A marvellous racket

Pigeon was woken up very early this morning by some idiots trimming their hedge at some awful hour and generally making a lot of noize (sic) with garden related power tools. The only upside to this is that we had an extra hour, of the remaining 145, to listen to the new Boys Noize album 'Power' on his myspace. It's only up there for a week, and after that you're going to have to pay real money for it. Which, by the way, we suggest you do because it's bloody brilliant.

What's nice about Boys Noize is that his noize is very distinctive. The last album, 'Oi Oi Oi', established the sound, and it was backed up nicely with several remixes which remixed the original so far into amazingness you wished Boys Noize had dragged those artists kicking and screaming back into the studio (we're thinking a Feist album full of Boys Noize’s take on ‘My Moon, My Man’ style tracks would have been the best album in the world ever ever ever). Now 'Power' steps the whole thing up a notch and gives us tracks undeniably Boys Noize, but all the more accomplished and accessible.

This would usually be the bit where we tell you which tracks we love, but it's kind of hard when there’s no standouts, and they’re all just wonderful. We’ll talk about a couple anyway just to show we really have listened. ‘Kontact Me’ gets right to that little bit at the base of your skull which tingles when you hear a gritty chord - we're chewing our face off already and we've only had peanut butter toast this morning. ‘Nerve’ is stupidly understated to the point of being subliminal. ‘Trooper’ takes Boys Noize into a whole new territory and had us stomping round the lounge in our pyjamas. You get the idea - we only have good things to say.

What's particularly telling of this whole album-preview-on-the-myspace thing is the play count of all the tracks. First couple aside (being the first tracks to auto load) all the album tracks on the player have pretty much the same number of listens. Usually on myspace you find a sporadic play count whereby someone’s clicked on a track and then get a bit bored and wander off to the toilet, but here it seems everyone's listening to the whole album. And honestly, when was the last time an album was so good that you stopped and listened to the whole thing in one sitting?

But stop reading this because we’ve already spent so long doing our spell check on this that there's now only 144 1/2 hours left to get your free listen in...

Go, go, go to Boys Noize myspace now. QUICK.