It's Friday, Mrs M's musings are still to come, and a Halloween playlist for the weekend too, but for now, here is a quick playlist/round-up of those songs we've gathered up recently, but not had/found enough time to post about properly... First up Leopold & His Fiction , we've seen this track described as the Doors meet Wolfmother ... Download Leopold & His Fiction - Golden Friends mp3 (from Golden Friends EP) Big Deal are a new band, this duo are already being heralded by [...]
Here's my weekly clearing of the decks. This week I meant to get to: The Goodnight Loving This Milwaukee band have released their new album The Goodnight Loving Supper Club. Their fun-loving jangle pop is definitely something you'll want to spend you're waning summer hours with. Check out the 'Mats-meet-Monkees "Doesn't Shake Me". The Goodnight Loving's Myspace Secret Message Machine,
Secret Message Machine is the creative haven of Michael Barrett, a self-confessed mono-tone addict. A fabulous deep and plodding vocal range, Michael`s visionary talent is more multi-dimensional than it`s Lo-Fi persona which plays down any major theatrical aspirations or needless over production - Orphanville is the third self-released album under the Secret Message Machine`s retro banner. A musical demonstration in versatility, the perfect mix of modern software and classic real time, you could easily pull out a dozen contemporary influences, the Belle And Sebastian tag sticks like a Velcro hat, Beck`s experimental noise-pop certainly enters the masonic fray and Julian [...]
Nowadays, it seems as though anyone can play music with little effort required beyond a computer and a few outdated machines and noises. But some people are actually quite creative and particular about the process, people like Secret Message Machine , who is' extraordinarily prolific, and proficient with just about any instrument. He built his own electric guitar and recorded all the instruments on his album: drums, guitar, synth, air organ, piano, fiddle, horns, etc. and physically manipulated waveforms. He describes his music lyrically, as an existential battle- growing up in the Bible Belt, then having the transformative experience [...]
mp3: secret message machine - dead man i i hardly know anything about secret message machine -- the music for the most part is the work of one guy, michael barrett of greensboro, nc... it appears he's put out four records under the moniker and plays in several other bands as part of the subjective collective -- but secret message machine knows something about me. he knows that a song under two minutes is my favorite kind, that lyrics that ruminate on life/death -- when done well -- are near [...]
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