Plan B
Issue 41 January 2009

Cover art for Issue 41 January 2009 by Plan B Description: Mag with pic of Micachu looking like Shane McGowan on the front
Format: Magazine
Genre(s): Indie Pop
Label: N/A
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Join us in our hubris as we gaze into the Plan B crystal ball in an effort to chart the year ahead in audio. From cutie insurrectionists to tai chi–inspired improv wanderers, the signs augur well. Featuring…
MICACHU
Going post–genre with DIY–pop band Micachu And The Shapes, the lost and found sound of a new UK
VIVIAN GIRLS
Three chords, maximum reverb, total simplicity: are these Brooklyn pop grrrls the anti–Marnie Stern?
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
Get down with the hard–ass carnival beats of kuduro, via these militant club kids from the Lisbon suburbs
WOMEN
Wreathed in noise, hermetically sealed, the spectral psychedelia of Women spirits through walls and steals your heart. Plan B's forensics team found no fingerprints
IKONIKA
Space drones, pop synth and hardcore energy converge in Sara Abdel–Hamid's boundary–tripping dubstep
DESALVO
Glasgow metalcore bears intend to ram it down your throat
CRAZY COUSINZ
Presenting the prime architects of funky, the sweet new pill putting a twist in the step of UK clubland
SALEM
Magickal shoegazers are blissful like heavy sedation and dark like amputation
PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Lyon's free music explorers dissolve your defences and put you in the comfort hold
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
This love is fucking right! Reasons to fritter your innocence with these wide–eyed Brooklyn pop kids

METRO AREA
New York's Metro Area dig through the discs of disco's past, lining up long lost cuts and rejuvenating the floor with pleasure, politics, and dilated pupils.

IN PRAXIS: GREG WEEKS
In the latest of Plan B's ongoing series on the secrets of studiocraft, Espers' Greg Weeks pulls back the curtain on the recording of new solo album The Hive.

PLUS:
Larytta, Pete And The Pirates, Vivian Girls, Desalvo, These Are Powers, Bashy, Animal Collective, Lime Headed Dog, Baby Dee, Robin Guthrie
LIVE: The Residents, Abe Vigoda, Jeremy Jay, Jay Reatard, Late Of The Pier, One Inch Badge, Heartbreak, Future Island
ALBUMS: Franz Ferdinand, Anthony and The Johnsons, Animal Collective, Telefon Tel Aviv, Telepathe, Black Milk, Wood Pigeon, James Yorkston, Diplo, Polysics, Mr Oizo, Alexis Taylor, Wino, The Hunches
REISSUES: 23 Skidoo, Pumajaw, Death Cab For Cutie, Pavement, The Cherry Red Collection 1978-1983
MEDIA: Luke Haines' Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part In Its Downfall, Zine Fest, Harmony Korine's The Collected Fanzines.