Some real heavy hitters coming up for the Album Of The Week – this week from Art Brut, and to use a well-worn cliche, a REAL RETURN TO FORM. Not that their other offerings were particularly lacklustre but this album is fantastic on so many levels. And given the reaction on the “rest of the internet” (TM) which we know is always RIGHT, people are loving the artwork – drawn by Jamie McKelvie – too. There’s an article about that here.

And I also managed to give another play to the wonderful COWBOY RACER who recorded their first ever radio session for us at the weekend (more about that here).

Tonight’s playlist:

Y Niwl – Undegpedwar
Afterglow – Into The Fire
Brother – Darling Buds Of May
Animalhouse – Ready To Receive
Everything Everything – Schoolin’
Art Brut – Lost Weekend
Cowboy Racer – Love Stationary (live at Phoenix FM 26-03-2011)
Fiona Bevan – Us And The Darkness
Erland and the Carnival – Springtime
Maximo Park – Going Missing (acoustic) (Live Tent Oxegen 2005)
Jonny Cola and the A Grades – Marlborough Road
Salad – Written by a Man
Local Girls – Kitty (Is A Bad Kitty)
Robocop Kraus – Small Houses Odd Cars
Art Brut – Bad Comedian
Lovely Eggs – Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It)
Cowboy Racer – God Is My Lover (live at Phoenix FM 26-03-2011)
Radiohead – Codex
Pre New – Cathedral City (6music session 08-11-2010)
Rakes – Retreat
Sultans Of Ping FC – Teenage Punks
Kingmaker – Ten Years Asleep
Art Brut – Sexy Sometimes
Lara – In Between
Brownies – Tropical Linda
Cowboy Racer – Yellow Horse (live at Phoenix FM 26-03-2011)
Sleater-Kinney – Entertain