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The Duke Spirit, Architecture In Helsinki, Autolux

added 04 October 2005 at 10.38

Another night of future music for London - watch exclusive sets from three of the hottest new bands around, live on-demand from The Camden Barfly.

The Duke Spirit 'X-posure Live' [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

This delectable London five-piece have recently emerged from relative obscurity to pull off the neat trick of becoming on of those bands that everyone seems to have been talking about for ages.

The Duke Spirit happily justify this hype by effortlessly blending a White Stripes kind of sinister blues with with wastefully elegant rock 'n' roll and, of course, the eclectic, highly adaptable vocals of compelling frontwoman Leila Moss.

Drawing from the recently-released debut 'Cuts Across The Land', tonight the 'Spirit swerve from the animalistic yelps of 'Howling Wolf' to the urgent, breathless 'Love Is An Unfamiliar Name' (kind of a 'Crazy In Love' for the Hoxton crowd) to the downright vicious 'Salt The Stings' and 'Stubborn Stitches'.

www.dukespirit.com

Architecture In Helsinki 'X-posure Live' [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

As idiosyncratic as their name would suggest, Melbourne's quirkiest septet present the tastiest morsels from their second LP 'In Case We Die'. Not so much songs as musical collages woven out of horns, snares, falsetto vocals and, er, sniffing.

The likes of 'It's 5!' ("Stranger danger/Danger stranger/When you gonna follow through!") is powered along by jubilant chords and sheer enthusiasm, 'In Case We Die' veers from meloncholy to madness and set closer 'Maybe You Can Owe Me' creeps along steeped in its own profound sense of regret. Like nothing else you've heard.

www.architectureinhelsinki.com

Autolux 'X-posure Live' [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

Signed to the Coen Brothers' exclusive DMZ label, this two-guys-and-a-girl three-piece play chill-out with guitars but that's not all - for every dreamy, spacious 'Robots In The Garden' there's an urgent, hook-filled 'Blanket', with extended, multi-faceted workouts like 'Turnstile Blues' and 'Here Comes Everybody' holding the centre ground.

www.autolux.net

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