Plan B
Issue 40

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ANTHONY AND THE JOHNSONS
Anthony And The Johnsons journey beyond the self and far into the universe, with a new album of animist transformations, spirit voices and laments for a dying world

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
This year, Italians Do It Better were a vision of perfection, exploding worldwide with a gleaming, fiercely modern disco pressed and housed in sleeves of bright neon and conducted with total artistic independence. Plan B tracks down label co–founder and Glass Candy/Chromatics mastermind Johnny Jewel to talk a year spent re–inventing the dancefloor

ALBUMS FROM OUR PAGES 2008
Plan B's albums of the year. Not in order. If desired, do that yourself, using scissors and glue

THIS WAS YOUR YEAR
Plan B passes the mic to some of our favourite people and says: 'so, 2008: how was it for you?'
KODE9 AND THE BUG
This years tectonic shifts in low–end, as charted by Kode9 and The Bug
JEFFREY LEWIS
'My 2008 in a nutshell', an exclsuive two–page illustrated post–mortem by Jeffrey Lewis

PLUS
Petit Mal, Afrikan Boy, Je Suis Animal, Action Beat, Starkey, Los Campesinos!, No Age, Mumdance, Kamerakino, Kong, Pit Er Pat, The Bronx, Black Sun, Factory Floor, Gentle Friendly, Rainbow Arabia, Trixie's Big Red Motorbike, Merok

LIVE Foot Village, Hokaben, Johnny Foreigner, Built To Spill, Iceland Airwaves, John Foxx, Pole

ALBUMS
Friday Hyvonen, Lia Ices, Nimrod Workmen, Women, The Cure, Buraka Som Systema, Crystal Stilts, Huntsville, Angel, Jackie–O–Motherfucker, Little Joy, The Shaky Hands, Tenebrous Liar, Infinite Livez

REISSUES
Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Culture, Arthur Russell, Curent93, Ursula Bogner, Gore, Pere Ubu

MEDIA
The Problem With Children's TV, On The Hour, Beijing Bubbles: Punk And Rock In China's Capital

PLUS


Free Polyvinyl label sampler: like a cross between a Yuletide log and a mistletoe kiss. Featuring 14 tracks from the like of Of Montreal, Headlights, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Aloha, 31 Knots, The M's, Joan Of Arc, Ida, Owen, Cale Parks, Asobi Seksu