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“We get along really well, we don’t argue or get drunk and call each other bastards.”

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Captain Ahab

End of Irony

(Deathbomb Arc)

Since Mika Miko split and No Age started touring the world, LA’s The Smell scene has been searching for a new, less garage-y sound, and its found it in ravesploitation.

Kele

The Boxer

(Wichita/Polydor)

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Tokyo Police Club

Champ

(Memphis Industries)

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Liars

Shepherd's Bush Empire , London

Liars have always been proponents of the idea of more – more bass, more fuzz, more weirdness.

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Real Estate

[Woodist]

8/10

In the last 3 months, there’s been a lot of shouting about New York’s The Drums and their excitable surfing habits, but in neighbouring New Jersey, Real Estate have been developing a far subtler beach sound – their coastal, sunbathing indie soundtracks the sunset after a day of hanging ten with Johnny Utah and the dead presidents. It’s slower and slyer than those currently towing the lo-fi/surf line (babbling arpeggio guitars and half whispered vocals, not yelps of early morning shore hysteria), but it’s no less impressive, meandering along at its own mid-to-slovenly pace that is effortlessly immersive. If there’s an argument against Real Estate’s debut, it no doubt sounds like, “Dude, all the tracks sound the same,” which is not an unfair observation, although, “Yeah man, but the whole thing is way too soothing for me to give a shit,” soon deals with such nay-saying.

By Stuart Stubbs