Tracks - page 19

Photographs is the perfect antidote to the bloated and over-emoted mega-success stories of the last couple of years.

Cedar Lane starts out mildly enough, before slicing through the flutes and harmonies in its stunning climax.

All The Right Reasons appeared on the Kindercore compilation Christmas Two in 1999. It has just a little of that Christmas sleigh bell sound, the right amount of bouncy cheer, and lyrics of seasonal warmth...

Trouble in Paradise was smooth; it shimmied and sashayed in style, sporting its influences with confidence. It opened with Uptight Downtown, and barely missed a beat from then on.

Where Nobody Knows Your Name features a featherweight piano melody, chased by a guitar counterpart, with melodies, harmonies and a flow to match

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want appeared as a b-side to the single William, It Was Really Nothing; later it featured on both Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs.

Loom, the debut album from Fear of Men, is one of the year's more understated and overlooked indie-pop treasures.

Father Christmas is a reworked Adam Ant cover recorded by Elastica on December 6th 1994 during a John Peel session

Trust Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to take the good old fashioned Christmas song and turn it into something that's extravagant and entirely commonplace at the same time.

'Born Under a Bad Sign is Hawley at his simple, elegant peak. That is to say, Hawley going about his business as usual: effortlessly enriching.'

The decision to leave Gene's first two singles - For The Dead and Be My Light, Be My Guide - off their debut album Olympian doesn't look any better with the passing of time.

Eternal Death are duo Elin Berlin and Johan Angergård; Cry is their fourth single in 2014, following Fade, Bullet, and Head. It's a shiny, glorious piece of dance-synth full of flowing electronic waves and Elin...

And so to the other best album-opener of the year. Our Love... is a three minute blast of energy riding on the back of Paul Banwatt's percussion, forever on the cusp of breaking free, always...

This is why I don't do best-of lists very often. Hands down, Jackson is the best album opener of the year. Until I remember Our Love... from Mended with Gold by The Rural Alberta Advantage,...

Tonight We Fly is a song about friends, and love and life, and not worrying about what you've missed out on so much as appreciating the things you've seen, and the people you've shared all...

With Just Because I Love You available to stream, I discover that I somehow managed to miss the fact that BC Camplight had not only signed to Bella Union, but that he also had an...

Now here's a beautiful thing to brighten up an Autumn or Winter's evening. Mount The Air is the first single from the new album of the same name by The Unthanks.

'To celebrate the release of **Live At The Lexington 13.11.13**, The House of Love are offering an exclusive free download of Plans. Plans appeared as a bonus track on the vinyl edition of **She Paints...

'With Here is the Place Empathy Test continue their perfect early run of synth-pop, making another bid for the future glory that will surely be theirs to claim. '