Athens, Ga.-based singer-songwriter Liz Durrett is out with a new album, “the mezzanine”, and she has made the title track available for download at her website. Her quiet and dark songs are really beautiful, and should be checked out. The album is released by WARM electronic recordings on january 24, and it was produced by her uncle, Vic Chesnutt, who also worked with Durrett on her previous album, Husk .

Liz Durrett - the mezzanine

and we’ll add another one from her website, - a cover of the Tom Waits song “november”:

Liz Durrett - november

You can listen to more songs on her myspace page.

Some nice songs for a tired monday… It’s not a proper mixtape, like the Eardrums mixtapes (no cover, no thought through tracklist…), but I guess it’s enough songs here for you to make one yourself out of it… ENJOY!:

My latest novel - the hope edition
Great UK band! From their bandsite

Odeon Beat Club - take it off
- Glasgow band, - I love this song! From their bandsite

Since november - Houston, changing manual
- from this finnish bands website. Beautiful song!

Familiar trees - nameless
- from labelsite

Honeyhander - Our connoisseurs are Feeders
-from this UK band’s website

I love you but I’ve chosen darkness - according to plan
- from labelsite

New young pony club - ice cream
hosted here, with kind permission from the band, - here’s their site

The Loch Ness Mouse - swung 2 lo
- from this norwegian band’s site (this is Emil Nikolaisen from Serena Maneesh’s former band)

Fontän - alla kan se dig
- swedish pop with electronics, ready for release in 2006. From bandsite

Department of Eagles - the horse you ride
- from bandsite

Elbow - forget myself
- from betterpropaganda

5 o’Clock heroes - white girls
- from spin.com

Piana - early in summer
- japanese heavenly music. This song is a track from their latest album “ephemeral”. From labelsite.

Sophie Rimheden - queen of the night (richard reagh remix)
- from thisispop.se

Once we were - repulsion
- from tenderversions mp3 singles. Once we were are preparing their 2006 album, and this is one of the songs that didn’t make it to the final tracklist.

Super 700 - I love you
- great german band, from the labelsite

Oh no Ono - ba ba baba ba ba well anyway
- from bandsite (fun and fine danish band with helium voices and turbo energy)

Morfar - we need a winner in this family
- norwegian lofi electronic singer/songwriter, from nrk urört

Test Icicles - circle square triangle
- from insound

Pretty girls make graves - the nocturnal house
- from labelsite

Ane Brun ft Teitur - Rubber and soul
- from the excellent american blog about scandinavian music, itsatrap.com. Ane Brun is a norwegian singer/songwriter living in sweden.

Motorpsycho - go to california
- norwegian legends. This song is from the above mentioned excellent blog itsatrap.com.

Mont Mardié - come on eileen
- from shaktar (cover of the Håkan Hellström-song “Kom igjen Lena”…)

50 ft wave - vena cava
- Kristin Hersh’ band after Throwing Muses has a free ep out on their website, and they’re telling people to share it, and so we do… from bandsite

Richard Reagh - noone really wants to
- from this is pop - label

Flow Flux Clan - slow motion ears and widescreen eyes
- from shaktar

Ruben Cordell - third floor avenue
- norwegian music from nrk urört

The April Skies - three minute singles
- norwegian band, demo of the week from digfi

Pascal - förbi fabriken
- la-la-la-Lo-lo-lo-lo-fi from a swedish jesus and mary chain sound-a-like. Love the energy! This is from their bandsite, where you also will find their cover of Springsteen’s “Hungry heart”, in swedish.

Sugarghost - so quiet in this place
- from this danish band’s website

The first post of the year (sorry, - been too lazy to write so far this year ) …

Lorna, the “indieshoegazecountryambient-ish” band from Nottingham are working on their third album at the moment, and here at the Eardrums, we are really looking forward to the new release. Their previous one, “Static Patterns and Souvenirs”, was an album we liked quite a lot, - and I must say it has grown better and better since I heard it the first time. The band has released one new track for download at their myspace page, - a beautiful ambient piece called “Calella”. A new and very good live version of “The last mosquito fight of summer” is also recently uploaded to myspace. Go and have a listen!

If you like the band, I can recommend their new dvd-release “Contributions”. The DVD (signed by the band if you so wish) will cost you nothing but a small contribution to a local charity of your choice. Make the donation, send in proof (if possible) and the DVD is yours. Contributions features “West of the stars” a short movie made by Lorna shot in the US in summer 2005. Also featured is a full length promotional video for “Swans”, a selection of remastered and high quality live tracks from Lorna’s “Static Patterns” live show in London earlier this year. The only place where you can get the dvd, is from Lorna’s website.

Lorna - Calella
Lorna - the last mosquito fight of summer