Artist: Major Napier

The yesterday Zen Tapes turned me onto Melbourne's Major Napier aka Johnny Ross. He's got a free EP, Major Soldier, up on bandcamp, and its comprised of some shadowy trail worn beats... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]

• Major Napier - Crowning Observation
• Major Napier - Laugh Laugh/Make A Heart With Your Hands

Major Napier - Major Soldier EP I first introduced Australian artist Major Napier to you last November; a time when I was particularly enamoured with his cover of Sharon Van Etten's Lovemore . Almost immediately after I wrote, he released a free download EP of bedroom-recorded songs entitled 'Major Soldier', which I was reminded of via an enthused post on Zen Tapes today. The slow, booming drum-sound prevalent throughout "Crowning Observation" (below) is idiosyncratic of the whole release, Johnny Ross careful to keep the beat sufficiently organic-sounding [...]

Major Napier - Love More (Sharon Van Etten Cover) I've been investigating some of the back-catalogue of the New Weird Australia compilation I posted about earlier this week. Among the most recent new releases is Major Napier 's cover of Sharon Van Etten's Love More , which was released via band camp at the beginning of November. Its a huge song to take on, which MN does so with an extra-thick coat of delay and reverb on his voice, and similarly on a resonant acoustic which never tires of its downward procession of mechanical [...]

• Major Napier - LOVEMORE(sharon van etten cover)