Here (better late than never) are our favourite download picks from our August posts, together with a few new tunes. Altogether a genre-busting mix of nearly 20 great songs. Dive in!
Spook Houses – Living The Dream
Tempo-shifting, slacker pop.
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The Great American Canyon Band – Lost At Sea
Gorgeous, rural folk-pop.
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Vikesh Kapoor – I Dreamt Blues
A narrative about endless work and the apathy that can accompany it that has echoes of Dylan’s harmonica and the vocals of a disillusioned Donovan.
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WIDOWER – Oh Catherine, My Catherine
Borne from heartbreak, pure and simple.
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The Oyster Murders – Disaster Flowers Bloom
Typically disquieting and moody with brooding synths and eerie vocals.
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The Obits – Spun Out
Fabulous, scratchy, garage-surf-punk.
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Suntrapp – All The Seas
Softly picked acoustic guitar intro turns into the giddy rush of a warm buoyant rhythm section and exuberant percussion through to a celebratory conclusion.
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The Fire Tapes – Scarlet Cliffs
Nine minute reverb ridden epic of rolling distortion.
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Jeffertitti’s Nile – Mountain Jam
Ambient drones and narcotic gospel blues are as engaging as they are otherworldly, with each amplified whisper and riff hanging in the ether like freshly toked peyote smoke.
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Blessed Feathers – Ahbinreedis
Beautiful, understated, rural folk.
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Left Lane Cruiser – Juice To Get Loose
Swampy, distorted blues and junkyard punk that is raw, visceral and undeniably thrilling.
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Download Bad Sports – Let Me In mp3
Mix of Texan garage and New York heyday punk.
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Download Collisionville – The Ballad Of Herman P. Willis mp3
Bottleneck slide and pedal steel gives way to dirty, amplified harmonica and fuzzed out bass.
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Four cracking new downloads too, from the slacker infused garage punk of Mean Creek’s Cool Town and the furious guitar riffage of the Mourning Birds’ The Last Thing (I Need) to the classic 80’s influenced indie-pop of The Big Sun and their irresistible track Nightbus Topdeck and lastly, Emmett Drueding & the Cowboy Killa’s Iron Fist, a twangy excursion into soulful blues.
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