Dandi Wind - Decontaminate - 7"

Third single of the year from this Dandi Wind, this time around it's for Decontaminate, a pean to Howard Hughes who once spent a year holed up at the Bayshore Hotelin Vancouver.
It comes in a handsome full colour sleeve with an exclusive B-Side called "Birthmark".

Dangerloves - Lipsmart - 7"

One of the main problems with summer tunes is that they all come out in the summer- wouldn't it be cool if someone released a sugary, sunny blast of blissful power pop in the middle of winter so that we could all forget about shoveling our driveways and imagine drinks on a patio and falling asleep in the yard? Well, this 7" might have come out in the summer, but I just got it and will continue to pretend that they read my mind and that this is my soundtrack for mid-winter wishing for the summer blues. In a poppy way.

Das Wanderlust- Sunday School - 7"

"Music as comforting and sticky as an ice cream on a hot summers day"- Everett True (Plan B)

Das Wanderlust are a three piece wrong-pop band. That is to say that they try to write pop songs, but for some reason they end up coming out all wrong-sounding. They're not virtuosos, but they can usually play well enough to get by. If they ever do play badly, it is certainly never intentional.

They are based in (but do not originate from) Middlesbrough in the North East of England. After a prolonged period period of flux, long serving band members Laura & Andy have at last found a permanent drummer in the shape of their good friend Zoe. Let's hope she sticks around.

The three of them think that most music is very boring, so they try to have as much fun with theirs as possible. They’re not really worried about looking or sounding cool either, and a lot of people don't seem to know what to make of them.

Despite this, they have recorded sessions for a few big radio stations like XFM, 6music and Radio 1 (at Maida Vale), received some very nice reviews from people like Plan B, Artrocker, NME, and The Guardian (and the odd not-so-nice review!), and have played all over the shop - touring with Maximo Park & Art Brut, at festivals like Latitude and Eurosonic (again, for Radio 1), and in any number of weird, grotty little DIY venues in squats/art centres/barns/dungeons around the UK & Europe.

So far the band have released two singles on 7", 'The Orange Shop' (named by 6music's Marc Riley as his No.1 single of 2006), and more recently 'Sunday School' - released through Fierce Panda's new little sister label Cool For Cats.

They are currently hard at work on their debut album, which should surface sometime in early 2008.

DD/MM/YYYY - 777 - 7"

Toronto's lovable crew of attention-deficit chord-changers follow up last year's well-received sophomore record, Are They Masks?, with a terse but nonetheless thrilling EP.

Released as a seven-inch on Sydney, NS-based indie label Out of Touch, and a digital EP on Toronto's We Are Busy Bodies this Friday (May 2), 777 continues the manic prog fun of dd/mm/yyyy.

EP standout "Van Tan" traps and releases all of the band's chaos, spilling like the purge of a beehive, after it's been shaken by a bunch of bratty kids: sirens roar, guitars burn their notes, drums scatter like cockroaches in light and a breakdown hammers home their discombobulating nature before launching into a riveting climax that ends with a calming plateau.

FROM EXCLAIM

Dead Disco - Automatic - 7"

Earlier this year, all-girl indie group Dead Disco released their awesome debut single The Treatment and besides being one of the best tracks of the year, it was also one of the most promising releases in years. So does single number 2 and their first since signing to cult indie label Fierce Panda follow on from the potential their fruits suggest? Thankfully yes and if anything, Automatic eclipses the killer hooks and jangly nature of their catchy debut.
In addition to the spiky guitars of their indie-disco and new-wave crossover, Automatic also sees the Leeds band incorporating prehistoric synthesizers and retro effects to add a more melancholic, darker angle to their sound. The second track Too Late shares the same scuzz-fried agressive riffage of the recent Be My Friend single by Glaswegian vixens The Hedrons, with more turbo-charged guitars than your speaker can handle and a backing of subtle synths and honky-tonk pianos.
Only two singles into their career and Dead Disco are already looking set to be huge. Remember the name, as 2007 will surely belong to them.

Dead Kids - The Dead Wife Pills - 7"

Forget the grisly, long-haired skeletal being on the front cover, and the ferocious guitar mangling towards the finale that sounds like false nails being scraped down a blackboard. No, the most bizarre thing about Dead Kids' 'The Dead Wife Pills' is that, for the opening half dozen bars, it actually sounds like the intro to Placebo's 'Every You Every Me'.

But then Mike Frankel's vocals - a sort of devilish hybrid of Alan Rake and Steve Ignorant from prototype squat-punks Crass - kick in like a mule at a hay-gatherers' birthday party and the scene is set for one of the most disturbing tunes you'll ever hear, about what one can only imagine is a murder attempt gone horribly wrong.

Further down the line both four- and six-stringed instruments loop together like the first coming of PiL via 'Tago Mago' before the aforementioned crescendo dissolves around them like King Of The Slums in a head on collision with Methuselah.

God knows what John Lydon would make of it all, but if this is to be part of the final epitaph for Fierce Panda's singles outlet, then 'The Dead Wife Pills' is a fittingly stylish, if macabre ending.

Der Submarine Racers - Space Burrito - 7"

Der Submarine Racers long awaited debut single is now finished and ready to rape you for your hard earned cash. Fast, sloppy, drunk, skate, distorted, punk rock from L.A.. that will have you on a strict diet of cheap beer and space burritos until your body throws itself into a coronary thrombosis! A side Space Burrito b/w skatebored.

500 press all black vinyl with amazing silk screen covers designed by BTMc flyers

Digital Leather - Hard At Work - 12"

nough "Dark" for the punk kids and enough "Wave" for the art kids. Certainly enough going on for the seriously A.D.D. kids.

The new Digital Leather full-length, "Hard At Work", pushes their synthesized, raw-pop further into the cold, detached aesthetics of the oft-quoted "early synth-punk" era. Equally at home compared to retro-synth-punk (a-la-The Screamers, Human League, Wire) and experimental club blasts, the record draws on common elements of brutality in these diverse musical examples, and delivers unusual melodic twists on this concept at full force without sparing your heart or your eardrums a second of peace.

Dog Day - Lydia - 7"

Blistering first single from Night Group. Features drop tuned mayhem punk sing along 'Lydia' and unreleased B-side 'Bullet'.

Check for Dog Day on tour!

Dog Day - Night Group - 12"

Black Mountain Music's biggest seller ever availabe in delux gatefold packaging and free poster. We've talked this album up enough already, so we'll let someone else have a say.

From Music For Robots:

When I first put on Dog Day's new album, Night Group, the first thought that crossed my mind was "wow, this is really just perfect for the moment", meaning that at the time, a week or so ago, I was super tired, feeling kind of beat up and overwhelmed, and needed a pick me up. Dog Day absolutely delivered.

I also thought, "I wonder if Night Group will still be satisfying on later listens?" - I'll tell you, a couple weeks later, listening to the album it is just as enjoyable as the first time. The band is a four-piece from Halifax, Canada, and they rock.

This song opens the album, and all 1:41 of it is a great example of their sound: a bit like Pavement or Dinosaur Jr. (great guitar work that flips back and forth from jangly to aggressive), and the girl-boy vocals a bit like Sonic Youth if Kim's caterwaul was sweeter (don't get me wrong, I totally love SY, I'm just saying she isn't a sweet singer). Also recommended are "Oh Dead Life" and "Great Pains".

Domm - Yoloxochitl - CD

Somewhere between the confessions of Oberst (or perhaps Xiu Xiu) and confrontations of Venetian Snares lies Dommm's hectaring siren spasms and crimped synths, and those calm melodic vignettes struggle with issues of ugly-beautiful vulnerability. Dommm places emphasis on having a center of gravity within the diffusion, a la Fennesz". - XLR8R

Drums Like Machine Guns /Mincemeat or Tenspeed - 12"

Drums Like Machine Guns /
Mincemeat or Tenspeed split 12"