POP MUSIC MATTERS

Recommended New Music: The Clientele - The Night, a Forest Grew EP

Artist: The Clientele
Album: The Night, a Forest Grew EP
Country of Origin: London, England
Sounds Like: An already excellent, well-regarded English band who continue to refine their perfect, subdued, 60s indie-pop.
Listen: www.theclientele.co.uk

Recommended New Music: Disco Italia - Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985

Artist: Various
Album: Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985
Country of Origin: Italy, circa late seventies to mid-eighties
Sounds Like: Fuckin' Disco Heaven. Gold chains, hairy chests, sweat and cocaine.
Listen: www.strut-records.com/discoitalia

Recommended New Music: Sam Sparro

Artist: Sam Sparro
Album: Sam Sparro
Country of Origin: Sydney, Australia/Los Angeles, CA--USA
Sounds Like: Digitized Sex. This is soul music, brother.
Listen: www.myspace.com/samsparro

Recommended New Music: Fleet Foxes

Artist: Fleet Foxes
Album: Fleet Foxes
Country of Origin: Seattle, WA--USA
Sounds Like: Indigenous, American-Indie Folk
Listen: www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes

Recommended New Music: Hercules & Love Affair

Artist: Hercules & Love Affair
Album: Hercules & Love Affair
Country of Origin: New York, USA
Sounds Like: a brilliant, funked-up record of disco revivalism, Hercules and Love Affair will be hard to top in 2008.
Listen: www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair

Recommended New Music: Sally Shapiro

Artist: Sally Shapiro
Album: Remix Romance Vol. I
Country of Origin: Sweden
Sounds Like: meticulously crafted European electro-pop.
Listen: www.myspace.com/shapirosally  

Recommended New Music: M83

Artist: M83
Album: Saturdays=Youth
Country of Origin: France
Sounds Like: My Bloody Valentine having an orgy with New Order. Shoegaze meets synth-pop.
Listen: www.myspace.com/m83  

Recommended New Music: Cut Copy

Artist: Cut Copy
Album: In Ghost Colours
Country of Origin: Australia
Sounds Like: the best dance album of the year? A delicious blend of synth-pop, electronica, new-wave, and alternative rock, it'll be real easy to leave In Ghost Colors loaded in your car stereo all summer.
Listen: www.myspace.com/cutcopy