Get yer lugs around these bugs! From the page to your ’pod, here we present a dozen reasons why we love what we do. These are the bands and artists we wanted to write about, and now here’s your opportunity to check them out for yourself.




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The Coral ‘Butterfly House’ (Deltasonic)









Our favourite Scousers are back (bugger off Beatles)! And they’ve managed to up their already considerable ante delivering a svelte production miles off the obvious gloss of Britpop. Matured? You bet, in fact they’re at points unrecognisable! ‘Butterfly House’ can’t be beaten as an example of this transformation.




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Ganglians ‘Candy Girl’ (Souterrain Transmissions)









A slower, more ramshackle version of this track featured on the band’s selftitled debut. Eerie vocals, jangling bells and a doo-wop beat all help to create an idyllic Fifties scene. Think drive-in cinemas, strawberry sundaes and Sandra Dee, on acid.




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K-X-P ‘18 Hours’ (Smalltown Supersound)









Those Finnish musicians are dark horses. And K-X-P are the latest trio to come out of the shadows of darkness and enter into the world of music making. A haunting Led zep cry here, a tribal drum beat there and lots and lots of brooding synths.




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Daedelus - ‘Hrs, Mins, Secs (Shuttle Mix)’









Total banger! Warbling acid basslines fi ght with epic building synths. This fucker has less structure than Maradona’s World Cup strategy, though the fi nal ball is just as mesmerising, as half-step beats battle with weird garage and plain bamboozling bass. Few records out there sound like this one!




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Patrick Pulsinger ‘A-z Radioedit feat Teresa Rotschopf’









Jacking Euro electro with a vocal to ignite a wide range of tastes, Pulsinger was reimagining 909 loops before your dad had even heard of Phil Collins. Viennese house melted through a thousand




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Holy Ghost ‘Say My Name’ (DFA)









New York’s disco princes get a little cosmic and DFA takes a bit of pop for the team. Holy ghost have been building steadily, much like their urgent dance cuts that take the laid back drums and tinkling ivories of their home city and punch it up a gear.




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Visions Of Trees ‘SomeTimes It Kills’ (Merok Records)









According to one half of London-based duo Visions Of Trees, their sound has been informed by the stark norwegian wilderness. And with ‘Sometimes It Kills’ this surreal inspiration becomes clear at once. Making desolate, ethereal electronic soundscapes, the shining sonic light is provided by Sara’s heart-warming cries.




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The Jolly Boys ‘Linstead Market’ (Wall Of Sound)









What the Bueno Vista Social Club’s rather epic comeback after half a century did for Cuban music is about to be replicated for mento. The Jolly Boys have been dragged back from obscurity and this cute bit of mento shows Jamaican folk at its most insightful.




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Mount Kimbie 'Field’ (Hotflush Recordings)









Mount Kimbie give a live forum to the grey area in modern underground dance which barely has a name. Here their stripped back percussive forms sound like an instrumental Balkan jam session with Robert Hood conducting a gagged Conor Oberst. Pastoral techno my friend.




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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse ‘Little Girl’ (Feat. Julian Casablancas)









Julian Casablancas’ easily recognisable vocals mean that anything he sings on always sounds like The Strokes. This collaborative effort is no different, but the souped-up production skills of Danger Mouse and the late, great talent that




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Bombay Bicycle Club ‘Jewel’ (Island)









You know a band is getting comfortable with their talents when they get their balls out and do an acoustic album. BBC have done just that and bared their song writing skills for all to see - no hiding behind gimmicks or distortion here. game on!




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Funeral Party ‘NYC Moves To The Sound Of L.A.’ (Jive)









What’s this? A trio of Californians who haven’t jumped on the lo-fi surf-pop bandwagon? You better believe it. Funeral Party are a far cry from girls and their crackly reverb. A biting disco stomp and screeching guitars explode into a frenetic postrock explosion. Refreshing.




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And so another plethora of styles, beats, sounds, noises and words sang in and out of tune lie in wait for you to download. Impress your friends with one fuck-off mixtape of the month’s top tunes endorsed by yours truly.




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