Filthy Dukes have released a great album this year. It's called Nonsense in the Dark and is so full of hits that you wouldn't mind comparing them to Simian Mobile Disco, if you keep in mind that they are much more pop oriented. So pop that there are few electronic bands nowadays that can sound this pop and still be credible.

If you don't agree with me, it's probably because you have never heard 'Messages', their latest single. The song features vocals from English singer Tommy Sparks (why haven't we posted about him? I love his album) and has a massive italo pop sound that should do well in the charts as much it will do in clubs with the help of the remixes of Tronik Youth, Kris Menace, Burns, Brookes Brothers, We Have Band, Stop Making Me and the Dukes' own Kill Em All.

We only heard three of them until now (Tronik Youth, Burns, and We Have Band), and even though all the remixes share similar lengths (something around 5m20) they all sound really different from each other. Tronik Youth's is a robotic disco affair, and We Have Band's is more electronic and less weird than you thought it would be, while Burns is that electro remix that could've gone all maximal cliché, but thanks to some unexpected moves is quite good.

'Messages' got a video that reminds me of some of the classic late '90s electronic videos that has a guy with a light ball in his hand that makes him dance like an epileptic.

The single is released today via Fiction / Polydor.

We are more than happy to live in the same age as a band like We Have Band.  Not only are they musically creative, but they also have been releasing the most innovating videos around. As we've been preparing you, 'You Came Out' is their next single; to be released on the 15^th of June through Kill Em All with lots of remixes and one great cover (check some of this stuff here).

And according to the band, the video - directed by David Wilson in collaboration with Fabian Berglund and Ida Gronblom from Wieden + Kennedy - was "shot over 2 days and stop frame animated from 4,816 still images without a single moment of video footage!" And in every still the band had different make up running down their faces in the most exquisite way.

We Have Band also promised to upload every single still image on their flickr account, so you can see how difficult is to be creative these days! If you fancy it, you can make loads of cool gifs out of them to send to all your friends. Download the demo version of the song below, although this is one of the few cases in which the new version is better.

It's Cage & Aviary's disco parrot, innit.

We told you a while back that South London duo Cage and Aviary also took their hands to IM//UR favourites, We Have Band, for a remix of their single. And here's their bouncey bassed, glass dinging and superlong interpretation of 'You Came Out'. It gives a nod to the track’s disco elements with a groovier and more laid back reinterpretation, cruisier than the more driving original track, Dede’s echoey vocal urging you to dance. And at around 8 minutes long, it’s a pilgramage; but one that keeps the kooky soul of We Have Band in tact, whilst still exploring the track in a different kind of outfit.

Thomas, Dede and Darren

I M // U R loves We Have Band's exquisite dance songs. 'You Came Out' was the very first song we've heard from the band's re-release. It's an improved version that makes the bass sound more clear, the vocal more disco spooky and the unexpected whistle break more impressive - and we usually prefer the demos versions.

The song will be released via Kill Em All on the 15th of June featuring lots of remixes and We Have Band's magnificent cover of 'West End Girls' which I dare say is way better than the original by Pet Shop Boys. Of all the remixes (Clouded Vision, Stereogamous Bathhouse, The Lovely Jonjo, and Cage & Aviary), Clouded Vision's and Cage & Aviary's re-interpretations are the most impressive efforts - the former turned the single into a distorted electro song and the latter maximized the disco lines of the original.

But before officially releasing 'You Came Out', the band will feature a new song, 'Time After Time', on Kitsuné's 7^th compilation as well as a Bloc Party remix that's part of a new version on their latest album, 'Intimacy', made up only of remixes from good bands like Mogwai, Filthy Dukes, No Age, Hervé and Phones. Such a bummer that Bloc Party went to shit...

Last time, with The Melodic One compilation, Kitsuné Maison introduced the world to artists like La Roux, We Have Band and Appaloosa; got us dancing once again with Fischerspooner and Lo-Fi-FNK; and made everybody's heart feel funny with songs from Ted & Francis and David E. Sugar. So there's absolutely no doubt that we are dying to listen to their 7^th compilation, The Lucky One.

First, because it's got some ace new singles from bands like We Have Band and Golden Filter. And then there are the songs that we already know and adore like 'Something Good Can Work' from Two Door Cinema Club, 'Solo' from Chew Lips, 'In For The Kill (Lifelike Remix)' from La Roux and 'Lisztomania (Classixx Version)' from Phoenix. And finally all the songs from bands we don't know but we'll probably love. In Kitsuné we trust!

In order to celebrate the upcoming release of both Kitsuné Fall/Winter 09 collection and Kitsuné Maison 7 - The Lucky One, Loïc Prigent & Fabien Constant did a cool change-your-clothes-as-fast-as-you-can competition featuring some songs from the compilation. Cheap creative fun.  Check the video below and some of it's songs at the bottom.

Track list after the jump, innit. >>

OMG! It's Solange!

My favourite iced lollies in the world are Soleros. I always get a flash of a Solero when someone says Solange...But I digress; anyway YES! WE HAVE BAND's music is a million times better than Soler-ange of the House of Dere-ange (I still heart you Beyoncé), as someone commented on Darren's (who looks after Vocals/Drums/Percussion/Sampler in We Have Band) Facebook status earlier today.

The mass musical exodus that occurs in London around this time of the year when all the wanna-bes and gonna-bes head over to the States to do the big Spring pow-wows and the festival circuit is a funny time. A good time for most, a bitter time for others. We Have Band I think, would be having a very good time.

They did SXSW. Apparently, so did Solange - in the observation fashion anyway. And Solange did We Have Band. Well, according to her twitter anyway.

Solange in the We Have Band houuuuuse

Now the biggest question is, as posed by We Have Band on their myspace:

"We have to confess that we're beginning to feel the pressure to twitter. We couldn't really be bothered before but maybe we will.

Should we?"

And a quick community service annoucement: Even if WE HAVE BAND doesn't twitter, WE HAVE TWITTER (clickety click)!