Over again amiland: Britpop/Shoegaze as its pure plantation...

These five guys are based out of brooklyn, new york city. They have managed to create a truly infectious album. On their debut "Gone Faded", released last autumn 2007 , Soft struggles to give old school Britpop new life. All songs combines an enjoyable warmly voice. Their evident guitar dominant but never to untrusive sounds throwback to the shoegaze world of British rock. Songs like "Gone Faded", "Higher", "100 days" or "Ring On" heat up my mind and sneak almost unnoticeable in the auditory canals. If you're looking for a flashback to '80s Britrock or '90s shoegaze, you should attend to these musicians more than a few minutes. For Example here...

Pay attention, the ultimate perfection of noise pop...

...further on todays fishbowl: The Early Years. For the most part still unfamous but further an excellent one from london. Formed in 2004, the juvenescent trio stands for psychodelic beats, acrid acoustic feedback and harmonical shoegazed melodies. The single outcome "all ones & zeros" opens furiously their self-titled lp "The Early Years". Guitar streams, which loses themselves in outer space spacious and high in effects. Bass lines, which defines the spheric scenery only as a tall whole. Melancholia in its most beautiful art presentation of music. Please take a quick look at their MySpace page and enjoy their amazing work to the full. Ladies and gentleman, we are floating in space!

Anti-Anti indeed !

Snowden is an indie quartet based out of atlanta. In 2006 jade tree records signed figurehead Jordan Jeffares and the other band members and released their debut album "Anti-Anti." Here someone suffers again. And he jingles so hopeless, as he strikes with his head against the wall while he`s singing. Once again the guitar and drums always drive on the songs vibrant. Snowden presents a fascinating mish-mash of indie rock, dance-floor beats and shoegaze borrowings. Wether with the bittersweet track "Black-Eyes" or with the cranky pulsative and together innocent blackly "Stop Your Bleeding": Every now and then you have the feeling, radiohead meets clap your hands say yeah and themselves meets arcade fire again. One`s tone labyrinth joined the other one`s imploring straightness. Altogether a dolefully fine sound creation. Album number two can’t come quick enough!

Our problems are just going to reappear again...

When you hear the name and the music of I Was A Cub Scout, there`s no need to think about a huge band. No, rather it`s about two very young musicians - Todd Mariott (vocals, guitar and Synthie) and William Bowermann (drums) from long bennington and collingham, england, which delivers some emotional delightful sounds. At first sight their debut lp "I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope" sounds a little bit fragile and not like these typical ones from england filled with hype and brightness. Anyway, it contains catchy volumes (e.g. the veritable hitsingle "Pink Squares") as well, but rather this is an album, that comes along with somebody. In the car, when the rain falls down on someone, before bedtime after an exhausting day, with friends or during a fine dinner. I recommend you warmly to listen to their dumpish lyrics ( "...don`t be pulled down/do not look back/maybe tings are gonna change/keep your chin up/try to hold your smile/maybe we`ll see better days...").

But some story draws to a faster close you may even think. In february 2008 I Was A Cub Scout have published their debut album yet, there`s no room for hope currently. On their MySpace page Will and Todd announced the band won`t continue any longer. After a uk-tour they split in June 2008. What a crying shame! Absolutely!