What does it spell backwards? Yes! Cute eh? Cute Indie-pop sounds are indeed the name, and the name of the game for this Brighton based band who make the genre work for me in a way I don’t find in so many indie-pop bands (the best twee and indie-pop bands can be found at indie-mp3 and skatterbrain blogs) but here the interrupted musical elements seem to bring to mind American complicators (working hard to mix things up and quickly extending the number of instruments used (see Sufjan Stevens, The Shins)) more than straight up jangly 80’s guitar bands. And this works for me. This is 2007, things don’t add up, we aren’t all that sure of our position of complete dominance on this earth, we are fearful of horrors on the other side of the world and on our doorstep - lo-fi music doesn’t have such a resonance for me. Today at least (I say looking at the clock the moment it changes to 00:00). The solution seems to be embracing and creating of music to reflect this tone. Although this song seems to be about a girl, I prefer the complicated interpretation, and I love that these guys are British.

MP3: Esiotrot - Marianne

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Credit goes to Shane at Torture Garden and Los Campesinos’ myspace page for the tip.

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Also:

Panda Bear of Animal Collective fame has a fantastic album called Person Pitch coming out soon. If you are into your over layered electro and over the top vocals like the 2000’s have never before seen, go and listen to his music. I recommend the title track “Comfy in Nautica” as an excellent starting point.

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In other non-UK electro music news go and track down Uzi + Ari’s superb track mountain/molehill if you dig Postal Service and other such evolving and every so slightly glitchy spaced out electro. It’ll certainly be one of the main tracks to feature on my podcast Take Your Medicine when it hits the internet later this week…
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I Was A Cub Scout have signed to XL band in the middle of their massive U.K tour. Mp3 and Blog post still available…

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And finally:

A tiny village in Serbia says it will construct a statue of the film character Rocky to ward off decades of bad luck. An official from Zitiste, about 55k (33 miles) north of Belgrade, said the statue of Rocky was needed to give the village a more positive image. [bbc]

Why don’t people write songs about these sort of wonderful decisions?

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