Dirty Projectors

The prodigal brainchild of aural non-conformist David Longstreth – a Brooklyn singer, songwriter and general pop dissident – Dirty Projectors cast a kaleidoscopic glare far beyond the variegated province of experimental rock.

Their perpetually inventive, evolving aesthetic is buttressed by skewed guitars, skyscraper strings – and, not least, Longstreth’s unparagoned larynx – into a livid anthology that variously chimes with Prince, Outkast and Bjork. Little wonder they’ve been widely extolled as the last guardians of rock ‘n’ roll.

Their latest album, ‘Rise Above’, has adduced Longstreth as a truly matchless figure in pop. A half-remembered re-imagining of Black Flag’s coruscating masterwork ‘Damaged’, ‘Rise Above’ revokes the original’s hardcore brutality for a delirious acquisition of volatile tempos, unorthodox vocals, fitful wig-outs and lambent guitars. It is, of course, spectacular.


Correcto
Intoxicating rock popinjays Correcto are a four-part gaggle of Glasgow dandies – fronted by arch versifier Danny Saunders – whose number also boasts a rock god and a monarch: Franz Ferdinand's avid tub-thumper Paul Thomson and imperial bass-ace Patrick Doyle (ex-Royal We).

Further amplified by Richard Wright on guitars; and variously insinuating the Kinks, Smiths, Buzzcocks, Velvets and Ramones; Correcto fervently revel in the humdrum and the absurd, actuality and fiction: pop and punk.

Signed to indie bellwethers Domino, Correcto's eponymous debut album will inflame ears and hearts alike: from the trash-pop, slap-dash dynamo of "Joni" to the prosaic jubilation of "Do It Better", the foot-loose four-piece are a party band par excellence.


Copy Haho

A youthful Stonehaven psycho-rock troupe who’re rumoured to rehearse in a portakabin surrounded by cows, Copy Haho’s glorious clamour defies and circumscribes frenetic power pop. It’s brilliantly illuminated by angry larynxes, lumbering drums, tawny percussion, swaggering obligato and – most glorious of all – riff-addled, snakes-in-the-grass guitars.


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