LES SINS

Sometimes listening to a thumping, repetitive beat for four minutes with a few changes and additions through out, is the best thing ever in the world. A lot of people do it, but some do it better than others. Les Sins, the new thang from the bloke who done the world good with Toro Y Moi (and continues to do so) is currently doing it very well. It takes the more dancey moments from Toro Y Moi's debut and repeats them so you can wiggle about on the dance floor for as long as you like. You WILL wiggle.

www.myspace.com/lessins


For Fans Of:

Toro Y Moi, Daft Punk, Star Slinger

EGYPTIAN HIP HOP

Here's the equation: The Cure + Late Of The Pier = Egyptian Hip Hop. If that doesn't make you drool all over your new shirt, then you don't have glands. Egyptian Hip Hop expertly straddle the line between pop and experimentation. They look like they have been dressed by a psychedelic lost property box and their songs have a similar mix and match vibe. It's one hell of a danceable vibe at that! They are interesting to the ears, eyes and even the mouth. Say their name seven times in the mirror and an ancient Pharaoh will leap out and start break dancing to "X Gon' Give It To Ya" by DMX. You'd be a foolish fool from fool town not to wrap your ears around Egyptian Hip Hop and squeeze tight.


www.myspace.com/egyptianhiphop


For Fans Of
Late Of The Pier, Is Tropical, The Cure

BLACK KIDS

Black Kids music should forever be in the pop culture canon. If Champ was president of cultural happenings, then that would be so. Alas, Black Kids only had a brief period of fame and frivolity until they went out of the limelight. So what?!?! They made one of the most perfect alt-pop records in the entire history of forever in the form of "Partie Traumatic". Each song on that belter of a record, is indeed a belter. They weren't afraid to just make great songs, fizzing with the classic conventions of pop. They helped make 2008 a great year for music. Here's the Black Kids formulae: hyperactive synth hooks, jangly guitars, pumping drums, all girl backing vocals, love-lorn lyrics, flexible bass lines and song structures that go from appealing to even more appealing in the space of a minute. At the same time as being impossibly good at pop, they mixed it up a bit. The lyrics are very strange, and just when you think you know what he's singing about, you suddenly don't. Especially when he starts singing about "ghosts in your underwear". For lovers of gloom, or more serious music however, they may well be too much sugar for your sweet tooth. They may well of been made in some grand pop laboratory somewhere...or are they just a dream? A pop mirage? They are too good to be true...

www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock


For Fans Of:

The Drums, Cults, Late Of The Pier

WARM BRAINS

The songs of Warm Brains sound like they can barely contain themselves. Bursting at the seems with lurching guitars, clattering drums and vocal delivery pumped with monotone menace, tracks like "Old Volcanoe" totally rip it up. Rory Attwell is the man with the plan behind it all. He's been a part of great things in the past (Test Icicles, Kasms ETC). He's made a name for himself in terms of forward thinking guitar music. And that doesn't stop with Warm Brains. Warm Brains exists in a different world to Test Icicles however, it has a quieter sense of diversity about it. Where Test Icicles screamed, Warm Brains slur. It all sounds quite unnerving, but in a great way. The punk swagger can't be denied. The nagging guitar lines pull you straight in, the surreal lyrics make you wonder and the wall of sound blast metaphorically punches you in the gut. It's thrilling. Especially if you love yourself some bands like Male Bonding. Listening to Warm Brains is like being scared by a horror film and relishing the feeling.

http://soundcloud.com/warmbrains



For Fans Of:

Male Bonding, Not Cool, Colour

HIGH HIGHS

The world can go by too quickly for a lot of people, take a step back and sit in a chair in a field or something. Then get High Highs on your headphones. This is music made to escape the world to. A delicate blend of warm synths, gentle percussion, echo and luscious melodies make High Highs a truly wonderful band. Don't fear though, they won't send you to sleep, on the contrary, songs like "Flowers Bloom" would be absolutely mouth watering to wake up to. They have already got Champ talking about them as if this is all a chocolate bar advert, you'll be doing the same in no time. High Highs are set to go sky high with their soaring brand of musical musings.


http://www.myspace.com/highhighs


For Fans Of:

Wild Nothing, Cults, Beach Fossils

TIMES NEW VIKING

If you don't know Times New Viking, then who are you? They been representing since 2005. It's OK though, you are still who you are if you don't know them. They pretty much invented the modern D.I.Y punk scene. Bold statement bro. But they pretty much did. By making lo-fi the order of the day in terms of recordings, and pioneering that "hurts so good" sound that hurts your ears but you like it, TNV rocked it all up. Their influence can be heard in awesome bands such as Pens, Mazes, Teeth, Old Blood, Wavves, Vivian Girls ETC. You can't deny the power of that awesome name either, one of the best band names ever. The kind of band name you want to write on a desk to be bad-ass or on your school bag or diary. Their shtick is a shtick you want to get stuck right into. The keyboards are as fuzzy as the guitars and the drums smash each song up like crumbled biscuits. Then you get the slight pop appeal found in the vocals, think great songs being sung by attitude ridden teens while a buzzsaw gets used as an instrument over the top. Each record they put out is another beautiful mess, it induces weeping every time. They are gloriously shabby and they paved the way for everyone else to do the same cool-ass thing. They should have their own font, that's how good they are. CHECK IT.

www.myspace.com/timesnewviking


For Fans Of:

Pens, Old Blood, Wavves

TWIN SISTER

Wouldn't it be awesome to have a twin sister? Don't got one though, do you? BOOM. Here's the next best thing; Twin Sister...the band! Shazayum. This talented grouping of musical people make dreamy pop songs that sound like they were created in another world. A world very much of their own. The vocal delivery is a combination of singing and whispering combined and it's simply gorgeous. Their crafty creations of song will make you want to dance, but only the softest, most lightest dance moves. You migh even start floating, who knows? Dream pop is often thought to be lazy, using effects over skills. Let Twin Sister prove that theory wrong for you. If you combined all their brains together, it would make a giant floating hit maker, popping out dream pop hits every time it breathed. Dream pop is the easiest thing to label Twin Sister with because they make pop songs that float around in a world of their own. But just like the singers voice, the songs have drive as well as daydreaming up their sleeves.

www.myspace.com/twinsisterband


For Fans Of:

Cocteau Twins, Still Corners, Memoryhouse