The next 10 brings some of the best choruses to grace 2012 in First Aid Kit's Emmylou and pretty much every track off Jessie Ware's 'Devotion', while if this is, as rumoured, the last Grizzly Bear record, what a way to go.
Is 2012 going to be Django Django's year? The BBC don't seem to think so given their recent Sound of 2012 long-list. We however, hope they're wrong.
The band's odd-pop shone at The Royal Albert Hall in support of Metronomy back in October, with Default taking the lead from their most prominent early release WOR, adding some DEVO jerkiness and embedding itself in your mind's ear.
Take a listen below, and if you like that, we'd also recommend Waveforms available through their Soundcloud.
The impossible dilemma of any city festival, particularly one that lasts but a day, is reaching that point of acceptance. The understanding that no matter what you do or how fast you think you can walk, you're resigned to the fact that you just can't see it all and, if you try, you'll spend more time outside venues than in.
London's leg of Stag & Dagger on Friday 21st, with its 21 Shoreditch venues, promises just such warring frustrations and pleasures. While on the one hand Wild Palms and We Have Band will be pleasuring the attendees at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, those very people may only speculate on Django Django's genre shuffling at Queen of Hoxton or Spectrals' enchanting lo-fi loveliness at Jaguar Shoes.
Much to ponder. Here's a Spectrals related tempter to enjoy in the meantime.
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