Arctic Monkeys
CD Humbug
- Fire and a Thud

Jamie T.
CD Kings and queens
- the man’s machine

The View
CD which bitch
- Give Back the Sun

Burn the Negative
CD In The Atmosphere
- lights

Dizzee Rascal
CD Tongue n’ cheek
- bonkers

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
CD Love on an Oil Rig.(14sep)
- Periscope Envy

Basement Jaxx
CD Scars
- Scars

The Clientele
CD Bonfires on the Heath (Oct CD release)
- harvest time

The Big Pink
CD A Brief History of Love
- Frisk

Muse
CD The resistance
- Unnatural selection

Canterbury
CD Thank You (Download album free here)
- Take Me Out Of The Wall

With the CD & one single charting already (Uprising) they’re having commercial success in several countries but their best stuff (I belong to you, Symphony Part 1,2,3) is too long & prog for radio play.  This is unfortunate as these tracks (& United States of Eurasia) are likely the pieces they’re referring to when publicly discussing their creative choices/outbursts for this album.  And attempts – some successful here – at creativity and branching out are always better than wallowing in the known, so for that I commend them.

Lead Matt Bellamy’s voice is strong & full to match the powerfully emotive songs – though their live shows (already sold out in some cities) will prove how much of this is production based.   His use of piano throughout (eg United States of Eurasia, I belong to you, the Symphonies…) is a nice change from keyboards and a nice touch from today’s mega return to synths.

If it wasn’t for the pick n choose feature of ITunes I’d have to say skip this CD, but I belong to You right through to the last track are worth your $4 or pounds.   So crank up the speakers and enjoy these rock opera production tracks that will no doubt blow away live.   … and Muse are smart to make music that will blow you away at live venues – they may not get all your CD or ITunes money — but if they can get 4 pounds + another 60quid for your concert ticket they won’t be going hungry in 2009.

3 DL Recommendations:  Unnatural Selection, I belong to you, Symphony 1 & 2

“More CD Reviews Here“

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The playlist:

The Golden Silvers
09 CD True Romance
- True Romance

Broken Family Band
09 CD Please and Thank you
- the girls in this town

Ian Brown
09 CD My Way (release Sep 28)
- stellify

Patrick Wolf
09 CD The Bachelor
- vulture

Florence & The Machine
09 CD Lungs
- i’m not calling you a liar

Arctic Monkeys
09 CD Humbug
- pretty visitors

The XX
09 CD XX
- Night time

Art Brut
09 CD Art Brut vs Satan
- the passenger

The Cribs
09 CD Ignore the Ignorant
- cheat on me

The Big Pink
- Stop the world (Itunes)

Muse
09 CD The Resistance
- I belong to you (mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix)

Delphic
CD to come in 2010
- this momentary (single)

Playlist:

Calvin Harris
new CD Ready for the weekend
- the rain  (a SUper fun song! It’ll make you want to start the weekend…NOW!)

Jack Penate
new CD Everything is new
- so near

Popup
09 CD A time and a place
- the first weekend of the smoking ban

Golden Silvers
09 CD True Romance
- Queen of the 21st century  (check out the change-up in the last minute of this song!)

Bibio  
09 CD Ambivalence Avenue
- Jealous of Roses  (some great ambient disco funk!)

Wake the President
09 CD you cant change that boy
- just give me 2 secs (no, not that type of secs!

Wild Beasts
new CD Two Dancers
- we still got that taste dancing on our tongues

Arctic Monkeys   (FULL INTERVIEW)
new CD Humbug
- cornerstone

Elbow Interview (Excerpt)   (FULL INTERVIEW)

Elbow
08 Mercury Prize winning CD Seldom Seen kid
- the bones of you

Some Beans
09 CD Fear and Loathing in Tipton st john (CD REVIEW HERE)
- none of the times

Imogen Heap
new CD Ellipse
- bad body double

Playlist:

Archangel
- How to lose your best friend (single)

Kasabian
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Assylum
- fire

1990s
09 CD Kicks
- 59

Hatcham Social
09 CD You dig the tunnel, i’ll hide the soil
- Jabberwocky

Some beans
09 CD Fear and Loathing in Tipton St. John
- turning blue

I chat about…
- Cribs new CD and new single with Johnny Marr out on free download yesterday and you’ll hear it here!

Kinkane
- Still feel the same (single)

The Cribs
CD Ignore the Ignorant, out in Sep 09
- we are aborted (advanced single)

The Red Zoids
- wind it up (new single)

I chat about…
- latest CD reviews on my blog under What Kills/What ills post

The Noisettes
09 CD Wild Young Hearts
- every now and then

Two door cinema club
- something good can work (single)

Depeche Mode
09 CD Sounds of the Universe
- Miles away – The truth is

I chat about…
- Arctic Monkey’s new single coming … their not-so-great-experience at their 1st euro festival of the year…
- what’s 505 about ? email me
- Live at the Apollo DVD review

Jarvis Cocker
09 CD Further complications
- further complications

I chat about…
- Muse’s new cd…
- PRS figures out on who’s now more popular,listened to: Blur or Oasis?
- book review: This is your brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession (Author: Daniel Levitin)

Super Furry Animals
09 CD Dark days/Light years
- white socks/flip flops

Have a warm-not-rainy!-groovy-filled-with Vit-C week!