This fornight Brian has mourned the loss of Whitney Houston and celebrated Valentine's Day with a Marks & Spencer meal-for-two for one. The combination of perfect pop music and a full tummy has made him come over all soppy, so here's his playlist all about love. Sick.
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Our pompous old playlist-making owl Brian is back. With some bombastic pose, dubious claims about his whereabouts in the past year and a playlist of 2011's gems. How we've missed the silly thing.
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The lovely Fránçois & the Atlas Mountain have put together a gorgeous cover of the Slow Club track Gold Mountain, and Slow Club are due to repay the favour. Listen here: Slow Club’s Rebecca said of the cover: “I really love it, Fránçois (obviously) found funk where we didn’t even realise there was funk!”...
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FFS is sorry, very sorry, to be bringing you Christmas news this early*. We don’t want you to think of us like Tesco, ringing out cynical jingle bells from mid-October, or Boots pushing their Christmas sandwiches when it’s still balmy outside. We’re not like that. Really we’re not. But the fact is that some...
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How frustrating it must be to spend all your energy and creativity making a debut album that everybody loves, only to be labelled as something you never wanted to be. Slow Club managed to win hordes of wonderful fans thanks to their first record, Yeah So, and its charming, indie pop sound, but, so...
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In the two years since their debut Yeah So, it’s clear Slow Club have done a whole lot of growing up. Where the debut delighted us with its quirky, often shambolic joy, it still strayed too close to being, well, twee. And if there were two people in the world upset that Slow Club...
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Slow Club’s second album, Paradise is released on 12th September (or FFSmas, as it’ll soon come to be known). The London-via-Sheffield duo recorded the album in Hackney with producer Luke Smith. You can hear it in full on the NME website.
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New album, watch music video, September tour, and free shows - including Soho Square at 1pm today - from the Sheffied duo
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Rebecca and Charles of Slow Club have announced a 15-date UK tour for 2011 to coincide with a second album. Further details of the album are yet to be announced, but like their debut Yeah So it will be released on Moshi Moshi. Tickets for the May tour are on sale now. 2nd MAY,...
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The marvellous folk at Bandstand Busking have put together a video advent calendar to delight our ears to the run up to Christmas. A new, unseen video will be revealed every day on bandstandbusking.com. Artists tipped for inclusion are Sam Amidon, Laura Hocking, Vivian Girls, Frightened Rabbit, Sky Larkin, Hundred In The Hands, Caitlin...
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