To celebrate our downloads working again we thought we would re-post our best of the month mix from October – more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and six new ones too. This time you can download and dive in.
Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″)
Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop.
Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End)
The dark side of raw garage punk with touches of organ, violin and xylophone.
Download Bare Bones – Hope & Feather mp3 (from Bare Bones EP)
Gallops along on the back of perfectly judged fiddle and drums and calls to mind The Builders & The Butchers andElliott Brood.
Download Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Ropes mp3 (from Almanac)
Weaves folk-inflected melody and beautiful lyrics to perfect effect.
Download Forbidden Friends – Totally Low mp3 (from Totally Low 7″)
Bouncy guitar jangle to the fore on this sub two minute indie-pop gem.
Download Savaging Spires – Apostrophe Lake mp3 (from Savaging Spires)
Twinkling, sunlit folk and hazy melancholia.
Download Coke Weed – Not My Old Man mp3 (from Volume 1)
Velvets style chug, woozy, stoned vocals and raw production.
Download Last American Buffalo – I Know mp3 (from Last American Buffalo EP)
Mining a similar rich vein of dusty Americana as MM faves The Felice Brothers and the Roadside Graves with the slightly ragged and plaintive I Know – a gem.
Download The Owsley Brothers – Pure Lust mp3 (from Pure Lust)
Visceral blues with its bone shaking, primeval riff and reverb heavy vocals.
Download Brown Bird – End Of Days mp3 (from Salt For Salt)
Brilliantly sparse and hypnotic folk.
Download Darren Hayman – The Ship’s Piano mp3 (from The Ship’s Piano)
Subtle, drifting piano ballad like a modern day Ray Davies, it is filled with wry observation and no little pathos.
Download Timber Timbre – Do I Have Power mp3 (from Creep On Creepin On)
Folk with an eerie, dark hearted fairytale quality.
Download The Sunparlour Players – Green Thumb mp3 (from Us Little Devils)
Stomping bluegrass, anthemic country rock and impassioned lyrics from new album taster.
Download Batwings Catwings – Radio mp3 (from Radio 7″)
Cracking garage inflected indie rock.
Download Heavy Times – Skull Hair mp3 (from Jacker)
Propulsive percussion, sonic rumble and heavy reverb.
Download Son Cats – O’Dell mp3 (from O’Dell / 1971 single)
Prime slab of 60s tinged, sleazy rock’n’roll voodoo designed to make the sweat run down the walls and the neighbours bang on the floor in despair.
Download Only The Sea Slugs – She Said mp3 (from Street Music)
Irresistible dark, hypnotic indie rock.
Download Gang Violets – Black Clouds mp3 (from Black Clouds 7″)
Black Clouds rises up like a campfire despite moody lyrics, with its hook laden cadences, elated group vocals, whispery calls, gospel swagger, and swooning closure.
Download Tyler Ramsey – The Valley Wind mp3 (from The Valley Wind)
Lovely, evocative slice of countrified rock that recalls vintage Neil Young with its rustic imagery and sense of solitude and mystery.
Download Rocket From The Tombs – I Sell Soul mp3 (from Barfly)
Unreconstructed, unapologetic, re-affirmation of the power and glory of guitar rock.
Download Mat Gibson – Yonder Burning Trees mp3 (from Forest Fire)
Gorgeous folk from Canadian troubadour.
And to finish off, we have a new tracks from the wonderful Thee Oh Sees in the shape of The Dream, which is possibly the standout track from their forthcoming new album, some Chills style power pop from The Sea Lions and a real treat in MM fave Marissa Nadler and three covers from her forthcoming Covers II album taking on Springsteen, Clinic and Dylan. Finally we have one more cover in the shape of the Miracles of Modern Science and their rather fetching take on Pumped Up Kicks.
Download – Thee Oh Sees – The Dream mp3 (from Carrion Crawler/The Dream)
Download – The Sea Lions – Grown Up mp3 (from Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask)
Download – Marissa Nadler – The River mp3 (from Covers Volume II)
Download – Marissa Nadler – Distortions mp3 (from Covers Volume II)
Download – Marissa Nadler – Farewell Angelina mp3 (from Covers Volume II)
Download – The Miracles Of Modern Science – Pumped Up Kicks mp3 (Foster The People Cover)
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