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Midnight Boom
The Kills
The Kills subtly and organically fuse pop, glam, blues, art-punk and hip hop, in a manner that flits between light and dark, funny and morbid, experimental and cute.
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Yes Yes Vindictive
Operator Please
A delinquent cracker, with unbridled energy as much a part of the running theme as the spiky guitars and lyrics that suggest a level of experience their average age might belie.
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Good Nature
Youthmovies
Proving discord can be pleasant, this Oxford-based, former post-hardcore band, have appeared out of the same scene as math-pop rising stars Foals.
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Worldwide
The Death Set
Imagine hyperactive indie kids gatecrashing a five year-old’s birthday party and necking all the possible sources of sugar in their line of sight. That’s Baltimore’s Death Set, that is.
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Violence Is Golden
Scanners
Dark, spooky new wave from this bunch of massively talented young Londoners. An impressive blending of darkwave and pure pop underpins the whole glorious shebang.
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A Drink And A Quick Decision
Grand National
Imagine if Hot Chip had stopped their inherent quirkiness in its tracks and decided to get all Pink Floyd on us; this London duo craft a new brand of spacey, minimal electro rock.
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Beat Pyramid
These New Puritans
An amalgamation of bugged-out dance and angular, post-punk indie that’s frantic, frenetic and full of Essex wit, a sense of adventure and some welcome eccentricity.
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Postcards
Sparkadia
Deceptively sunny indie pop with a lilting, Police-tinged reggae feel. Off-beat drumming, anthemic choruses, lashings of reverb and crashing piano lines equal a proper feel good factor.
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Real Emotional Trash
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks
As he did with Pavement, indie colossus Malkmus does essentially experimental, skewed indie rock with recognisably breezy choruses and a high quirk factor.
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Capital
Chris T-T
Upbeat acoustic city tales, busking blues, Celtic folk and even jagged monotonics are given a run-out – all threaded together with T-T’s attention-grabbing vocals.
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Noise Won't Stop
Shy Child
The schizophrenic mix of rock, hip-hop, dancehall and electronica has seen the duo likened to fellow indie-dance luminaries Klaxons and Hot Chip.
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Here Comes The Wind
Envelopes
The second album from the Swedish quintet is both warm and cool, light and dark and combines a throbbing electro underbelly with jingle-jangle, shoegazey guitars.
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