COMING THIS WEEK ON theNOISE

UPDATE: Link to Opposites now added. Check the photo caption. 

Okay, so, a few reviews coming your way over the next few days;

• Arc by Everything Everything
• Opposites by Biffy Clyro
• Conduit by Funeral For A Friend
• Bored Of Idiot Chatter by self-proclaimed 'mellow-rock' man Stuart Newman
• Potentially some other albums that I would have considered for the 2012 awards season but never got round to doing in full. Depends how long these others take.

I happened to notice that both Biffy and FFAF's albums are up on Amazon's MP3 site for £4.99. Bargain if you ask me, considering that Opposites is a double album and all. Or, you can listen to them on Deezer;

Conduit

Opposites 

AWESOME THINGS COMING IN 2013

There will be many awesome things in 2013, the majority of which are yet to be announced, but here's a comprehensive* list of the things we do know are going to happen.

New albums from;

• Paramore; Paramore (April 9th)
• Killswitch Engage; ? (April)
• Queens Of The Stone Age; ? (shrugs)
• Biffy Clyro; Opposites (January 28th)
• Bring Me The Horizon; Sempiternal (early 2013 but unknown)
• Animals As Leaders; ? (shrugs)
• Everything Everything; Arc (January 14th)
• 30 Seconds To Mars; ? (unknown but expected by summer)

Download Festival

Muse's Summer Stadium tour

Fall Out Boy reunion**

Mastodon are set to enter the studio to record the follow-up to 2011's The Hunter, but don't expect anything soon - expect another year's tour before we see a new album.

I'll add things as I come across them, but these are the main things I'm looking forward to. Of course, there are/will be tours attached to all the above new album releases, so fingers crossed for UK dates from the foreign bands.

* I'm lying. Comment below if there are any glaring omissions and I will gladly un-omit them, which is to say, add them to the list.
** I'm lying again, although I had a strange dream where it happened but I was Pete Wentz.

SOMETHING AWESOME; KEMOSABE by Everything Everything

I submit to the court that it is impossible not to like Everything Everything. 

My reasoning being that they produce catchy, distinctively unusual, often beautiful and always innovative music, and they have the ability to create songs that sound like they could instantly become a classic regardless of genre. Case and point is this, ne single Kemosabe, taken from the forthcoming second album Arc, released January 14th. Press play and you'll understand; they are a jewel in the British indie scene - it contains all the aforementioned aspects that make them so good. 

I rest my case, and recommend checking out previous single Cough Cough in the meantime.

TRACK OF THE WEEK 27/8/12 - 2/9/12

A first, as I attempt to bring a little more coherence to this here blog. Every Sunday, I'll be picking my favourite new song of the previous week. And kicking things off is Manchester indie mob Everything Everything, with their new single Cough Cough. Taken from forthcoming album Arc, due out in January 2013, this is a stonking track that demonstrates EE's Wonka-on-acid take on indie whilst showing that they have, as every good band should, evolved their sound from their first album Man Alive. It swings between a punchy percussion-driven verse and an epic, sweeping chorus, with the characteristic crazy keyboard/bass rhythms and falsettos that make EE so distinctive. Bloody great.