Clever Eleven Oct. 2007 ¤

Let this month's collection warm you on those cold autumn evenings!

1. Jimmy Eat World - Let it Happen
- Arizonan veterans prove that emo without mascara can actually be quite catchy and enjoyable.
2. Shack - Holiday Abroad
- One of two obligatory brand new tracks on timely career retrospective from the original cosmic scousers...
3. The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division
...while this Liverpool outfit (well, they got a Norwegian bassist, y'know!) "coincidentally" release breakthrough single as the Ian Curtis biography hits the silver screen.
4. Jeremy Enigk - Canons
- The former Sunny Day Real Estate agent strips down on what may well be this year's finest album...
5. Justin Currie - Out of My Control
...while the former Del Amitri frontman perhaps not surprisingly still got the blues on his solo outing.
6. Hundred Reasons - No Way Back
- Leadoff single from Surrey emo/hardcorester's fourth album, somewhat peculiarly recorded in Latvia.
7. Stars - Midnight Coward
- Summery and smooth from the one member of the big Montréal music family that has yet to drown in its own hype.
8. Turin Brakes - Stalker
- Loud is obviously the new quiet for the onetime acoustic pioneers.
9. Nine Black Alps - Bitter End
- Manchester quartet trade their lite-grunge for beatlesque pop with great luck (allthough NME hated it).
10. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place
- Almost back to form from long-awaited pay-what-you-like download-only album.
11. Maps - To the Sky
- This ethereal single from Northampton one-man-band suggests that shoegazers DO look upwards from time to time.

also shortlisted: Ed Harcourt - You Put a Spell on Me, Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost?, The Envy Corps - Rhinemaidens, Delta Fiasco - Paperhouse, Editors - The Picture

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