Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Botanical Bullets : "Fantastic Romantic" [mp3] from We Bleed Fluorescent (out June 14th) search for more Botanical Bullets posts at Largehearted Boy Frederick Squire : "All Things Past Serve To Guide [...]

While listening to this new EP by Noisycrane I was having a hard time trying to label the type of music on it. It all sounds very folky, features trumpets, accordions and violins but also distorted guitar and they rock pretty hard. On this new EP Noisycrane have taken to a rougher sound. The EP opens with 'Summer Came Along' which features trumpets that sound like distorted guitars. 'A Girl With Flowers in Hear Chest' sounds like a Neutral Milk Hotel song. It is a group of songs that shows how much the band has matured since the earlier material, [...]

Earlier this year I blogged about Kentucky band Noisycrane, they intrigued me with their lo-fi folk sound. Current bands with a similar sound include Beirut. But they differ in that the Balkan sound isn't trying to be replicated. The record features dreary blues sounding music as in the sound of 'Blood Bleed Red' with guitars that seem to build-up to an inevitable climax. Another way to explain the sound would be comparable to Neutral Milk Hotel. The songs let you feel what is behind them. In 'E to A' you can feel the sadness in the slow burning track. [...]
Sometimes bands are so full of their influences work that you can help but compare and contrast the bands. The good thing about these occurrences is that when they happen and you like the bands they are influenced by, it is infinitely easier to fall in love with said band. One such band is Lexington, Kentucky's Noisy Crane. They have been compared with The Microphones, Neutral Milk Hotel, and
Noisycrane will be having their CD release show/party tonight at the Icehouse (412 Cross St) at 8pm. Bedtime and Tina Cofer are opening. MP3: Noisycrane - Your Shape Noisycrane are completely wonderful. Cody Swanson, one of Lexington's rising stars, somehow combines together Jeff Mangum, Phil Elvrum, Colin Meloy ... and early ...