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The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

The Besnard Lakes sound like a cross between The Beach Boys, Arcade Fire and Pink Floyd.

Their new album 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse' is atmospheric, psychedelic, orchestral and harmonic all at the same time.

"For Agent 13" is the stand out track for me. Here's a radio edit with video although note it doesn't really get going until 2 mins 30 secs if you're impatient :-)

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Sia - Some People Have Real Problems

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A brand new album from Zero 7 singer Sia.It's soulful, full of stings, piano's and trumpets and is great to listen to.

I'd say she sounds a bit like Corinne Bailey Rae.

You could easily glaze over 'Some People Have Real Problems' on first listen as it is very inoffensive, the kind of thing you might put on over dinner and forget about it in the background. 

You would be doing yourself an injustice though.

It's an album i've listened to numerous times over and it gets better each time round.

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Fink - Distance and Time

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Acoustic goodness from Fink. If you like Jose Gonzales you'll like Fink.

I first discovered him because he features on the latest Bonobo album 'Days to come'. His own take on that track ('Make it Good') is on 'Distance and Time'. I guess they collaborated as both artists are signed to Ninjatune. 

It's quiet, moody and it's engineered by Lamb producer Andy Barlow. I like it a lot.

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Explosions in the sky - All of a sudden I miss everyone

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Explosions in the sky are a cinematic rock band, there's no lead singer and on their latest album 'All of a sudden I miss everyone' they have a record that goes on for more than 13 minutes.

You could say they are a bit different.

Their tracks are epic journeys with changing moods and sounds. I guess the closest I could compare them to would be Mogwai. Just.

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