Just For Kicks: The Flaming Lips, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Kurt Vile.

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There is such an insane amount of top drawer new music reaching the Music Mule inbox at the moment that it’s been a real struggle to select three tracks for this weekend’s just for kicks but alas we have done it! New FLAMING LIPS is just one reason to get excited and then there’s two new bands we hope you’ll be hearing a lot more from in the shape of Frankie & The Heartstrings and Kurt Vile.

Friday

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mp3: The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands

‘Silver Trembling Hands’ is taken from The Flaming Lips imaginatively titled EP ‘Songs From The Forthcoming Album Embryonic’ which, you guessed it, is a taster of the forthcoming double album Embryonic. If it’s anything to go by then Wayne Coyne and co have rediscovered the fine form of old. Their last album ‘At War With The Mystics’ failed to move us the way a Lips album should but on this new offering it sounds like the band have re-discovered the golden touch employed on one of the best records ever according to us, 1999′s The Soft Bulletin.

For Fans Of: Flaming Lips.

Saturday

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mp3: Frankie & The Heartstrings – Fragile

Frankie and The Heartstrings are our new favourite Sunderland five-piece. Alright we don’t have another favourite Sunderland five-piece at the moment but that’s not to detract from how much we’re hooked on this band and more specifically their track, ‘fragile’. It’s got an awesome retro-pop sound and there’s a real air of confident songwriting about it. The band make their London live debut supporting Your Twenties and Clock Opera at Madame Jojo’s in Soho next Tuesday, Aug 4th. We shall not be missing it.

For Fans Of: Talking Heads, Wolf Gang, Orange Juice.

Sunday

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mp3: Kurt Vile – Overnite Religion

Kurt Vile is a singer-songwriter from Philadelphia who’s just signed to the mighty Matador who will release his second album, the excellently titled, ‘Childish Prodigy’ in October. ‘Overnite Religion’ is taken from that record and is a wonderfully lo-fi hypnotic garage rock number. Oh and yes that’s his real name!

For Fans Of: Real Estate, Animal Collecitve, Here We Go Magic.

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