We Are Trees - Girlfriend EP & Boyfriend EP

Boyfriend

http://www.mediafire.com/?bf8hd6ze8z8ce25  

Girlfriend

http://www.mediafire.com/?0io319gzog09wyd                                                                                                     

We Are Trees is James Nee and Josiah Schlater. I seriously cannot find out very much about this band, but they have a pretty rad lo-fi pop type of sound going on. Some almost shoegazey influences perhaps?

http://wearetrees.bandcamp.com/

Bellows - As if to Say I Hate Daylight

http://www.mediafire.com/?mbaxgv37evvkeml

Bellows is Oliver Kalb, from New York state. It's a pretty awesome lo-fi pop thing like i've been posting lately. You may have noticed i go in phases. i've also noticed none of you jerks look at my past postings. You should.

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/

Fenster - Bones

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzavuib9w19lvy1

Fenster is a band composed of JJ (from NYC), Jonathan (Berlin) and Lukas. I just found this today and it is super rad. Reminds me of Dead Man's Bones, with its haunting minimalist arrangements.

Their bandcamp says "deconstructed pop music" and I'd say that is fairly accurate. This is REALLY good, i hope to see more of this band in the future.

http://fenster.bandcamp.com/album/bones

http://fensterbones.com/

The Way We Were in 1989 - The Way We Were in 1989

http://www.mediafire.com/?2eceq1m6oeiuvcm

It's been a good day for me finding new music! And these guys don't even have a last.fm yet.

The Way We Were in 1989 is a duo (Kelly and Joy) from Seattle. They've got a really cool bedroom-pop sound that evokes stuff like The Magnetic Fields and like Joy Division maybe. Except different. It's a creative sound they've got going on here and I am pleased to have found it.

http://thewaywewerein1989.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-we-were-in-1989

All Liver No Onions - Dolphin Dreamz demo

http://www.mediafire.com/?0st5v84n3qudxxr

I was sent this via email this morning. It is extremely rad so i thought i would share! I just wish it was longer!
For fans of Foot Ox, Nana Grizol, etc.

http://alllivernoonions.bandcamp.com/

Your Heart Breaks - New Ocean Waves (2005)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jqyrvy0op7aput2

Seattle indie-pop band. I've heard them referred to as 'queercore'. I do not know what that means, at least in regards to the music.

"On your MySpace page, you describe your music as "sparse homo pop love songs". What does that mean?

Clyde Peterson: The music is spacious, the words are gay, it's pretty upbeat and the words rhyme, and most of the songs are about trains, getting your whiskey drunk on, and girls. It's the best way I could think of to describe the feeling. It could also say "drunken gay adventure music". That might be another accurate description of the band."

- plan-it-x

Alls i know is that every song on this album is a well-written one. I enjoy it very much.


http://www.yourheartbreaks.com/

So Cow - So Cow (2009)

http://www.mediafire.com/?d617mg9nxbfdn0i

The whole time I was listening to this self titled album from So Cow (Brian Kelly), i was stricken by a sense of "what the hell am i listening to?". It's erratic, noise-pop that you think is more noise than pop, then more pop than noise. Like if Deerhoof, Foot Ox, and Weezer had a child. Except then you realize it doesnt sound like any of those.

The depth of this music is quite impressive, i recommend you check it out.
'Shackleton', 'Exclamation Mark', and 'To Do List' are my highlights.

http://www.myspace.com/socow

Palpitation - I'm Happy Now

http://www.mediafire.com/?ytndegqtlmz
 

Swedish pop-tronica (?) band, similar to Letting Up Despite Great Faults. They're less shoegaze-y than LUDGF (haha what a terrible acronym) but have a similar tone. Beautiful hushed vocals, music that is somehow simultaneously upbeat and kinda sad. It's music that would feel perfectly placed in an indie movie that crosses that interesting zone where intense depressive sadness and intense introspective satisfaction and contentment become the same thing. Maybe that's just me, who knows. Like when you weren't expecting it to go well, and it didn't, but it didn't turn out any worse either. And all you can do is laugh.

I've often wondered how a country as small as Sweden (<10m people) has the time to create so many fantastic musicians. The musician per capita value must be off the charts. 

I'd also like to share the album cover for their new album, because i REALLY like the cover and the new album is also very very good. Even better than this one. But the new album is only a month old and i try not to share albums too close to their release dates.

http://palpitation.se/ 

Sourpatch - Crushin (2010)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jjimm3yqifk
 

Twee-punk-pop band from San Jose. I know very little about this band because their last.fm page has no info on it it, but the music is cute and a lot of fun.
From their myspace:

Sourpatch is a four piece 90's pop-worship ensemble from San Jose, Ca---whose songs talk of (but aren't limited to) crushes painfully hopeless, awkwardly awesome and feelings of the like...

We are nice! Give us coffee and food and we'll never stop being yr friend!

If you like Go Sailor, you'll like this too!


http://www.myspace.com/sourpatchpop 

Al Bowlly - Al Bowlly

http://www.mediafire.com/?dhgwbnzttmt

Al Bowlly was a singer from the 1930's, born in Mozambique, raised in South Africa, and popular in Britain. He was killed by a parachute mine exploding outside his apartment in London during the Blitz.

Great example of that old '30s style of jazz-pop that isn't even really attempted much these days. I don't know if anyone reading this likes the style of music enough to download it but fuck you this is my intertube i will post whatever i like. And i like this. That's all the endorsement you should need. Plus, it has that fantastic old gritty vinyl record static.

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law (1966)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jjontvmzn11

Why? Because it's fucking AWESOME, that's why. You'll probably recognize a few of these songs. Whether you do or not, you should listen to this because, as i said, it is awesome.

Ignore the fact that they appear to be wearing matching double-breasted red pyjamas on the album cover. It was a different time, double-breasted pyjama gangs ruled the streets with an iron fist.

Failed Attempts at Facial Hair - Girls, Friends, and Girlfriends

http://www.mediafire.com/?nzn2emtfv2j

Failed Attempts at Facial Hair is John Crodian. Just a man and his ukulele, singing songs about girls. For 'that guy' in all of us.

Similar to A Drum And An Open Window.

http://www.last.fm/music/Failed+Attempts+at+Facial+Hair

Sonny & The Sunsets - Tomorrow is Alright

http://www.mediafire.com/?inooqzimt2z

Modern indie pop/rock evocative of jangly '60s California pop like The Beach Boys and such things.

http://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+and+the+Sunsets