A few Dirty Pretty Things tracks from their upcoming debut album “Waterloo To Anywhere” have been leaked over the past few weeks. I wonder, could this be a concerted band/label attempt at Internet marketing, re: Arctic Monkeys?
April 4, 2006
March 31, 2006
new love!
I love, love, love Larrikin Love. Listen to this track from their blistering debut EP, and watch the video for their upcoming single, ‘Edwould’ (out in the UK, April 3), and you’ll understand why.
Larrikin Love – Six Queens
Watch ‘Edwould’ the video, here.
They sound folksy but with a slight punk edge. I read in an interview with Room Thirteen that the band hates being compared to The Libertines. That’s understandable since every band probably wants to be recognised for it’s own efforts rather than being compared to so and so. But I feel all the Pete Doherty comparisons are perfectly reasonable though. Maybe it’s their whole dandyism, romantic vibe.
March 30, 2006
believe your own hype always
I have a new obsession, and it is called Elle Milano. Young, brash art-rock/punkers from the UK, their sound has been described as “like a tempestuous marriage between Blur and Robert Smith”. What initially hits you is the loud angry vocals and splintering guitar riffs. It’s almost like hardcore punk! Took me a while to get used to them, but beneath all the noise, Elle Milano has smart lyrics that speak to the modern listener, and their songs are really quite catchy!
I also like songs with nice titles. Like so:
Elle Milano – Believe Your Own Hype Always (demo)
Elle Milano – Ringtone Advertising Director (demo)
More demos available here.
Visit the band’s Myspace.
A very comprehensive fan site, with lyrics, here.
no stopping these monkeys
It’s only been a couple of months since their chart-topping debut album was released, but already the Arctic Monkeys are planning their second album. Alex Turner announced in an interview with Nuts Magazine that the band already have ten new songs for their second album.
He said (thanks to Mardy Bum for quotes)::
“The second album will be different I think. We’ve already got more than ten songs, because we’ve been writing for a long time.
The last song that went on the (first) album – ‘You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me’ – was written last May.
So there are all the songs that we’ve written since then and they’re all a bit different. I’ll just be excited about getting back into the studio.”
I hope this song makes it on the new album. It’s so good, I think it’s one of the Arctic’s best yet.
And in other Arctic Monkeys news, the band will finally make their first appearance at this side of the world. According to their official site, they will be touring New Zealand and Australia in July and Auguest.
