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Artist: Toy

Title: Motoring

Label: Heavenly Recordings

Release: 23 April 2012

What’s The Story?

They’ve only released one double A-side single before and they used to be in the short-lived Indie band Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong. But don’t let that put you off….

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Artist: 2:54

Title: You’re Late

Label: Fiction Records

Release: 9 April 2012

What’s The Story?

We tipped 2:54 as one of our Ones To Watch in 2012, and we weren’t wrong. Sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow have wowed crowds on both sides of the Atlantic with their…

If you missed it yesterday, here’s my review of Noah & the Whale’s latest single as featured in The Whiteboard Project. http://thewhiteboardproject.tumblr.com/post/2686964206/single-noah-and-the-whale

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Title: L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N 

Label: Vertigo

Release: 28th February

Rating: 6.8

  

 

In 2008 Noah and the Whale’s debut album, Peaceful the World Lays Me Down, paved the way for alternative-folk to go mainstream. Their second album soundtracked a short film by the band,The First Days of Spring. In a definitive move away from the alt-folk tag, the arrangements on this album were orchestral rather than folk: the days of ukulele, glockenspiel and whistling accompaniments became a distant memory. 

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