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10 Bands You Must Listen To In 2009

1-Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir; S.A.P. Recordings As wonderful & curiously obscure as the name suggests, AMGC are the last staunch advocates of a musical tradition quickly disappearing. Whereas many supposed ‘Americana’ outfits are indulging in ‘countrified’ pop, AMGC are delving into America’s musical roots taking Americana to a whole new, highly antiquated, level. Each song is a cataclysmically clear observation of the human condition, as raw and dusty as the Mid-America itself.

2-Blood Red Shoes; V2 Blood Red Shoes consist of the song-writing partnership forged between the bands only two members; Laura-Mary Carter & Steven Ansell. Emphasised by their inclination towards relatively linear musical narratives, the main distinction being between ‘Noise’ & ‘Noisier’, Blood Red Shoes are oddly reminiscent of a stripped-down Velvet Underground. With a follow-up to 2008’s ‘Box of Secrets’ rumoured to be coming to light this year, Blood Red Shoes should be overwhelming a major festival stage near you!

3-School of Language; Memphis Industries School of Language is strangely hypnotic, oddly effervescent invention from the creative powerhouse behind Field Music, David Brewis. Like a slow running locomotive, Brewis’ creations grow from the smallest musical fragment, gaining immense momentum, until reaching invigorating height then relinquishing again, back into the mist of Brewis’ inventiveness from whence they came. With a small UK tour scheduled School of Language could prove to be one of the most reclusively electrifying live acts of the year.

4-Anthony & The Johnsons; Secretly Canadian/Rough Trade Despite a Mercury Music Prize and infinite critical acclaim, Anthony & The Johnsons are

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