One Zombie in a Billion

(via nme.com)

• Bloc Party – ‘Silent Alarm’
• Hard-Fi –’Stars Of CCTV’
• Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Employment’
• MIA – ‘Arular’
• The Magic Numbers – ‘The Magic Numbers’
• Coldplay – ‘X&Y’
• The Go! Team – ‘Thunder, Lightning Strike’
• Antony And The Johnsons – ‘I Am A Bird Now’
• KT Tunstall – ‘Eye To The Telescope’
• Maximo Park – ‘A Certain Trigger’
• Seth Lakeman – ‘Kitty Jay’
• Polar Bear – ‘Held On The Tips Of Fingers’

Tough choice this year, Bloc Party and Maximo Park would be the stand outs for me right now, however I’ve been listening to a lot of The Go! Team lately and they’re really superb.

I’m gonna ignore that Kaiser Cheifs are the odds on favourite.

Bloc Party ‘have 25 new songs’ - NME.COM

Really looking forward to the new lp, I think Bloc Party are my favourite band at the moment.

So I’ve been meaning to pick up this album for a while, on Friday I just thought “fuck it” and went for it. I have to say I’m not disappointed in the least.

Maximo Park’s sound is in the range of the current crop of new art rockers like Bloc Party, taking cues from both the vibrant dance music scene and from 80s bands like the Jam and The Smiths. The latter in particular on “Postcard of a Painting” which is reminiscent of “This Charming Man” in tempo and tune.

Fast melancholic love songs like “Limassol” the aforementioned “Postcard of a Painting” serve as an instant hook, no doubt worthy of singledom, (mind you I’m not sure what they’ve released as chart tracks yet) with “Going Missing” standing out as a sombre anthem of self destruction after a particularly messy break up.

Great riffs, funky synths and a geordie accent, brilliant.

TV ON THE RADIO NEW LP tracklist,
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Tracklist for the new TV on the Radio LP, can’t wait till this one hits.