Hailing from Cardiff (home of Young Marble Giants, btw), Los Campesinos! deliver a raucous recipe of indie pop stew. Of course, they’re on Arts & Crafts.

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I am in love with Crystal Castles. (coming to a town near me, March 23!) The Canadian Invasion is neverending. Toronto and Montreal are my sonic saviors.
Crimewave - Crystal Castles vs health

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I’ll freely admit that I went to see Le Tigre against my will at the Justice League in San Francisco, back in 2000. It was sold to me as Lesbian punk rock or something like that and while I did go through a Bikini Kill phase, it was brief, and frankly I just wasn’t [...]

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“After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their [...]

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Being big in Iceland doesn’t exactly have a lot of perks. For Benni Hemm Hemm, three years of hype (Rolling Stone said he “evoked the sunshine prospect of Brian Wilson conducting a troupe of Salvation Army horns at a 1967 Smile session”) and selling 30,000 records in a country with a population of 300,000 meant [...]

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Randy over at the We *heart* music voxblog recently posted about the Leeds ensemble The Manhattan Love Suicides, whose sound hearkens back to the days of Talulah Gosh, Velocity Girl and their ilk from both sides of the pond. Catch some tracks at MySpace, particularly “Keep it Coming”.

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