Brand New Hotness: The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist

Sunderland's third finest (after Field Music and my mate Mark) are coming back 'atcha again with their third effort. If it all sounds as good as this exciting Kaiser Chiefs/Maximo Park/video-game-soundtrack crossbreed, then I'll be very happy.

I half met the bloke in glasses once. He nodded at me.

Ohh yeah.

mp3: 'The Beginning Of The Twist' by The Futureheads

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Brand New Hotness: Guillemots - Kriss Kross

My favourite British band of 2006 are back, and boy do they sound shiny! I love Guillemots like Kel loves Orange Soda. I love Guillemots like some people love oxygen. They're phenomenal live, phenomenal vocally, and possibly the most grand-sounding thing to happen in music since Muse. New song 'Kriss Kross' from upcoming album 'Red' is, well, phenomenal. It sounds like their first album's sound, were they asked to score the new Pirates of the Caribbean film. It's grand, and ridiculous, and happy and will, no doubt, sound frankly epic live.

mp3: 'Kriss Kross' by Guillemots

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