Musicians’ new band tips for 2011

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Brett Anderson, Suede. “MidiMidis are great. They supported us at Bush Hall. They’re a two-piece whose whole rhythm section is on backing tracks using ’80s technology. I love them.”

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Marnie Stern. “Munch Munch are really fun and they have a lot of fresh young energy. The keyboards and single-note melodies kind of remind me a little bit of Blonde Redhead. The songs and arrangements are driving and slightly proggy. They arrange their songs with lots of different vocal melodies, which also makes for a really good live show!”

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Theo Hutchcraft, Hurts: “Clare Maguire is graceful, dark, beautiful and has honestly one of the best female voices I have ever heard. I was just speechless the first time I heard it. She’s just what British music needs.”

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Jonathan Pierce, The Drums: “Connor [Hanwick, drums] saw Puro Instinct play in NYC a few months ago and told me about them. They’re some blonde girls from LA who can sound an awful lot like Fleetwood Mac – their song ‘Luv Goon’… man, it really puts you in a mood.”

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Carl Barat: “I love The Langley Sisters. There’s something so heartstoppingly beautiful about it. It’s got that thing that Simon Cowell bastardised; it’s called the X factor. It’s so illuminating it makes you light up. But people might find this a bit nauseating to read because it’s my girlfriend’s band.”

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Dan Snaith, Caribou. “I first saw Hounds Of Hate play in a Dalston warehouse at 3am. Someone had set up a PA very badly and the music was distorted and wonderfully chaotic. They consisted of two men with synths and one punching away frantically on a drum machine as if he was tabulating something esoteric on a large calculator. It’s a beautifully eccentric synth syrup.”

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Angus Andrew, Liars: “I got an email from a friend in LA, and he said, ‘There’s a group of kids, they’re skaters and rappers and photographers, and they’re called Odd Future.’ And I was just blown away. But the real highlight for me was seeing the video for his song ‘EARL’, which everyone should see. That gave me hope for exciting music and things to come.”

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James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem. “I hope the Holy Ghost! album comes out this year, it should. They’re great, they’ve been part of the DFA family for ever. I’m eager for them to finish their record and put it out. Now.”

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