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Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy Wins Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009 & Tour Dates

The Big Dada office was a bit quite on Thursday as the surprise winner on this years’ Mercury prize was their very own .

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Led Bib – Sensible Shoes

I’m just dropping off to sleep a minute into the first track of ’s latest album – all dirgy and ponderous bass and piano and a touch of whispery sax – and wondering why I’m bothering, when all hell breaks loose and I realise I’ve been drawn into the false sense of security of a first time log flume rider.

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Get The Blessing – Bugs In Amber

’s debut album, All Is Yes picked up Best Album at the 2008 BBC Awards and the Bristol-based quartet have come back with the follow-up Bugs In Amber that’s even better!

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Led Bib – Sensible Shoes

No fan of the description wears sensible shoes and the music on this album is the antithesis of the concept of sensible shoes; this is ’s finest hour!

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The Power of Babel – East London’s New Jazz Revolution

There’s a new riot of sound coming straight out of East . It’s beautifully noisy and breaks rules, both musically and culturally. Call it the new ‘alternative’ — in the original sense when the word actually referred to music bristling with ideas, rebellion and youth-powered energy rather than the conveyor belt of insipid indie kids playing over-familiar tunes and chords

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