Fiasco - Oh You Horny Monster (from Pinglewood) They throw drums more than they play them. They bang out baroque-punk guitar solos. They tell a joke about an amorous octopus. They don't sing.
La Horse - Cyanide & Happiness (from Fluo Kids) Why record in a multi-million pound studio when the bottom of a swimming pool will do? Pets - A Good Day for Telling Lies (from Swedesplease) We'll all be much too miserable for this come winter. Pets play sunny guitar-pop and (surprise, surprise) come from Sweden - the only country whose music industry must run on a seasonal basis.
Ben Folds ft Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me (from Linesthroughlines) As embarrassingly earnest as anything the former Folds Fiver has had his cloying hands on. And yet, as always, there's something there that will send you back for a second listen. In this case, that something is called "Regina Spektor".
Screaming Tea Party - I'd Rather Be Stuck on the Stair Rail (from Screaming Tea Party) Sounds like [deep breath] ... Metallica, Roxy Music, Blur when they were shouty and pouty, the Subways, Black Flag, the Fall, At the Drive-In and an adolescent Kim Deal screaming at each other over Bloc Party's heads. No wonder they've made the fashion press go all dribbly.
