2024

 

KATIE VON SCHLEICHER - Montagnard People  

BOONY DOON - Naturally

DAUGHTER - Party

BLONDSHELL - Salad

EN ATTENDANT ANA - Same Old Story

YEULE - Dazies

SWEEPING PROMISES - Petit Four

LYDIA LOVELESS - Do The Right Thing

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Continue As A Guest

MITSKY - I Don't Like My Mind

JEFF ROSENSTOCK - Doubt

HOLD STEADY - Sideways Skull

OLIVIA RODRIGO - Bad Idea Right

LOVELOY - Call Me What You Like

LAST DINNER PARTY - Nothing Matters

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5de8nk6rahd9da7/2024.zip/file

30.12.2023-PAPER WINGS Clementine (Not On Label,2019)

 

INDIE FOLK / BLUEGRASS

   The second album from Paper Wings features original songs from Wilhelmina Frankzerda and Emily Mann. The sound is old-time, interweaving the fiddle, banjo, and guitar in a percussive, yet melodic groove. The counter harmonies and vocal arrangements are intricate.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/3mjyxa

27.12.2023-GRIMES Visions (4AD,2012)

 

ELECTROPOP

     Canadian electro-high-priestess Claire Boucher did more than anyone this year to stoke the hot romance between R&B and dream pop. A one-woman Kraftwerk who performs with an arsenal of machines and a couple of booty dancers, she’s a true stylistic omnivore, and her breakthrough set uses EDM extremism, medieval chants, sugar-crusted melodies and her own sky-high voice to rethink pop music. See the irresistible Far East chipmunk chants on “Genesis,” or “Skin,” which suggests Florence Welch savoring a postcoital bong.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/yvvwc1

26.12.2023-RAZIKA Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound,2011)

 

INDIE POP

     The youthful debut from this indie-pop quartet from Norway (the band is made up of 19-year-old girls who have known each other since they were six and have been making music together since they were 14) is an exercise in writing what you know.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/xty8n9

24.12.2023-SARAH BLASKO What The Sea Wants,The Sea Will Have (Dew Process,2006)

 

ALTERNATIVE 

     The opening, lightly pierced synth lead and frozen, programmed drums of “For You” lets you know right off the bat that this isn’t just part two of her debut, The Overture & The Underscore, which stuck mostly to brilliantly underplayed, melancholic rock arrangements. Not that she’s forsaken that aesthetic or anything – the next track, “The Garden’s End,” takes things back to her ethereal pop rock roots with a deeper suggestion of baroque charm – but she’s obviously dedicated to expanding her artistic palette, as opposed to taking the easy way out and merely sticking to the winning formula, which definitely gets the nod of respect from me. Her first single, “[Explain],” is simply moving, with her Joanna-Newsom-without-the-shrill voice gliding over a plodding bassoon, elegant piano, and light strings. Lyrically, she’s mostly interested in moments of success and failure of love between mildly dysfunctional people, dripping sexual tension, and emotionally wounded expression with each syllable. Yes, even for a cold curmudgeon like me, she’s got the goods to win you over in your darkest shadow and brightest days.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fnek37

23.12.2023-SIDEWALKS & SKELETONS White Light (Not On Label,2015)

 

WITCH HOUSE

   Love it or loath it, witch house is here to stay and so is Sidewalks And Skeletons, AKA Bradford's Jake Lee who, on his latest release under the moniker continues to experiment and push the definition of the genre. 'White Light', the follow-up to last year's 'Future Ghosts', incorporates the classic trappings of witch house but pushes beyond them as well and even goes as far to infuse metal elements into some of the songs. It is an album that is set on expanding the palette of its creator and the experimental scope of the genre.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/0fsbij25abpw1ks/SSLight.zip/file

20.12.2023-AU REVOIR SIMONE Still Night,Still Light (Moshi Moshi,2009)

 

INDIE POP

     This Brooklyn trio's third LP is also its best-- feather-light electro-pop that's not to be taken lightly.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ijqj8x

18.12.2023-WILLY MOON Here's Willy Moon (Island,2013)

 

INDIE POP

     His songs take the ferocity of early rock & roll, add hip-hop-flavored beats, ladle on some feedback – and move on before wearing out their welcome. You know "Yeah Yeah" from an iPod commercial; "My Girl" has a girl-group feel; "I Wanna Be Your Man" has a Buddy Holly vibe and deft barebones production. Moon looks like a fashion victim playing dress-up, but his music has smarts, and bite.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/l8ljhk

17.12.2023-ORDINARY ELEPHANT Dusty Words & Cardboard Boxes (Not On Label,2013)

 

FOLK / AMERICANA

     Crystal’s ethereal vocals and Pete’s understated banjo belie the power of the songs about life, love, the love of life and trying to live with love.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/egs1tz8rq5677qa/OEBoxes.zip/file

16.12.2023-JULIA JACKLIN Crushing (Polyvinyl/Transgressive/Liberation,2019)

 

INDIE POP

     Crushing by name and crushing by nature, the singer-songwriter's second album is the sonic equivalent of cracking a smirk and jabbing your knee at an offending man-spreader.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6eyec3

15.12.2023-ASOBI SEKSU Citrus (Friendly Fire,2006)

 

SHOEGAZE

     Versatile frontwoman Yuki Chikudate sings in English and Japanese, soulful and delicate, at times like Kristin Hersh. The music purrs and roars through delicate lows and fiery peaks and they smash them all to pieces with their indie-rock guitars. It's outlandish, euphoric and perhaps strangest of all, quite catchy. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/drxl3j

11.12.2023-KYLA LA GRANGE Cut Your Teeth (Epic,2014)

 

INDIE POP

   “Cut Your Teeth” bounded onto the web like an eager devil-puppy with an impish glint in its eye and savage fangs gleaming. Adorned in newfangled bells and spangly whistles, it’s a lurch to the leftfield for La Grange, whose first foray – into folk-rock – fell by the wayside somewhat. Stuffed with neon bass and dayglo hooks, we see a kind of sprawling synthpop. It’s a subtle, rabble-rousing anthem, almost entirely devoid of light. It’s a shadowy beast; a dark anthem that sets the tone for the record.​

https://www.sendspace.com/file/f1l6zz

10.12.2023-STRUMBELLAS Rattlesnake (Glassnote,2019)

 

INDIE ROCK

     ""Rattlesnake" is a little jewel of rock, folk, country and pop with unstoppable melodies, precise, well written and interpreted, addictive and of an almost candid freshness."

https://www.sendspace.com/file/kg911s

09-12.2023-LALI PUNA Our Inventions (Morr,2010)

 

ELECTROPOP

     Our Inventions is ultimately an album for modern nostalgists—folks who miss the crisp electronica and springy pop that originally put Morr Music on the map.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/xxwi9t

07.12.2023-DEPTFORD GOTH Muddy Dragon On The Road To Heaven (Zero Power,2019)

 

ELECTRONIC

     Deptford Goth is the stage name of British experimental pop producer, singer and ethereal and spectral R&B artist Daniel Woolhouse from Peckham, Southeast London, UK. Woolhouse started under that name in late 2010, when he decided to fuse his songwriting roots in guitar and piano with a more electronic approach. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/8662pq

05.12.2023-OUTFIT Slowness (Memphis Industries,2015)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Outfit formed in 2011 in their native Liverpool. The stellar five-piece includes Andrew Hunt and Tom Gorton on vocals and synth, guitarist Nicholas Hunt, bassist Chris Hutchinson, and drummer/producer David Berger. Slowness is their follow-up to 2013’s Performance, an arguably more pop-centered album. Slowness’ diversion from an easier feel-good sound is a mark of the band’s willingness to experiment. Even the album title signaled that the band was taking a subtler, gloomier approach to their second release.  The album is intriguing and mysterious, which leaves a longer lasting affect on the listener.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/v7i6pdl3ag53eyl/OFSlowness.zip/file

03.12.2023-TROPICS Nocturnal Souls (Plus Fours,2018)

 

ELECTRONIC

    It’s a highly atmospheric release, nonchalant and breezy in mood, yet clearly finely tuned in execution. Chris Ward, after a string of mostly unremarkable, derivative releases, seems to have finally come into his element, tossing together elements of funk, d&b, trip-hop and downtempo with a refreshing subtlety and chilled-out confidence that make each track a soothing earworm that never really feels the need to turn into anything groundbreaking.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/mpaqnm

02.12.2023-EMA Exile In The Outer Ring (City Slang,2017)

 

FREAK FOLK

     Erika M. Anderson’s third solo album is a surreal and powerful story about political alienation. Her character-driven songs of noise, folk, and pop music thrum with rage and fear.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/r4r9ei9f1pgl6vi/EMRing.zip/file

01.12.2023-PRINCESS CENTURY Progress (Paper Bag,2015)

 

ELECTRONIC

     Those who are familiar with Maya Postepski's work in Austra and Trust won't be too surprised by the sound of these nine dark, danceable electronic tracks. That being said, Postepski strips away the pop inclinations of her other projects, leaving only the gothic disco influences.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/4v1iq4