Alright, it's been a while since Defamer Australia gave you a "hot music tip", but we've just gotten our paws on a great new album that's recently been released in the States, and we figured Australian punters with a love of decent tunes (and a strange desire to trawl pop culture obsessed websites in their spare time) deserve to know about the following artist.

Meet Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves.

He's a young dude from Boston, and his new album 'Roll With You' is one of the best things we've heard in an age. Think old bluesy soul with the Ronson touch (although as far as we know, Lindsay Lohan's brother-in-law has nothing to do with the record). It's not often we fall for something within thirty seconds of hearing it, but we did with 'Roll With You' and can't recommend it enough.

You can hear some tunes from the album by clicking on the MySpazz link above, but the best two songs on the record - 'Stake Your Claim' and 'Am I Wasting My Time' - aren't included on there, alas.

Still. If you're daft enough to be awake early tomorrow between 6am and 10am, Your Editor will be molesting Triple J and may just bang on one of the tracks in a concerted effort to wake up.

You've been told. Although we are hardly tastemakers here at Defamer Australia, we fell for Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black' in a similar way back in late 2006 - try to remember how amazing that release was before every radio station flogged 'Rehab' to death and Amy Winehouse was on the cover of every goddamn magazine, drunkenly stumbling about like an inebriated twig with a mascara obsession - and we're fairly confident that if radio actually plays the fucking record instead of faffing about with songs about spray on pants, the folks at home will eat it up with a spoon.

 

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