Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Photograph by David Black Following their critically acclaimed debut Crazy For You , Best Coast have announced their second album will be released this Spring while their five-date UK headline tour will kick off this June The as-yet-untitled longer player is currently being recorded by Jon Brion in LA's Capitol Studios and is due for release via Wichita Recordings in the UK/Europe and Mexican Summer in the US. The band, playing as an expanded four piece, will be playing the following dates this summer: [...]

As winter once sets its icy grip on these fair isles, Best Fit's thoughts once again turn to a place that, to be fair, tends to deal with chilly weather slightly better than us. We've come back with a packed 20th edition, which finds us welcoming back some Oh! Canada veterans ( No Gold , Elliott Brood , Hooded Fang , Chains of Love , BA Johnston , The Darcys ), discovering new projects from familiar faces ( Del Bel , Phèdre , Bernice , Marine Dreams , Whitehorse ) [...]

Since selling out London shows at the ICA and Union Chapel, Canadian folk instrumentalists Timber Timbre have brought their ragged yet restrained blues-esque sound to ever-growing levels of musical beauty, developing a chillingly elegant, unwavering power over all who listen. They've been announced as tour support for the forhcoming Laura Marling UK dates, before embarking on their own headline shows around the world including a date at London's Assembly Hall. March 1 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge* 2 - [...]

Solar Systems is the new project from East London based producer / remixer extroadinaire Dreamtrak and Laura from indie pop upstarts Internet Forever . 'Throw Your Hands Up' is the duo's first offering and is a gloriously upbeat hint of more excellence to come. Like most of Dreamtrak's work, there's a balearic tinged four to the floor essence at play with Laura's relaxed tones pulling everything together. Realistically, this could well be a lost nugget from the heady days of Ibizia in the nineties - all sun-kissed and doe eyed. We approve.

The second instalment in Battles ' Dross Glop remix series looks rather more exciting than the first, with Kode9 and Alchemist reworks sounding particularly enticing. Stream the predictably good Shabazz Palaces version of 'White Electric', also taken from Dross Glop 2, below.

Geoff Barrow never stops. The Portishead man's Invada label goes from strength to strength, with a new compilation demonstrating the imprint's ever-broadening horizons. 'Your Breath Smells Of Paco Rabanne', by Australian producer Katalyst , is the standout from that collection - a Beatles-sampling oddity that manages to sound like Madlib, Beans, and Dabrye all together. Katalyst will also appear on Barrow's forthcoming hip-hop project. The first release under his new Quakers moniker is out on Stones Throw later [...]

Do you like to party? We do. Especially on a Friday. "We got the swag" - yo, just like the Beyonce (who incidentally has just filed to trademark her newborn baby's name - wtf is all that about?) . Anyway, currently on the promotional trail for their delighftul new album Something , Chairlift hooked up with that Das Racist chap to cover Miss B's 'Party' for Australian radio. It is, in a word - sexay.

Bruce Springsteen has revealed that Jake Clemons , nephew of former E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons , will be taking over some of his late uncle's duties on the forthcoming 'Wrecking Ball' tour alongside fellow saxophonist Ed Manion. Speaking of his uncles passing last June Jake said: "It's a strange new world without Clarence," he wrote. "He has given so much through the years, and now we are left with a gaping Big Man sized hole in the universe. Yet, as his gift continues to inspire, and as [...]

Photo: Dom Brady KCRW's Mathieu Schrayer is opening up his vaults of unreleased mid-00s gems. A couple of days ago we had a previously unreleased Dilla production - and today there's a Raphael Saadiq track, produced by Steve Spacek , from a 2004 record that was apparently never finished. Guest spots from Common [...]

U.S President Barack Obama has compiled a 28-track Spotify playlist to soundtrack his up coming election campaign.The official mixtape, which you can check out here , features songs from the likes of Bruce Springsteen , Aretha Franklin , Florence and the Machine , No Doubt , U2 , Wilco and Arcade Fire .

Following the news that she will be releasing her new album Cyrk this spring, Cate Le Bon has unveiled the dates of her UK tour. Kicking off ahead of its release on 30 April the string of dates will include a special circus themed album launch party in London. April 23 - Album launch party @ Village Underground, London 24 - Soup Kitchen, Manchester 25 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 26 - Harley, Sheffield 28 - The Printhaus, Cardiff

Dark, dreamy and decadent, Oslo's Maribel are doing a very good job of capturing people's attention at the moment. Just ahead of the release of their latest album Reveries and following an extremely well received support slot to Lanterns on the Lake in London last month, Maribel's Paal Espen Kapelrud talks about the eventful life of the band up until this point, and what inspired the creation of their driving, enigmatic, sexy new release. Who are Maribel and where are you from? We are Paal [...]

We've already let you know that we love 120 Days ' latest single 'Dahle Disco' a-plenty over on sister site Ja Ja Ja , so we won't waste your precious Friday time on talk. We just want to tell you that you need to see this new video, directed by Joakim Faxvaag, for said song - taken from the album 120 Days II which comes out March 5 via Norway's best label at the moment (?), Splendour .

David and Peter Brewis' last release as Field Music , 20102s majestic Field Music (Measure) , was the brothers' most accessible, most coherent, and best album so far. For all its sprawl and experimentation - spanning 70-odd minutes and two CDs, featuring ambient Eno-inspired soundscapes and what the band termed "'found sound' composition" - Measure showed Field Music, assuredly and confidently, as themselves. Having spent two albums as Field Music and a solo album each finding their feet, David Brewis commented after Measure 's release that they now [...]

For a man who has spent many years battling addictions, is it any wonder that Dylan Carlson wants to keep himself busy and away from his demons? Following on from last year's excellent Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I , Earth return with a second album in twelve months, the companion piece Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II . Recorded at the same time as 2011's record by Stuart Hallerman, the man responsible for engineering the brutal drone of Earth 2 , it's every bit as good as part [...]

For a band that's name comes from a oft-forgotten Disney flick about a Jamaican bobsled team that captured the world's hearts while finishing dead-last in the Olympics, Coolrunnings sound exactly how you'd expect them to sound. And yeah, I do mean that in a bad way. The scruffy, southern, guitar-toting, ne'er-do-any-harm indie-rock band has made a scruffy, southern, guitar-toting, ne'er-do-any-harm indie-rock record in the strictest and flattest methodology imaginable. If Dracula is Only The Beginning is them giving us their best shot, they've been shuttered out of style with such feverish ineloquence you'll [...]

A mysterious picture that features a map of Shoreditch while referencing Jay Z and Kanye West 's collaborative project Watch The Throne indicates that the pair might be doing something at the pictured location today at 5pm. Reports from twitter suggest that he will be performing live, others that he will be screening the video for 'Niggas In Paris' as well as announcing the dates of his forthcoming UK/EU tour. More news here when we have it

Three Trapped Tigers , without doubt one of the best British bands of the last decade, will be playing their first three EPs back to back on a string of dates next month. As a teaser they are giving away three tracks from those EPs, which you can download below. Catch the band at the following dates (and take earplugs/a sense of wonder): 05 March - Manchester - Ruby Lounge 06 March - Cambridge - Portland 07 March - London - The Arch @ Village Underground 08 March - [...]

Photos by Burak Cingi

Back in October of last year we met with Emil Svanängen whilst he was on a brief solo trip to London. In town to perform a low-key show to road test songs from his latest record Hall Music , Emil treated us to a stirring version of recent single 'My Heart' which left all present in the room collectively open mouthed. Not stopping there, we left the cameras rolling for a second song - 'Violent', taken off the 2009 album Dear John . The original is one of Loney Dear's finest moments to date - the [...]