The Playlist 02-09-09

10 tracks you should hear now!

MUSE, UPRISING
Hear ye, hear ye! Muse are back and, as usual, they’re prodding the outer boundaries of big, anthemic rock until they find yet more spots where nobody else has been yet. Welcome back, gents.
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WEEZER, (IF YOU'RE WONDERING IF I WANT YOU TO) I WANT YOU TO
Not such a snappy title. Fortunately, as ever, Weezer's new track is a catchy nugget of pop rock genius.
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WOLFMOTHER, NEW MOON RISING
The 70s might be looong gone, but that doesn’t mean that the big riff stylings of Seppelin, Sabbath and Purple sound any less vibrant. Here’s a whole load of new 70s stuff from Wolfmother.
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YOU ME AT SIX, KISS AND TELL
Proving that Take Off Your Colours wasn’t simply a fluke, You Me At Six return with another humdinger of a tune, and once again, it’s got a melodic streak you could land a plane on.
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PELICAN, STRUNG UP FROM THE SKY
It’s heavy, but not the kind you’d get from Lamb Of God. Instead, Pelican use the weight of sound to crush you until you’re squashed flat. Now that’s heavy.
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SOIL, LIKE IT IS
Soil are one of those bands who you can always depend on to bring the rock, and here they are again in ever stompy form, keeping their, ahem, halos polished.
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CHILDREN OF BODOM, LOOKIN’ OUT MY BACK DOOR
There are few thoughts more ridiculous than Children of Bodom covering Creedence Clearwater Revival, but here’s the proof that such a thing can happen. Ludicrous, ludicrous men.
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DESPISED ICON, DAY OF MOURNING
Listening to Despised Icon’s brutal, beefy belligerence is like being tackled by an entire rugby team at once. And once you’ve got the blood out of your ears, you realise you quite enjoy it.
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STEEL PANTHER, COMMUNITY PROPERTY
Is the joke old? Yeah, but it’s still pretty funny with this fnarr-fnarr ode to drawing up boundaries for the movements of a wayward dong, done in perfect glam metal style.
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3 INCHES OF BLOOD, BATTLES AND BROTHERHOOD
Summing up just about every song Iron Maiden have ever written, here the Canadian metallers once again strap on a riff, raise their fist and charge headlong into battle with false metal. Beautiful.
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