My album of the week was the debut offering from Leeds’ Wind-Up Birds, entitled The Land.

If I was going to be a lazy writer (which I am) I’d pigeonhole them as a Northern Art Brut. Which is a Very Good Thing.

Midway Still – Better Than Before
Wind-Up Birds – Good Shop Shuts
Cleaners From Venus – Wivenhoe Bells II
Jensen Code – Under White Satellites
Knifeworld – Clairvoyant Fortnight
Taffy – Indetermination
Casiokids – Dresinen
Melys – Chinese Whispers
Toy – Motoring
Calm Of Zero – Autumn Angel
British Sea Power – Monsters Of Sunderland
Pre New – I Believe In Jackie
2:54 – Creeping
Wind-Up Birds – There Won’t Always Be An England
Moody Gowns – A Great British Holiday
Pris – A Bomb In White Heat (clean)
Modovar – Clearly
Baddies – Rewire
1:14:59 Vile Electrodes – Play With Fire
Polica – Dark Star
Mystery Jets – Someone Purer
Something Beginning With L – Elephant pt ii
Marsheaux – Can You Stop Me
Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
New Young Pony Club – You Used To Be A Man
Levellers – Our Forgotten Towns
Cantaloupe – Hubbub
Tortoise Family Connections – Mother
Lovely Eggs – Panic Plants
Y Niwl – Dauddedau