The name isn’t unique and the sound isn’t particulary rare, but Candy have that ‘get’s your heart beating faster’ quality which is the only failsafe barometer for a songs worthiness here. “Drips like Honey” is certainly one of Candy’s less dramatic songs, the rock slots in where folk may usually lie. How I love musicians that can just pull out and slot out in sounds throughout their set/album/ diskette with different intensity and passion. The vocals, tumbling keys + wriggly riffs caught me hook line and sinker. CD/ More Info @ Stolen Records (”an independent label set up to release the fractured and the melodic”).

mp3: Drips like Honey

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The Pipettes new album “We Are The Pipettes” is available on Emusic.com. Using a cheeky free trialyou can download and keep it. Sign up for the free trial, then download it here.

I have been getting a lot of inspiration for bands to post here, and play on future podcasts from the Cat Bird Seat. Go attend.

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THIS DOES NOT SOUND LIKE british music. I just hear north amerika. and foreign soil. and strange festivities. and a distinctive quality I would not associate with a band calling the United of Kingdom of Great Britain their home. This fact warms my heart. Which is reason enough to give them some coverage here on Nothing But Green Lights (the only mp3 blog dedicated to new UK music!).

Somewhere on the Eastern Front between the entrenched positions of the Arcade Fire and the Mystery Jets on the other, Tap Tap are in no-mans land. But as long the accordion has still got some air left in it to sing, and the musicians have still got some air left in their lungs to shout, there should always be a unique place for Tap Tap slap band in the middle of the action. I’m imagining Tap Tap were probably the guys running that indie-disco back in the good old days when Leningrad was hip. You can purchase CD album “Lanzafame” @ Catbird RecordsThey have a cut-price album out on CatBird out right now, I’m gonna buy it today. Hear more music by the band at their Myspace page

Mp3: 100,000

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Dance to the Radio 22 Track CD compilation Promo
Blue Skies Up! The New Pop Revolution (DogBox Records Compilation)
Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain (album on Full Time Hobby)
Viva Voce - Get your blood sucked out (Promo album on Full Time Hobby)
Tunng - Jenny Again (single on Full Time Hobby / Static Caravan)
Tunng - Woodcast (single on Full Time Hobby / Static Caravan)
Tunng - Comments of the inner Chorus (album on Full Time Hobby / Static Caravan)
“Now That’s what I call Memphis” - Memphis Industries CD sampler feat. Go Team/ Pipettes/ Dungen/ Field Music and much more.
“The Memphis Family Album” - Memphis Industries CD sampler feat the best music from Mephis Industries.
Sucioperro - Random acts of intimacy (album on Captains of Industry)
Dreamboat Records summer 2006 sampler (feat Robin Allender)
Absentee - Weasal (single on Memphis Industries)
El Perro Del Mar - Dog/ Shake it off (Single on Memphis)
Manic Cough (Promo Single)
Windmill Band (7″ single on Static Caravan)
The Loft (7″ single on Static Caravan)
Luxembourg - We Only Stayed together for the Kids (CD single on DogBox Records)
One Golden Palace Casino Baseball Cap

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Internet’s been down, I’ve been away, it’s been hot, and just got back from the incredilbe Truck Festival and saw lots of great UK bands you should hear as soon as possible.

Shimura Curves | Relaxed All Girl Lap-pop harmony. The predatory dance of a London girl wielding a Casio mind-warp device and a wah-wah pedal.
Mp3: Just like friends

Manic Cough | Lo-fi, anti-OTT pro-go-fi. I know what little of that means, but no-one knows much of what Manic Cough is/means so it seemed appropriate. Single out this week.
mp3 | Eggs and Chips


Key Board Choir | Literal. Electrified up to the eyeballs. Robotical. Illusive, hard to pin down dreams rise from conscious digital synth.
mp3: The Shiver

More UK acts worth checking out:
Emmy The Great
A Scholar and a Physician
Josephine Oniyama
Trademark
Doktor CococolaMcdonalds

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This is a UK music blog, but there is a tiny bit of music around the world you won’t want to miss. Every week, I’ll give you a digest of the best new music being enjoyed on far-away shores.

First up are ‘The Sky Drops‘ with their shoegazy fuzzy beautiful crafted out of clouds and rocks. Mp3: “Green to Red” and “Now Would Be”

Viva Voce put on one hell of a rock and roll show when I caught them last year, Husband and Wife duo have a great ballad that you should check out. Mp3: “We do not fuck around” is essential listening.

Love of Diagrams love fast music, palm muted guitar, bass guitar with some real presence, not gonna sit there and twiddle its opposible thumbs waiting for its turn, and vocals that ain’t try to hard sing yet try hard to impress me. Mp3: “No Way Out”

Last but not least Thom Yorke-ish Acoustic Spaghetti Western Gone Digital from “Project Arctic” is the last pick of the best international music of the last week. Mp3: Someone Turning

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I used my remaining free downloads (after getting the Fiery Furnaces album) from the Emusic trial to get Belle and Sebastian’s new album “The Life Pursuit”. I’m not all that familar with their previous releases but it’s the mp3 bloggers album of the year so far, according to the statistics at least. Which is good enough reason for me to download it for free. I didn’t expect as much variety, nor so much wonderful pop music flowing from my horrible little speakers. I also expected it to be far to sweet and cute to tolerate when the sun is hiding and you aren’t smiling. Released in February, it finally catches my attention just in time for summer. Perfect! Bigger than Jebus ever was.

Artist: Belle and Sebastian

Mp3: Funny Little Frog

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