Rumours that a fresh-faced pop mega-beast was emerging from the highways and byways of Cardiff first began to surface early in the Summer of 2006. Los Campesinos! played their first gig in May at a Student Union club night. The band formed at Cardiff University where the members still study amid a blaze of enthusiasm, friendship, chance acquaintances, and the desire to craft damn good pop music. They were, from the outset, a happy union. Citing everything from Pavement, to Bright Eyes, The Cure, Silver Jew...   [ read more ]

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The indie ladies of Cake Like are back with a third album, their second for Neil Young's Vapor Records, and the pop kitsch continues. On Goodbye, So What?, Cake Like appears considerably more focused on musicianship and eager to define a characteristic sound than on previous records. Kerri Kinney's vocals are misty yet tightly executed, and the harmonies from Nina Hellman are sweet. Album opener "Lucky One" sounds sneaky with its straining Wurlitzer loops, and "Dead to Me" and th...   [ read more ]

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Lung Leg were an indie band from Glasgow, formed in 1994, and disbanded 1999. They were known for a sparsely recorded stop-start kind of music influenced by C86 and riot grrrl as much as by post-punk bands such as The Fall and The Fire Engines.

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