Interpol are wonderful. Like you, SLC, I too fell for them when the first album came out. I wasn’t too enamoured of Antics, but I absolutely adore Our Love To admire.

If you haven’t heard them SLC, I can heartily recommend Editors who sound like an English version of Interpol and whose two albums, The Back Room and An End Has A Start are marvellous.

Morose? Maybe. But just dig the subtlety, dude.

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The question being, for this and the studio album, who's gonna release it? Their [Radiohead] deal with EMI is up, and they aren't expected to re-up.

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Well perhaps we've found the reason its being postponed til 08 then. They're probably too busy forming a label to release the damned thing.

Was Thom Yorke's solo album an indie?

God have mercy, you're a hopeless guitar player! You even make ME feel better you son of a bitch!

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Was Thom Yorke's solo album an indie?

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it was released by xl, which i believe is an offshoot of sony. (edit: i believed wrong, It's an indie)

and, come on, any label would be gagging to release a Radiohead record... the eraser itself charted at 2 in the us and 3 in the uk.

The truth is always subversive - Martha Gellhorn

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As loathe as I am to take seriously someone who could string the above combination of words together, it is possible that I simply haven't heard Interpol's better material. What's more likely though is that their musical style really doesn't appeal to me. I like plenty of dark music, and some that's quite depressing, but I've never detected any semblance of sexuality or a sense of humour in Interpol.

And they're certainly not Beckett.


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I've never detected any semblance of sexuality or a sense of humour in Interpol.

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Not a bad band but indeed way too earnest. Too much for the head, too little for body and soul.


And I want to believe that a light's shining through somehow

I should also say I'm not a fan of the beats Interpol and Editors use. My big beef with rock in general these days is that you can't dance to it, it's just not groovy enough anymore.


Everyday I agree more with Strawman

I read that Siouxsie is putting out a new (debut!) solo album. The review in Mojo piqued my interest, although I haven't really been collecting her more recent stuff.

Freddie: Dad, I am a goth now.
Frasier: Listen, Freddie, I don't understand. The Goths were plunderers. Apart from your tendency to be overaggressive with your rooks at chess camp, I don't see the connection.

It's LABRYNTH, idiot!

Just heard the new Bat for Lashes song. Whats a Girl to Do? what a great song. It's a mini epic. Check it out you can get it for free on i-tunes

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just got the new kanye album, graduation. the synthesisers can be pretty cool but at the moment, aside from the astonishing daft punk-sampling stronger, not a single track stands out for me. still hope he sells more than fiddy though.


desperately trying to get hold of the new go! team album, proof of youth... anyone heard it?

The truth is always subversive - Martha Gellhorn

For some reason in recent weeks I’ve really been getting into albums of music of great beauty, or at least exceptional prettiness. Some of them are brand new and others are a year or two old. One of them is over 20 years old.

Probably my favourite album of the moment is actually released today (though it was leaked to the internet months ago) and that’s Autumn of The Seraphs by San Diego’s Pinback. These guys are endlessly inventive. I’d give Monkeyboy’s right arm for half of their songwriting talent. As usual they’ve produced it themselves, which always gives their work a kind of home-made feel, but that lack of gloss is no bad thing, especially with songs as good as they always come up with. One of my favourite songs is called Torch which sounds a bit like something by the now sadly demised Supersystem.

Another beautiful record is Population by Canadians The Most Serene Republic. It’s another leak (it’s not due for release for another month) and continues the eclectic folky/jazzy/poppy wonderment of their debut, 2004’s Underwater Cinematographer

I’m playing catchup hear, but last year’s Let's Build a Fire by +/- (a.k.a. Plus/Minus) is very pretty music. Often quite delicate in their arrangements the songs have a gentle sweetness that is sometimes ironically accentuated by a rocky electronic backing.

Another lovely 2006 album is Some Echoes by Aloha, the follow-up to their 2004 debut, the equally lovely Here Comes Everyone.

I finally got round to hearing the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Fur And Gold by Bat For Lashes and it is an exceptional and quite beautiful album. Like Björk meets Kate Bush, but with slightly less quirkiness than both.

Another album of total gorgeousness is Dandelion Gum by Black Moth Super Rainbow from Pittsburgh. Strange psychedelic pop and quite enchanting. It’s their third album and I’m really curious to hear the first two.

The “old” album I mentioned earlier is Gone To Earth by David Sylvian which passed me by when it came out in 1986 but which I’m glad I’ve finally discovered since it’s beautiful, as is his more recent (2005) Nine Horses piece, Snow Bound Sorrow.

Another recent amazing album is subHuman by the Recoil project of former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Beautiful electronica complimented by two guest vocalists. Indescribable but essential.

My final recent beautiful album is Leaves in the River by Sea Wolf which is kinda indie folk and most unusual, with some delightful poetic imagery. Strangely they also occasionally remind me of the erstwhile Supersystem, albeit with a softer, gentler, more acoustic feel.

They don’t really fit into the “beautiful” category, but there’s another couple of albums that I’ve discovered lately and that I can’t stop listening to. It’s funny how one record can lead you to another. UNKLE’s recent album War Stories featured two bands that I’d never heard of before, but I’m glad that UNKLE introduced me to them since 2004’s Future Perfect by LA indie band Autolux and 2005’s Cuts Across The Land by England’s The Duke Spirit are both amazing.

Finally Oceansize from Manchester are about to release their third album, Frames which is crackingly good indie-prog.

I’d also give an honourable mention to Norwegians 120 Days whose eponymous psych-pop debut from last year is stunning.

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