Saturday, October 17, 2009

The Weekly Sweep

  • 4 Or 5 Magicians - Nice Little Earner [YouTube]
  • Acres, Acres - Diamonds From Coal [mp3]
  • Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube]
  • Copy Haho - Wrong Direction [Myspace]
  • The Decemberists - The Rake's Song [YouTube]
  • Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down [YouTube]
  • Grammatics - Double Negative [live YouTube]
  • Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others [YouTube]
  • I Concur - Sobotka [YouTube]
  • I Was A King - Norman Bleik [Myspace] (So work this one out. A Norwegian band write a song with more than shades of Teenage Fanclub circa Grand Prix, in particular Neil Jung. Then just to make sure, they give it that title.)
  • Internet Forever - Cover The Walls [acoustic live YouTube, if you can imagine Internet Forever in acoustic mode] (May we also recommend their noisy attack on Dire Straits' Walk Of Life. Note Chris' throat turning on him at 0:43)
  • Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation [YouTube]
  • Johnny Foreigner - Criminals [YouTube]
  • The Kiara Elles - Odio [YouTube]
  • Kill It Kid - Heaven Never Seemed So Close [YouTube]
  • Local Natives - Camera Talk [YouTube]
  • Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings [Vimeo]
  • The Lovely Eggs - Haunt Me Out [Myspace]
  • Mew - Repeaterbeater [YouTube]
  • The Phantom Band - Throwing Bones [Myspace]
  • Piano Magic - On Edge [Myspace video]
  • Rose Elinor Dougall - Fallen Over [Myspace]
  • Slow Club - Trophy Room [YouTube]
  • Stairs To Korea - Boy Bear It In Mind [YouTube]
  • Swanton Bombs - Doom [Myspace]
  • Taken By Trees - My Boys [YouTube] (Victoria Bergsman airily covers Animal Collective, with your actual Noah Lennox on backing vocals)
  • Tubelord - Propeller [Vimeo]
  • The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Trading Things In [YouTube]
  • Wild Beasts - All The King's Men [YouTube]
  • Wonderswan - Furrpile [Myspace]
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