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Don't ask me why, but I've always been oddly curious about those brief production title sequences at the start of films. Here, french duo Justice turn it into an art form to provide some Karaoke-style cues. The Stephen J. Cannell-style finale makes for a nice touch.

Cheap Time - 'People Talk' Harking back to the power-pop bands of the '70s and '80s, Cheap Time are another garage-style band bashing out two-minute sing-alongs with their influences unapologetically tied to their sleeves. Such is the case with all two minutes and eleven seconds of 'People Talk', delivered with all the swift ferocity of tour-mate [...]

Paavoharju - 'Italialaisella Laivalla' To perfect honest, I'm not even sure what this album is yet, but it already seems like one of the more interesting albums of the year. My guess is that this Finnish group have tried to created a carefully sculpted transmission of obscured sounds recycled into fresh composition in the same style [...]

Duke Ellington - 'Isfahan' We don't see nearly enough jazz on here, but when we do I like it to be resonant enough to underline the idea of 'soul' as an umbrella term that covers a multitude of genres, representing a shared quality among certain songs, be they gently soothing or downright funky, that strike a [...]

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Golden Boots - 'Days Are Night' Specialising in "Crumbly western Alt-alt-country," Golden Boots' twangy, downtempo style is just my cup of tea today. With a hint of Dr. Dog to their sound, it came as no surprise to see that they're signed to Park the Van records, where their latest release Burning Brain is available now. MySpace Official [...]

Group Inerane - 'Kuni Majagani' I think this song and the above picture are a good match for each other. It makes me picture someone dancing underwater to the gritty sounds of Niger in a sticky heat far, far away. Group Inerane is the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert and [...]

Volebeats - 'Desert Song' Dark, dirty and soaked in reverb, this song reminds me of seemingly every night scene in Twin Peaks: James Hurley is coasting through empty, moonlit roads lined with 'Douglas-fir' trees, making his way to some shady meeting at the oddly-alluring roadhouse. It's an eerie world all its own...and I seem to [...]

The Hi-Life Companions - 'The Girl In The Gorilla Suit' The Hi-Life Companion describe themselves as an 'indie-pop collective' based in Bristol with as many styles as they have members. So far their recorded output has been limited to singles and compilation tracks (in fact their first live show was as recent as March) but they're [...]

Fan made video for 'My Car' by Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound. From the Things I'll Miss EP, available for free download.

Vetiver's Andy Cabic originally brought together a collection of some of his all-time favourite tunes - one of which he recorded for his forthcoming A Thing of the Past album - for Disc Collective last year, but I have sought each of them out and compiled the mix into a .rar file for your downloadable [...]

Vetiver - 'Houses' With A Thing of the Past, Andy Cabic found the perfect way to bring his band together: a cover album of mostly obscure folk-rock tunes filtered through Vetiver's characteristic sound. It's a breezy amble from Townes Van Zandt to Hawkwind, culminating in a hushed and wonderfully warm take on Bobby Charles' "I Must [...]

Culture Reject - 'Fireflies are Fading' Sometimes love fads like fireflies on an intoxicatingly warm Saturday evening. MySpace Official Site Photo by missionfantastic

I'd never even seen the video for this before and already it has over one million views. Good work.

Slaraffenland - 'I'm a Machine' There's still a little bit of sunshine left...isn't there? Before a weekend of rain arrives upon us, this may be the cheeriest song about being a robot you'll hear today. Slaraffenland are a Danish are an experimental indie band who take after the style of Dirty Projectors in terms of free [...]

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Apse - 'The Gloom' Post-rock is normally a genre that normally does very little for me, particularly when it's the case of a sound and dynamic that seems completely interchangable. But Apse are a band that won me over almost instantaneously. Having been around for nearly 10 years, they seem to be quite a well-kept secret, [...]

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David Karsten Daniels - 'Martha Ann' I've been fortunate this week. Plenty of musical gems have come my way and this album is most certainly one of them. Evocative of Will Oldham but with enough colour and variety to retain its own identity, Fear of Flying sticks out like a beacon amongst an overcrowded genre of [...]

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band - 'Express Yourself' Put it down to the continued sunshine if you will, but this is a feelgood tune for any occasion. Photo by amaliachimera