly one half of Fort Lauderdale, The Black Neon returns as a solo artist mixing pop with experimental to dizzying effect. "Arts & Crafts" brilliantly combines elements of Beatles-esque pop, 60s psyche, electronica, and even Prince, but it's the Kraut-rock style motorik rhythms underpinning the whole album that really set it apart.

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Field Music

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The band are Peter Brewis, David Brewis and Andy Moore – together they are godfathers of the Sunderland scene having produced The Futureheads first single, and set up the mysterious 8 Studio where the Golden Virgins, Maximo Park and The Futureheads recorded their first material. Theirs is a very different musical path though, weaving a distinctly English route, their psyche tinged pop songs with falsetto vocals, piano, viola and violin in the mix create an intriguing sound - a bit Syd Barrett, a bit Sgt. Pepper, a bit XTC with a bit of Robert Wyatt thrown in for good measure.

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Absentee

Donkey Stock

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Melancholic, poignant and witty, Absentee's debut mini album offers a peepshow view of their world. Equal parts humorous, tragic, dour and dirty, "Donkey Stock" is a rich, confident debut. While Dan Michealson's distinctive drawl tells tales of love gone sour and awkward sex, the band lilt and lunge with genuine passion. For reference think Smog at their most tuneful or Leonard Cohen on happy pills backed by The Velvet Underground.

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J Xaverre

These Acid Stars

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Having gained his reputation blending electronica with his songwriting instincts, J Xaverre (AKA Pete Gofton ex-Kenickie) has made an album several notches up from his previous lo-fi explorations. Described by Jockey Slut as being 'fashioned in the vein of a one man Beta Band'.

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Fort Lauderdale

The Chilling Place

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A weird and wonderful combination of soaring vocals, drunken horns and bubbling synths. The title track is taken from the forthcoming "Pretty Monster" album and comes backed with two new tracks "She's In Bloom" is a lovely Velvets-esque song, and "Incantation" is a cover version of a Bruce Haak track.

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Fort Lauderdale

Rock 'n' Roll

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Over its three and a bit minutes, "Rock And Roll" charts a journey from the regret of the moning after the night before, through (with the help of hard riffing synths, piano, strings and of course guitars) to the euphoria of yet another night of decadence.

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