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Friday
15Dec

NME Albums of the Year 2006

DateFriday, December 15, 2006 at 22:29

NME, a magazine more interested in indie-rock-gossip than indie-rock itself have unveiled their fifty albums of the year, and shock-horror, it's actually pretty good.

Naturally there's guff in there like The Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Panic!At the Disco, but all things considering the list is pretty stellar, with even cult (un)socially-approved trio The Longcut appearing, as well as The Secret Machines. The most surprising thing about the list though is the incredibly high position awarded to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's follow-up record "Show Your Bones", which was, indeed, one of my favourite records this year as well. One thing is for sure however with this list- Wolfmother certainly deserve a higher placing than forty seven...

1. Arctic Monkeys - ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Show Your Bones’
3. Muse - ‘Black Holes And Revelations’
4. Hot Chip - ‘The Warning’
5. CSS - ‘Cansei De Ser Sexi’
6. Gnarls Barkley - ‘St Elsewhere’
7. Long Blondes - ‘Someone To Drive You Home’
8. The Strokes - ‘First Impressions Of Earth’
9. Kasabian - ‘Empire’
10. My Chemical Romance - ‘The Black Parade’
11. Howling Bells - ‘Howling Bells’
12. The Killers - ‘Sam’s Town’
13. Panic! At The Disco - ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’
14. TV On The Radio - ‘Return To Cookie Moutain’
15. Thom Yorke - ‘The Eraser’
16. Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
17. The Futureheads - ‘News And Tributes’
18. The Rapture - ‘Pieces Of The People We Love’
19. The Longcut - ‘A Call And Response’
20. The Streets - ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’
21. The Raconteurs - ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’
22. The Flaming Lips - ‘At War With The Mystics’
23. The Knife - ‘Silent Shout’
24. The Secret Machines - ‘Ten Silver Drops’
25. Mogwai - ‘Mr Beast’
26. Jarvis - ‘Jarvis’
27. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’
28. Morrissey - ‘Ringleader Of The Tormentors’
29. The Spinto Band - ‘Nice And Nicely Done’
30. Cat Power - ‘The Greatest’
31. The Sunshine Underground - ‘Raise The Alarm’
32. Lily Allen - ‘Alright, Still’
33. The Bronx - ‘The Bronx’
34. Albert Hammond Jr - ‘Yours To Keep’
35. Forward Russia - ‘Give Me A Wall’
36. Datarock - ‘Datarock’
37. Be Your Own Pet - ‘Be Your Own Pet’
38. Metric - ‘Live It Out’
39. The Young Knives - ‘Voices Of Animals And Men’
40. Midlake - ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’
41. The Gossip - ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’
42. The Automatic - ‘Not Accepted Anywhere’
43. Beck - ‘The Information’
44. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - ‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’
45. Bob Dylan - ‘Modern Times’
46. Semi Finalists - ‘Semi Finalists’
47. Wolfmother - ‘Wolfmother’
48. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’
49. Absentee - ‘Schmotime’
50. The Kooks - ‘Inside In/Inside Out’

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    Tuesday
    13Jun

    The Longcut- "A Call And Response"

    DateTuesday, June 13, 2006 at 20:10
    My signed copy of The Longcut's debut record came today.

    Ever since I heard them for the first time just over a year ago I knew they were special. That fusion of forever-lasting instrumentals and beat-heavy guitar riffs make for without a doubt an interesting listening experience, and the band in that respect are pretty unique.

    Past favourites such as "A Quiet Life" and "The Kiss Off" both put in appearances, reworked and modified as you'd expect. "A Last Act Of Desperate Men", the opening song is a fantastic way to kickstart the album, combining that beat-heavy percussion of the drums coupled togather with glorious amounts of synth and epic spiralling rock riffs. "A Quiet Life" and "Vitamin C" are similar in their approach, while (unfortunately?) "The Kiss Off" and "Holy Funk" reduce both the pace and volume.

    The centre of the record, "A Tried And Tested Method" is the bridging gap to all the sound elements you've associated with the band. Cleverly placed between two different peaks of sound, it is undoubtedly the highlight of the album, and reason alone to invest in a copy. Beautiful, awesome, and in true Longcut style, heavy on the instrumental.


    It's an absolute shame that bands like The Longcut go unoticed while idiots like The Arctic Monkeys are hailed as newcomers of the year and loved by fucking everyone. Not me of course, but you get what i'm saying.


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