Sorry to interrupt my otherwise inane writing, but in terribly bad news today Hope of the States, possibly one of the best new-ish bands in Britain, have split up. As the only band I've known to release their difficult second album first and get away with it, it's a great loss to all that's good and new about British music. They were everything Babyshambles weren't and for that they should be very proud.
If you want to support a lost cause, or if you just want to hear really good news music then you can buy the new album Left, from shops or through the previous link via iTunes. If you're daring you can buy the first album first (The Lost Riots), which while being much harder work, is just as good, if not ever so slightly better. If you just want to get a few songs, then I recommend you start with Forwardirektion, Blood Meridian or from their first album, George Washington
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As someone who really enjoyed The Lost Riots, I found Left incredibly horrendous. They'd lost the few modicums of sound that made them promising (eg. the GY!BE theatrics) and gone for a far more conventional, marketable one.