Thankfully a decent bunch before the Xmas silly season descends, Singles Round Up today sees new releases from the Monkeys, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Boots, the Weld, the Earth and the One.
That’s not very helpful is it? Oh well, now you’ll have to read on to see who that badly thought out intro refers to ;-).
Needless to say, Single of the Week goes to Clash favs, the Arctic Monkeys with the latest release from their excellent ‘Humbug’ album (read ClashMusic’s review of it HERE). The band are currently out on tour in the UK with them appearing at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Friday night. Check the exclusive snap from the night above (Pete Doherty / Retna).
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Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
The next single taken from their ‘Humbug’ album, ‘Cornerstone’ sees more of that Last Shadow Puppets vibe come to the fore. The mid tempo pace, heavy reverbed tremolo guitar and Alex Turner’s matinee idol croon all transposed over from his between albums liason with Miles Kane.
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(The Real) Tuesday Weld – The Ugly And The Beautiful
Propelled by a creepy, Lynchian feel, (The Real) Tuesday Weld (Do you think someone stole ‘Tuesday Weld’ like they do with usernames on Twitter?), ‘The Ugly and the Beautiful’ sounds like an old 78rpm transported from the 40s onto my turntable. Outside the strict stylistic setting, it’s a pretty decent little ditty.
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A Mountain Of One – Lie Awake
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Sounding like no one else recording today, A Mountain Of One are “happy to just lie awake” with that laidback attitude including what’s considered acceptable with the in-crowd. Recalling Pink Floyd and any number of prog/psych 70s rock groups, AMO1 are on a different planet sonically and, thankfully, in terms of quality meaning their anachronistic output works a treat.
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Samuel & the Dragon – Diamonds on a boat
The debut single from Sam and his fiery pal sounds more like it should be credited to Samuel & The Bumblebee given the buzzing synth line that dominates here. That aside, and the fact that Sam looks like that weirdo antiques expert kid who is now a woman, it’s a nice first outing that makes me want to hear more from this one.
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Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
Brand new material from T’Rabbit is always greeted by excitement round these parts. Skimming along nicely, it takes its time to build into something approaching full speed, though favours a rather too civilized climax than we’re used to. That’ll be third album maturity maybe. Still, I’m looking forward to it.
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Little Boots- Earthquake
After ‘Remedy’’s all out surrender to cheese chart pop, ‘Earthquake’ is a classier beast more in the area of Annie or Robyn (what is it with these mononomial Scandanavians), and, just to be awkward, I have to say it is missing something for it. She make be the new Kylie yet but she’ll have to keep at it a bit longer for me.
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We Fell To Earth – Deaf
Getting more and more interesting, We Fell To Earth, featuring UNKLE man Rich File, steps up to the mic for ‘Deaf’, their huge, swooshing new single. All it needs is sleigh bells and we could have a credible Christmas number one! Sounding more shoe-gaze-y than anything else, it’s a welcome diversion from their initial sound and a great sign for the future.
