Video: Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Archaeology

Yes, that's right dear reader: such was the overwhelming amount of top music this year we've given our end-of-year list a dose of max enlargement pills and extended it to a mighty top twenty. Those that didn't make this engorged run-down and hence reside in our honourable bubbling under category include: Swans – The Seer ; Toy – Toy ; Monolake - Ghosts ; White Manna - White Manna ; Easter - Innocence Man ; Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways ; Umberto - Night Has A Thousand Screams ; The Eccentronic [...]

• Bobmouldmusic - The Descent
• Fang Island - Asunder
• Goat - "Disco Fever"
• PLANK - Dying for Pigs
• SweetBillyPilgrimOfficial - Brugada
• theQuietus - The Eccentronic Research Council - Black ChristMass

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Crown And Treaty (EMI) Occasionally, an album arrives and upon first listen you get the sense that the music jumping out of the grooves wasn’t created in a sterile studio with too little daylight and too much attention to detail. With Sweet Billy Pilgrim's third release, Crown and Treaty , you get the sense that the recording studio is nothing more than a few rooms in a house with wires littering the floor and dirty dishes piling up in the kitchen sink. Fuck those chores, particularly if the [...]

You might think by now that we're getting a little hoarse from singing the praises of Brit art-pop outfit Sweet Billy Pilgrim . Nope. For further proof as to just why we think they're one of the best, most creative and just plain interesting bands going, take a look at "Archaeology", the new video for SBP's latest "single". At the 20 second mark you realize you're in for something very different musically -- and the video (made for less than $150) adds a nice edge. English actress Lisa Faulkner stars in the clip directed by [...]