“Loved Songs # 25″ – A Spotify list with new #indie, #indiepop, #folk and #electronica from the past week

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We’re back on Fridays again, after a delayed “Loved Songs #24″. Since we used lots of goodies from this week on that one, the 25th edition will be a bit shorter than usual. Several really good ones in here too. I’m especially happy with the new album from Liechtenstein, the single from SoKo and the debut-album from Beth Jeans Houghton.

Here it is, and please subscribe or share it around if you like it. It makes it worth making these, if I see that people actually listen to them ;-) .

Loved Songs #25

As usual, I add all the playlists in a huge “All Loved Songs-2012″-list, and this one is recommended to shuffle…

all loved songs 2012 (made to shuffle!)

The songs on “Loved Songs #25″ are:

Boy & Bear – Lordy May
Soko – First Love Never Die
Liechtenstein – Strange Ideas
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny – Humble Digs
Jonathan Johansson – Stockholm (Azure Blue Remix)
Evripidis and His Tragedies – Waves to Ride
Labyrinth Ear – Amber
Klaus & Kinski – La Pensión
Scary Mansion – Touch Me
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Got To Let Go - feat. Charlie of Noah & The Whale
Charlotte Thorstvedt – Arrhythmia
Liechtenstein – The Farival Twins
Lightning Love – Deadbeat
A Place To Bury Strangers – Onwards To The Wall
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny – Nightswimmer
alt-J (∆) – Fitzpleasure
Boy Friend – Lovedropper
Trailer Trash Tracys – Los Angered
The Submarines – Just Like Honey

New single and EP from Red Shoe Diaries

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Nottingham’s Red Shoe Diaries is one of the bands that make me really excited these days. It’s definitely indiepop, but I think this band takes the genre a bit further. I can’t exactly put my finger on what it is, but their music sounds “new” in some way. It’s sophisticated, with lovely, almost clean vocals, and great melodies.

The band has two brilliant vocalists, and their twangy guitar reminds me of old Italian western-films. Don’t worry, this is not anything like the western soundtracks… This is POP, Pure POP!

The band will release the first single, “Ice and Snow”, from their upcoming 10″ EP on the fine Fika Recordings. The 3-track single will be released on Monday 27th of February as a digital download, available on a pay-what-you-like basis.

The gorgeous artwork is made by Amy Blackwell http://www.amyblackwell.co.uk/

My “Hearts & Heartaches”-mix on 8Tracks

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Hearts & Heartaches from eardrumspop on 8tracks.

8Tracks is a website where you can make streamable mixes by uploading music and coverart. My first mix is dedicated to love and lost love, and you can either listen to it above, or go to the mix on 8Tracks here: http://8tracks.com/eardrumspop/hearts-heartaches

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Fenster – new release on Morr Music

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As some of you may know, I am a huge fan of the German label Morr Music. I trust them so much that I KNOW that I will love their upcoming releases. I knew, just by reading Morr’s description of their new signing FENSTER, that this was something I should look forward to.

Quote:
“FENSTER makes de-constructed pop music. Their lyrics are often carefully constructed dream narratives, finding inspiration in the world of ghosts, graveyards. trains, religious imagery, and broken machinery. In their music, they build songs around errors, blending melodic chords with broken beats or minimal percussion. Their instruments range from banjo to synth to inanimate objects, using slamming doors and city soundscapes.”
Unquote.

I was right. Fenster was worth looking forward to. Their music is magical and really interesting. Fenster’s album “Bones” will be released on Morr in March, but you can already get their 7″ single via Bandcamp. http://fenster.bandcamp.com/

New album from Burning Hearts, finally!

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Finland’s Burning Hearts released one of my favourite albums a few years ago on one of my favourite labels, Shelflife. “Aboa Sleeping” was filled with gorgeous indiepop-songs, filtered through a thin layer of melancholy, – the same kind of melancholy you can find in some of the songs from Broadcast or Stereolab. That kind of duality between happy and melancholic  is probably why I have always found Burning Hearts’s sound more interesting and durable than all those super-happy and sugary indiepop-bands. I love many of those bands too, but I often get tired of their songs easily.
That’s not the fact with Burning Hearts.

So, can you imagine how happy I became when I heard that a new album was on its way?`I guess you can.
The new album is called “Extinctions”  and will be released on February 21, on cd, digital and a limited edition vinyl-print (500 ex).

In a press release, Shelflife writes
“Extinctions was written as a consequence of many tragic stories that in a way or another touched the band. Quite a few of the songs are dedicated to people or creatures that no longer exist. Even if human tragedies inspired the writing, and death is present in nearly all the songs, the sound remains vivid and full of hope.”

Extinctions is a co-release with another very interesting label, Solina Records in Finland.

New video from Maribel “You Bring The Sadness”

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Maribel will release their second LP “Reveries” in Japan tomorrow, Germany on Friday and Norway, UK and the EU on Monday February 13th. This is their new video, “You Bring the Sadness”, featuring Emil Nikolaisen from Serena Maneesh. Lovely

Loved Songs #24 – A Spotify playlist with #indie #indiepop #folk and #electronica from the past weeks

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A bit later than usual, but here is the weekly “Loved Songs” Spotify list, with new songs in genres like indiepop, indie, folk and electronica from the past weeks. I have also included a couple of old favourites that were added to Spotify recently as re-releases.
If you like this list, please subscribe to it or share it around on Facebook or twitter to show that these are also your loved songs.

Here is this week’s list:

Loved Songs #24

You can also subscribe to the huge and evergrowing “All Loved Songs 2012″ list, where I add all the playlists when they are published. This one is recommended to shuffle… : all loved songs 2012 (made to shuffle!)

This week’s “Loved Songs #24″ are

Golden Fable – Always Golden
Frankie Rose – Know Me
BRILDB107DLX – Boat
Sharon Van Etten – Leonard
The Wedding Present – You Jane
Vaporous Light – Money
The Silver Seas – Candy
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Missionary
The Hooves of Destiny – Sweet Tooth Bird
I'm From Barcelona – Battleships
Envelopes – Sister In Love
Fever Dream – This Waste
Jonathan Johansson – Centrum
Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless
Honeytraps – Morning Light
M.I.A. – Bad Girls
Sofia Talvik – Everyone's Favorite Concubine
Sharon Van Etten – Warsaw
Billy Bragg – Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Princeton – Florida
Goldfrapp – A&E
Lana Del Rey – Radio
Montag – Nova Heart
The Submarines – Shoelaces
Lianne La Havas – Age
Emerald Park – Things
Real Ones & Stein Torleif Bjella – Ei Ørlita Stund
Wire – Kidney Bingos
Iselin andresen – Insomnia
Good Shoes – City By The Sea
Cocteau Twins – Lazy Calm
Keith Kenniff – Daybreak
Musette – Horse Thoughs
Lucas Renney – A Tear In The Sea

 

Loved Songs # 23 – A Spotify-playlist with favourite #indie, #indiepop, #folk + #electronica from the past week

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It’s Friday, and Friday is playlist-day here on Eardrums Music. I have selected my favourite tracks from last week’s releases on Spotify, and I hope you will do your part of the job, by sharing this playlist on as many networks as you can, and to your personal friends, of course! 

Here is this week’s playlist:
Loved Songs #23 

(The playlist is also in text-format below)

You can also subscribe to the “All Loved Songs 2012″ playlist, which will grow and grow during the year. I add every “Loved Songs” playlists to this one every week. It will be huge, so shuffle is recommended…
Here it is: all loved songs 2012

Here are all the songs on “Loved Songs #23:

School Of Seven Bells – Lafaye
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains – Les Plus Beaux
Hospitality - Eight Avenue
Low Roar – Just A Habit
Porcelain Raft – Drifting In And Out
Chairlift - Met Before
Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
The Magnetic Fields – Andrew In Drag
Foxes! – Descartes
Tenniscoats – Kuki No Soko
Laura Gibson - Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed
The Holiday Crowd – Never Speak Of It Again
Grabbel and The Final Cut – Psycho Popsong
Coasting – Portland
Creep – Animals (feat. Holly Miranda)
The Kabeedies – Eyes
Amadou & Mariam – Dougou Badia (feat. Santigold)
Golden Fable – The Chill Pt. 2
DJ Food (feat. Matt Johnson) – GIANT
Stealing Sheep – I Am The Rain
Andrew Bird – Eyeoneye
I Am Oak – Gills
Little Tybee - Boxcar Fair
Those Dancing Days – Spaceherosuits
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Rebellion (Arcade Fire Cover)
Laura J Martin – Black Caravan
Vessel – Feathers
Chairlift – Amanaemonesia
Foxes! – Alex Badamchi
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains – Do you want to dance
The Golden Awesome – Ruby
Lemaitre – Appreciate
Deerhoof – No One Asked Bazan to Dance
Le Muhr – Svensk musikliv
Leonard Cohen – Darkness

New album from Liechtenstein – “Fast forward”

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Liechtenstein is one of my favourite bands, and it makes me so so so happy to hear that their new album, “fast forward” is out these days on Fraction Discs! I haven’t heard the full 11-track album yet, but according to the label, this album “is a pop gem filled with catchy post punk, jangly guitars, trumpets, piano and vocal harmonies, all arranged and produced with a sensitive touch. The production is crispier than before, emphasizing the vocals and putting focus on the lyrics.”

Sounds good!

Here are two videos and an mp3 from the album, and you can tell me what you think in the comments!

Liectenstein – Ambitions

The Holiday Crowd

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Shelflife Records has a really interesting release out now, from The Holiday Crowd  Their new album “Over The Bluffs”  is a co-release between Shelflife and New Romantic, and you can order it in various physical and digital formats on shelflife.com.

You can also download a free mp3 of the song “Never speak of it again” for a limited time via Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/newromantic/the-holiday-crowd-never

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