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On 11th August, Late of the Pier's long-anticipated debut was released. FINALLY! The days of listening to the bad-quality zarcorp demos are now over, as we can enjoy almost every song featured on the high-standard badly-recorded demo, in gleaming disk form.
The first two tracks blend together in a seamless fusion, which gives the record a professional feel prehaps not before associated with Late of the Pier.
The tracklisting is as follows, in bold are ANTI favirotes;

Hot Tent Blues
Broken
Space And The Woods
The Bears Are Coming
Random Girl
Heartbeat
Whitesnake
VW
Focker
The Enemy Are The Future
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
Bathroom Gurgle

If you haven't already, go out and buy this. You'll need it in disk form for the album sleeve's lyrics, as some vocals are a little hard to identify. Also CDS generally feel nicer than invisible unforgiving MP3 files.
One complaint we have is that LOTP didn't include 'circular' from the original demo, which is a brilliant Nirvana-meets-Joy Division-meets Queen genre-bashing song. Hoping to see this on the (cross fingers there will be one) second album or B side to the next single.

A late review of LOTP.

If you haven't heard of Late of the Pier, you must have been living under a rock. They've been around for a while and have got a fair amount of airplay and music channel play. They're the sort of band you can't listen to without moving your feet or singing along. These gorgeous boys from Nottingham have that addictive nature which makes them such great listening. The new double a-side The Space and the Woods/Focker is bound to become massive and the album promised at numerous interviews with the band is becoming more and more anticipated.
Since the first release of The Space and the Woods, almost a year ago, it is amazing how far the band have come. They've evolved from a bedroom band to a record label-signed ballad band. I recommend anyone reading snaps up what they can of Late of the Pier and brings it where ever they go. Best thing to come out of 2008 so far is definitely Late of the Pier's increasing notoriety.

May has so far seen the release of some great albums. Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip's long-awaited debut album 'Angels' was released on 12th May and is looking at a top-10 place in the charts, which is well deserved. The album has obviously had alot of time, work and thought put into it. It's had 4 singles released so far off it, and it is clear that they have come far from the first hit single, 'Thou Shalt Always Kill'. Get this album how ever you can, it's worth it.
Hadouken! also released their debut album 'Music for an Accelerated Culture' this week. Sadly, they haven't quite been able to achive the greatness of past tracks, and the hype surrounding this album seems a little wasted. Anyway, its worth getting if you've been a fan over the last 2 years, just to remember thinking they were really cool.

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