Even if they didn't play this last Sunday, a band worth half-suffocating in a damply warm tent for
Yes, we've become a fashion magazine. Not really, as while Cansei De Ser Sexy may yet turn out to merely be the Brazilian pop Chicks On Speed (formed as a conceptual joke, it says here) such LCD Soundsystem-esque knowing electroindie is eventually irresistable
Like Death Cab For Cutie impaled on a barbed wire fence, the veteran college emos finally make a British impact savaging the American dream - and just listen to those horns
According to the subject of our last posting both Emmy and her mum were well pleased with our Truck write-up, which makes us feel oddly proud
So that's minimal guitar and vocals recalling Polly Harvey at her creepiest for nearly three minutes, then explodes in massive drums and Trail Of Dead dissonance for two more minutes, then winds its spooked way to a finish. This could be yet another US band to believe in
There's a clip on YouTube of Sam Duckworth attempting to stage invade during The Automatic's set at the Electric Gardens festival. Seriously, first Katie ¡FR! hurts her foot crowdsurfing to them and now this - what the hell is going on with the best people aligning themselves with *them*? Yeah, this is really good, this
Having got soaked to the skin at Truck on their behalf they'd have had to come out with something good next as some sort of reward, and while it's not the greatest thing they've ever put out it's a free download of no small quality
Forgot to mention in our Summer Sundae stuff that we caught up with Fyfe Dangerfield and he remembers us from our Friendly Chat, which given all the publications that must have required his thoughts since is heartening. Unless he was just being kind
Speaking of which, Gwenno told us these are "just songs that I've had lying around for a very long time...without it being about releasing records or putting too much thought to it". This Annie-meets-Postal Service affair is just something she knocked off in her spare time? Blimey
Scandinavian joyfulness we've been unable to look at in quite the same way since a confidant pointed out the similarity between leader Emanuel Lundgren and Kevin Eldon as The Fake Rod Hull in Lee & Herring's Fist Of Fun
"It has a brass section now and is much more sombre but also more joyous. Just better, really. It's about love, lust, loss and the end of a relationship, but not in a boring whingy way." When short of inspiration, Ctrl+C from the artist's Myspace, we say
As with Patrick Wolf last year, Joan As Policewoman was probably our real convincing discovery of Summer Sundae, and her evocative solo performance of this set the seal on it
We've always been put off this Canadian technopop duo before by the sheer weight of hype that was concentrated on a small number of sites and existed nowhere else. Domino Recordings have now seen something in their wistful electro. Supporting Hot Chip soon, which seems fair enough
This has been our Myspace page auto-playing song for a couple of weeks now, and if you pop over and read the comments you'll see we've almost accidentally managed to gain them an ally for when that big record deal finally comes off, which is nice
Back with a new album recently, but this will never age badly. Everyone loved it at the time, yet chartwise it did bugger all, inevitably
Good god, not that sped up radio remix that Zane Lowe's playing, though
Probably the only sustainable single other than Insistor on The Loon, welcome two-step acoustic hoedown, if there is such a thing, while Josh Grier flirts almost too much with Black Francisisms
More Summer Sundae stars, as a lot of people seem to be agreeing. In fact we suspect they might have made a lot more fans had they actually gained the promotion their Simon Fuller/James Blunt associations might suggest was coming. Maybe they're just too reticent
Next single, apparently, and while the wider audience for menacing rhythm sections, highly strung guitars, broken lyricism adn Kim Dealesque backing shouting remains sluggish it means at least we have them for ourselves for a bit longer
Not that our first impressions were bad but Voices Of Animals And Men is a real grower of an album, it's just that this is still the all-out highlight
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