To the latest Prog Band on the block... Pythium Dissotocum

And a 5-star review from The Word for Never See The Stars

My band is called The Borgia Stick and the first album is called "More Than One Ingredient" and here is the cover:

by Italian saxophonist Guido Mazzoni: 'As It Was Before'

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/create-your-own-album

So, pop-pickers, may I draw your attention to this chart-bound beauty.

We are Vistilia, and we want To argue about them

Buy it now from Dudley Music Centre, with Bob, Jack and Alan - opposite this cinema.

Band: Sidney Armus
Album: A Little More Sincere
Cover:

Band : Orange Jordan
Album : You Think They Do

Cover :

Of interest to all connoisseurs of the Japansese avant-garde, the new album "and fox, and squirrel" by "Tsukechi Gifu" explores the dichotomy between the urban sprawl suggested by the band name and the rural simplicity implied by the album title and its lyrical content. This implied contradiction is expressed further through the album cover, focusing as it does on the removal of graffiti demanding liberation for endangered animals, by women who are equally subjugated in a male-dominated society.

An eclectic, acquired taste perhaps - but worth the effort.

I'm thinking that this lot are probably some kind of prog-metal.

alt: metal in a QOTSA style to me

Band: Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale
Album: Government would be necessary

cover:

I bet John Peel would have loved them.

Smart, sassy and wise beyond her 17 years, Marshall Edwards always seemed too good to be true.

Her debut album, released independently on her older stepbrother’s Buttonfluff records, was a sarcastic broadside aimed at manufactured popstars. A series of podcasts and youtube appearances filmed on the webcam in her bedroom cemented her reputation as the acid-tongued queen of misfit teens.

Six months later Edwards was unmasked as the actress Michelle Edmondson – part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for the Disney film Punkerella. Her album ...is an educational toy, far from being the work of a precociously gifted teenager, had been written by the 67 year old Swedish pop svengali - Alvar Grundwig. In fact earlier versions of some of the songs had been minor hits in Sweden during the early 1990s.

Remarkably her true identity remained a secret right up until her final youtube posting, when her ‘webcam’ pulled back revealing her bedroom to be a set on a studio lot. The video ends with Edwards and her co-star Lindsey Clarke dueting on Summer Nights (from the Musical - Grease) accompanied by various members of the film crew on backing vocals.

Punkerella proved to be a draw at the box office, however Edmondson faired less well. Cast into the world of movie junkets, chats show appearances, while also the target of a vicious hate campaign waged by former admirers, she found it difficult to live up to the expectations of the public and impossible to match the quick wit of her fictional alter ego.

A subsequent legal battle between Edmondson and Disney over the rights to the name Marshall Edwards ended in an out of court settlement in which she reverted to her birth name.

In August 2008, Edmondson announced on her website that she was recording an album of “earnest dungaree folk” scheduled for release in 2009. Disney is currently filming a sequel to Punkerella with the working title Punkerella 2: Be Yourself, and with another actress taking the role of Marshall Edwards.

121 Hermione "Practice With Courageous Patience"
Songs:
The Day The World Ended
Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Folly
A Tentative Tangling Of Tendrils
Letter From A Pre-med
Bug Fights
The Illustrious Hoenikkers
Newt's Thing With Zinka
Vice-president In Charge Of Volcanoes
Secret Agent X-9
Protein
End Of The World Delight
The Jumping-off Place
When Automobiles had Cut-glass Vases

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madjbug/2921513396/

Glasgow indie-folk band Aigny (pronounced AGONY) released "World Begin To Whisper" earlier this year. It failed to chart. The stand-out track, "Before It Reaches You", was used on the end credits of an acclaimed Channel Four drama causing a notable up-swing in that track's popularity on iTunes.

Front cover

Back cover

The track listing in full:

all of the answers
end of the year
fruit of his character
make life worth living
as if there were
out of the tires
before it reaches you
funny how that works
against her better judgment
most interesting person there
part of daily life
us to disregard them
to install a better one

The few magazines that reviewed it were generally positive although most found fault with the more acoustic and laid back second half. Word Magazine said:

"The album peaks after the beautiful 'Before It Reaches You'. Unfortunately the remaining tracks have the ditinct whiff of filler to them."

The band are currently touring Europe and plan to record a follow up album (rumoured working title is Fully Awake, Fully Alive) in the new year.