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Adding a little grit and indie nous to the current ocean of shoegaze flooding from the capital, Torches sound a lot like the bastard child of We Were Promised Jetpacks and Jamie Woon. Pretty Good.

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These two Cali girls make the filthiest rock and roll you've ever heard. That guitar tone is brutally perfect, and every drum fill rattles your brain in your skull like a pinball. I would also love to take Lindsay for a delicious seafood dinner if it wasn't for the fact she is intimidatingly rock 'n' roll. She'd out drink, out coke, and out fuzz me by 8pm, and the blokes at Eddie's Seafood Shack would never let me live it down.

In summary, Cute Girls + Big Noise= Huge Things

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/Yawn/

I have been busy (a little) and lazy (a lot) so i've done nothing blog-wise for quite some time... But here comes another little slew of articles before i get bored and/or busy and cease posting for another six months....

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Rifle? Musket? BLUNDERBUSS.

The Hipster has his hands on the new Jack White album... Sleep is priority number one, but tomorrow comes proper listen number one as well as proper review number one. I'm probably gonna post a kind of track by track liveblog of first impressions too. HIPSTER HIT HARD.

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Back to the list... Kind of regretting this Bullshit... Halfway there though with

Number 10: Shad- When This is Over

Any man who dubs himself "the biggest thing out of Canada since Pamela's double D's" or samples 'Cool and the Gang' is o.k. in my book. Shad does both on the standout track of this debut 'I Get Down', but his self assured statement is not representative of his entire attitude to rap. His introspection and storytelling prowess, as well as a measure of modesty, is what sets him apart in a genre where every other word is a phallic symbol, or a metaphor for money.

Reminiscent of pre God complex Kanye West, Sage Francis, or some of Lupe Fiasco's stuff, Shad's power over words is undoubted, and tracks like 'Rock With It' as well as the aforementioned 'I Get Down' show confidence in this ability, but this confidence never spills over into arrogance. He's a pretty smart guy, he has a degree, but 'New School Leaders', the album's opener shows how his love of rap always overshadowed his academic study.

And that's the key to Shad's appeal, his music allows a window into his innermost thoughts, he writes music much like you might write a diary; no more so than on the duet with his mother. And his innermost thoughts can be pretty beautiful, or rise a smile, or make a statement. He has a message to convey. And his message isn't just an over-hyped mating call, some kind of flashy show. That's how it should be, but so often it isn't, but Shad seems to have it all figured out, and doesn't need that kind of macho posturing. And the sound of a man who has it 'figured out' is rare commodity indeed.