Ellington

Since forming in 1999, this Manchester trio has had something to say and the means by which to express it. I Am Kloot is all about contradictions and their music is simultaneously "combative yet charming." Their third full length, "Gods and Monsters," contains 13 tracks encompassing happiness and sorrow, beauty and ugliness and all points in between. One might reference Belle and Sebastian or Clinic in terms of describing their sound, but this newest addition to the "new acoustic movement" stands apart on their own. Best described by John Bramwell, I Am Kloot's vocalist: "I Am Kloot is a little universe we've created, I Am Kloot is not a band, it's a world....It's ruthless and endearing, it's full of contradictions and – it shifts across the sky like the weather." --Alex Slawson and Herman Snell