Red Leader, 2010

A New York 8-piece that make an eclectic noise, as an 8-piece are liable to. Good Problems sounds a bit like Modest Mouse, or a moody post-rock band, or something rustic and folky, which makes it a fairly disjointed listen. With some patience though you’re bound to dig out something you like on here.

Chocolate Lab, 2009

Lyrics that are at turns introspective, philosophical, transcendental, literary-referencing, anthropomorphically musing, and deeply poetic; music that is contrastingly light and upbeat in a folk-rock way, and generally down to (Americana) earth, if possessing a rickety sense of adventure. The result is a quietly brilliant enigma of a record.

Southern, 2009

If there were such a thing as horror indie, this would be it. Angular, dissonant, noisily theatrical, disturbingly anthemic, and always creepy – this is what the family secret chained in the attic is listening to whilst dreaming up his revenge.

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