I'm desperate for a new band/album I can really get into. Maximo Park and Bloc Party's last albums were okay, but nothing really great. I'm waiting for something to come along and really make me listen to it. The last time I had that was with The Fratellis, and before that it was The Subways.
So then I saw Flawless's post - I looked up the Dartz MySpace page, and I love that first song, "Once Twice Again"! It's about time there was something out there that sounded a bit different. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll have to get their album sometime.
On the Arctic Monkeys, I've never understood why people like them... I've got a group of five close friends and they all think they're poor as well, and yet everyone else we know thinks they're out of this world... There was a joke on Time Trumpet that had me pissing myself - they're 40 years in the future, asking people about the 2000s, and this guy says "oh wow, do you remember the Arctic Monkeys?! Wow, they were really, really, okay! They were just so alright, weren't they?!" That's exactly how I feel - they're not terrible but they're nothing special either. :|