Not Many Experts

Foreword: I’ve been out of education for so long that I think I’ve forgotten how to spell and those tricky little buggers like full stops and that so bear (bare? blurgh…) with me.

Well… I guess I sort of have to admit that I started writing this post as a reaction to the BBC’s Sound of 2011 longlist announcement, which was whenever that happened, most of the days have blended into one so I’m not too hot with months and weeks anymore which is equal parts liberating and cripplingly impractical for all of its romantic attraction. Most of the trouble is that I now live here and get paid this to do this, and clearly have been spending the rest of my time learning how to abuse wordpress to waste your time in mildly-amusing, vaguely off topic wanderings.

Speaking of abusing wordpress, if that wasn’t a satisfactory excuse then let me go for the sympathy vote – as always, always happens whenever I set foot outside of a trusty internet connection, wordpress detrousered itself and waved through a hacker of a moral-less, talentless capitalist from Slough (fair enough, he’s probably depressed). He (and we’re assuming it’s a he for stereotypical-villain convenience) thought that it would be a bright idea to trick people looking for new music on a web site into giving said music web-site their credit card details. If depressed Slough resident is reading: you could probably hack this site hundreds of times, but that is never going to work seeing as the success of music blogs is based on the fact that you can get music for free, so that plan is pretty fatally flawed from the start… Cheer up and get a job, or at least steal from the government instead of the general public. Is there no integrity left in thievery?

Anyway… Just to direct us slightly towards what this post was intending to say; yesterday the BBC shocked all in the world of music-dom by announcing the Brit-schooled woman with past chart success as a writer, and present chart success with her own song (which, as far as I can tell, is only popular because Stephen Fry made it so via twitter) as the “Sound of 2011”. Call me cynical, because I am, but… Becky who is 10 and from Milton Keynes and loves X Factor and Zac Efron could have done that for them. This gave me an opportunity to pretend that I had been waiting for the announcement to unleash my own list upon the world, but I think that that dishonesty would probably put me on a level with my friend from Slough, so, instead, have it for what it is; here is a list of artists, all of whom I love, some of whom I think are going to sell some records to Becky next year, and all of whom are well worth spending 3 minutes working out whether or not you like them. You don’t even have to put your card details in, trust me, it’s a brilliant deal.

Wu Lyf – Heavy Pop by Not Many Experts

Still Corners – Endless Summer by Not Many Experts

Jai Paul – BTSU by Hypetrak

Clock Opera – A Piece of String (Radio Edit) by Not Many Experts

Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets by Not Many Experts

Esben and the Witch – Marching Song by morrisday

Georgia by Yuck

Cults – Go Outside by Hypetrak

MNDR – C.L.U.B by Not Many Experts

Porcelain Raft – Tip of Your Tongue by ITCManchester

Smith Westerns – Weekend by forcefieldpr

Twin Sister: Lady Daydream (Cassette Version) by SUPMAG

Have A Heart by Lonely Galaxy

Blow It Up by The Vaccines

FOE & Com Truise

FOE – A Handsome Stranger Called Death (Com Truise RMX) by Com Truise

Jonquil – Fighting Smiles by 1FTP

‘Ghost Train’ by Summer Camp by seaninsound

James Blake – Limit To Your Love by TheDropFather

Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Jamie XX Remix) by dynmk

Trophy Wife – Microlite by Not Many Experts

Tennis – Take Me Somewhere by forcefieldpr

Entrepreneurs – Hunting Roger Rabbit by Not Many Experts

Chapel Club – The Shore by Not Many Experts

D/R/U/G/S ‘Love/Lust’ by wearemachinemusic

Beaty Heart – Cola by Not Many Experts

Gauntlet Hair – Heave. by Not Many Experts

Is Tropical – South Pacific by Addict Music

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Atlas Hands by Authority Communications

Back to Back by wolfgang

Grouplove – ‘Colours’ by Tim Chester NME