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13 track promotional compilation CD in colour illustrated sleeve: new
Vertigo signings rub shoulders with big-hitters the Killers, Razorlight
and Amy Macdonald. Some of the highlights from the new bands: The Envy
Corps The featured song, Rooftop, was one of four atmospheric alt-pop
gems on the Iowa band's debut EP, The Story Problem. You'd say that its
finger-picked guitar and lyric about suicidal depression will surely
one day soundtrack a downbeat American indie movie, and maybe they
will. But the song is so powerfully evocative that the visuals are
already imprinted on your mind. A tantalising taster for the band's
debut album, Dwell (released on April 28). Johnny Flynn Rollicking
folk-rock and a sharply observed narrative approach inform the Sussex
singer/actor's songwriting, epitomised here on a track about a vagrant
living and dying by a railway, who leaves nothing but cardboard boxes
to map his demise by. Could be described as of-the-moment in its
infectiously pellmell, antifolk canter. Flynn's debut album, A Larum,
is released in May. Aynzli Jones Born in London, raised in Jamaica, the
25-year-old produces music that launches ram raids on techno,
dancehall, pop and soul. I Don't Listen, a limited-edition single
released late last year, sits at the noirish, experimental end of
Jones's broad spectrum. His new single, Had Enuff (March 31), is a more
soulful affair, and he collaborates with Moby on the latter's
return-to-form single Alice. Noah and the Whale This London band^s
song, 2 Bodies 1 Heart, captures exactly what their fans love about
them. There is something irresistible about the way the four-piece wade
into this ukulele-pocked, trumpet-flecked love letter/lament, which is
somehow ineffably fey and utterly forlorn at the same time. Their next
single, Jocasta (April 4), should set them up nicely.
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