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Monday 7th May
Aux Innocent – Fireworks
Married to the Sea – Mutiny 
Tuesday 8th May
Best Coast – Our Deal
Wednesday 9th May
OneRepublic – Everybody Loves Me
POLICIA – Lay Your Cards Out
Ke$ha – Backstabber
Thursday 10th May
Hooray For Earth – No Love
James Morrison – One Life
Twin Planets - Stairs
Snow Patrol – The President
Friday 11th May
Gotye - Smoke and Mirrors
Ideals – Save Your Handshakes
The Heavy – Strong Enough
OneRepublic – All This Time
Review
The buzz-word this week is ‘power-pop’ – largely oweing to the fact that I read it in a review elsewhere and thought ‘Oooh, that’s a nice umbrella term’. Anywho, this week’s episodes are packed full of jangly, love-lorn, emotive pop…
My favourite track of the week was definitely Our Deal by California-based indie-rock trio Best Coast. A lovely piece of Cali-pop with gorgeous melodies, Bethany Cosentino’s vocal ‘I wish you would tell me how you feel, but you’ll never tell, cos that’s not our deal’ chimed perfectly as Doug tried to cope with his growing feelings towards Ste…
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought there was a certain Motown/Phil Spector quality to the production on this, lending a slightly haunting, melancholy feel to the track…
Cool fact: the video for this track is directed by Drew Barrymore (of ET and Charlie’s Angels fame). It also features two star-crossed lovers whose story ends in tragedy. Read into that what you will STUG fans…
If you like these, you may also like…Cults, Girls, Waaves
We were given two very different offerings this week from OneRepublic. Everybody Loves Me, which was chosen (for fairly obvious reasons) to play over a scene in which Maddie sauntered through school, basking in the adoration of her loyal subjects, is definitely the more ballsy of the two. All this Time is a cinematic ballad with a big string section in the crescendo and pained vocals. The whole thing is a little saccharine sweet for me and it couldn’t really be called original, but it’s catchy nonetheless…
If you like these, you may also like…Maroon 5, The Fray
Snow Patrol have taken a slightly different direction on their new album Fallen Empires, which is packed full of piano-led, soft-rock ballads. The President is no exception. This played over another poignant STUG scene, in which Doug told Ste that he just wanted to be friends…
Save Your Handshakes by Ideals provided the sound-track to that scene in which STUG finally swapped handshakes for snogs. Nawwww…those boys…
If you like these, you may also like…The Cads, Mark Michaud
Finally, we also have to pay respect to friends of the show Twin Planets and Liverpool-based Married to The Sea. The former (pictured above) you may recognise as the band who played in College Coffee on Thursday night, just before Esther made her selfless defence of Tilly. The latter are friends of the music department and thoroughly nice lads they are too…
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