Tweet Tomorrow, Team SGTMT are being sent on a training course. This one is about time management; our owners have looked at the blog and decided we can be more productive. " Find more good music, post more good music, WRITE SOMETHING GOOD! " We protested and, well it all got a bit out of hand, but they threatened to remove our Angel Delight rights. So we're going. To Peterborough. *Sigh*. Not only do we have to go on the course, we've been set some 'pre-course [...]
Tweet THEM LUCKY JAPANESE, they get everything first! Crazy technology from the future? CHECK! Kitten cafes? CHECK! Godzilla attack? CHECK! Now it seems they heard more Daughter before us too. This is the final straw. C'mon guys, enough now, let's share! So here's what happened. Daughter released their debut If You Leave LP on March 30th. We love it so much that it's in danger of wearing out the SGTMT stereo. We'd been waiting for an album from this wonderful band for a long time [...]

Tweet To research this Woodkid piece we have been watching the video for Katy Perry 's Teenage Dream . This has naturally put me in a bad mood. (Sample lyric: " Let's go all the way tonight, no regrets, just love. We can dance until we die, you and I. We'll be young forever "). Ugh. We're watching because the video director is Yoann Lemoine who makes promos for Rihanna , Taylor Swift and the like [...]

Tweet Whoops. What's in a name eh? Not as much as I was expecting, it turns out. You'd think, with a surname like mine (see above), that I'd have learned not to judge someone by their name. Alas, I haven't. I had assumed Deptford Goth would be some sort of ultra-dark, tuneless, techno-step. I thought I'd hate him. I was totally wrong, as usual. This south-London residing producer, Daniel Woolhouse , makes electronica which is absolutely drenched with humanity. There's no separation [...]

Tweet One of our favourite albums of 2013 so far has come from L.A. indie quartet Local Natives . Hummingbird has been on heavy rotation since we picked up our supercool vinyl cutout sleeve copy a few days before its release (we think it's the Deluxe Edition or something). In a shop. A normal shop. We got home and realised we had it early. An unexpected treat. We like Local Natives so much we're spending Valentines Day night with [...]

Tweet The person who said " a little bit of exercise never hurt nobody " not only had terrible grammar, they were wrong, too. A little while ago Team SGTMT were up early to buy tickets to see CHVRCHES , one of our biggest musical crushes. When the alarm in the SGTMT Dorm Room went off the tickets still weren't on sale. We dozed off for a moment and checked again: SOLD OUT. Gone, just like that. Oh great. We rummaged around a [...]

Tweet Ask Team SGTMT about the things we have found embarrassing and the list will be as long as your arm, and then some. Falling over in the snow, bad haircuts, awkward attempts to procure girls' phone numbers, calling the teacher ' Mum ', a long discussion with a group of chaps about the rock band Idlewild without realising the chaps we were talking to were in fact the rock band Idlewild; the list goes on. Most of these occurred in [...]

Tweet The Bronx - Youth Wasted I am beginning to crack on a bit. My hair is greying, I have to walk my kids to school, occasionally I like to listen to FLeetwood Mac and I own an 8-track player. However my 16 year old self still owns a significant part of my psyche. It's the part of my psyche that controls my response to hearing music for the first time. We all make a snap decision on a song in the first 10-15 seconds and [...]
Dec 14, 2012, 9:44am
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Tweet Another year down. Another year of this love affair with music, almost ready to be packed up and filed in the archive. We swear they're going quicker. Is it just us? Somebody slow the world down! As the nights draw in and with Christmas fast approaching, Team SGTMT like to take the opportunity to huddle together in the SGTMT Listening Room and rifle through the year's albums we've left piled around the stereo. We argue over which ones we liked most, get [...]
Dec 13, 2012, 5:18pm
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Tweet Yesterday there was a bit of a mix-up. In another classic SGTMT lack-of-a-research-department- episode our favourite video of the year turned out to be from 2011 . *Sigh*. A researcher recruitment drive is underway and applicants for the role in as our research department are currently being put through their paces. If they can cook, tidy and clean SGTMT Headquarters and have their own access to Wikipedia they're basically in. Still, the mix-up was a stroke of luck as it happens, [...]
Dec 12, 2012, 2:36pm
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Tweet 2012 is drawing to a close and End Of Year lists are coming thick and fast. We're sure we'll do one of those (we love lists) but here's an award we'll simply hand straight out without the need for a list; our favourite video of the year, absolutely owned by Of Monsters And Men 's Little Talks triumph: That's a great tune, too, fantastic brass work guys. We can't get enough of it. Of Monsters And [...]
Nov 19, 2012, 6:29pm
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Tweet Ten years ago, Interpol released their debut Turn On The Bright Lights LP, an album that hasn't left our stereos since, and that most agree they haven't yet bettered. To celebrate the anniversary the band are re-issuing it, fully re-mastered and with a huge amount of extra material thrown in. To say that this is a real treat is an understatement: Turn On The Bright Lights remains one of our favourite records. Now SGTMT was created [...]
Oct 4, 2012, 4:10pm
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Tweet Team SGTMT have had a fun-packed day. This afternoon was spent at the BFI London IMAX gawping openmouthed at the movie Samsara . 100-minutes of beautifully shot 70mm film showing the most extraordinary sights this planet has to offer, including Tibetan monks' rituals, erupting volcanoes, Japanese sex doll factories and weird apocalyptic footage of animals being slaughtered and prepared for being munched by humans. What a film. We emerged blinking into the light and set off for another stupidly [...]
Sep 30, 2012, 5:56pm
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Tweet This is something that hasn't happened in a while; drum n bass on SGTMT . Regular readers will know we absolutely don't let any music from this writer's favourite genre make its way onto the blog unless it's the cream of the crop. It's got to be wonderfully produced, inventive, and musical. This latest offering from London's Stray certainly fits that category. Follow You Around 's simple synth line and electro beats show the young producer's grasp of the [...]
Sep 10, 2012, 11:58am
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Tweet These days everyone wants your money. Team SGTMT were out on the streets of London buying a bicycle pump and toothbrushes this afternoon (living the dream) and we decided to take a detour through Camden Market on the way back to our Headquarters. If you've ever been to the market and passed through the food stalls, you'll know what happens; " TRY PORK CHOW MEIN!! ", " HERE! HERE!! TRY CHICKEN SATAY TRY CHICKEN SATAY! HERE!! " and " SIR! SIR! NOODLES! NOOOOOODLES! " [...]
Aug 21, 2012, 7:24pm
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Tweet Well, here's definitive proof that SGTMT are leading the way. We're running things. We're all up in it and all over it. All kinds of all over it. We're so all over it that you kind of have to nudge us out of the way to even get a peek at it. Serious. Just over a week ago we told the world to pay attention to the seriously talented Alpines . Sitting in his subterranean studio drum n bass superstar [...]
Aug 16, 2012, 4:40am
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Tweet Fossil Collective are our current favourite Northern band. I know, I know; they're from 'the North' so they're probably half racing pigeon, half angry red faced dinner lady. Let your xenophobic fears rest young friends. Regardless of their doubtless funny voices and low IQs, these northerners do seem still able (strangely) to produce songs of heart arresting tenderness. Not convinced? Ok, check out this we posted back in April . Can't be bothered to follow the link? Ok, it's below (buy [...]
Aug 10, 2012, 3:10pm
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Tweet Since when is an album allowed to be just seven tracks long? Seven tracks is a long EP in our books, not an album. Especially when one of the songs is a remix of one of the other songs. Lots of people are at it, and we suppose we only mention it on this occasion because Bear Mountain 's new XO EP LP is so good we want there to be more of it. Bear Mountain is [...]
Jul 25, 2012, 10:03am
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Tweet Right. Quick post, sorry it's busy at SGTMT HQ this week. I love sports, particularly the Olympics. There is something strangely addictive about all that running, jumping, shooting and kayaking. I also love Casiokids . So, when I discovered (via Amsterdam music blog Over Muziek ) that our Casio enhanced friends have re-released Olympiske Leker with a special Olympics vid and FREE download, well, boy were we excited. Yippee and all that. Olympiske Leker [...]
Jul 22, 2012, 10:23am
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Tweet It's a lovely day, the sun is shining and a British rider is about to win the Tour de France. We should be out celebrating, sunbathing and eating strawberries in the sun. We shouldn't be inside the Listening Room at SGTMT Headquarters listening to music. We really must tell you this though: Jessie Ware 's Devotion LP is totally worth your attention and your money. Here's a teaser: Wonderful. She is [...]