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Photo by Morgana We're back on Fridays again, after a delayed "Loved Songs #243. Since we used lots of goodies from this week on that one, the 25th edition will be a bit shorter than usual. Several really good ones in here too. I'm especially happy with the new album from Liechtenstein, the single from SoKo and the debut-album from Beth Jeans Houghton. Here it is, and please subscribe or share it around if you like it. It makes it worth [...]

Nottingham's Red Shoe Diaries is one of the bands that make me really excited these days. It's definitely indiepop, but I think this band takes the genre a bit further. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is, but their music sounds "new" in some way. It's sophisticated, with lovely, almost clean vocals, and great melodies. The band has two brilliant vocalists, and their twangy guitar reminds me of old Italian western-films. Don't worry, this is not anything like the western soundtracks... This is POP, Pure POP! The [...]

Hearts & Heartaches from eardrumspop on 8tracks . 8Tracks is a website where you can make streamable mixes by uploading music and coverart. My first mix is dedicated to love and lost love, and you can either listen to it above, or go to the mix on 8Tracks here: http://8tracks.com/eardrumspop /hearts-heartaches Please share the link, FB-like or tweet about it if you like it. You can use the buttons above, if you want to make this as easy as possible. Thanks!

Hearts & Heartaches from eardrumspop on 8tracks . 8Tracks is a website where you can make streamable mixes by uploading music and coverart. My first mix is dedicated to love and lost love, and you can either listen to it above, or go to the mix on 8Tracks here: http://8tracks.com/eardrumspop /hearts-heartaches Please share the link, FB-like or tweet about it if you like it. You can use the buttons above, if you want to make this as easy as possible. Thanks!

As some of you may know, I am a huge fan of the German label Morr Music . I trust them so much that I KNOW that I will love their upcoming releases. I knew, just by reading Morr's description of their new signing FENSTER , that this was something I should look forward to. Quote: "FENSTER makes de-constructed pop music. Their lyrics are often carefully constructed dream narratives, finding inspiration in the world of ghosts, graveyards. trains, religious imagery, and broken machinery. In [...]

Finland's Burning Hearts released one of my favourite albums a few years ago on one of my favourite labels, Shelflife . "Aboa Sleeping" was filled with gorgeous indiepop-songs, filtered through a thin layer of melancholy, - the same kind of melancholy you can find in some of the songs from Broadcast or Stereolab. That kind of duality between happy and melancholic is probably why I have always found Burning Hearts's sound more interesting and durable than all those super-happy and sugary indiepop-bands. I love many of those bands too, but I [...]

Maribel will release their second LP "Reveries" in Japan tomorrow, Germany on Friday and Norway, UK and the EU on Monday February 13th. This is their new video, "You Bring the Sadness", featuring Emil Nikolaisen from Serena Maneesh. Lovely

A bit later than usual, but here is the weekly "Loved Songs" Spotify list, with new songs in genres like indiepop, indie, folk and electronica from the past weeks. I have also included a couple of old favourites that were added to Spotify recently as re-releases. If you like this list, please subscribe to it or share it around on Facebook or twitter to show that these are also your loved songs. Here is this week's list: Loved Songs #24 [...]

photo by Eva Blue It's Friday, and Friday is playlist-day here on Eardrums Music. I have selected my favourite tracks from last week's releases on Spotify, and I hope you will do your part of the job, by sharing this playlist on as many networks as you can, and to your personal friends, of course! Here is this week's playlist: Loved Songs #23 (The playlist is also in text-format below) [...]

Liechtenstein is one of my favourite bands, and it makes me so so so happy to hear that their new album, "fast forward" is out these days on Fraction Discs ! I haven't heard the full 11-track album yet, but according to the label, this album "is a pop gem filled with catchy post punk, jangly guitars, trumpets, piano and vocal harmonies, all arranged and produced with a sensitive touch. The production is crispier than before, emphasizing the vocals and putting focus on the lyrics." Sounds good! Here are two videos and an [...]

• Liechtenstein - Ambitions

Shelflife Records has a really interesting release out now, from The Holiday Crowd Their new album "Over The Bluffs" is a co-release between Shelflife and New Romantic, and you can order it in various physical and digital formats on shelflife.com . You can also download a free mp3 of the song "Never speak of it again" for a limited time via Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/newroman tic/the-holiday-crowd-never

Saboteur - Laura K from laura kovic on Vimeo . A few months ago, we released a free digital single on our netlabel EardrumsPop with Laura K , and I am sure many of you have already downloaded it. The single has become one of our most popular releases. I was very excited myself, when the tracks arrived in my inbox, but the single has really grown since I listened to it the first time. As you understand, I am a fan! The video above is a [...]

Town Hall is an indie/folk trio from New York City, who have just released their debut-EP " Sticky Notes and Paper Scraps ". I fell in love with their sound instantly, after hearing Phoebe Ryan's wonderful vocals on the stunning opening track "Just Watching My Breath". The vocal duties are split between her and Stefan Weiner, also on this song, where their vocals swirl around each other. The third member is Jesse Kranzler, whose banjo adds a warmth and a down-to-earth feeling to their songs. In addition, they have been helped by a small orchestra of violins, flutes, cellos [...]

• Town Hall - Just Watching My Breath

by katerha A slow start of the year, but here I am, and I'm back with another "Loved Songs" playlist, the 22nd. I am especially excited about Diagrams, which is the new project from former Tunng-frontman Sam Genders, the new single from Frankie Rose is lovely, and I am completely in love with the new EP from Piney Gir. The playlist also features new goodies from bands like Trailer trash Tracys, Murder Mystery, The Notwist, Vit Päls, Burning Hearts, the Shins and many, many more... I'm a bit disappointed in the [...]

image by noii's Just a very short post this time: Here is the last "Loved Songs" Spotify-playlist of 2011: Loved Songs # 21 - 33 tracks. I hope you enjoy it, and please spread it around by clicking on the social network-buttons on top of this post, or by just telling your friends about it. Thanks! If you want to listen to ALL the loved songs from 2011 in one HUGE playlist, [...]

Well, I always promise myself that I won't do a best of this year, but I end up doing something that looks quite like a best of-list. I listen to A LOT of music in a lot of different genres, and I always find it difficult to range albums from 1-10 or even 1-100, so here are the albums I have enjoyed the most in 2011. Why should there be only one winner, when there are so many great albums and bands out there? There are also lots of other bands that I would love to add here, but [...]

Well. so we're close to Christmas, and every year, the same thing happens. The stress drains my energy-levels, and I go straight down. Those of you who have followed the blog, know about my health problems. It's been good for a while, but now it's not that good... I have just moved to a new apartment, which is stressful, the Christmas-stress is here, and stress is really bad for me. To those of you who have sent me emails or promos recently, - I am sorry, but I have probably not even opened them. I have downloaded [...]

photo by pirate_renee Last Friday, I was in the middle of moving to a new house, and even if I had made the weekly "Loved Songs"-playlist, I wasn't able to post it here. So, here is a 2 hour long "Loved Songs" playlist with loved songs from this week and last week. Since I'm still moving, it's not my priority to make a text-version of the list this time, - sorry. The playlist includes goodies from the new indiepop-Christmas-supergrou p Sunturns (with members from My Little Pony, Monzano, [...]

Still Corners has made a new video for their song "Into The Trees", taken from their album "Creatures from an hour".

illustration by nyoin The weekly "Loved Songs" Spotify playlist is here again, with new songs from the week we are about to leave behind us. This time, it includes new songs from Crystal Stilts, The Primitives, 2:54, MJ Hibbett, Emmy The Great, Big Fox, Elephant and lots of others. Hope you like this one, and please spread it around. We've got buttons above the post that makes it easy to share this on Facebook, twitter & Google+, so please use them. [...]