Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Parenthetical Girls - "Evelyn McHale"; I've always been a fan of songs based on historical figures or events. This tune is about a woman who leaped to her death from the Empire State Building and absolutely flattened a car below her (pic). She looks ... more info

The Quietus — Get 'Orion' now more info

DrownedInSound — You have to wonder how much longer it is before bands start giving away whole albums entirely for free, eh? Oh. Right. Yeah, well, we mustn't scoff at artists who do find the kindness and perhaps common sense in their hearts and heads to offer us, th... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — January has been a fairly good month all in all. I've started up interviewing bands again, spending some quality time with Alexis Hot Chip, 4/7ths of Los Campesinos, Jack from These New Puritans, Delphic and Vivian Girls too. Gigs have been thin on t... more info

Stereogum — The video for the 7-minute "We Went War" was an arresting way to introduce These New Puritans' second album Hidden, a collection that includes an array of sounds, including the thud of "a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — On March 2, UK art-rockers These New Puritans will be releasing Hidden, their follow-up to 2008's Beat Pyramid, on Domino. Behold the cinematic grandeur of one of the album's cuts, "Orion", featuring the New London Children's Choir providing menac... more info

Guardian Music — If the music industry hype-cycle continues to gather speed, this time next year we could be experiencing nostalgia for an era that hasn't even dawned yet"Everything is more beautiful in the past," Midlake's Tim Smith tells Andy Gill, in the current i... more info

BBC 6 Music — Six-foot drum and brass section to kick off Hidden tour more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Slight and pensive Jack Barnett does not initially strike you as a man behind one of the first great albums of the year. As he sits across the small, rickety table in North London his quiet voice emanates from just above a neatly buttoned up shirt co... more info

Nialler9 — What a month it’s been for albums. It’s January, traditional dead time but we’ve already had beefy albums from Owen Pallett, Vampire Weekend, These New Puritans and Four Tet with the knowledge that great records from Yeasayer, Two Door Cinema... more info