Tu Fawning : Like Portishead. Still, as they say " If you create a melancholic album of minor key, jazz infused songs with yearning female vocals accompanied by the occasional ambient drone, off beat rhythm and soulful sentiment you're going to get compared to Portishead ". It's not a well known expression, but it seems appropriate here. Yet unlike their trip-hop predecessors, Tu Fawning rely less on electronics as they prefer to flex their musically competent muscle through a myriad of traditional instrumentation: guitars, pianos, organs, trombones and [...]
Hold Your Horse Is One of our favourite new acts from last year, Hold Your Horse Is return early in 2011 with a new single ' Forgive and Forget ', which carries on where this mathy pop rock trio left off. It's quick, heavy, and fun. You can download it for free from the bands site now. // Hold Your Horse Is Hold Your Horse [...]
Having formed just over a year ago, London 3-piece Dead Red Sun look set to up the anti in 2011 with a new single ' Facility ' and a forthcoming EP, to go along with their constant touring in and around the capital. ' Facility ' perfectly encompasses what this instrumental band are all about. Beginning with a recorded voice sample, things quickly move into instrumental territory as Mike Guppy's guitar, Ollie Bremner's bass, and Tom Murphy's drums all collide with pin point precision. [...]
RJ Thompson With a quite astonishing voice, RJ Thompson is a singer songwriter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne who looks set to have a great 2011 ahead of him. His next single ' A Better Life ' is released 27th February, you can check out the video here . // RJ Thompson RJ Thompson - Another One In Your File (Acoustic Version) by Music Liberation [...]
RJ Thompson With a quite astonishing voice, RJ Thompson is a singer songwriter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne who looks set to have a great 2011 ahead of him. His next single ' A Better Life ' is released 27th February, you can check out the video here . // RJ Thompson RJ Thompson - Another One In Your File (Acoustic Version) by Music Liberation [...]
Gaoler's Daughter sound like all your favourite indie bands combined. Is this a good thing? Gaoler's Daughter – a London based quartet – have incorporated a plentitude of differing indie styles into their sound. Each song on ' Rhyme & Treason ' has a different character; making it rather difficult to conclusively decide which indie subgenre the band belongs in. More often than not, bands that vary styles or genres from song to song claim to be ' pushing boundaries' wherein actuality they lack coherence, confidence and direction. This is [...]
Rock and roll has never been about musicianship, it's what you do with it that counts. From Chuck Berry to The White Stripes , various incarnations of the twelve bars blues have been roaring through the decades with perfection when placed in the right hands. So Glasgow's Chris Devotion and The Expectations familiar take on this even more familiar genre is a risk, but it pays off. New single ' I Need Your Touch ' is brittle rock and roll that might begin with sparse Hives [...]
Rock and roll has never been about musicianship, it's what you do with it that counts. From Chuck Berry to The White Stripes , various incarnations of the twelve bars blues have been roaring through the decades with perfection when placed in the right hands. So Glasgow's Chris Devotion and The Expectations familiar take on this even more familiar genre is a risk, but it pays off. New single ' I Need Your Touch ' is brittle rock and roll that might begin with sparse Hives [...]
It's a new year (well, it's been a couple of weeks) and you might be wondering about some of the hottest new live acts to check out in 2011. We got Callie Morris , Web Editor on ticketing website Aloud.com to tell us some of her favourite acts and hot tips for the year ahead. Cocknbullkid [...]
With quite possibly the busiest January for new music ever on Music Liberation in our 4 years of existence, we kick things off on a strong note with Brighton based duo, Surreal . Consisting of vocalist Laurence Allen and multi instrumentalist Tim Rowkins , Surreal could well be the ones to take over from Mike Skinner when he hangs up his boots later this year. Whilst Surreals music can easily be compared with other singer/beat maker [...]
2011 looks set to be another stellar year for Music Liberation , with EP, Single, and Album reviews of brand new music from across the world, as well as a sprinkling of interviews, videos and live gig reports. We are also looking to expand the writing team this year, so please get in touch if you'd like to get involved and join the team. Email us! - musicliberation@hotmail.co.uk [...]
Before we get to Music Liberation's original top tips for 2011 later on in the week, here's a latecomer in the shape of French duo Discodeine . Ahead of their debut album release through Dirty/Pschent on February 14th, comes the track ' Synchronize ' which features Britpop legend Jarvis Cocker . It's a super little disco infused indie belter which bodes well for these new Frenchies. Buy Single / Discodeine Discodeine [...]
Here are Music Liberation's (and mine) top 10 albums of 2010. Notable exceptions to the list include, Bombay Bicycyle Club , Best Coast , No Age , The Gaslight Anthem , and Lostprophets . Mine, Moker's and Clive's tips for 2011 will appear shortly. Top 10 Albums of 2010 [...]
Hello. Here we are again at the end of year round up. So let's get straight to the point and in no particular order, here are my personal top ten albums of 2010: Top 10 Albums of 2010 School of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire [...]
Below are Mr Clive Rozario's top 10 albums of 2010. Clive joined the Music Liberation team earlier this year and has written some great articles on some really interesting bands, including Stars and Sons , The Attika State , No Age , and Hold Your Horse Is . Check out all the reviews Clive has done in 2010 here and keep an eye out for his top tips for 2011 [...]
Here is Music Liberation's Christmas song for 2010, this fantastic cover from The Maccabee's of ' Walking In The Air ' from the The Snowman that they did for On Track with Seat . It's quite remarkable. Check out the video below and download the track from iTunes here .
Tom Staar , a name you may well be seeing much more of in 2011. Signed to Moda Music , last week saw the release of ' Pandemonium ', his third EP release. Having relentlessly toured in 2010, next year see's a collaboration with Herve, and tracks for the Moda compilation CD. All good stuff. Check the EP out here , & also have a listen to his latest mixtape below. [ Moda Music // [...]
Fresh-faced Mississippi trio Young Buffalo return with a straight-ahead indie-rock song off their forthcoming debut album. Considering their age (probably a collective age of about ten) and their short time together, this US band have accumulated such a huge amount of press support and such a sizable fan base that they make me feel rather old and scared. And they haven't even released an album yet. Simple and high spirited, ' Three Deep ' encompasses all the regular elements that modern indie [...]
Charlotte Eriksson is only 19 years old. Charlotte Eriksson is a singer-songwriter. Charlotte Eriksson is good looking. Charlotte Eriksson is talented, and sometime soon Charlotte Eriksson will be branded " one to watch ". Good, that's the obvious rhetoric out the way. You see I suspect fitting into such a demographic will be both a blessing and a curse for this Swedish artist; proving she's not just another contrived, female, pop-folk act will invariably be [...]
Strange Birds, Hailing from California are a drawling, near catatonic four-piece that are giving away their new self-titled EP for free, on Bandcamp . That's right. All seven tracks of it too. Of course, they have it on a name-your-price scheme but when offered something this beautiful, it would be a crime against creativity not to pay something. They've released opening track ' Summerbirds ' as a teaser and it's a mighty showcase of their talents. The song is a spacious, semi-psychedelic tune that's intimate as hell and demands [...]
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