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Sounds Good To Me Too is a music blog, plain and simple. We write about music we love, both new and old. Any genre goes, as long as we love it.

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Sydney Rose // Tell him I miss him

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Floating Points // Problems

This bangs. Do people still say that?

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The National // Tropic Morning News

They're back. Although The National have evolved and shifted over the years, they still remain essentially the same band. There has been no Ok Computer reimagination. They're familiar. Warm and welcoming, bathed in a grizzly melancholy.

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Lucifer on the Sofa // My Babe

Lucifer on the Sofa released Spoon in 2022 - The best album of the year? Potentially. It's wonderfully eclectic and 'My Babe' is a great way in.

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Good Morning, Day Dreamer // Just Pretend

SGTMT is getting old, so now we seem to like Shoegaze. Sorry everyone but with music blog age comes music blog wisdom.

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Bartees Strange // Heavy Heart

We've not posted any music in a year or summat. I'm not sure why Bartees Strange persuaded us back into the game, but you most likely don't care. Anyways, enjoy.

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4B2M // This Is Happening

Four brothers & two mothers (geddit?) are bringing back Krautrock, can you do that if you’re Dutch? Anyway, it’s not really Krautrock. It’s far too jovial. Enjoy

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Fourth Man // Say Something

Fourth Man is a Manchester-based multi-instrumentalist. Now, if you’re imagining a one-man band with a bass drum, kazoo, banjo, and mini cymbals between his knees you’d be wrong (at least from what we’ve seen thus far). This multi-instrumentalist is more of the alt-pop, sonic synth riff genre and he’s been on repeat at SGTMT HQ this week.

More info and more 4th tunes here.

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Lake Ruth // Strange Interiors

Strange Interiors features as a double A-side (we’re thrilled that they’d have the audacity to make such an analogue claim in a digital world) on Lake Ruth’s new Extended Leave EP.

This has been on loop at SGTMT HQ. We look forward to a new album (their third) in 2020?

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The 5 best Pulp songs

We’ve been listening to Pulp recently at SGTMT HQ. 

We must admit, we missed Pulp the first time around. ‘Common People’ had become the cliche anthem of Britpop and made them easy to dismiss alongside Chumbawamba, Dodgy and other mid/late 90s forgettable favourites. 

However, they have an eclectic back-catalogue with a smattering of hidden gems. He’s our Top 5:

This is Hardcore 

Recently SGTMT luminaire Tom suggested on the Twitter that ‘This Is Hardcore’ is the best Pulp song. He may well be right. 

Do You Remember The First Time? 

From the album His N Hers. Sadly we can’t recall the first time we heard this song.

Like A Friend 

A rare non-album song from Pulp which features on the Great Expectations Soundtrack. Listening to this again, we’re pretty sure Tom is wrong. This is the best.

The Fear 

The opening track from This Is Hardcore eschews the unfortunate portrayal of Pulp as the ‘chippy pop’ merchants of Common People and Disco 2000. This is the real Pulp - hauntingly beautiful, vulnerable and at times uncomfortable.

Something Changed 

Not everything on the album Different Class was destined for endless repeats on ‘I love the 90s’ TV documentaries. Buried between the New Labour hits is this gentler, wistful, endearing version of Pulp.

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Dogleg // Fox

Dogleg are from Michigan and are signed to Triple Crown Records. 

Fox is the first release from their up and coming album Melee. We like it. 

Dogleg’s earlier EPs seemed to be heading in a garage angry lo-fi direction but Fox has added a layer of tuneful visceral energy. Some people like their Christmas cake with only a layer of marzipan but those poor misguided souls have obviously never tasted legit royal icing. It literally is the icing on the cake. We’ll let you finish constructing the analogy as we have to go now.

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Joy Orbison /// Burn (ft. Infinite, Mansur Brown)

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K.Flay /// Dreamers

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Alice Boman /// Heartbeat

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Dream Wife /// Fire

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Susanne Sundfør /// Undercover

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Novo Amor /// State Lines