Miloco's Tips for 2009!
Not biased, nor plagiarised!
8th Jan 09
Welcome back all, to the informative world of Miloco's tasteful yet cheeky journalistic portal of all things bright, beautiful, loud, and of course, OURS. Another 12 months of thrilling Miloco client news awaits, and there's no better way to start a year's worth of reporting, as most music websites across the planet have too realised, than to copy everyone else's predictions and broadcast one of the milions of like-worded articles currently floating around the the cybernetic universe, either swaying the impressionable, or grating the stubborn.
But we're different, we actually know our hot tips, having of course spent most of 2008 with them, making the wondrous music which will spur them to the highest heights this year. First up VV Brown (pictured). Fresh from Steve Dub and Segs' Toyshop school, be ready for a whole bundle of her quirky doo-wop soul tunes this year. She's joined by Kid British, the Mancunian indie ska outfit whose hard work on the live circuit late last year will pay dividends when their debut album, also produced by Steve and Segs in The Toyshop, hits the shelves this year. Stay posted too for the fast-rising electro wunderkids Delphic, again from Manchester, and again released from the nurturing wing of Dubby and Segs.
Further shout outs go to The Big Pink and White Lies, who both enjoyed stints with us in the latter months of 2008: the former rolling off the back of a tour with experimentalist contemporaries TV On The Radio; the latter a perfect match for the masses who'll be requiring harmonius empathy in a year destined for the gloom of recession.
It's a pleasure to have been already acquainted with Little Boots, the classically-trained pianist-turned-Tenori-On* virtuoso, whose predicted shot at pop-Princesshood has the undenying backing from music critics across the land. Born by the name of Victoria Hesketh, Little Boots visited our Musikbox studio in the Spring of '08.
Finally, for Part 1 of our 2009 tips, it's the forcefully emerging Florence and the Machine. We met Florence way back in 2007, and she has grown into something of an inevitable success story since. Setting out on her official "breakthrough" year, get used to her magical and inventive world of soulful indie folk.
So there you have it, another few hundred praiseful words on new and fresh-faced artists whom you should all have read about already, and hence be digging relentlessly. Happy New Year to all of our readers, old faithful patrons and future-conquering friends. All the best for what promises to be a real musical blinder!!
* The Tenori-On is a very flash piece of gadgetry being brought to us by our good friends at Yamaha. Check it out!
