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If you’ve been wishing/praying/hoping that Arctic Monkeys would release some new music already (I mean c’mon, their first two albums were absolute bangers), check out Taxi by The Author, who are also British. And also highly recommended by British BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq. And who happen to also have an explosive first single that’s disgustingly danceable and brimming with quality riffs.

The Author come from Jersey (population: 89,300), one of The Channel Islands (where??). They’re a bunch of islands south of England that don’t belong to the UK or European Union. They’re kinda just chillin’ up there on their own. Needless to say, The Channel Islands haven’t spawned too many bands of their own…until now!

While I can’t tell you TOO much about the band (their biography’s a bit vague, they haven’t got a website apart from their MySpace page, and no debut album release date in sight), I can tell you that they’re a young and sassy five piece being managed by a new wing of Fierce Panda, the label that distributed Art Brut, Shitdisco, Coldplay, Keane and Death Cab For Cutie. Alberto and I have been bubbling about their first single, Taxi, for months now. Taxi’s been called the “evil twin of Klaxons’ From Atlantis To Interzone, which is quite the compliment. They’re described on MySpace as “Electro / Folk / 2-step”, but they’re nothing of the sort. Is it me or is that tagline area a bit of a farce? I can’t think of any bands that are accurately described in that one line…anyhoodle, check out The Author and Taxi and tell me it doesn’t make you wanna break out into dance mayhem.

Links:
MySpace:The Author

Posted on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm by Kat and is filed under MuchRadar.

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