Protomartyr - The Agent IntellectFantastic and one of the albums of 2015. 'The Agent Intellect' is Protomartyr's third and finest work to date. Named after an ancient philosophical questioning of how the mind operates in relation to the self, it's an elegant and often devastating display of all that makes Protomartyr so vital and singularly visceral an outfit. Over the course of several months, Greg Ahee waded through more than a hundred song fragments until he reached the bottomless

'Since I've Been Loving You'

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he eluded every effort to track him down

the libertines manage to imbue snotty garage rock with a sort of wistful romanticism that adds genuine soul to their raucous clatter

Snow sways into ‰ÛÏSunflower‰۝ with a touch of Steppenwolf‰۪s swagger and wind-in-their-hair wildness

a producer

The intention was to capture a more instinctive and fluid live studio sound and to play as well as possible while the red button was on

flutes and harmonicas

but they've thrown something else into the mix

For the prolific Michael Chapman

He composes

Alan McGee himself said: ‰ÛÏShe‰۪s only 24 and is already an amazing songwriter