eardrums: If you haven't already, get Harrys Gym "What Was Ours Can't Be Yours" for only 33 Norwegian kroner at Platekompaniet (mp3). It's good! 19 hours ago
poplarpenguin: @eardrums just found out Outer Circle will be available digitally from 12 September...So enjoy the concerts this week and then download! 1 day ago
The Honeydrips are no more. You can download the farewell single, “Höstvisa”, from Sincerely Yours website. It’s a cover of a Swedish evergreen, written by Tove Jansson and Erna Tauro. Beautiful!
If you need another gem to comfort you with after reading about The Honeydrips exit, you can go to our netlabel EardrumsPop and download The Honeydrips’ collaboration with Boa Constrictor, “Please Do Not Lie” from our “Between Two Waves” compilation.
The Soundcarriers is a band from the UK who released one of my favourite albums last year, their beautiful debut album ‘Harmonium’ . Now they’re ready with a follow up, ‘Celeste’, due for release on August 9 on the Melodic label. Their music sound like a mix between kraut, psychedelia, the harmonic vocal pop of 60s/70s bands like The Free Design and modern bands like Stereolab or Broadcast (who probably have the same musical inspirations as The Soundcarriers have…)
The album is full of wonderful vocal harmonies and melodies of another world, psychedelic instrumental passages and THE good feeling.
“Storm The Charts” is a big campaign with its main goal to fill the UK top 40 with independent and unsigned bands for INDEPENDENTS DAY, next Sunday. 40 songs by 40 artists who aren’t on major labels and haven’t charted before have been chosen, and the team behind the campaign are asking people to download as many different songs from the list as they can, and we’ll see what happens on the 4th of July…
It’s of course only UK sales that count, but it’s a great way for us from other countries to discover new artists and to support independent music.
Frankie Rose made one of last year’s best singles, “Thee Only One”, and I’m really excited that her debut album is ready and set for release on Slumberland Records September 21. For those of you who don’t know her music or her background, I can tell you that she’s been involved in bands like Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls (- she wrote my favourite Vivian Girls song, “Where do you run to?”). I haven’t heard the album yet, but the press-release says “It’s as if the Cocteau Twins and Shangri-Las tracked a split LP with the help of a time machine and a freshly-acquitted Phil Spector”.
The first mp3 available from the album sure sounds good, so I have high hopes for this one!
1. Hollow Life
2. Candy
3. Little Brown Haired Girls
4. Lullubye for Roads and Miles
5. That’s What People Told Me
6. Memo
7. Must Be Nice
8. Girlfriend Island
9. You Can Make Me Feel Bad
10. Don’t Tred
11. Save Me
The Smiles & Frowns are a duo from Phoenix, Arizona whowill release their debut album late this summer (Aug. 16) on the Manchester-based DIY label aA Recording.
Their songs are very imaginative, full of fun psychedelic fantasy- stories of the kind you find on Syd Barrett’s albums/the first Pink Floyd-albums, The Beatles “White album” etc.. Musically, they’re not too different from the artists mentioned. Here’s my favourite from the album (and there are more songs of the same quality as this one on their album). Very melodic and 60s inspired in both the songwriting and the recorded sound.
