Welcome to For Your Consideration. We here at Hitsville take pride in how great our Year In Everythi

Welcome to For Your Consideration. We here at Hitsville take pride in how great our Year In Everything readers poll looks, mostly because you vote for it and we write about how right you are. It’s a load of fun especially if some of your favourites make our long-listThis year, there appears to have been more music than ever and with the introduction of the likes of Apple Music and, to a lesser extent, Tidal, there’s been more ways than ever to hear it. We’ve tried to bring it to you in as many ways as possible but the best way is usually just to write about it or playlist it.We miss things though. It’s inevitable. We have a small team of people who have lives to lead up and down the country and across the globe, and whilst we’d love to force them to work for free for ages, the government are already doing that to plenty nationally, so we don’t.By way of apology for the things we’ve missed, it’s only right that you’re as best informed as possible before the year ends.Without further ado, we’ll be posting about a load of great records that we think deserve a place in your Top 10, or that we haven’t already reviewed this year.Kings Of The Late ‘00sEverything Everything – Get To HeavenUnder the barrage of new music bursting through this year, it was occasionally easy to forget that one of the reasons we get to have interesting music in indie music again was because of Everything Everything. In a landscape without them, I struggle to see how we’d have Alt-J or Future Islands standing up alongside Vampire Weekend. The Manchester band used to find it tough to shake comparisons to their city, but it’s pretty hard to force their sound into a geographical frame, mostly because their thoughts are somewhat off the planet. Just read any of the lyrics from their lead single “Distant Past” and you’ll notice that lyrics are at times, a third thought to originality and musicality. Everything Everything’s third effort is every bit as unique as they’ve always been to the point that singling out most tracks would feel infinitely more laborious than simply listening the way through.Listen to: “Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread”, “Distant Past”, “Blast Doors”.Maccabees – Marks To Prove ItThe Maccabees aren’t the band we once thought they were. That’s not to say that we don’t still listen to “Toothpaste Kisses” sometimes in a world of teen nostalgia waiting for Channel 4 to recommission Freshly Squeezed for that Orlando moment; but its safe to say from the off of Marks To Prove It, they’re not those chaps anymore. What they are though are a well oiled machine who’ve overcome serious identity issues, locked themselves away in Elephant and Castle and made a record that feels like little else made recently. “Ribbon Road” soars above with a dark march whilst “Spit It Out” feels like Hunky Dory-era Bowie. At their most intimate, The Maccabees now feel almost haunting rather than that guy at the end of a party who’s nestled himself into the corner with a guitar; whilst at their biggest, they sound like a band who’ve simply grown up and plugged everything into making a song into a craft. This record is for your consideration for the EOY list simply because there needs to come a point when we admit that The Maccabees are one of the best bands Britain has produced since Blur.Listen to: “Marks to Prove It”, “Ribbon Road”, “Dawn Chorus”.The Wombats – GlitterbugWhere the heck did The Wombats go and why did I ever pretend that I didn’t find this band incredible fun. That’s the lasting feeling I’ve found from listening to Glitterbug this year. From the moment “Emoticons” cuts in through “Your Body Is A Weapon” (which feels so old even though it’s only been around a year or so) and onwards, The Wombats are an essential indie act simply because of how unashamedly on the border of Tears For Fears for the MySpace generation they are.Listen to: “This Is Not A Party”, “Give Me A Try”, “Headspace”. -- source link

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