Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

New Releases Windsor for the Derby exist “in a world of slow movements” and “represent slow music”. I don’t know what that means but I swear to God that’s what they say in the press release. They even put the slow in quotation marks. Maybe they play all their songs at half speed, maybe they take a while to grow on you or maybe they just aren’t that bright, you can decide which kind of “slow” they are when they release new album ‘Against Love’ on June 18th. Here We Go Magic were formed “through a series of chance encounters, overheard conversations and supernatural occurrences.” Their first release was a “collection of unique 4-track recordings” and they have developed “an explosive live sound all of their own.” Honestly of those last two sentences I find the one that contains “supernatural occurrences” easier to believe but we’ll find out when ‘Pigeons’ … There’s more

How The Other Side Lives

This week I posted my top ten albums of the decade. However in the true Christmas spirit one argument is never enough, so here are some other album of the decade lists that have been published so far. Arcade Fire’s Funeral is the only album to make all six. Radiohead however manage to grab seven spots and are the only group to have more than one album appear. Let us know what you think. Who got it right and who got it horribly horribly wrong? Is there anything blatantly obvious that everyone has missed and most importantly who has the best list of the lot? State 10. Florence and the Machine – Lungs 09. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver 08. Damien Rice – O 07. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago 06. At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command 05. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, … There’s more