Our man with the brows Andy Falkous and his sardonic noise rock outfit from Wales is back soon with their second album. This is one of the best indie rock has to offer this year, so don’t sleep on it. Album soon to be released on 4AD/Beggars Group.

BTW: tag those albums that’ll be sure to make your best of 2009 lists as #essential09 on twitter, so that everyone can see.

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The Hope that House Built

in the end everybody wins as long as we remember there’s a reason for incredible wealth (incredible wealth) incredible luck (incredible luck) don’t despair life is just a dream and nobody can judge us if we choose to face ingradually (ingradually) makes everything right (means nothing can beat us)

come join, come join our hopeless cause
come join, come join our lost cause

turn around face our deepest fears, re-imagine God as just a mental illness looming towards (or veering towards) the end of our days (the end of our days), think again how could we go wrong with supernatural creatures who control our fate, could anyone tell? (could anyone tell?) would anyone care ? (would anyone care?)

come join, come join our hopeless cause
come join, come join our lost cause

the feelings stops the fools behind and back in the ground we look at our hands and wonder aloud could anyone choose to die.