Blog: Proper Songs

Lovely new track by CFCF , taken from forthcoming 'Exercises' EP. Tracklisting: Exercise #1 (Entry) Exercise #2 (School) Exercise #3 (Building) Exercise #4 (Spirit) Exercise #5 (September) Exercise #6 (December) Exercise #7 (Loss) Exercise #8 (Change) 'Exercises' EP is out in April on Paper Bag Records .

All night long. DJ Ben Smith (Proper Songs // Echo Empire) Friday 09.03 + 13.04 + 11.05.12 The CAMP // 70-74 City Road // EC1Y 2BJ 21:00-02:00 // No door tax thecamplondon.com

Shhh is an all day festival of quiet music, art and film this Saturday in Bethnal Green. Proper Songs' Dog Ears is performing alongside Tiny Ruins, Tom Rogerson of Three Trapped Tigers, Mirel Wagner, Tarantula Waltz, Felix, The Singing Adams, Anna Meredith, Rob St John, Leah Kardos, Hyperpotamus, Fierce And The Dead, Alex Haynes, Stranded Horse and Our Feathered Embers. Alongside hand screenprinted posters for this and previous Shhh events, Gallery Cafe will also play host to a series of artworks which engage with the idea of quietness. These will include [...]

Sleepraving. Never stop. 1. Olafur Arnalds - Fyrsta 2. Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland - Sleeping Land (pt I) 3. Oliveray - Piano In The Pond! 4. Julia Holter - Tragedy Finale 5. Will Samson - Sleeping 6. Leyland Kirby - Tonight Is The Last Night Of The World 7. Solar Witcher - Sleepover 8. Seahawks - Invisible Sunrise 9. Susan Ciani - Princess With Orange Feet 10. Deepchord Presents Echospace - Sunset 11. Burial - Stolen Dog 12. LV & [...]

Tastemaker blog Sonic Router have started a record label, announcing a six track cassette of crackly atmospheric beats by 18 year old Joeri Woudstra aka Torus . Its pretty awesome. More at sonicrouter.com .

Mat Pringle is having a sale! I just bought the last copy of The Absurd Balloon but there are plenty more treats to purchase. Head over to his shop .

Mat Pringle is having a sale! I just bought the last copy of The Absurd Balloon but there are plenty more treats to purchase. Head over to his shop .

Do you wish it was sunny? I wish it was sunny. We would listen to this. Ghost Vibrations by Foreign Orange

Do you wish it was sunny? I wish it was sunny. We would listen to this. Ghost Vibrations by Foreign Orange

Hong Kong In The 60s join Monocle and Design A Wave at new live venue Power Lunches in Dalston. Outer Sunset by Monocle More details on facebook.com .

Hong Kong In The 60s join Monocle and Design A Wave at new live venue Power Lunches in Dalston. Outer Sunset by Monocle More details on facebook.com .

San Diego sunshine permeates through the expertly constructed beats of Room E . New album 'Penguin Child', recorded mainly around the middle part of 2011, adds a variety of instruments including xylophone, pump organ, melodica, accordion and electric bass to dusty samples. It also features live drums by Mike Hams (A Scribe Amidst the Lions, V Drago) on several tracks. Grab a free download via Bandcamp and check the new album 'Penguin Child'.

Gain redemption through repetition via Yago .

London duo Labyrinth Ear release an EP 'Apparitions' on 7th February. Along with three more tracks of ethereal lo-fi discosis, the EP includes this track 'Humble Bones'.

I'm a sucker for glockenspiels.

Cascine deliver a free download of Southern Shores reworking of 'Forest of Lovers' by Wintercoats

Our favourite San Diego lifeguards Inspired And The Sleep return with a new song 'Running', complete with a video made up of clips of female lifeguards and beaches in the 1940s. Download for free via Bandcamp .

From Moscow, Solar Witcher makes "emotional electronic music". His beautiful six track EP 'Shades Of Orange' includes these tracks 'Touching Water' and 'Sleepover' which you can enjoy with added videos . Download 'Shades Of Orange' for free via Bandcamp .

This video was originally made for Hong Kong in the 60s ' live set at The Outer Church , Brighton, 2010 by Jade Boyd . As a special festive surprise, here's a new video by the brilliant Jade Boyd for our song "Tracker Vale" (taken from our 2010 free download EP Places). We first hooked up with Jade via Brighton's The Outer Church, when she made some amazing visuals to accompany our gig there last year. In between working at the Unsound festival, the Southbank's Sound Of Fear event [...]

Will Samson has posted a new track from his next album, which will also appear on a New Years compilation compiled by the Groninger Museum. 2011 has been a wonderful year, and with only 8 days left until it ends, I recorded this song. This beautiful painting immediatley made me think of freedom, peace and happiness - so I tried my very best to capture these emotions in the song. I imagined what it would feel like to be in that plane, staring out at the breathtaking [...]