a wealth of choice in a time of poverty.

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Swedish xylophone-tamperers, with harmonising heterogenous whispery voices, electronic drums and dreamy synths, Lake Heartbeat tinker similarly to Au Revoir Simone. However, there are similarities to bands such as, mildly weirdly, The Lighthouse Family and The Beach Boys.

this is for dew-touching walks in the blinding dawn light; or a moment-encapturing seaside drive with the roof down :

Lake Heartbeat - Mystery (y.s.i.)

It's far more commercial sounding than the rest, feebly 1990s boy band; but you overlook that and have a little inside dance anyhow - it's their head-lining single.

This is their debut album, 'Trust in Numbers', and every track is filled with an unenthusiastic optimism, making the songs emotionally self-fulfilling.

I don't think I sold that song too well, so here's another taste:

Lake Heartbeat - Pipedream (y.s.i.)

My favourite track is, however, Blue Planet, which I, unfortunately, can't show you...sorry.

On another strain, I'm trying to start up a magazine [I don't want to give too much away here], if anyone's interested in any way - getting involved or just general support, leave a comment.

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i'm fresh enough.

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This Wednesday is the Fear of Sleep launch party - my first freshers night, of any note [tonight I'm going to Punk for a Bite!]

Headlining is Hot Club de Paris who you may most probably have heard whispered in the wind a little - signed by Moshi Moshi Records in 2005, they've released two albums and have been touring with names like Maximo Park and Jamie T ever since.

Hot Club de Paris - Hey! House Brick (y.s.i.)

But, the band I didn't know, but might tickle my sides, was Heebie Jeebies, sounding a little like Pete Doherty and The View without the inconsistency and freaking annoying mainstream riffs. Oh I don't know, they might shake my pepper and salt.

Heebie Jeebies - Winter's Gone (y.s.i.)

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fragmented tales, pt. 1.

"a shop in an alley led me to a frozen glass window - i looked through to see the other side and, catching the shimmer of a secret staring back, a cold realisation of a future found me. the shiver that told me so much about its importance left a stain on my skin and refused to sink in. i knew i was meant to be there, that moment, there. i shoe-gazed a while and let the wind curve around my figure, brushing over the bristling hairs that betook it all.

A noise shook me into a new frame and I gave in to the available tip-toed sight above, gazing into the shop. An establishment of cobwebs; there was darkness in all the rightly-wrong places, disguising the true nature of its custom. A few steps back and a look to the left, right and top told little else. I doubted my instincts, existence and time; I doubted my very self. why was I there?"

navel-gazing.

feel this pulse; if you come out, so will i.

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omen in the rain, a lone walker with hurt and hood;

taken in by the overbearing clouds, spat out in the droplets.

solace in doorways not taken; unbegrudgingly trudging

footsteps painted the pavement, while a trickling-spattering flooded jeans.

A mild "shoe-gaze lo-fi" artist, Ivansxtc, has the pleasant 80s vein that really, of fucking course, appeals to me. He's UK and he's awfully lonely.

Ivansxtc - Breathe (y.s.i.)

when nothing nights come to something.

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cough-up, in the phlegm of the night he told me he loved me.

utterings and splutterings,

in the dark,

at a dark time; when more more spun past us.

time between meanings blurr;

reasons for not

and reasons for are.

frYars came like a pen to my paper - just as ink spiders out, if its pressed long enough - frYars, has the possibility to do the same, musically. 19 year old Ben Garret has already been "Big in Japan" and now, with the album Dark Young Hearts having come out four days ago, he is re-conjuring the magic he stirred three years back with a little synth number, 'The Ides'.

frYars - Of March (y.s.i.)

The melancholic electro-pop simply spits out to his very own rhythm and rhyme. You won't be able to shy from his voice, you can tell he'd like to perform with David Byrne.

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we're all ivy league, really.

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Vampire Weekend with a tambourine; I guess east coast top-dollar education centres might influence their goslings. But just to throw a spanner in the works Princeton are actually west coast and only have their name because founding members lived on Princeton Street in Santa Monica. shame.

They formed in London and so named their first EP, Bloomsbury; Cocoon of Love is out 29th September, which is mildly spiced up and tingle-tangles from Summer to Autumn.

Princeton - Shout It Out (y.s.i.)

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been away so long.

and then I just give you this: