Essential Listening for February!

The Singleman Affair - Let’s Kill The Summer - “I thought that if you had/An acoustic guitar
Then it meant that you were/A protest singer/Oh, I can smile about it now/But at the time it was terrible.  The Singleman Affair may not be protest singers but they write the trippiest crystaline pop songs not heard of since The Byrds ‘Notorious Byrds Brothers’.  Expect an album release in June.  To listen to the songs please go to their myspace.com

Earth - Hex:orPrintinginTheInfernalMethod - The new Earth album makes Poptones.co.uk feel that we’ve ingested all the country drugs in the world.  Watch the Earth move in slo-core. To listen to Earth and understand what we are talking about click here.

Pearls and Brass - The Indian Tower - First the power trio from hell rocked it hard on their debut self-titled album, their forthcoming album on Drag City is a grower. Like some sort of weird virus that makes you want to hold two fingers up to the sky and nod your head like Homer Simpson.

Bob Dylan - Positively Fourth Street - A Dylan shout-out to all the fuckers out there.  You know who you are.

Timese New Viking - Dig Yourself - Times New Viking are the new Guided by Voices.  Forget about Robert Pollard, dude has been phoning it in for years.  Times New Viking has that weird urgency to their universal pop songs that is shot through with all the correct pop-rock influences.

Cherrystones Word - Sympathetic Sounds from the Psychedelic Ghetto - If dance was the new black in ‘91, Obscurist psychedelic rock is the new dance in ‘06.  Currently being researched and licensed, this is one mean motherfucker of a compilation.

Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts - Ultimate teenage angst track from man in thirties.  Does teenage rage get any better than that?

DJ’s Unite - Vol 1 - Uk’s response to the Detroit scene ... this is easily the cheesiest thing we have ever heard or one of the best things that we’ve heard.  All from the early 90s.  Where else will you still hear countdowns of 1, 2, 3, 4.  Genius!

Autechre - Draft Version 7.30 - I still have no idea how to describe the majority of Warp’s back catalogue without sounding like a complete wanker so let’s just say I dig it because it makes me feell that I’m on the set of Logan’s Run.

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A whole ago Poptones.co.uk got a reissue of Shaun Harris who was in the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band ... it was ok but the funniest shit that we had heard was Harris complaining incesssantly about the vibe-master Bob Markleby and general leader of the group.  Markleby played no instruments, couldn’t sing or according to Harris do much of anything but the question rises ... if that was the case how come the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band records are so much more interesting?  And I love the fact that Markleby had his picture enlarged just that little bit larger to piss off the other boys in the band.  Genius!

Double Leopards - A Hole Is True - A three track album.  If Earth makes you feel that you have taken all the drugs in the world ... well ... Double Leopards makes you feel that you are orbitting the earth.  Best not listen to the two in tandem.  You might get scary results!

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run - Why do we hype the Boss so much around Poptones.co.uk?  Because he is the freakin’ boss.  Much imitated but never bettered.

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