A Leap Of Faith

Randolph's Leap
From: Highlands / Lowlands, Scotland

Lloyd, better known as the brains behind the influential Scottish blog Peenko has joined forces with Halina from the Glasgow Podcart, to form their a new DIY label called Olive Grove Records. Their first release is the stunning Battle Ships & Kettle Chips EP from Randolph's Leap a Scottish indie folk band who sound like the bastard sons of ballboy and Aberfeldy with added arran and beards. Their's is a lo-fi world of wit and wonderment. A world of humour laced with copious amounts of pathos. Check out the witty Undergod with it's trenchant lyrics and contagious lalalas and you'll understand why it's the Devil's favourite track. Just don't mention the Belle word!

Take a leap of faith and clasp Randolph's Leap to your bosom before the big boys come knocking on their door.

Go Try

MP3 - Randolph's Leap - Undergod
This track is published with the permission of Olive Grove Records so please don't claim breach of copyright
MP3 - Randolph's Leap - What Have I Done?
MP3 - Randolph's Leap - Please Don't Belong
These tracks are linked direct from the Randolph's Leap Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

Go Visit

Randolph's Leap - Myspace : Last.FM
Olive Grove Records - Facebook :

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Randolph's Leap
Crisis

Football Crazy

It's the World Cup final today and, according to FIFA at least, over the past month the world has gone football crazy. However the reality has been a little dull and the 2010 World Cup finals have never really taken off. Hopefully today's final between Holland and Spain will lift the spirits with an exhibition of exciting football that'll live long in the memory.

The Devil hopes that it's third time lucky for the Dutch with the winning goal coming from the boot of Dirk Kuyt. The futures bright the futures orange!

To celebrate the final today's post has a football theme, well sort of.


Pog
From: Brighton, United Kingdom

Pog is a minimalistic twee punk band from Brighton formed in 2000 by Paul Stapleton from the disgustingly yet humorously named Anal Beard. They sound like a laid back, English comic version Scottish indie meisters Ballboy or a lo-fi Belle & Sebastian (yes it is possible folks) who don't take themselves too seriously.

Check out their World Cup party pooping song 'Because It's Football'. It's frivolous, it's frothy and it cuts through all the crap and the hype surrounding the beautiful game. It's just over three minutes long and it'll leave you with a smile on your face which is more than the England team managed to achieve in 360 torturous minutes of World Cup action.

Repeat after me 'it's just a fucking game'.

Go Try

MP3 -Pog - Because It's Football
This track is linked direct from the Pog Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright

Go Visit

Pog - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Pog
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (REM Cover)



For those who have not yet sampled the delights of ballboy check these out...

MP3 - Ballboy - Sex Is Boring
MP3 - Ballboy - Olympic Cyclist
These tracks are linked direct from the Ballboy website and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright