“‘out of space’, ‘voodoo people’, ‘one love’ and a fair few others are just pure greatness, but to be honest, a lot of what is here is a bit ali g; dated, a bit funny, but if you are in the mood and can put up with it, why the hell not…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“the lyrics are so simple that everyone and their mum will be able to sing along… there is also a whistley melody that your dad will latch on to in no time. yeh; family crisis. your parents are going to be into metronomy. bugger…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“it’s blissfully heavy and lurches forward with some complex drumming which yearns for a fight; it’s basically starting on you…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“they’ve reached new levels of prog; the visceral energy of ‘batcat’ flies to higher realms of intimate thrash - if you wanted to know what it was like to ride a tornado, jump on the new mogwai material…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“gotye has seemingly gone to sleep one night under a blanket of starlight and somehow written a dreamscape utopian score on colourful, subconscious manuscript paper; he has managed to realise some kind of heavenly gorgeousness in his music. and I can’t fault it one little bit…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“who knew electronica could be this romantic? this is like a chagall painting condensed into aural media. you will fall in love with it…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“mgmt meets bowie meets guster meets white rose movement. without ever bumping in to the klaxons. that makes it sounds pretty awesome, actually…”; release – ‘08 MORE>

“after 6 months which have seen us bring you the likes of foals, black kids, metronomy, four tet and wild beasts, club rockfeedback is taking a step up to a larger venue, namely the monarch in camden. still held on the second friday of every month, we’ll first be furnishing our new home with this fine assortment of revellers…” MORE >

“well. what can i say? such a beautiful song deserves an equally beautiful video to go with it, and this is definitely it...”; release – ‘08 MORE >

“despite being advised not to judge books by the cover it becomes easy to spot the better demos, if time is spent on presentation then they must feel the music is worth it. these tracks, as ever, demonstrate the cross-pollination between scenes, as though the person carrying the ‘genre box’ tripped at some point in 2000 and no one has yet picked up the pieces…” MORE>

eduardo curi’s latest missive from brazil sees him shift his focus to the city of recife, where he finds andre frank’s inimitable astronautas, a band with many an interesting opinion, not least this one on electronic music; “we take care so we don’t let the machine overwhelm us. we overwhelm it. music is still the basis of everything. the “spice” comes afterwards, and then the technology kicks in big time. digital spice.” MORE>

the entirely laudable ‘bollocks to poverty’ campaign joins with rockfeedback to offer a pair of tickets to undoubtedly the best festival of the summer – foals, mystery jets, dizzee rascal and gallows will sort the u18’s out proper. MORE>