I feel like giving you all (6 followers and a few cool readers) my very own tips for 2010. It's gonna be a cracker, I reckon...
Local Natives
This five-piece American band are simply an urban version of Fleet Foxes, and are very much on their way to achieving the same success as the Fleet. The opening song to their debut album 'Gorilla Manor' is 'Wide Eyes', my personal favourite, although it confuses slightly. I simply cannot decide whether I want to revel in it's beauty and let it slowly drift me off to sleep, or whether I want to stand up and dance around the room and appreciate it's trippyness. I'd be quite happy doing either. The other stand out song that I care to mention is 'Camera Talk', a string-and-percussion happy number, with an extremely catchy chorus.
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Everything Everything
I've been a fan of these since I heard them on Zane Lowe's show a few months ago, with their debut 'Photoshop Handsome'. Very much appreciated in the blogosphere and in the "Oh, look at me, I'm so indie and cool because I know this band that have totally fucking weirdo lyrics" world. Yes, incase you were wondering, they do have extremely er, odd lyrics; "Foxhound frolic on the abattoir floor, up in heaven it's symmetrical," is just an example. Yes, weird to say the least. But song 'MY KZ, UR BF' is so amazing that it makes my heart skip a beat nearly more than my own boyfriend did. Sad, yet true.
And now, for some quickies:
Frankie and the Heartstrings
Just read my previous blog on this band, sums them up. Watch the new video for '
Fragile' and listen to the plain grooooovy '
Hunger'
Fenech-Soler
Fabulous, synth savvy, indie-electro. '
Lies' - an anthemic indie floorfiller.
Two Door Cinema Club
Painfully cool Kitsuné signed band, with some epic choruses and catchy indie beats. Listen to either, or both, if you're feeling particularly awesome, tunes '
I Can Talk' and '
Undercover Martyn'
Delphic
Slightly controversial, yet I think, perfect electro-pop. Listen to new song '
Doubt'
The Drums
Anybody who knows anything about new music has heard of this Brooklyn based band. The Drums are what would've happened if The Cure ever took the surf-pop route. Watch the new video for '
I Felt Stupid'
The Cheek
Formerly known as the charmingly named Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds, these guys have certainly matured since then, and have risen with some gloriously deep tunes. Listen to '
Hung Up'
And that's about it. But keep your eyes peeled for the BBC Sound of 2010 shortlist, so far The Drums are in 5th, and Hurts in 4th. They always seem to predict the future painstakingly perfectly. Roll on 2010, it's set out to be a bloody good one.
