Tweet Summer Camp from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo. Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey, a.k.a. Summer Camp, play a wonderful version of their song “Was It Worth It” for the Black Cab Sessions. The song is from their upcoming 6 track “Young EP”, that will be released on Moshi Moshi on September 6th. A single, “Round the moon”/”It’s Summer”, will be released on September 13.
Tweet Cloud Control from Australia has made a video for the third single from their debut-album ‘Bliss Release’. The video is directed by art duo Greedy Hen.
Tweet Best Coast‘s awaited debut album “Crazy for you” is here, and it’s one great song after another, and there are 13 of them, including the bonus-track. Some of these songs are not easy to get out of your head after the first listen, and some are good enough to constantly run on repeat. As songs, they are fantastic, but put together as an album, I’m not that sure. She has her own way of writing songs, and sometimes she … →
Tweet In exchange of an email address, Secretly Canadian shares a new Jens Lekman song with you! It’s a good one, so it’s worth your email and more, – go and get it from here: http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2010/07/jens-lekman-shares-new-song/
Tweet These live-videos took my breath away today, so I just have to show them to you. It’s the Japanese artist Wool Strings, who have participated on our EardrumsPop compilations a couple of times, both as Wool Strings and as the collaboration Seasel. His beautiful music seems to be even stronger live. “Shirley Poppy” was on “A Good Crop” (free download here), and the live-version is quite different and very upbeat. Here are two more videos from the same concert. … →
Tweet Special Benny is a London-based 6-piece band, with 5 music educated members and one who went to clown-school. Their debut album “Toys” will be released by the fine Proper Songs-label on September 6th, and you can already now get a download-copy or preorder the physical release from Special Benny’s bandcamp-page. According to the press release, the band’s members have different taste in music, but they cite Tortoise, Jim O’Rourke, Sufjan Stevens, Battles, Frank Zappa and Steve Reich among their … →
Tweet BEST FOOT FORWARD – LOOKING GLASS from Looking Glass on Vimeo. Looking Glass, the side-project from My Sad Captains‘ Jim Wallis, have made a song from their upcoming “The First Real Target” EP available for free download on their bandcamp-page. Like his debut-album (also available from Bandcamp), this is mostly kept in an acoustic style. In my ears this is even better than the songs on his debut (which I liked a lot), – a more developed sound and … →
Tweet Remember Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, the band, not the Beach Boys song? I’m not sure how to interpret band-leader Mark Estall’s message on his site, but they seem to have disbanded, – at least temporarily. But, I’m not sure… Their entire discography can be found on his website for free download (there are some donate buttons too on his site, so please give something back if you like the music!). Mark Estall has another very interesting project … →
Tweet The Wiaiwya-label has a free download single by Hexicon on their site now. It’s a two track release, with the lovely “Narissa I Won’t” and the equally lovely “Sweet things”. Some of you may remember “Narissa..” from our own “A Good Crop” compilation last year. Get the single from here: http://www.wiaiwya.com/ …and if you haven’t already, you should consider spending some money on the band’s wonderful debut-album “The Blossom Sighs”.
Tweet Swedish artist Tomas Halberstad will release a summer-single on the 10th August. It’s a double-A side called “Summer Love AA”, featuring the songs “Watch the tears” and “Must be in love”. None of these songs will appear on Halberstad’s forthcoming second album. It’s all about love, but as always with Halberstad, there is a feeling of melancholy in both these songs. The songs show two sides of love. Where “Must be in love” describes the complex feelings of the … →
