Keyword results: Britain
The Warning
Like a shot of serotonin to the central nervous system, Hot Chip’s new album The Warning will remind of you of what being happy feels like. The undamaging disco and un-soppy soul continues on from Coming On Strong, but their cheeky lyricism has turned it into something that should gain some more serious recognition.
A Certain Trigger
The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album full of classic tracks that aren't yet being flogged on Austereo (sorry, Franz).
Enter Maxïmo Park. They've got an umlaut, style, and with A Certain Trigger, a killer debut album that is crammed with edgy hooks and lyrics that read like a cultural studies textbook for jaded romantics.
The Magic Numbers
It could be easy to confuse The Magic Numbers with Major Moulty's Amazing Magical Plastic Band. Although, it would be really odd that before releasing their first record a band would release expensive figures of themselves in bright sixties outfits. Yet, in fact The Magic Numbers aren't three-inch vinyl collectables, but rather a pair of a pair of siblings (that makes four people, two boys, two girls and two surnames) forming a soulful pop band from London.
British Art & the 60s
Emerging from a period of austerity, 1960s Britain was stirred by a newfound optimism and prosperity in the form of artistic innovation and social liberation.
British art gained significant momentum during this change, reflecting, participating and influencing what would become mythologised as the 'swinging sixties'.
Martin Parr
Photography has a cruel habit of capturing the cruellest of moments and inopportune poses. The muffin top hanging over the hipster jeans, the angle where your nose looks really big or, as in one of Parr's works, the moment you're stuffing a donut into your gob.
Established UK artist Martin Parr presents a catalogue of photographs uniformly titled Common Sense that catalogue grotesque images of everyday life.
The Futureheads
If you thought acappella vocal techniques were strictly for community-based singing groups, in which both sexes match their Explorer socks and garish knits with a sense of pride, its time to let these British post-punkers teach you a thing or two about doo-wop. The four members of The Futureheads are blessed with pitch-perfect voices delivering spat-out vocal harmonies, as if Gang of Four became a barbershop quartet (in fact Gang of Four's Andy Gill produced the album).
We Are Sound
It would be a shame for Tom Vek to be consumed and spat out like a liquorice jellybean by the hype-machine that is inevitably about to engulf him. Vek has a sound that could be said to grab at the coat tails of the 'new-Eurowave' revival alongside the likes of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand or perhaps even reveal a certain compliance to musical trends.
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