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Via Umbrella Magazine’s Brolly Brief No 3.

Come Around Sundown is the fifth album by American rock band Kings of Leon. Great music for the dark cold days.

Magnetic Man, a live electronic music project by underground veterans Benga, Skream and Artwork, perform using only three computers. Their debut album shows that dubstep is not only a after-dark genre. More here or listen here.

The legendary French duo Daft Punk showed their scoring skills in Electroma and now they composed and produced the score for TRON: Legacy. The score will be released by Walt Disney Records in a few weeks…be patient.

Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo (Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge) from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Their latest album ‘Senior’ is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart to last year’s album ‘Junior’. More here.

Junip is a Swedish band (Gothenburg) featuring Elias Araya (drums), José González (vocals, guitar) and Tobias Winterkorn (organ, synth). Their latest album Fields is out now. Listen here.

Folk rock from Spain? Yes. Bigott released a new album (This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship), but She is my man from his previous album Fín is a must hear song. More about Bigott here.

Formed in 1999, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band The National consists of vocalist Matt Berninger fronting two pairs of brothers: Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). Listen to The National’s fifth album, High Violet, here.

Friday night
I’m going nowhere
All the lights are changing
Green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Well looking back through time
You know it’s clear that I’ve been blind
I’ve been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule

‘Babylon’ by David Gray

Indie folk-pop from Bergen (Norway)? Oh yes. The Kings of Convenience (Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe) are making brilliant music for almost ten years now. Listen here.

Musical project Gorillaz (created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl) released their third studio album Plastic Beach. The first single Stylo features Bruce Willis. You can see the Gorillaz this summer.

Athlete will be touring the UK in November/December in support of their new ‘The Singles 01:10′ album which is scheduled for release in September.  As the name implies, the album will feature all their singles to date and the deluxe edition will feature loads of B sides and rarities.  The band will play every single on the tour plus a handful of other new and old songs. Listen here.

The XX are a three-piece band from London (UK) formed in 2005. The band members met at Elliott School, notable for alumni including Hot Chip, Burial and Four Tet. Listen to their dreamy music here or check out there latest single here.

Passion Pit is an American electronic band from Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). Passion Pit will be touring with British band Muse as the supporting act for eight shows during their fall 2010 tour through parts of the USA. Listen to them here.