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Chris Leo’s Vague Angels Album Review on Drowned in Sound!



Legend of underground indie rock, Chris Leo, is back and this week releases an album under his latest incarnation Chris Leo's Vague Angels.

The album is called The Sunny Day I Caught Tintarella di Luna for a Picnic at the Cemetery. It blends all the best bits of some of his previous bands, The Lapse and The Van Pelt and is available via Expect Candy Records.

Drowned in Sound are the latest to review the album giving it a very admirable 7/10.

"...this New York-based hardcore kid-turned-novelist (his bibliography is nearly as long as his discography) still has that elusive elixir, the punk spirit. - Drowned in Sound

You can read the full reivew HERE.

The Sunny Day I Caught Tintarella di Luna for a Picnic at the Cemetery is available to buy now, check the Expect Candy store for more details.

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Posted Tue, 22 Jun 2010 in Chris Leo’s Vague Angels

The Return of Phantom!



Phantom's Elsie and Jonny

Montreal-born, Phantom chanteuse, guitarist and songwriter Elsie Martins was known in her Canadian homeland as a much-loved MusiquePlus music television presenter/journalist. Elsie left a burgeoning television career to relocate to London, UK, where she met Jonny Martin and formed Phantom.

Phantom’s debut single,Great Pretender, was released in September 2009. It was produced by James Aparicio, who's worked alongside bands such as XX Teens, These New Puritans and Phantom favourites Nick Cave and Mogwai.

With their debut album - Smoke & Mirrors - Phantom create a new percussive landscape for their music. They used recordings of places, objects and sounds found organically around them, both familiar and alien: an antique typewriter thump, the flap of a letter dropping through a letter box, heels clicking on concrete, the Mars Space Rover rumbling across the surface of the red planet. Each sound has been carefully treated and morphed into a rhythm to support compositions.

Phantom's strength is being able to create an atmosphere; therefore it’s apt that the album - provided in two 22-minute parts with no track marks - is seamless when played in sequence. The songs build and bleed into one another just as they do during Phantom’s captivating live set. A remix of “We Float” by Death In Plains is also featured on the album. Death In Plains is a visual/musical adventure, the brainchild of Enrico Boccioletti, who creates a sound that joins Fuck Buttons to Jesus and Mary Chain via MGMT.

Smoke & Mirrors mysteriously transports you into Phantom’s world of alluring, sensual sounds, captivating your imagination and enticing you into their silky neo-noir musical landscapes.

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Posted Tue, 22 Jun 2010 in Phantom

Check out Planet Brain’s “Failure” Video!



Planet Brain, who are signed to our very own Function Records, have released their brand new video for the track Failure.

You can watch the atmospheric offering below:



The Italian trio will be playing the Orcia Rock Festival in San Quirico, Siena on June 25th, for anyone who will be in the area and fancies checking out "melodic modern-day shoegazers".

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Posted Mon, 21 Jun 2010 in Planet Brain in Function Records

Tango in the Attic on AU and Free Download!

Scottish five-piece Tango In The Attic have been featured on the AU Magazine website!

You can read a bit about the boys as well as download the track Off to... for absolutely free.

Check it out HERE.



The band are just back from a pulsating set at the Rockness Festival and are on the road in the run up to their debut album, Bank Place Locomotive Society, which is released on July 12th.

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Posted Fri, 18 Jun 2010 in Tango In The Attic

ABoF on Amazing Radio Tonight!

If you have a spare hour, and have had the sudden realisation that modern day football is enough to make your eyes bleed, then check out our appearance on Amazing Radio tonight at 7pm.

We will be giving our 'expert' opinions on some of the nations untapped talent who will be appearing on the show. Think Roman emperors giving the thumbs up or the thumbs down on an unsuspecting gladiator as we hold their very lives in our opulent hands! Will we spare them for another day, or shall we chop their heads off?



Anyway, you get the picture...

You can listen to Amazing Radio on DAB digital radio anywhere in the UK or you can stream the station ONLINE.

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Posted Thu, 17 Jun 2010