New band of the day: February 2011 playlist

It's your chance to hear the best of this month's New band of the day column, featuring female Brit rappers, gorgeously sad girl-pop and Manchester's answer to J DillaThere is an argument that every year contains roughly the same amount of great music. We're not so sure. We're not saying 2010 was a 1966 or a 1977-style term, but there did seem to be an inordinate number of brilliant records knocking around. The good news is that 2011 is hardly looking anticlimactic. It's too early to foresee any...

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