Browse archive 2010

I Need Sleep / Bald Eagle Refugees
Welcome to Monsters + Old

# trash pop

Genre: Trash Pop I've listened to a random 8Tracks mix tape yesterday and one track catched my attention, it was I need Sleep. Short googeling brought some information, like they released an EP and they are a great live band. (read more here). It …

[Shortmovie] The Heart Of The World by Guy Maddin + Music by Georgy Sviridov

# classical

This is my favorite short movie ever! It's perfect in images and music. I am not so much into classical music - there just a few composers I like - in first row Arvo Pärt, and I enjoy Sviridovs music too. Especially the one from the short movie abo …

Coma Cinema
2009 - Baby Prayer

# indie pop, homerecording

Genre: Home Recording Indie Pop Label: Free It's hard to describe - I found nothing to compare, even if I know this sound. Okay's "Huggable Dust" came in mind, but ... anyway - this is a collection of songs from 2005-2009. Nice and short Pop pearls …

Chauchat
2009 - Songs for Scaffolding

# noise pop, indie pop, shoegaze

Genre: Indie Rock, Noise Pop Label: free If you like Sonic Youth and Codeine... When I first discovered Chauchat 2 years ago, it was a great pleasure to listen to them, I enjoyed their sometimes sad and vigorous songs. Today I found a new record fr …

Feu Follet & Miina Virtanen
2007 - The Icicle Lectures - Vol. 1

# ambient

Genre: Ambient, Piano Label: ExOvo (GER) Wonderful quiet music, by this finnish and german composer. Miina Virtanen's piece is pure piano work with a few flute tones. And Feu Follet slightly rework this and give it a great ambient touch. Try - MySp …

Kranioclast
Can I Talk Or S..., 7" ; Cranioclast - Rats Can Coil Cats Can Roil (1990) 12" EP

1997 # ambient, psychedelic, obscure

Genre: Psychedelic, Ambient Label: Sonaria (PL) / CoC (GER) Very dark and trippy soundscapes, with insect sounds, cats and dogs and oriental melodies. Both are one of the best records by this obscure german ambient project. Rats can Roil …

Mixtape #14
Psych Folk

# mixtape, psychedelic, psych folk

Genre: Psych Folk New Mixtape with lot of weird, magic psych folk stuff.Looped guitars, out of tune space rituals and hissing drone magic. Thanks to Magdalena Solis for providing an pre-listening track from their new album'Lady Of The Wild Things' E …

Silent Paper Radios
2010 - The Willow Tree EP

# folk

Genre: Folk Label: freeeee If you like Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and all the other bearded hippies, this is for you We reviewed the first two free records/demos of Silent Paper Radios last year and I think he gained some more attention - not because …

Jordaan Mason
2004 - One Day the Horses Will Have Their Revenge

# acoustic, indie pop, freak folk

Genre: Freak Folk Label: Oh! Map Records This is an older and not anymore available release by Jordaan Mason. It's similar to my previous post. Again a hand full of songs and some gems inside. 100% acoustic guitar, homerecording singalongs. I like i …