are a little louder than the kind of stuff I tend to skew towards these days.  Occasionally though it’s just nice to have something that rocks the fuck out.  Which is something these guys seem to have no problem doing.  It’s hard, it’s fast, doesn’t make a great deal of sense and also manages to evoke the spirit of Death From Above 1979.  Which isn’t a bad set of traits to have at all.  Myspace.

MP3 Japandroids – Art Czars

Now this is just lovely.  North Carolina band are the first band in a while to make me sit up and listen purely on the opening lines to their song.  After that it seems to go from one excellent lyric to another.  The band thankfully have the good sense to let the words be the centre here.  Never drowned out and surrounded by excess instrumentation, everything has room to breathe.  Myspace.

I’m not quite sure what to make of on the basis on this song.  I like about half the song and find the rest of it to be quite grating.  The verses work for me, but the high pitched repetition of the words “apple pie” over and over kind of puts me off of it.  The fact I do keep coming back to it despite this suggest there is definitely things here that I like, so maybe I’d get on with other songs more.  Video.  Myspace.

MP3 Lawrence Arabia – Apple Pie Bed