Once upon a time, receiving blog-mail used to make me embarrassingly excited.Unfortunately, these days, most of the messages I'm sent are generic send-outs from music PR folk or mass-mails by DJs who have obviously never read my blog but would have me believe that they're sat at their computer all day, refreshing every 5 seconds, hoping for new posts.
Thankfully, every now and again, sifting through the spam pays off when you stumble upon a worthwhile recommendation. Take London singer Antics, for example.
With shades of some of Yeasayer's recent output, the Battersea boy's disco-tinged electropop is very much 'my bag' and, even if the production is a little rough around the edges, there's more than enough invention and variety in the few tracks on his Myspace to warrant earmarking.
His track 'Headspace' is especially fresh and available for free download here:
