Prattle

Magnus - Summer’s here
Well it is, isn’t it?

CSS - Let’s make love & listen to death from above
Brasilian electro, which becomes better as time goes on. Greatness.

Switches - Message from yuz
No prizes for spotting the “influences”. The Supergrass one, in particular, reminds me of hot days in Reading, 1995.

Head of femur - The true wheel
A very good Brian Eno cover, if a little too faithful. They should’ve been the next Arcade Fire, but it didn’t seem to happen.

Semifinalists - Show the way
The next Arcade Fire? Or the next Head of Femur? A good album, I think, even if not many tracks stand on their own. I think this one does.

Grandaddy - Nature anthem
It’s summer, so I keep looking out of the window and thinking of songs like this. Farewell Grandaddy. You came, you made a few of us feel quite nice for short periods of time, then you split up. Good luck with everything.

Long Winters - Shapes
They’ve brought out a new album, but I prefer the last one. There are some great songs on the album, even if the best ones sound like other bands (Buffalo Tom and REM, chiefly). This one’s REM, I think. Happy, though.

Beulah - Hovering
By no means their strongest track, but this one reminds me of sitting in the open-air departure lounge at a Hawaiian airport, waiting to fly back to the mainland.

Goldenboy - Babydoll
Odd. This is on an excellent album, but it stands as the only particularly silly moment.

Zita Swoon - Bananaqueen
Joy in MP3 form.

Mint Royale (featuring Lauren Laverne) - Don’t falter
We’ll be seeing Lauren on Friday, when she’s presenting some largely useless TV programme from a venue in central Bristol. And regardless of the fairly poor TV and radio programmes she’s involved in these days, she’ll always have Kenickie. Well, she’ll always have Don’t Falter, anyway.