In The Bleak Midwinter Lyrics

Track Reviews: 12-18 September 2011

We had an amazing introduction written for this week's column. It was funny. Punchy. Lapidary. Deftly darting between all the major musical stories of the week. Doffing the cap judges Mercury agreeing that if you run a competition to find the album of the year, it's probably best to just choose the best record released in the last 12 months.

He looked longingly at the Isle of Wight, plus a little jealous that our weekend did not involve Public Enemy, The Cure and Bjork but contained public transport, hangover cures and uh, uh, sporks? He also noted that - wow!- The Artful Dodger (you know, "re-re-wind, Craig David, said Bo-selecta" rather than "yerself look at our companion.") Was now only known as the Artful.

Then we read the following press release: ". Nickleback back with a new album"

The despair was so great that we burn our prose in protest, then spend the next three days in the fetal position sobbing at the sheer tragedy of it all. WILL NOT SOMEBODY think about the children?

Oh, Damon Albarn could ...

Music and good causes are perfect bedfellows: Band Aid, Band Aid II, The Stonk, Band Aid 20 ... uh ...The X-Factor finalists?

Damon Albarn is certainly no stranger to the good, and it is at it again with the DRC music, the result of a recording session for five days with a gaggle of producers - TEED, Dan the Automator and XL Recordings Richard Head Honcho Russell, among them - and more than 50 musicians Kinshasan benefit from activities of Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to a deplorable humanitarian crisis. Awareness and funds through a charity record that is not fodder Table Auto-Tuned? It'll never catch on.

Kasabian earlier this week described themselves as avant-garde. You could almost feel strong contribution of the Internet's collective breath, waiting for the furious spluttering denials that would surely follow. Rebuttals as "avant-garde?! You call it avant-garde? I'll tell you what is avant-garde. Nurse With Wound. It's avant-garde. Someone who plays the flute with nose Mongolian their feet. It's avant-garde. "

Really, with shameless media provocation like that, you'd almost think they had a new album and go out alone ... Oh look.

Days are forgotten is the first single from Kasabian a good news, Velociraptor! (Clean exclamation group). And it's good enough. A knock, beat Glammy supports a riff that bursts into an epic chorus properly.

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