One Little Indian: One Little Indian 1
Monday Don't Mean Anything
Alabama 3
No-one took the Boomtown Rats seriously anyway, but this funk/electro/country stomper sets the record straight for the truly rock 'n' roll.
Some Are Lakes
Land of Talk
Elizabeth Powell's vocals shine out on this heartfelt, punky love song. You won't know exactly why you dig it so much, but you will.
They Were Wrong
Matthew Ryan
A self-confessed 'sad song', here Ryan's tuneful yet adamant style is by no means a downer - stirring, more like.
Throwaway Angel
Minus
Rolling and rhythmic alternative rock epic, with a pounding drum-driven instrumental.
So Tomorrow
Official Secrets Act
Indie pop has been tired for about 3 years. Except, of course, it hasn't, because super-talented folks like OSA are still able to take a familiar formula and craft three minutes of musical dynamite to raise the roof on your preconceptions.
Nanny's World
Rose Kemp
When you've got an effortless gift for creating atmosphere, you can afford to stretch it in all kinds of directions to create a multi-dimensional folk-thrash chimaera of a track. Like this.
Something Pulled Me
Shelleyan Orphan
This is a hoe-down boogie badly disguised as a winsome country love song. Alright, it's both. But it's class, for sure.
The Art of the High Five
The All New Adventures of Us
Like an arty Guillemots number: full of bare romantic sentiment and poetic melancholy, with a carefully-constructed melodic pop backdrop.
Thursday
Asobi Seksu
After a Gregorian-style intro, Thursday slides away as a tender-sweet love song with plenty of sophisticated textures to keep the feeling modulated and real.
My favourite tracks from One Little Indian Oct 08:
ROSE KEMP: Nanny’s World
OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT: So Tomorrow
ALABAMA 3: Monday Don’t Mean Anything to Me
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