So This Is The New Year?

When Death Cab For Cutie sung, 'So this is the new year / And I don't feel any different' they'd obviously had a shitty night. The sun is beaming on this brisk January day and I'm feeling optimistic about the forth coming year. I've got a few plans for Long Live Rock And Roll and I'm viewing this as my commencing year as a music promoter.

I've begun to get to grips with these musicians and it's time for me to pull my socks up and get this show on the road - properly.

With this in mind, I'm in a giving mood. Below are a cluster of songs for you to download by bands who could have a fruitful year ahead of them also...

GENERAL FIASCO


This little Irish indie-punk three piece are going to have no trouble at roping in the female fans with their cherub-like angelic faces and racing group vocals that snap, crackle and pop-punk like a candied jar of jittery guitars and escalating sugar-coated Americana group vocals. 'We Are The Foolish' sounds like a mid-noughties pop-punk revival but with a distinctly U.K indie twist, and although it's not a prevalent feature, the influence and subtlety is there and brewing nicely.

General Fiasco - We Are The Foolish

YEASAYER


This experimental Brooklyn band bought out their first album in 2007 to a mixed response and I think that 'All Hour Cymbals' never really got the adoration it deserved - but the second coming, as was the theme with 2009, is sure to be sweet for this experimental New York outfit.

With the success of bands such as Amazing Baby, MGMT and Empire Of The Sun, it's already becoming clear that Yeasayer's time is fast approaching, and believe it or not, the press are already claiming Yeasayer to have in their possession, one of 2010's best albums prior to its release or even leakage.

After hearing 'Madder Red' on hympem recently I thought it best for me to scour the web for more Yeasayer forthcoming gems, and I found one. The first single from their 2010 sophomore effort ('Odd Blood') will be 'Ambling Alp'. A bubbling smooch of multi-coloured anavnt-garde indie-dance that sounds like 'Walking On A Dream' produced by Animal Collective tripping on a concoction of underground N.Y indie and ecstasy. A big song from a soon to be bigger band.

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

JONSI


From the language-crafting oddity who bought us Sigur Ros comes a new solo project that goes by the name of Jonsi. The frosty twinkles of this minimalist operatic project certainly conjures up images of the Reykjavik outfit who set our souls alight with the fairytale shine of 'Hoppípolla' but there's a disticnt difference, it's in English. And that could give Jonsi that extra kick needed.

There's something bare but utterly romantic about Jonsi's available download, 'Boy Lilikoi'. With delicately innocent child-like vocals and the glowing luster a sharply Sigur-esqe illuminated twinkle, I can see Jonsi going places that perhaps his band couldn't.

Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi

SURFER BLOOD


Surfer Blood are from West Palm Beach, Florida. Sounds a bit nice, right? Sun, sea and sand, what could be nicer? well maybe some lavishly lo-fi surf-rock with well-rounded arrangements and post-punk harmonies that retains an un-polished but carefully crafted edge - enter Surfer Blood.

Surfer Blood - Swim

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