The Big Pink

Uniting stadium-sized choruses with walls of shoegazer guitar noise, electro-rockers The Big Pink swiftly became one of the hottest names on the UK indie circuit when they debuted a few years back, and debut album A Brief History of Love ranked highly in a lot of the 2009 best-of lists. They release the follow-up on January 16 next year, and the few tracks that have gone online so far sound every bit as hook-laden as their predecessors, though rather less abrasive. Tokyo audiences can get an early taste of Future This at this one-night-only Japan date.