09.08.08

It’s not for the cock, it’s for a freshers five

Posted in Artists, G-Town at 10:21 pm by Gavin Williams

As many people are set to start, or go back, to uni/school/college soon, we’re all scrambling around buying last minute things. But fuck the reading list and a duvet cover *, here’s a fantastic five of new bands to soundtrack the beginnings of something great.

Sky Larkin

They’ve toured with the likes of Los Campesinos! and Johnny Foreigner early last year and, after much grafting, this Leeds trio are now signed to Witchita. Hurray! With a new album baking nicely in the oven and a handful of dates lined up, the future looks exciting for the band. Sky Larkin create fantastic little pop rock gems and are lovely, lovely people. They demand a place on your ipod and in your heart.

http://www.myspace.com/skylarkinskylarkin

http://www.zshare.net/audio/16618652f791bd50/  free download of Molten.

 

Tubelord

The mighty Tubelord. This band create brilliantly diverse and thrilling anti anthems. Not quite emo, not exactly straight up rock and by no means plain indie. A little bit of all these combined, plus so much more, is what makes Tubelord such a mouth watering proposition. They wriggle free of any attempt of pinning them down in a particular genre and run rings around most of their contemporaries. They release “I am Azerrad” on 29th September and are still touring all over the shop, including dates in London practically every other week.

http://www.myspace.com/tubelord

 

Broken Records

This Edinburgh band excel in vast, epic sonic quilts with great world music influences. Live they are a fascinating spectacle, with the various band members playing off each other with violins, trumpets, mandolins and cellos as well as more standard instruments. Catch this brilliantly diverse band on their upcoming UK tour.

http://www.myspace.com/brokenrecordsedinburgh

Nephu Huzzband

Nottingham based band Nephu Huzzband are starting to create waves within the music industry after a while of just making ripples. With waspish new wave guitars, echoing vocals and furious rattling drums, the band have a vital urgency to their music. Live is when they excel and you can catch them at a couple of dates around the country, check myspace for details.

http://www.myspace.com/nephuhuzzband

Why?

Hailing from Oakland, this leftfield, slightly off kilter collective have been knocking out wobbly ballads for a few years now. Spaced out is their thing. Some may call it prog but just as often as they’re creating blurry soundtracks to the end of the world, they’re cooking up pretty little nuggets of pop. They currently only have two dates lined up in the UK, in November, but this band is certainly worth investigating. A beautifully synthetic and shoe gaze version of “Close to Me” by the Cure is on their myspace. It’s all yours.

http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon

 

 

*Well don’t, obviously. Reading lists and bedding are actually pretty important things in my book…

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