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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Sing like no one’s listening. You can’t beat a bit of fearlessly eccentric vocal work, and right now you can’t move for frontmen and women with love-it-or-loathe-it singing styles. You’ve got Jamie T (drunken barrow boy), Lovefoxx from CSS (overexcited fashion student) and Orlando from The Maccabees (terrified Socialist Worker-seller) to name but three. Topping all of them in the nuthouse crooning stakes, however, is Hayden Thorpe of Wild Beasts. On Through Dark Nights (Bad Sneakers) he manages to sound somewhere between a drunken old duchess and a child singing along to System Of A Down. And his unhinged performance manages to elevate a fairly run-of-the-mill indie chugger to must-hear status. Taking the jerky indie funk of Bloc Party and The Rapture and tightening it right up, Oxford Uni drop-outs Foals are apparently bang into their techno, and their love of a motorik boogie shines through on the stiffly storming Hummer (Transgressive). While their new-rave peers might pay lip service to electronic music without knowing their Kompakt from their Transmat, Foals clearly know how to build a groove and then chop, tweak and bend it until it leaves you feeling quite dizzy. Also this week: Arctic Monkeys zip up their trackie tops and return to the fray with Brianstorm (Domino), which sounds like a cider headache on first listen but slowly comes to grow on you; Blendaholics dish up big beat for the Noughties on the likeably scuffed Roast Me A Joint (The Kr8z); Shitdisco do indeed make shit disco, as demonstrated by the superfluous OK (Fierce Panda); Jack Penate manages to simultaneously entertain and aggravate on the whip-quick Spit At Stars (XL); the aforementioned Maccabees do their quick and wiry thing on Precious Time (Polydor); Mocky keeps things super-duper smooth on In The Meantime, and Philadelphia leftfield rap crew Plastic Little team up with the ever-fly Ghostface Killah on the dusty Crambodia (Make Mine).
Joe Madden
All singles are released on 23 April 07.
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