Tweet illustration by nyoin The weekly “Loved Songs” Spotify playlist is here again, with new songs from the week we are about to leave behind us. This time, it includes new songs from Crystal Stilts, The Primitives, 2:54, MJ Hibbett, Emmy The Great, Big Fox, Elephant and lots of others. Hope you like this one, and please spread it around. We’ve got buttons above the post that makes it easy to share this on Facebook, twitter & Google+, so please … →
Tweet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart/The Depreciation Guild’s Kurt Feldman has started a new side-project, The Ice Choir, together with Raphael Radna (also from The Depreciation Guild), Patrick South and Avery Brooks. The new band has a clear 80s synth-pop sound, not too far from artists like Scritti Politti, and I must say that Feldman and Green Gartside has some vocal similarities… The pop-melodies on these songs are strong, and Kurt Feldman’s vocals are – as always – a … →
Tweet photo by seagreene It’s Friday, and another Spotify-playlist of my Loved Songs from this week is ready. All of these are from new releases, or at least releases that are new on Spotify. As usual, if you’re interested in hearing more from one artist, just click on the artist- or album-name in the playlist, and you can hear the whole album. I’m especially excited about the songs and releases from King Krule (a very young new talented guy from … →
Tweet I’ve enjoyed more electronic – or maybe semi-electronic – albums this year than I’ve done in the last 5 or maybe 10 years. When I was younger, I listened a lot to electronic music and I even played in a few synth- and electronica bands. This year, I’ve fallen in love with albums from Little Dragon, SBTRKT, Apparat, Biosphere, James Blake, Chad Valley, The Chap (although it’s a compilation of older songs), Dark Captain (which is only partly electronic), Lullatone, … →
Tweet This is the new video for The Lost Cavalry‘s single “Snow City Radio”, the title-track from their upcoming EP. The EP will be available on November 21, but if you’re one of the lucky ones that have Spotify available, the EP is already available there. Four absolutely lovely songs!
Tweet Slothbear from Long Island, NY, have a new EP out now called “Canter On”. It’s on Bandcamp both as a digital “name your price” download and as a physical digipak CD. The band play fuzzy melodic pop with great grooves and nice, jangly guitars and sometimes half-psychedelic improvisations. I had a moment where I thought it was REALLY psychedelic and chaotic, but then I realized I had TWO bandcamp players playing at the same time… The EP is highly … →
Tweet I recently checked out the music of one of my new twitterfriends. They’re called Birdwatchers, and this is the stage name of married couple Tim and Emily O’Neill from Seattle. The band have a free ep out on Bandcamp, with five lovely, harmonic indiepop-songs with jangly guitars and a kind of surf-pop feeling to it. The EP is called “Kissing Friends EP”, and it should be downloaded by every single reader of Eardrums. I enjoyed it a lot. You … →
Tweet photo by pirate_renee I’ve been away on a small holiday for a week, so I missed Friday’s regular “Loved Songs” post. Here it is, with brilliant new songs from My Sad Captains, Friends, The Lovely Eggs, The Leisure Society, The Doldrums, Vit Päls and of course a “new old” one from The Beach Boys “Smile”-album. As usual, you can find the text version of the playlist below. Please spread this one around, like/share it on Facebook, mention it on … →
