
Afternoon Naps , whose album Sunbeamed could well be my favourite album of 2007, have a new single out on January 1st 2008 on Cloudberry Records . It's called Can't Stop The Weather and a track from the EP has been made available. Clean Bill Of Health begins like an indie Lust For Life but soon settles down into an indie pop rhythm with some nice organ chords in the background. One of the EP's tracks is called Happy All The Time . I guess I will have [...]
Photo by David Greenwald Like the albums list, this is divided into the ranked, remarkably great stuff and the unranked, still really great stuff. Enjoy the last post of '07, folks - The Rawking will continue refusing to stop bright and early on Monday, January 7. The full list and MP3s galore after the jump! [Continue reading...] 1. UGK ft. Outkast - "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)" : mp3 2. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" : [...]

Wieder mal so eine junge, erfrischende Band, die unbekümmert drauf los spielt und die Sonne im Herzen und in ihren Instrumenten trägt. Mittlerweile stammt diese Art der Musik ja gerne aus Skandinavien, doch Afternoon Naps kommen tatsächlich aus Cleveland in Ohio. Ihr Sound lässt dabei an die S miths, Belle & Sebastian, Math & Physics Club und diverse Sarah Records-Bands denken, wobei kaum einer ihrer wundervollen Songs die magische 3-Minutengrenze überschreitet. Ihr Debütalbum «Sunbeamed» ist unlängst erschienen, auch wenn es bei einer Gesamtlänge von 21 Minuten eher als EP zu bezeichnen ist... [...]

The Afternoon Naps are a six piece based in Cleveland, Ohio. Sunbeamed is their début album and consists of eight slabs of sunny indie pop some of which I doubt will be bettered this year. It's got everything an indie pop fan would want. Handclaps, boy girl vocals, a few la la las' and trumpets which go up against the tuneful melodies that are inspired from 1960's surf and bubblegum pop to 1980's jangle pop Britain. Some of the tracks are as near to indie pop perfection as you could wish [...]