Have been a more-than-moderate Telepathe zealot since we ran an intro to ‘em back in Feb ‘07, but they move slowly, creep like undergrowth, even - and it’s only now that an album is arising. ‘Sinister Militia’ (above) is an ‘07 single, and its slurring, landsick disconnects a good place to start. ‘Chrome’s On It’, below, shows how they’re developing - matching profound vocal drift to the wipe-clean urbanisms of hip-hop. New album produced by Dave Sitek, new single (’Devil’s Trident’), fearsome. More soon, for sure (oh, also: props to fingered for these - it’s a NYC DVD zine who kindly mail me issues, helpfully labelled with their name bold on the outside and probably convincing my postperson I am a knuckle-shuffler of great duration).

Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s headline slot at Glastonbury seems to have engendered a forest of high fives, and it makes me wonder if this is a (small) watershed. The sudden eruption of rockists surprised me, but it did feel a bit “daaaaad…” Anyway - link to H.O.V.’s hysterically clever ‘Wonderwall’ cover here, and the rest thereabouts…

Shd say, incidentally, that - although I bet it wd have been my highlight had I been there, accessing thru web activates my justified mistrust of rock-rap (or ‘organic’ instrumentation; gnash). The freestyles are nice, though - careering as they do between cocky rhetoric, emotional monologue and rise-to-the-occasion homily.