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I told you I cant get enough. Most anticipated album of the year for me? I have to say so far, it leads by a country mile

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All over this band, absolutely incredible. Gonna be a little lazy and ask you to check out my review on www.229thevenue.co.uk under Pick of the month section as I've tried rewriting it for here and it just doesn't sound how I want it to and I think I did a pretty good job over there.

In the meantime you can listen to the whole album here and it is freaking awesome, dead excited

For all the geeks, this is a walkthrough of Simian Mobile Disco's live setup. I just cannot get enough of these guys

I don't talk hockey much so humour me for one post. The Caps are on a bit of a roll of late and last night saw another decisive victory in their quest to become champions of the Eastern Conference. As is often the case, a Caps win was summed up by the enigmatic and awe-insipring Alex Ovechkin.
Now you may not appreciate Ice Hockey but I'm sure you've ice skated at some point in your life so imagine the skill and speed involved in this play. It is absolutely no wonder he is rightly called the best player in the world.

Hopefully set to be this year's Elbow, a band that have been around for ages, produced some critically acclaimed albums and loved by some, Doves are returning this year with their third album Kingdom of Rust.

The Last Broadcast is one of my favourite straight up indie albums, from the delicate lo-fi M62 song to the effervescent Pounding, the album sound tracked a winter way back in 2002. Beautifully orchestrated, Doves have a wonderful talent for writing simple pop songs and then surrounding them on an album with songs that are expansive and equally strong but just not suitable for radio play. After the equally strong Some Cities back in 2005, pushed once again into recognition on the strength of Black and White Towns, Doves seemed to get sucked under with the explosion of bands such as The Futureheads and Bloc Party who focused less on the depth of orchestration and steered British music in the angular, spiky guitar records that soon flooded the markets.

However, they're back and with extreme promise. Check out the video below for new single Kingdon of Rust and here's to the return of a quintessentially british band

My record collection is continuing to grow, despite the financial burdens of a variety of things at the moment. Perhaps the most recent addition is the Passion Pit - Sleepyhead 7", released last year by Neon Gold (record label of former awesome blogger GWFAS).

Passion Pit's new EP Chunk of Change was originally written as a mixtape for Michael Angelakos' girlfriend and as the tracks began to circulate around the college, so the accolades came rolling in. Finally, the band have finished work on their EP including a fantastic 22 piece american school choir and are set to take 2009 by storm. Think electro-future as opposed to 80s throwbacks. Passion Pit's debut is set to be one of the albums of this year, in a way that MGMT were the album of last for many. They may become insanely irritating but if you get in there early and appreciate the songs at your own pace, you may not suffer from KOLitus (the release of Revelry has alll bit killed my appreciation for that album).

Check out the video of the choir singing Coldplay's Viva La Vida below during recording sessions and the fantastic video for Sleepyhead.
I'm heading to the Cargo show with Bear Hands and Hockey, possibly the most exciting new music show announced so far this year. NME new music tour? I've got all I need right there.

Superhet Receiver

For those of you that have been to a Fandango show, you'll have noticed that they have quite the talent for picking out new bands and giving them a chance to shine, they are indie promoters and bloody good at it. At 229, I get a chance to experience quite the few Fandango shows as they are weekly promoters here, previously bringing artists such as Chairlift, Le Sac vs Pip and Rose Elinor Dougall in the last 2 months alone.

Last night was no different. As I wandered down to the venue to sort out a few things, I could hear a band soundchecking. The door opens and a wall of Moog Synths, looping guitars, wandering bass lines and skipping, awkward drumming flattens me. Superhet Receiver hadn't finished soundchecking and they were doing a bloody good job of destroying the 229 soundsystem and my eardrums. They were deafeningly loud and breathtakingly good.

Superhet receiver are a newish 5 peice from Dorchester and are making tidal waves, they are so highly rated. The list of influences reads like my most listened to artists on last.fm; Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice, Bonobo, Rage Against The Machine to name but a few. These influences are obvious but noticeably and intentionally missing from their list of influences are Foals.

Now don't get me wrong, the two bands are different. Superhet Receiver write songs that are slightly heavier on the riffs as opposed to the twinkly intertwining guitars of their Oxford counterparts. Live they are fast and nervous. They tore through their set last night in little over twenty minutes, playing the same amount of songs that Foals would take in more than half hour. But it is this experimentation live that Superhet Receiver will develop fast and will push them further up the echelons of this niche market with so much potential.

It is the rhythms, the swirling jams at the climax of songs, the multi-instrumental skills of each band member, the bleeps and whilrs that demonstrate their sognwriting abilities in both electronic and indie circles. This is a band that with a little nurturing and a lot more live experience, could easily step into Foals shoes whilst they are away recording.

Check them out, tell your friends as the credibility you're going to get when these guys get big is sure to earn you a pint or two in the not too distant future.

www.myspace.com/superhetreceiver

It seems Mother Nature has a sense of humour. Last night I stayed at work as I was working late. This morning I woke up to see London covered in snow, severe delays/cancellations on pretty much every form of transport, the worst snow in 18 years I heard? I was asleep thirty seconds from my office. So, on the day in which you all revel in the snow, spare a thought for me. Stuck in an empty office with no transport out.

However, this is not a day for Moaning on Boy With A Coin. Because today, February 2nd, Boy With A Coin is 100 posts old (in my new, non-illegal format). Now I know that doesn't seem that much to bang on about but if you think of all that has gone on in my world the last year, I find it impressive to blog at a rate of just under a post every three days. And agreeably not all of them have been intelligent posts but let me have this victory will you?

And so, to celebrate this joyous day, I'm going to have a snowball fight in Regents Park and give you this wonderful Bloc Party cover. Played in the Live Lounge on Friday, the news that it is to become a regular feature in their live sets is just fantastic news.

Enjoy the snow, take care and think of me, STILL at work