But regardless of expectations or otherwise, it’s a great, warm pop record, chock full of good licks and hooks and the funny squidgy little beats that keep you nodding along.
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Siskiyou – Nervous
There are some BIG songs on here; right from the off, and by the midpoint you can feel pretty puffed and in need of a biscuit.
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Pollyester – City of O
This is sassy German metropolitan pop; confident, fresh and cheeky. And it fits VERY well within this particular canon.
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Flug 8 – Trans Atlantik
Do you need boneheaded stomps replete with deadpan vocals droning on about modern living, and overlaid by soft, pearly grey washes and grinding, grizzly slabs of synth?
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Incendiary chow down with John Robb
“When you start to age now, you begin to think you’re lucky.”
Diagrams – Chromatics
It’s almost the perfect alternative pop record; with enough to satisfy urban existentialists and garden centre visitors alike.
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Jib Kidder – Teaspoon to the Ocean
Now and again things do disappear down a wormhole, but overall this LP’s a damned good, funny, and all-giving listen; and best is saved till last.
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Viet Cong – Viet Cong
Will the lumbering, frayed Golem that is this take on alternative guitar rock stay upright longer than the odd month or two?
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Cornershop – Hold on It’s Easy
There WERE good things that happened away from all that Britpop balls. And Cornershop were one of them.
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Godspunk 14
If you’d get one Godspunk comp to get out of your box to, I’d get this one, it’s perfect trippe material, C17th stylee. The soundtrack to digging up Silbury hill.
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