Niagara is the first single from the Canadian band Ohbijou‘s upcoming album “Metal Meets”, due for release in late September. I have loved their previous releases, and this single goes straight to my heart. Those vocals…aahhhh!
You can download the track for free via Soundcloud.
Ohbijou: “Niagara” by wearesolidgold
Listen to this! Horse Shoes have made an amazing remix of Champagne Riot’s wonderful song “A friend of a friend”.
Champagne Riot – A Friend Of A Friend ( Horse Shoes Remix ) by horseshoesmusic
…and the original:
A Friend Of A Friend by CHAMPAGNE RIOT
Hong Kong in The 60s will be releasing their album on Proper Songs early next year, but while we wait for it, we can enjoy the new free EP, “Places”, which was released today. It’s a real goodie, with 8 mostly instrumental songs, – one of them a remix of their song “Disintegration” by The Advisory Circle. HK60s and The Advisory Circle released a brilliant single together earlier this year on Ghost Box, and if you haven’t got it yet, it’s well worth getting.
You can download the new EP from Bandcamp:
The Soft Moon will release their self-titled debut-album on Captured Tracks November 16. Here’s a taster:
The Best Friends with Wolves Club are according to themselves an “art-rock acoustic, pop, powerballad band that practically doesn’t exist”. Their new EP will officially be released on October 19th, but it is already available for free download on Bandcamp. The EP features two original songs and a Hawksley Workman cover. The opening track really got me hooked, – really sweet and melodic. The other original song is also really good, with nice crowd-singing on the chorus. No reason not to include this in your collection!
The EP is released on Hi54lofi records.
We’re extremely proud to present the first free digital single on our netlabel EardrumsPop: Tiny Fireflies.
This is Lisle and Kristine from Very Truly Yours‘ new side-project (- or Kristine from Tiny Microphone and Lisle from Fireflies). The single includes three lovely, dreamy indiepop songs (one of them a cover of Skeeter Davis’ 60s hit “The End Of The World”, inspired by Claudine Longet’s version of it). As usual, the cover art is outstanding, – this time made by the UK illustrator Minkee. The booklet is also a treat for the eyes, made by German illustrator Julia Pax.
You can download and stream the single from here (incl. cover art and booklet):
http://www.eardrumspop.com/2010/10/10/epop005-tiny-fireflies/
Read the interview with Minkee here:
http://www.eardrumspop.com/about-2/our-illustrators/minkee/
…and check out the booklet here:
http://www.eardrumspop.com/about-2/our-illustrators/minkee/
We have a collaboration with the photo-interview website A Negative Narrative, where they interview our single-artists. Here is their interview with Tiny Fireflies, – questions asked in words, answers made with photographs.
We hope you like it, and would love to hear your reactions!
Burning Hearts have made a lovely cover of Arthur Russell’s “The Letter” available for streaming via Soundcloud. The band is currently working on their second album.
Have a listen here:
Here is a link to Russell’s original on Spotify.
Burning Hearts singer Jessika Rapo and drummer Ville Hopponen are also in another band, Le Futur Pompiste, who will release their self-titled second album in November on Shelflife. The cd is available for preorder now on the label’s website, and if you buy the mp3s, you will get them instantly. I just did!
Here’s a free track from Le Futur Pompiste’s new album:
Le Futur Pompiste – Five Hundred Heartbeats (via Shelflife)
One of my favourite bands from Norway, Casa Murilo, is just finished recording their debut album with Monzano/The Little Hands Of Asphalt’s Sjur Lyseid as the producer. The album will be released on Spoon Train Audio in January, and I am really looking forward to it. The first single from the album, “Breaking Ranks”, was made available for free today, and it’s even better than I expected (and I expected a lot!). Have a listen:
Casa Murilo – Breaking Ranks (radio edit) (the link takes you to CM’s urört pages)
http://www.vimeo.com/15261294
Hello Seahorse! from Mexico are back with a new album and a new video, and they sound quite different from what I can remember from their previous releases. Remember the extremely catchy “Won’t say anything” that we featured on our own “A Good Crop” compilation some years ago? I’ve loved their earlier releases, but kind of lost track of them and did not realize that they had released an album called “Bestia” in 2009 and now they have a new release ready, the album “Lejos. No Tan Lejos”. I really like this new single, which is the second single from the new album. Need to dive back in with the seahorses now, it seems!
You can listen to more songs from the new album on their soundcloud page.
Here is a live version of the same song:
Plastic Flowers have released a free single on BEKO DSL today. It’s really good, and one of my favourite BEKO singles so far. You can download the single from BEKO’s website, and if you want to know more about this artist, you can read a blog-post I wrote about him some weeks ago.
Enjoy!
