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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.This week, read hype, believe hype, buy. Awash with talent and drowning in potential hits, the UK music scene is now moving at such trouser-flapping speeds that literally every week throws up a band effusively hailed by bloggers, MySpacers and NME writers as The Next Big Thing (Definitely, This Time). In many cases, bands are being dismissed as old hat before they’ve even got to single number three. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, however, seem to have enough hype-propulsion to at least carry them from new single, Call Me Ishmael (Atlantic), through to the release of their debut album. With their unplugged take on emo, they’re about as close to the eye of the zeitgeist as a band’s sound can get.Judging by the woozy lurch of Reunite On Ice (FatCat), Brooklyn’s Blood On The Wall do a lovely line in melodic yet paint-stripping angst rock, and should be investigated immediately by anybody who’s ever been into Sonic Youth’s less wilfully difficult moments. It’s perhaps little wonder that BOTW sound so confident and focused, what with all three members having served for many years in various fantastically titled NY bands, such as White Magic, Ida, Bandit Teeth, Laughing Waters and (our personal favourite) The Shit. Big-time success continues to elude Warp’s sci-fi funkateer Jamie Lidell, which seems unfair given just how giddily poppy his previous album, Multiply, was. Never mind, here’s a four-track set of remixes to tide the faithful over: Multiply Additions (Warp). Four Tet, Freeform and Herbert all put in sterling work on the knobs and faders, but for us it’s Luke Vibert’s chunky rave reworking of A Little Bit More that shines hardest. Finally, two indie ditties destined for the top 20: Yeah Yeah Yeahs advertise the maturity and inventiveness of their acclaimed new album, Show Your Bones, by releasing Turn Into (Polydor) into the big wide world, while oddball fuddy-duddies The Young Knives trail their imminent debut long-player with the highbrow funk of She’s Attracted To (Transgressive). Download-wise this week, we’d recommend heading to the bustling MySpace address of the aforementioned Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and snatching both of the free MP3s available therein. Do it now, because you’ll to have to feign being bored of them in a few months time.
Joe Madden
All singles are released on 19 June 06.
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