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RADIOHEAD
The Daily Mail(live on
The Colbert Report) ****
This riveting live performance was recorded during a US promotional blitz, which included a guest spot on Saturday Night Live, a pair of sold-out shows at the Roseland Ballroom – but not, alas, a rumoured impromptu Wall Street set for protesters against corporate malfeasance. Still, considering the song's title, Thom Yorke is surprisingly silent on the really pressing issue of the day: celebrity cellulite. colbertnation.com
THE KANYU TREE
SlowSony ***
Daniel, Shane and Oisín Cluskey are three brothers from the City of the Tribes who’ve teamed up with producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad of, fittingly enough, A Tribe Called Quest. It sounds like they’re auditioning for the role of Salthill’s answer to Simply Red. And why not? Fifty million elevators can’t be wrong.
SUSAN BOYLE
Enjoy the SilenceSyco **
“All I ever wanted/All I ever need is here/In my arms.” I imagine that, in the finished video, SuBu will be serenading a hairbrush.
YOUTH LAGOON
JulyFat Possum ***
Trevor Powers is a 22-year- old singer-songwriter from Boise, Idaho whose debut album, The Year of Hibernation, sounds like the work of a small boy trapped inside a biscuit tin. Which is fine, if you like that sort of thing.
AQUA
Like a RobotUniversal *
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting all four horses of the 1990s revival apocalypse. The culprits behind the 1997 international hit single Barbie Girlare back with a new single, whose chorus asks: "Why do you fuck me like a robot?" I'm tempted to just shoot myself in the head now and be done with it.
BLINK-182
After MidnightInterscope **
It's been eight years since Blink-182's last album. In a bid to interest younger viewers, MTV News reintroduced them as a band without whom there would be no Fall Out Boyor Paramour. Haha. Ha. Perish the thought.
