Gary Lightbody's Band of The Week: Week 11

Apologies for the lack of my words last week but I really did think it was Friday when in fact it was Saturday.

Can't imagine too many proper journalists miss their deadline by a whole day, in fact war journalists shivering behind enemy lines probably still manage to get copy in faster than me.

And here I am again at midday on Friday (it's really Friday this time. I know because I can see "Fri" in the top right of my laptop beside the time) panic typing with two mad spiders for hands to get my thing on and in. Anyway, last week I'm sure you coped without me. This week I'm back with a bag of new tunes fit to burst and if the teacher asks me if I've enough to go round for everyone then I can ease back on a two-leggedly balanced chair and smugly proclaim "yes miss, yes I have." I'll no doubt get a curt cuff on the lug but that's the prize you pay for back chat.

Classroom politics aside this week is about a bunch of bands and great new tunes rather than focusing on a single record. It comes from being in the studio this week recording a new single for later in the year and hanging out with our producer Garret (Jacknife Lee). We all need pals like him. I haven't met too many people with a more voracious appetite for music than mine but he is one such fell and every time I work with him he turns me on to a bunch of stuff that blows my mind. In his honour this week I'd like to share with you some of the songly wondrousness he shared with me.

And here we go with Here We Go Magic. From the same neck of the woods as the equally strange and wonderful Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn. Luke Temple's songs are psychedelic and delicious and so hooky they could hang curtains. Anyone who's not yet clapped their ears on Fangela clap them on now.

Something much stranger and to be honest may well be the best thing I've heard in months. I don't really know how to describe it as it goes so many places all at once. The wonderful Micah and her astonishing debut Jewellery is something to behold, or behear rather. Start with Lips the single from earlier this year and dive in from there. The 53 seconds of Sweetheart may also be the best 53 seconds you'll have this year.

So to something of a slightly more gentle bent: the beauty that is DM Stith's Heavy Ghost. Gentler yes but nonetheless out there somewhere on the horizon of itself. The clattering tension of Creekmouth sits on you heavy like a big cat toying with you. There is menace in it. Then elsewhere the ethereal tenderness of Braid Of Voices licks your wounds for you. A very special record indeed.

Right I'm running out of space so I'll simply promise to hit you with three more very special things next week and let that be that. Till then lots of love and sweets for the whole class it to all of yous.

g.x

Here We Go Magic

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DM Stith on myspace.

11:42 AM | 28/07/2009

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