Kenickie - At The Club
So it’s early 1997. Oasis are a matter of months away from strapping Britpop to their motorbike and heaving its tired carcass over the metaphorical shark. Blur have already evolved their way out of the scene by indulging their Pavement fantasies on their eponymous classic. And Kenickie, with characteristically disastrous timing are about to unleash their debut album At The Club.
Phoenix
The third album from Phoenix, Paris’s answer to Sloan follows the tried and tested route of its predecessors and so beds down straightaway in your brain from the opening bars of ‘Lisztomania’. Before the wordplay gets too much though, we leave behind the Hungarian pianist/composer for the indie disco of ‘1901′, a year that old Franz never got to see, having shuffled off in 1886.
The Paper Chase
Ah, the curse of indie band name dissonance strikes again.
Art Brut - Alcoholics Unanimous
Sometimes it takes a real event to blow the socks off the music world. In 2005, Art Brut released their début record Bang, Bang, Rock & Roll and UK music fans knew true happiness thanks to an Anglo-Germanic ethos of rocking and, indeed, rolling.
The Gay Blades
Names can so often be misleading in music. Neither …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead nor This Will Destroy You are anywhere near as ferocious as their monikers would suggest, whereas Strapping Young Lad, far from being possible Britpop apers, were a pretty frightening extreme metal band. The point is that whilst there has never been a really good band with “gay” in their title (I offer Gay Dad, Gay Against You and Gay For Johnny Depp as examples).
The Hot Melts
The Hot Melts are a pretty awesome bunch of guys.
Favours For Sailors
One can only guess at what sort of bonuses Favours For Sailors are offering to seamen.
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Scathing lyrics, a sinister marriage between guitar and bass, militaristic drumming and a heavy reliance on semitones, minor thirds and clash-clash-clash dissonance. It’s THE album by the Manic Street Preachers – it’s The Holy Bible, of course.
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