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Trax
Graham Coxon - "Spectacular" Former Blur guitarist Coxon has turned his lo-fi thrashing into a surprisingly healthy career, and "Spectacular" is more of the same in the best way possible. The only downside is the fact that I can't listen to it without getting the nagging feeling that this'll be soundtracking an iPod commercial before long, but hey.
Lightspeed Champion - "Galaxy of the Lost" Even if you overlooked their name, Test Icicles were hands-down one of the worst bands in Britain at a time when bad bands were all but swarming over the UK music scene. That they broke up was a blessing and of itself, but their demise has had the unexpected knock-on bonus of giving us Lightspeed Champion, fronted by ex-Icicle and general weirdo Dev Hynes. Taken on its own merits, their debut single is a pleasant little indie tune -- what's really unmissable is the utterly mindbending promotional video featuring both kittens and an explosion of carnivorous Muppets. Kudos, sir, kudos.
Foals - "Mathletics" Speaking of Test Icicles, here's Foals's lead single, which just happens to be a dead ringer for the now-deceased noisepunks' putrid output. If that's not a compelling reason to give this band a wide berth, I don't know what is.
Happy Mondays - "Jellybean" Reunions may be great for the nostaglia factor, but let's be brutally honest here: the second a band decides to record new material, the jig is probably up. As long as you're cruising enormodomes playing the music that made you famous, it's smooth sailing; once you start churning out new tracks, however, you stop reminding people of how great you were and start reminding people of just how long it's been since you last had a hit. Like its namesake, "Jellybean" is all empty calories, calluously engineered for maximum stadium impact in open defiane of the shambolic dancefloor wigouts the Mondays built their careers on. Sad, but not exactly unexpected.
Graham Coxon - "Spectacular" Former Blur guitarist Coxon has turned his lo-fi thrashing into a surprisingly healthy career, and "Spectacular" is more of the same in the best way possible. The only downside is the fact that I can't listen to it without getting the nagging feeling that this'll be soundtracking an iPod commercial before long, but hey.
Lightspeed Champion - "Galaxy of the Lost" Even if you overlooked their name, Test Icicles were hands-down one of the worst bands in Britain at a time when bad bands were all but swarming over the UK music scene. That they broke up was a blessing and of itself, but their demise has had the unexpected knock-on bonus of giving us Lightspeed Champion, fronted by ex-Icicle and general weirdo Dev Hynes. Taken on its own merits, their debut single is a pleasant little indie tune -- what's really unmissable is the utterly mindbending promotional video featuring both kittens and an explosion of carnivorous Muppets. Kudos, sir, kudos.
Foals - "Mathletics" Speaking of Test Icicles, here's Foals's lead single, which just happens to be a dead ringer for the now-deceased noisepunks' putrid output. If that's not a compelling reason to give this band a wide berth, I don't know what is.
Happy Mondays - "Jellybean" Reunions may be great for the nostaglia factor, but let's be brutally honest here: the second a band decides to record new material, the jig is probably up. As long as you're cruising enormodomes playing the music that made you famous, it's smooth sailing; once you start churning out new tracks, however, you stop reminding people of how great you were and start reminding people of just how long it's been since you last had a hit. Like its namesake, "Jellybean" is all empty calories, calluously engineered for maximum stadium impact in open defiane of the shambolic dancefloor wigouts the Mondays built their careers on. Sad, but not exactly unexpected.
