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Vasa – Never Have Dreams EP

Vasa's mathy post rock is something to behold. The meaty bass tangled with the chiming guitar lines is a recipe for something really special. The whole EP is excellent but a special mention must go to Not Now, But Soon, which shifts silkily from from its optimistic major key riffs to something a little more Eastern, heavy and dark. This is beautiful.

Never Have Dreams is released 14th December 2012

Queen Jane – Romantics EP

Queen Jane have a real knack for writing catchy guitar pop songs. Their sound sits somewhere in between Vampire Weekend and The Maccabees, and there's a summery, breezy feel about the whole thing. However, it's actually one of their slower numbers that stands out here. The shimmering chords and reverberant vocals on Sometimes give it that 'sailing away' feeling. A solid EP.

Romantics will be launched on 2nd December at the Art School with Campfires In Winter and Mickey 9s

So Many Animal Calls – She Was Speaking From The Bottom Of The Sea

So Many Animal Calls describe themselves as failpop. I have no idea why because they certainly haven't failed here. SMAC have a talent for arrangement, having all the loud bits and quiet bits and all bits in between in exactly the right places. This a big epic pop song with big guitars and big snares and big vocals. It's fucking brilliant too.

The single is released 3rd December. There is a launch gig at Nice N Sleazy on 8th December.

Fin.

Fresh Meat Monday - Mickey 9s

Would you care to introduce yourself?

Mickey 9s. Superheroes by day, funksters by night.


How would you describe the music you make?

It's like funk, only funkier.


How did you start out making music?

It all started just after the war years, my brother Jimi was just back from the front and the family had little to share round the table; many folk forget that the rationing continued long after the armistice. To provide for my family I decided to become a deep-sea marine biologist. I planned to rake in the riches of the briny deep. While out in my submarine I found a mask at the bottom of a sharp oceanic ravine. When I put on this mask, I formed the band that has been known ever since as Mickey 9s. The rest is ahistorical.


What process goes into the way you write songs?

We have two books. One, The Giant Book of Bass, t'other, Tupper's Book of Proverbial Philosophy. These are not e-books, nay, but pulpus veritas. While watching an episode of Planet Earth we each rip a page out of the respective books and eat it. Once this has been watered down with some buckfast, we begin to write songs.


What can people expect from your live shows?

Visions of a prehistoric future.


What are you all listening to at the moment?

The Orcadian Sea. (Not a band, but a body of water.) Far out.


What can we expect to see/hear from you in the future?

More music videos, a comic book strip of the band's superheroic exploits, a few new singles, and we should be playing some festivals this summer but we can't tell you which yet because that would be illegal. You can find out more from our Facebook or our website.

Mickey 9s - Find A Thing

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