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Back to the festival then, here's my two cents Rockness 2010: the DiS review / Music News // Drowned In Sound

I second this, I really can't see it bettering them personally. My favourite tracks are Anyone's Ghost, Conversation 16 and England.

This by Lake Heartbeat. So damned breezy and care-free and refreshing and Swedish.

Jean Hilltop-McKnight. That's a male name btw like Jean Claude Van Damme. Really doesn't work, what with the bloody foreigners first name(!!!) and the stupid street name.

I think solid is about right. The problem is that the hype machine has gone into overdrive, but I reckon this is really just another National album. Not to say it won't be excellent, but they aren't ones for revelatiry music, all their albums are growers so it could seem a bit of a letdown to some on early listens. That said 2 and half streams for me and it's already growing on me immensely. Especially 'Afraid of Everyone'.

Having read NME a few times recently I'd say it has improved a bit. Some of the longer reviews are well written and there's greater breadth in their coverage now, although it feels a little like they're just playing catch-up with Pitchfork, DiS et al. It's certainly improved since Conor McNicholas left anyway, although you seriously wonder how anybody could write an article hailing Mumford and Sons as revolutionary and also think the fact that one member plays banjo is worthy of a "(!)".

I think you should go back to DiS, because they have great writers, like me, arf! The Quietus and Line of Best Fit are good British websites also.

And he just had Stephin Merritt on!!!!

I think it was Mr Idol Wild as part of Meursault. I filled out the consultation form and sent an email last week.

My friend and I use to do this for the fake master league players on the old Pro Evs. Valery/Valeny was a convicted rapist and the one Scotsman, Eddington/Eddingson, was a convicted kiddy fiddler. The back stories mainly consisted of sexual crimes to be honest. My least controllable habit is probably moving my jaw when i'm playing a sport, although I seem to do it less these days. Back when I played school and boys club football I looked like I was trying to catch flies whenever I was running. I sometimes even do it when playing computer games, although it's more a of a slow grind in those cases. My other stupid habit is running up staircases gradually lowering my posture so that I crawl for the last third of the staircase. I generally can control this now in public, but a couple of times almost did it in shopping centres and the like. I think it's just a childhood habit dying hard.

I found the new Efterklang a bit dull and precious. New Tunng ain't bad, Last Harbour is ok but for similarities to Nick Cave. Haven't really gotten into the new FR yet.

Nice choices, watching Sea of Teeth I saw another of my favourites in the sidebar:

Sad indeed. RIP. Favourite Sparklehorse song: YouTube - Sparklehorse feat. Nina Persson - Gold Day

I believe the lead singer is the brother of the infinitely superior , although I'm not sure how exactly that would help in a specific way.

Graviscalar - Yell Going Through the Door 1. Celmira 2. Frederick Gowland Hopkins 3. Boumdeid 4. Bcancour 5. Jim Finks 6. Samuel Conway 7. The End of Celluloid 8. AMD K5 9. Wolverhampton Council election, 1987 10. D?u?ec, W?gorzewo County A skewed blend of eastern european folk strings, afro-pop rhythms percussion and fractured beats...and Midlands grass roots politics.

I was wanting to read any reviews you'd done there because I do the same for Drowned In Sound and also I remembered your end of year doo-dah for Is This Music and thought it was well written, and the same goes for your Los Campesinos review. Not that I'm judging it in any music writerly way or anything, it just reads well to me. I've now realised I've seen you commenting on a mutual aquaintance's page on facebook n all.

Two brilliant albums!

I never listened to Final Fantasy much but love Heartland.

I hate Tony Mowbray, if your players aren't gelling into a team the way to solve that problem isn't to sell the players who have experience of winning titles and buying in more obscure mediocre foreigners to replace them. The title race is completely over and I'm just shitting it about ending up third!

Camera Obscura are a notable absence.

Beach House- Teen Dream Magnetic Fields - Realism

Never liked any of his music, but it's a shame, in the way than anyone's death (especially at a relatively young age) is.

I had the two of them for a while now, but have never managed to get into them. I still really want to hear Third/Sister Lovers though.

Not one of my favourite albums by a long shot, but it's perhaps the most melodically accomplished album I own.

Beach House are fairly somnambulistic, but I liked their first two albums and like Norway off the new one. Others album coming out soon I'm looking forward to are Yeasayer, These New Puritans, Magnetic Fields. I've heard the new Spoon album and it is pretty decent. Later in the year The National, LCD Soundsystem and Jens Lekman amongst others.