3-4-FREE - Los Campesinos!, Trips & Falls and @Peace

Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand
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Los Campesinos! return in November with new album Hello Sadness and they've made lead single 'By Your Hand' available to download for free. And it's brilliant. Really, it's a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same - the opening salvo has a very Vampire Weekend / Harlem Shakes / Dale Earndhart Jr Jr feel about it and Gareth's vocals take on a level of affectation unheard of on previous LC! recordings, certainly sounding miles away from the scratchy rawness of his singing on tracks like International Tweecore Underground. But the theme of a deteriorating love affair racked with mixed emotions is very familiar, and lyrics such as "I'm not sure if it's love any more, but I've been thinking of you fondly for sure" and "I have been dreaming you've been dreaming about me" are classic Los Campesinos! And there's those reassuring hand-claps as well. So the lyrical content that's made them one of the most interesting and affecting bands of recent years is still here, while the band is also trying new things - all in all Los Campesinos! look to be on course to make a corking 3rd album.

Trips & Falls - Marginally More Than Annoying
 Trips and Falls - Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying by Song, by Toad 


With more than a hint of The Vaselines about it Trips & Falls dreamy lo-fi Marginally More Than Annoying bounces and lurches along its fantastic path for a little over two and a half minutes and raises my anticipation still further for their new album, People Have To Be Told, which will be released at the end of this month on Song By Toad records.


@Peace - @Peace
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And finally, it's my pick from the August edition of the Music Alliance Pact - @peace by @peace. The hip hop collaboration from Auckland, New Zealand have released their debut album (unsurprisingly also called @peace) and this chilled out meditation on nature, poverty and politics is a definite highlight from it. Sparse piano, violin and sounds of nature back tight, thoughtful flows from the various collaborators as they "bang beats from the soul". Other highlights from the MAP this month include tracks from Holiday Shores, Klak Tik, Oh Minnows, The Areola Treat, Possimisle and Tim Neuhaus.

Lend Them Your Ears - The B Goodes

Ipswich’s The B Goodes have been creating a storm in the local area since their formation in 2009, thanks to a slew of gigs, including a triumphant performance on the Lake Stage at this year’s Latitude Festival. It’s not hard to see why – their brilliantly written songs and obvious musical talent are brought together into energetic, feel-good performances – whether they are playing to tens or to hundreds of people.

What you get, first and foremost, with the B Goodes is fun, and fun in a big way – the band are having fun, everyone around you is having fun and, if they haven’t plastered a big, stupid grin across your mush by the end of their set, then you are, most likely, clinically dead. Described by Tom Robinson at 6 Music as “Daft, splendid, retro” the band have an infectious enjoyment of what they do that spreads like wildfire.

The B Goodes performing Feel Alright at Latitude 2011 - download the studio version at www.bgoodes.com

But The B Goodes are not some kind of silly purveyors of novelty, oh no. At the heart of all the excitement are a bunch of extremely well written songs. Borrowing from a range of rock n roll influences – such as The Beatles, Sam Cooke and The Sonics, the band still breathe freshness into a sound that has been around for 60 years. 

Every member of the band – John B on guitar, Phil on piano/guitar, Jay on bass and John R on drums - is extremely good at what they do and the different elements of the music all demand your attention without ever stepping on each other’s toes. This gives tremendous depth to songs that seem deceptively simple at first, and demands that they be listened to repeatedly. And loudly. With friends, lovers or just on your todd. Songs such as Feel Alright, Never Forget You, Sleep So Soundly and Girl on the Carousel get firmly lodged in your brain and you find yourself singing them for days after you hear them.

 Will I Remember In The Morning by bgoodes

Will I Remember In The Morning - including a piano lick that Jerry Lee Lewis himself would be proud of

Not only are The B Goodes boys very talented and great fun, they're also generous, giving away a free download of their set-closing, rabble-rousing, roof-raising track Feel Alright on their website www.bgoodes.com

The band's next scheduled gig is at The Bull in Colchester on Friday 14th October and their debut album is due for release before the end of the year.

There are many ways you can find the B Goodes online (they're not shy boys) -

bgoodes.com
facebook.com/thebgoodes
twitter.com/thebgoodes
youtube.com/user/TheBGoodes