MP3: The Wave Pictures - Now You Are Pregnant (quiet version)
(London via Sweden, 4:19mins, 160 kbps)

The indie-pop zeitgeist just got a little more grizzly and accomplished. Wave Pictures have an unassuming and modestly expressed gift of being able to string a thread through a song, wrap it all round the melodies and pull strings which make indie-rock music become tigher, engaging, visceral, yet still a little unconfined. That’s probably the reason why they’ve been playing as backing band and co-songwriters for John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, and all around the world with Herman Dune, and The Jeffrey Lewis Band. It might just be cool; but only in such a light and casual way. Sing your hearts out! No-one matters!

They are signed to Moshi Moshi and you can buy their 7″// digital download here. You can hear the excellent, not-an-xmas-song song “We Dress Like Snowmen” at their myspace.

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Talking of waves: Surfing 55ft waves in Ireland

It’s all because of high pressure from Iceland. They’re probably playing Sigur Ros and Mùm a few hundred times too loud on the west coast again…

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Drowned in Sound are big fans of The Wave Picture and they recently started contributing to the RCRD LBL professional mp3-blog style site. On their little portion of the site they’ve just posted a track by a British artist they currently have under their wing. She’s called George Pringle and will certainly be big in 08… garageband beats win you over and gives the song huge curves and intelligence, whilst the spoken word poetry about selfish introvert existence, shoegaze, techno and street figher is so - now.

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I have a lot of really good music to share with you in the run up to Christmas, so stay tuned….

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