Clever Eleven Nov. 2007 ¤

Have a spiritual advent with this month's selected 11, which have a relatively high air-guitar factor, and include no less than 4 non-album tracks! Those of you hoping for the new singles from Bloc Party and The Killers will have to look elsewhere, as they were shite.

1. Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down
- The monobrow brovvahs have probably never sounded so tied in the sixties as on this digital-only single released to accompany tour documentary DVD by the same name.
2. The Alones - Silver
- Stoke-on-Trent quartet debuts with this widescreen indie gem that makes you wanna grab your air guitar and sneer in someone's face.
3. The Raveonettes - Dead Sound
- Lovely leadoff single from what disappointingly is the stylish Danes' weakest album so far.
4. Georgie James - Places
- Title track off brilliant hard-to-pick-one-song debut album from NYC-based multiinstrumentalist duo.
5. Palladium - High 5
- While we're waiting for the new album from The Feeling, this lot can give us a fix of 70's pompous power-soft-rock-buttons with their debut single.
6. Athlete - Tokyo
- A few interesting moves from London nice guys that still struggle in the shadows of Coldplay and Snow Patrol.
7. The Twang - Push The Ghosts
- Big guitars, attitude and a cleverly knicked bassline make up the bouncy brummies' fourth single..
8. The Ladybug Transistor - Always On The Telephone
- ..while the opening track from the Elephant 6 quintet's seventh full-length actually do twang.
9. Johnny Panic - I Live For
- Slightly polished (did someone say "American"?), but still hummable album track from young UK punks.
10. Matt Nathanson - Car Crash
- The Frisco-based trouadour reminds us that there was a time when all American tv-series sounded like this..
11. Gomez - Moon And Sun
- ..while nowadays, producers tend to opt for sensitive acoustic singer/songwriters or credible indie acts, or in this example from the fresh Grey's Anatomy soundtrack, a combination of the two.

Also shortlisted: The National - Apartment Story, The Delays - Love Made Visible, The Pearlfishers - Up With the Larks, The Troubadours - Here Comes the Tide, The Hoosiers - Worst Case Scenario