Track of the week... Sketches - Lovers Liars

'Lovers Liars' is the first song to come off their début album which is released later on this year. The London band have caught our eyes in recent months and last year they released 'My Father's Son' which we loved and the year before that 'Bleed Victoria'.



We’ve been following Sketches for a while now, and after picking up their back catalogue last year and getting their latest single for free we had to check it out. ‘Lovers Liars’ is a great track to associate them by as this is them at their finest, the vocals, the melodies and the guitar tones are all perfect. This is promising stuff from a band that can easily be a whole lot bigger and that I can see doing really well in years to come! If you head over to their facebook page you can pick this track up for free!




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Friday's Finest

So us and our pals at Slate The Disco have as always put together your weekend soundtrack, we’ve got a mix of garage rock, indie, twee pop and a lot of love. Enjoy!



It’s All Indie: Sketches – Lovers Liars
We’ve been following Sketches for a while now, and after
picking up their back catalogue last year and getting their latest single for free we had to check it out. ‘Lovers Liars’ is a great track to associate them by as this is them at their finest, the vocals, the melodies and the guitar tones are all perfect!




Slate The Disco: Ill Murray – C4
So we’ve been banging on about Ill Murray for what seems like an age now. Yes their name is brilliant but their slacker rock, post-punk sound is even better. In ‘C4’ we’re giving you a world premier of this track, pretty special. ‘C4’ will form part of their forthcoming ‘Butterscotch’ EP which is out next week.




It’s All Indie: Polarsets – Distance
This young band from Newcastle creates some amazing tropical-indie sounds, far from the very stereotypical Geordie overcast drizzle. They’ve managed to brighten up our week with the release of their eagerly awaited EP, ‘Distance’ is just one of the many great tracks that they have.




Slate The Disco: Nixon – I Would Never Venture You
So our first pick was a straight up roarcous affair, therefore our second pick is going to be completely different. We’ve gone for the twee indie pop stylings of Roger Gunnarsson, otherwise known as Nixon. This heart-melting number is his forthcoming 4 track EP.



UNANIMOUS: Spector - Celestine




So that's that for another week, check back daily here and at Slate The Disco for updates from the music world!

Daily Download... Sketches - Lovers Liars

'Lovers Liars' is the first song to come off their début album which is released later on this year. The London band have caught our eyes in recent months and last year they released 'My Father's Son' which we loved and the year before that 'Bleed Victoria', this is promising stuff from a band that can easily be a whole lot bigger and that I can see doing really well in years to come! You can pick up 'Lovers Liars' from their facebook page.



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It's All Indie #1

Here is the latest brand of mixtapes, I will never be announcing them until the last minute, only 10 tracks long, and will always feature...

- 4 Relevantly unknown bands
- 1 Remix
- 1 'Demo'
- 2 From artists in the spotlight at time of release
- 2 From established bands/artists

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ENJOY - Fred,x

It's All Indie: Top 20 - 20 to 11

As announced in the facebook page, the voting has been scrapped as 3 different IP addresses were voting on a certain track every 0.5 seconds. This I feel is a better approach, this is compiled of...

- Last.fm group scrobbles
- User feedback on the page
- Hits on the page
- Hits on the blog posts
- My opinions
- Most talked about on the facebook page





20: Islington Boys Club - Pristine
19: Repeater - Patterns
18: Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
17: Sketches - Bleed Victoria
16: Ideals - Forever Leisure
15: Fenech-Soler - Demons
14: I Dream In Colour - If You
13: Them:Youth - Toothache
12: Kilto Take - Retrogress
11: Francesqa - Ghosts

Top 10 going to be up daily, 10th tomorrow, 9th the day after and so on.

Not in the top 20? Maybe the top 10 then ;)

Track of the week... Sketches - Bleed Victoria

I think I have stumbled upon a new great song, can it eclipse their old single? I do think it can! Sketches are a Indie-Rock band from Leeds, they play massive soulful songs with big riffs and brilliant vocals. Think of them as the new Grammatics, but with the epic guitar work of Bloc Party and the almost choir boy vocals of Hayden Thorpe.

So, 'Bleed Victoria', wow this is good from the start, a twinkling guitar starts it off with a lovely delay effect, the drums kick in and then the vocals and accompanying bass with the other guitar. This does sound almost euphoric rock that U2 would love to have. No seriously, listen from one minute in onwards to hear what I am saying.



The chorus just gets the song even better, the loud guitar that I mentioned at the beginning has not lost it's appeal, just epic. Then the chorus breaks into the bridge/break-down sound very Grammatics... strange that, they are too from Leeds. But who cares, they are not any more and this band is going to fill their shoes, and more.

Seriously keep and eye on them as their latest EP '1 of 200' is very addictive and sound get them geared up for an album anytime soon.

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