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Best Records Of 2008, #4 - Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... Arts & Crafts Release Date: 02.18.08 Overly caffeinated enthusiams abounds on Hold On Now, Youngster… , bombarding your eardrums with shout-along chant-tastic choruses, hand claps and a broad range of instrumentation randing from Glockenspiel to violins. Looking back to their previous EP, Sticking Fingers Into Sockets , I described Los Campesinos! ' sound as if " Bis had babies with Arcade Fire ." That still remains spot on, although I'd add bits of The Go! Team and [...]

Love More (<3) Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming Certainly on the country side of the indie rock continent, but the thing is that when country is done right, it is done right . There is so much soul on this record that I'm afraid my computer may be a little more haunted that it was previously. Neva Dinova - Supercomputer Neva Dinova [...]

It's been a pretty amazing year for music around the UK, and following on from my top 10 of 2007 , here is my top 10 of 2008. 10 - Viva Stereo - Roar Lion Roar You've probably not heard much about this Scottish collective. However, their third album was a surprise favourite for me - anthemic, accessible, slightly My Bloody Valentine and yet still so gorgeous. Read more about Viva Stereo here . Favourite: Knee High Boots . [...]

• Viva Stereo - Knee High Boots

Los Campesinos! have already delivered one of my album's of 2008...and it looks like they could deliver two! The Welsh group plan to release their sophomore effort - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - via Wichita on October the 13th in the UK. Hold On Now, Youngster! was only released on February the 13th. So we're talking sub-Arctic Monkeys or even Kings of Leon speeds here and the band have declared it's no post album B-side cash in: ""It's no B-Sides and rarities or 'songs that weren't [...]