Midway through a purely hermetic week propped up by Soundcloud discovery and daydreams of escapism to profusely musical destinations finalising inner-city festival schedules (New York/Iceland/Oslo/anywhere) another slew of incongruous shards of the soundtrack of life can now be found here. Let fantasy run wild, etc.
Like the Popguns wading through post-hurricane shoegaze and Thermals bassline, New Orleans trio Generationals are utterly sensationals, and just like nigh on every even quarter decent band are gearing up for a jaunt to the Big Apple as the worms squirm to the sounds of CMJ this weekend. 4 Trust is The Research by way of Arab Strap despondence, capable of invoking crippling dependency. Dontcha wish your girlfriend went by the name of Olivia..?
Oxford trio and prime purveyors of "ambitionless office disco" (not quite sure under which glaring striplights they once worked...) Trophy Wife are rather spectacular, in the most sombre manner possible, Microlite (released by the forever accurate Moshi Moshi 8th November) draws on the wily sonic vacuum kindled by The xx and the static frigidity of Everything Everything, were said contemporaries calcified and buried beneath Foals' Spanish Sahara. Alongside nigh on every blinding light on the skyline of contemporary British music they're supporting the aforementioned fellow Oxxxford quintet on a number of their UK shows later on this month/early next. Besides Pet Moon etc. the home county hub ought no longer be viewed merely as the birthplace of the squinty-eyed saviour of leftfield alt. Trophy Wife - Microlite by ListenBeforeYouBuy
Emanating the wistfulness of Glasser, the sterility of jj were they not too busy inhaling this and that in backrooms and generally evaporating into obscurity, bizarrely entitled Swedish troupe Museum Of Bellas Artes trade frosted glaze for coronary ignition, their shuffling synth-pop condensed into their debut Days Ahead EP. The video, directed by Jamie Harley ought to add a smidgen of palatable piquancy to a Wednesday afternoon...
And if it all gets a little too hot to handle, Dots & Dashes fave Dam Mantle soothes with the searing, cooling sensations of a Fisherman's Friend as synthetic harp undulations rub Profisee in all the right ways. Dam Mantle and Profisee - Magical by Dam Mantle
