Feel good hits of the 14th April

1. 'This Glorious Land' - PJ Harvey
2. 'White Noise' - Mogwai
3. 'Tambourine Girl' - Ringo Deathstarr
4. 'Set Your Arms Down' - Warpaint
5. 'Goodbye' - Best Coast
6. 'Pure Radio Cosplay' - ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
7. 'Jesus Christ Pose' - Soundgarden
8. 'Over The Ocean' - Low
9. 'Brat Mouth' - Hunters
10. 'Cold Days From The Birdhouse' - The Twilight Sad

Notes:

1. Let England Shake just gets better and better with every revolution. A dark and bitingly bitter but occasionally funny concept album about the First World War - seriously, who'd have thunk it? (And of those few who did thunk it, how many would have put their money on Nick Cave being the perpetrator?)

2. A song really brought to life by February's gig. Currently struggling to think of another first track by Mogwai that I like more - 'Hunted By A Freak' perhaps (and that was damn good on the night too).

3. All bent MBV chords to start with but then some flighty Pains Of Being Pure At Heart indie pop. If I'm not doing a very good job of selling Colour Trip as anything other than a well-executed pastiche, then there's a reason for that...

4. Much like The National, this lot have stealthily crept in under the radar, and reaching for the album has become a reflex action I've barely stopped to question.

5. Weezer for Dum Dum Girls fans, perhaps?

6. Tao Of The Dead - it's not bad, you know, maybe just a bit too overproduced.

7. One of the definite highlights from the jukebox selection made last weekend in the Black Rose Tavern, a very fine establishment in Edinburgh in which I and several others spent a large chunk of an extremely boozy stag do. "Three Goldschlagers please." "Sorry, I'm afraid you drank it all last night..."

8. So good were they in Coventry in November (yes, review in the pipeline) that Jen and I couldn't miss out on a rendezvous at the Trinity in Bristol on 20th May. C'mon's been ordered but in the meantime I'm trying (without massive success, it must be said) to get into The Curtain Hits The Cast, an oldie received as part of a Christmas present.

9. One of the latest recommendations from Insound. Scratchy, fuzzy guitar and a big ol' breakdown in the middle - of course I was going to like it...

10. The highlight of their semi-successful set supporting Mogwai. Another back catalogue demanding investment.