Video Of The Week 08#01

Sons And Daughters – Darling

 

New single from their second album This Gift due for 28th Jan, the single is to be released two weeks prior to the album street date.

 

 

#08002 Sons And Daughters

Sons And Daughters – This Gift

UK: 28th Jan – Domino

 

Long awaited second album from Glasgow’s Sons And Daughters, who have unique female and male duet vocals. But for the new album, the daughters have taken almost all the vocal duty, while the Sons are in the background. Musically, there is no further improvement.

 

Outstanding track: ‘Darling’.

Top 50 of 2007

Albums of the year

 1. The Cribs – Men’s Need, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Wichita)
 2. The Enemy – We’ll Live And Die In These Towns (Warner Bros.)
 3. The Rumble Strips – Girls And Weather (Fallout/Island)
 4. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt (Beggars Banquet)
 5. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away (Transgressive)
 6. Babyshambles – Shotter’s Nation (Parlophone)
 7. Chikinki – Brace, Brace (Weekender)
 8. Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
 9. Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus! (Rough Trade)
10. Tiny Dancers – Free School Milk (Parlophone)
11. 1990s – Cookies (Rough Trade)
12. The Procession – Musique Magnifique (Nude)
13. The Warlocks – Heavy Deavy Skull Lover (Tee Pee)
14. Six By Seven – If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor (Saturday Night Sunday Morning)
15. The Hives – The Black And White Album (Polydor)
16. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future (Rinse/Polydor)
17. The Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This (B-Unique)
18. Mumm-Ra – These Things Move In Threes (Columbia)
19. The Crimea – Secrets Of The Witching Hour (Free Two One)
20. Alterkicks – Do Everything I Taught You (B-Unique)
21. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
22. Manic Street Preachers – Send Away The Tigers (Columbia)
23. The Redwalls – The Redwalls (Mad Dragon)
24. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Sonovox/Mercury)
25. The Pigeon Detectives – Wait For Me (Dance To The Radio)
26. Apartment – The Dreamer Evasive (Fleet Street)
27. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique)
28. The White Stripes – Icky Thump (XL)
29. The Bravery – The Sun And The Moon (Polydor)
30. Maps – We Can Create (Mute)
31. The View – Hats Off To The Buskers (1965)
32. Good Shoes – Think Before You Speak (Brille)
33. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated (Mute)
34. Jakobinarina – The First Crusade (Regal)
35. Grand National – A Drink And A Quick Decision (Recall)
36. Battle – Break The Banks (Transgressive)
37. The Aliens – Astronomy For Dogs (Pet Rock)
38. The Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army (Gut)
39. The Coral – Roots & Echoes (Deltasonic)
40. Reverend And The Makers – The State Of Things (Wall Of Sound)
41. Gruff Rhys – Candylion (Rough Trade)
42. Shitdisco – Kingdom Of Fear (Fierce Panda)
43. Hard-Fi – Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic)
44. !!! – Myth Takes (Warp)
45. The Wombats – A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation (14th Floor)
46. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81 (Island)
47. Mark Ronson – Version (Columbia)
48. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
49. Nine Black Alps – Love/Hate (Island)
50. Travis – The Boy With No Name (Independiente)

Tracks of the year

 1. The Arcade Fire – Intervention (Sonovox/Mercury)
 2. The Enemy – You’re Not Alone (Warner Bros.)
 3. The Rumble Strips – Oh Creole (Fallout/Island)
 4. The Cribs – Moving Pictures (Wichita)
 5. The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go (Sonovox/Mercury)
 6. Manic Street Preachers – AutumnSong (Columbia)
 7. The Cribs – Men’s Needs (Wichita)
 8. Taken By Trees – Lost And Found (Rough Trade)
 9. Travis – Closer (Independiente)
10. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (B-Unique)
11. Tiny Dancers – Hannah We Know (Parlophone)
12. Arctic Monkeys – Florescent Adolescent (Domino)
13. Pull Tiger Tail – Let’s Lightning (B-Unique)
14. Hard-Fi – Suburban Knights (Atlantic)
15. iLiKETRAiNS – The Deception (Beggars Banquet)
16. Nine Black Alps – Bitter End (Island)
17. Klaxons – Golden Skans (Rinse/Polydor)
18. Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone (Sane-Man)
19. The Bravery – Bad Sun (Polydor)
20. The Pigeon Detectives – I Found Out (Dance To The Radio)
21. Mumm-Ra – Out Of The Question (Columbia)
22. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars (Warp)
23. 1990s – See You At The Lights (Rough Trade)
24. The Cribs – I’ve Tried Everything (Wichita)
25. Super Furry Animals – Run-Away (Rough Trade)
26. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – All You Do Is Talk (Island)
27. Mumm-Ra – She’s Got You High (Columbia)
28. iLiKETRAiNS – Spencer Perceval (Beggars Banquet)
29. The Coral – Who’s Gonna Find Me (Deltasonic)
30. Dealys – Love Made Visible (Fiction)
31. The Dykeenies – New Ideas (Lavolta)
32. Guillemots – Annie, Lets Not Wait (Polydor)
33. Apartment – Pressures (Fleet Street)
34. Babyshambles – Delivery (Parlophone)
35. The Shins – Turn On Me (Transgressive)
36. Lavender Diamond – Oh No (Rough Trade)
37. The Cooper Temple Clause – What Have You Gone And Done? (Sequel)
38. GoodBooks – Passchendaele (Columbia)
39. Ash – End Of The World (Warner Bros.)
40. The Electric Soft Parade – If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know (Truck)
41. Gruff Rhys – Candylion (Rough Trade)
42. Cajun Dance Party – The Next Untouchable (Way Out West)
43. Six By Seven – Radio Silence (Saturday Night Sunday Morning)
44. The Aliens – Setting Sun (Pet Rock)
45. James – Who Are You? (Mercury)
46. The Twang – Either Way (B-Unique)
47. The Polyphonic Spree – Running Away (Gut)
48. The Courteeners – Cavorting (Loog)
49. The Killers – Tranquilize (Vertigo)
50. Battle – Paper Street (Transgressive)

#08001 British Sea Power

British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?

UK: 14th Jan – Rough Trade

US: 8th Feb – Rough Trade

 

Third album from Brighton’s very own British Sea Power, the title directly shows they’ve made a rock album. As their Keyboard player Hamilton left last year to focus his own project Brakes.  In spite of the departure of Hamilton, the remaining four still replace him with orchstral or some other effects while making their roughest and heaviest records ever.

 

Outstanding track: ‘Waving Flags’.

Video Of The Week #51

Los Campesinos! – Death To Los Campesinos!

 

Forthcoming single from Welsh 7-piece, due for Feb 2008.

 

 

#07134 Chikinki

Chikinki – Brace, Brace

DE: 23rd Nov – Weekender

 

Bristol’s electro-rocker Chikinki return with their third album, which is delayed almost one year searching for a label after being dropped by Island who released their previous album Lick Your Ticket in 2004. Now the German branch of Weekender records take over, a UK release is due for early next year. Brace, Brace is an almost perfect album, half electro half rock.

 

Outstanding tracks: ‘You Said’ & ‘Hello Hello’.

Video Of The Week #50

British Sea Power – Waving Flags

 

Comeback single for their third album Do You Like Rock Music? which is due for Jan next year, the single is due for released on 7th Jan via Rough Trade.

 

 

#07133 NME Presents The Essential Bands

NME Presents The Essential Bands

UK: 19th Nov – UMTV

 

The NME’s edition of Now That’s What I Call Music, this is its fourth volume, the second for this year. Starting from 2005, each album is double disc set and contains 40 new tracks of 40 new bands.

Video Of The Week #49

The Young Knives – Terra Firma

 

New single from their forthcoming second album due for early next year. Single was released on 29th Oct via Transgressive.