Yet miraculously, the front men of both bands managed to combine their efforts into unmistakable genius - as it turns out, these guys have fantastic taste and are also very good, something they managed to conceal until now. Both bands seem to have distilled the worst tendencies in modern (especially British) rock music into precise, diamond like perfection - incomprehensible local accents completely insular perspective unapologetically influenced by Oasis boring songs played with instruments that should make boringness an impossibility. I hate Arctic Monkeys and I hate The Rascals. Particularly good bits: The Jeff Lynne influenced "Into the Galaxy", "Nine Lives" (featuring a awesome but subtle keyboard hook), and the best tribute to the end of civilization since Mad Max, "Tombstone".ĥ) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement. There's not a lot you can say about an album this good except that it is just awesome, a creepy masterpiece that has doom and the apocalypse lurking under every melody, like a dance party in the middle of a nuclear war. Not as derivative as Cut Copy's homage to the Manchester dance scene, Midnight Juggernauts are still leering England's way, only to the 70s, as Dystopia is heavily influenced by ELO, if ELO spent most of their time at raves with Gary Numan and Bauhuas. Instead of water, as far as I can tell Australia is coping with their terrifying drought by ignoring water and instead mining the history of awesome British music for sustenance. Australians made a lot of incredible music in the last year, because this marks the second Australian to appear on my list (but not the last). This technically came out in 2007 but they really blew up in 2008 so I'm counting it. Particularly good bits: the unfortunately titled "Feel the Love", "Hearts On Fire" (with an awesome bass driven melody during the fade), the melancholy mixed metaphor "Strangers in the Wind", and the hellaciously 80s Housey "Far Away". It's packed from start to finish with wonderful, (and wonderfully derivative) dance pop songs that rock the party and also sound like the blizzomb in the car stereo. In the two years and change since that record, they must have sold their souls to Tony Wilson, because Cut Copy has morphed into the Australian tribute to Madchester, and their latest, In Ghost Colours, turns out to be the best New Order collection since Substance. Also, the rest of the album.Ĭut Copy's first album, Bright Like Neon Love, was just so-so - "Going Nowhere" was a fantastic single but the rest of the record felt like watered down microhouse combined with boring-ass Brooklyn dance rock.
Particularly good bits: "Spring Song", "Rock And Roll Polar bear", and "Yes!".
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They write hypnotic, shoegazery, synesthetic songs that sounds almost, but not quite, as if it were made for kids - think The Free Design meets My Bloody Valentine - and the chanting/marching/pressure bomb quality makes it feel like the soundtrack to an alternate universe Triumph of the Will that was about friendship and colors and art and sex, instead of about how Aryan Superman will rule the world. Hopefully, Colourmusic will be one of the exceptions because they're astonishingly good, and not in the kind of special Olympics way where you let a regional band who's only so-so get a pass because they're better than the other dregs, but legitimately, measurably awesome. For every exception like the Flaming Lips, there's tons of bands you've never (or barely have) heard of. Oklahoma doesn't get many good bands, since people with talent tend to get the hell away as soon as they can, and it's even harder for good bands to get exposure outside the state, since regional culture and media has been destroyed. It's number one on my list because honestly, you simply cannot get enough of ELO and Olivia Newton John.Ģ) Colourmusic - F, Monday, Orange, February, Venus, Lunatic, 1 or 13. 2008 saw a brand new special DVD release that comes with a reissued, digitally remastered soundtrack album that is the best thing in the entire world, cures cancer and still had time to go back in time to help me lose my virginity 3 years earlier than I did. It's still awesome though, a definite special olympics sized A for effort and the credit goes largely to the amazing soundtrack.
Yes, I know, Xanadu came out in 1980 and it's not.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - various tracks from their reissue series Biblical Proof of UFOs - forthcoming new albumġ0. Peter Salett - "In the Ocean of the Stars"ĩ. And 2007 releases I loved in '08 (I guess I was late to the party)
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