The first somewhat major release week of 2012 finds a few major finds including the latest from U.K.'s Maccabees -- an exceptionally bold step forward with Given to the Wild -- and Ireland's longrunning commercial pop/art purveyors Snow Patrol . We've also got the ambitious new album from South Africa's Cherylin MacNeil (aka Dear Reader ), classic country covers from the Norah Jones-led NY quartet The Little Willies and the lush retro pop sounds of Canadian songwriter and singer Christine Leakey . Check 'em all out below with links to listen [...]
Two ladies of Oregonian and South African descents respectively, two acoustic guitars, one Berlin-based label , and one day upon which two toe-warming records are outed. Hardly The Twelve Days of Christmas, although that aforementioned day has finally dawned as the latest efforts from Laura Gibson and Dear Reader have eventually emerged like newborns wriggling free from cocoon-like blanket, bathed in daylight for the very first time. Indeed both La Grande and Idealistic Animals add some vivacious flicker to the slow-roasting embers of the New Year as Gibson and Cheri MacNeil masterfully [...]
Forget bittersweet reflections on relationships gone bad. For Dear Reader , AKA Cherylin MacNeil, this break-up is on a much grander scale: the fundamental issues of faith, purpose, randomness and destiny all figure into the dissolution of her new, discomforting life view -- big themes that make for the inventive and captivating album of indie alt-pop with Idealistic Animals . Originally a collaborative effort based in Johannesburg, MacNeil relocated her Dear Reader to Berlin, taking her struggle with a belief system gone awry and creating songs that expressed her new found independence: physical, emotional, [...]
There are break-up records, and then there are break-up records. Idealistic Animals is a break-up record, but it's not the kind that finds 28 year old Cheri MacNeil, the woman behind the artful, charming Dear Reader, weeping into her chamomile tea about a cold-hearted cheat who left her high and dry. Instead it's a break-up record with faith, an album that examines the consequences of realising that the very foundation on which one has built one's life is worse than flimsy. Read more »
MAP, eller Music Alliance Pact, er et samarbeid mellom 35 blogger fra hvert sitt land rundt omkring i verden. Det fungerer sånn at alle representantene hver måned velger ut et band og en låt fra sitt eget land, og alt sammen samles opp og postes hos alle. Vi har vært fraværende i to måneder, men nå er vi tilbake og vårt bidrag denne måneden er Mikhael Paskalev med låta "I Spy". Klikk her for å laste ned alle 36 sangene i en fil [...]
Aquí llega una nueva versión del Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop , que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países, y de la cual Super45 forma parte desde hace más de 2 años. Nuestra escogida de este mes es Fakuta, cantautora responsable de Al vuelo , una de las gratas novedades del pop local este año. CHILE : Super 45 Fakuta - [...]
РОССИЯ : Big Echo Synecdoche Montauk - Infinitely Many Primes В этом месяце международный сборник Music Alliance Pact вышел совсем разносторонним – шугейз, фолк, поп-музыка, танцевальная электроника и метал. Особенно выделю композиции Juan Cirerol, Pearl and the Puppets, Your Hand in Mine, Mikhael Paskalev и, конечно, русскую команду Synecdoche Montauk, чьё «Бесконечное Множество Простых Чисел» - лучшая русская композиция, которая попала ко мне в руки в прошлом месяце. Ребята работают [...]
I've been trying to get a Pearl And The Puppets song on MAP since January, but the politics involved in obtaining permission to share a track by an artist signed to a major label meant my request went unresolved for most of the year. While getting dropped by Universal Republic/Island Records this summer was obviously a bummer for Katie Sutherland, the good news is that it has allowed me to let you hear and exclusively download this recording of Little Diamonds, which she self-financed. [...]
Tidak berasa sudah lewat dua tahun Deathrockstar mengirimkan rekomendasi lagu-lagu dari Indonesia untuk dinikmati pencinta musik mancanegara. Kali ini kita mau memperkenalkan Jirapah kepada publik internasional di 35 negara, sekaligus memperkenalkan pada kalian lagu-lagu dari 35 negara. Selamat berkeliling dunia menggunakan mp3. To download all 35 songs in one file click here ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Hernán Martínez y Las Estrellas - Revolución En Verano [...]
Este mês temos uma banda repetente, no Music Alliance Pact, a representar o nosso país. O sexteto lisboeta Iconoclasts já tinham passado por aqui em 2009 , mas como não queriamos deixar passar despercebidamente o lançamento do seu primeiro álbum, "Mt Erikson", que estará disponível fisicamente no dia 19 deste mês, temos a honra de vos apresentar aqui a possibilidade de descarregarem gratuitamente o energético "Stranger in A Strange Land". Esta música já tem um vídeo, realizado por Nuno Neves, que poderão ver já abaixo. Para fazer o [...]
Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks a large number of music bloggers across the world to pick a track to represent their country. The results are posted on all of those blogs on the 15th of each month, downloadable in one file or playable one by one on each blog. Ireland's song this month is 'Giraffe Centre' represented by Alarmist (above in their hipster guises). To download all 35 songs in one file click here [...]
Direct Current
Dots & Dashes
Totally Fuzzy
Birds sometimes dance
Super 45
GLUE
...SoTB
Big Echo
»78s
SwedesPlease
The Pop Cop
Musical Mover & Shaker!
deathrockstar
POSSO OUVIR UM DISCO?
nialler9
Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
Einstein Music Journal
Babylon Noise
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
Diplo x Usher: ‘Climax’
Diplo - "Climax" (MP3 Stream)
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