Tunes For Punks and Anglophiles

Zeus EP - Click to order

Here are a couple of new-ish things I've heard since yesterday. For the Anglophiles,

• British Sea Power - Zeus EP (Rough Trade) [britishseapower.co.uk]
• I put this one off (released on Monday) because I wasn't so excited about it, but the three tracks on MySpace are not a bad listen at all. It's no Sisters or Procedure Club, but I felt there's just enough creativity and experimentalism here to deserve a mention.
• It's steeply priced at nearly $2 per track (it's an import).
• (I'm still not that excited about it, but it beats listening to Coldplay.)

And on the punkier side,

For Victory - Click to order

• Rations - For Victory (86'd/Fanzine) [MySpace]
• Hard-hitting debut album by a punk band from Long Island. I enjoyed it. 
• "11 tracks in 17 mins." according to their label. Parental advisory: explicit lyrics.
• Includes a speech by FDR on "the four freedoms" that goes on for two-and-a-quarter minutes.
• It's not all politics—there's a track that's entirely for Marvel comic book nerds.
• Stream it free here.

Here's BSP playing "Zeus" in London back in February. Meh. Some of you might like it.

British Sea Power - "Zeus" (Scala, London, 2/9/2010)

Not to worry—there's a new Blank Dogs album and much more coming next week!