Blog: Beat Surrender

Sound & Vision – Arborea

May 19, 2:01pm Beat Surrender

Arborea "Song For Obol" from Spork Productions on Vimeo .

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Sound & Vision – The Whispering Tree

May 18, 3:00pm Beat Surrender

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Pepper Proud – Riddles & Rhymes

May 17, 3:01pm Beat Surrender

Quietly affecting indie-folk from from West Virginian turned Seattleite singer-songwriter Pepper Proud, the thirteen self-penned tracks are beautifully embellished with violin, viola, cello and a smattering of trumpet that work alongside the more traditional instrumentation that one would expect to adorn music from Pepper's home state. Buy at.

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Various Artists – Marsteller & Rhodes present ‘The Beautiful Old’ (Turn of the Century Songs)

May 16, 6:16pm Beat Surrender

Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1911) - Will Sexton & Simone Stevens 256kbps Producers Paul Marsteller and Gabriel Rhodes invite you back into the parlour with The Beautiful Old, an entertaining collection of elegant yet earthy songs, ranging from 1823’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ to 1918’s ‘Till We Meet Again’. The Beautiful Old keeps the piano, often played by The Band’s Garth Hudson, at the heart of each arrangement, illustrating the original spirit of the compositions brought back to life with such illustrious vocalists as Richard Thompson, Christine Collister, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Graham [...]

• Various - Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1911) - Will Sexton & Simone Stevens

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Artist:	Various
Title:	Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1911) - Will Sexton & Simone Stevens
Link Text:	Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1911) - Will Sexton & Simone Stevens 256kbps
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Genre:	Folk / Parlour Music
Year:	2013

Sound & Vision – Lois & The Love

May 16, 11:00am Beat Surrender

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Uncle Leon & the Alibis – Wild Ways

May 15, 3:01pm Beat Surrender

One of top submissions for this years CXCW festival came from Uncle Leon & The Alibis who's raucous Beer Train (not seen it, shame on you, click here , who's that girl?), how to follow that, well on their current album Wild Way the band go old-school recording with vintage analogue kit direct to 23 tape and the release features a number of 'classic' sounds on it's roller-coaster ten-track ride. There's a distinct 902s alt-country feel to the album opener Hold On , then there's Cheatin' Kind which harks back [...]

• Uncle Leon and the Alibis - Hold On
• Uncle Leon and the Alibis - Wild Ways

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Artist:	Uncle Leon and the Alibis
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Artist:	Uncle Leon and the Alibis
Title:	Wild Ways
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Sound & Vision – Lily and Madeleine

May 14, 3:00pm Beat Surrender

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Ruth Moody – These Wilder Things – UK / Ireland Tour Dates

May 13, 2:30pm Beat Surrender

Ruth Moody's previous solo album The Garden was a delight and she's back with another winner with These Wilder Things , the albums is officially released in the UK on June 10th on True North Records, the multi-instrumentalist Australian born founder member of The Wailin' Jenny's who's now based in Canada has gathered together a whole bunch of class acts to play and sing the album, alongside her touring band, Adam Dobres (guitar), Adrian Dolan (fiddle, mandolin, accordion) and Sam Howard (upright bass) there are contributions from fellow Jennys Nicky Mehta and Heather Masse, Crooked [...]

• Ruth Moody - 01-Trouble-and-Woe.mp3

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Artist:	Ruth Moody
Link Text:	Ruth Moody - Trouble and Woe
File Name:	01-Trouble-and-Woe.mp3
Genre:	Folk
Year:	2013

Sound & Vision – Findlay

May 12, 3:00pm Beat Surrender

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Sound & Vision – Lydia des Dolles

May 11, 3:01pm Beat Surrender

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Without Feathers – Demos

May 11, 2:00pm Beat Surrender

Nat Johnsons new band Without Feathers formed with Emma Kupa (Standard Fare) and Rory McVicar have released a trio of demo tracks and are working on some more new material - pay-what-you-want download at Bandcamp.

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Sound & Vision – The Beautiful Word

May 11, 9:01am Beat Surrender

http://www.thebeautifulword.co .uk

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Sound & Vision – I Am Not Left Handed

May 10, 4:01pm Beat Surrender

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The Stray Birds – S/T

May 10, 3:01pm Beat Surrender

Acoustic folk-grass trio The Stray Birds offer up an accomplished debut album featuring home grown material and straight-up playing. Band members Maya de Vitry (fiddle, banjo, guitar, vocals), Oliver Craven (fiddle, guitars, vocals) and Charles Muench (bass, vocals) were all raised a few miles in rural Lancaster County, PA sharing a love of music and a dedication to the American folk tradition, The Stray Birds blend their voices into some sweet three-part harmonies and carry them aloft with their classy arrangements and having watched several live performances on-line it's obvious they have the musical chops in spades, there's talk of [...]

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Barney Bentall – Flesh & Bone

May 9, 11:47am Beat Surrender

Classy Canadiana from the wonder True North Records who have a host of Beat Surrender favourites on their roster and have struck another chord with me with the release of Flesh & Bone from the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Barney Bentall. I'll be straight I'd not heard the name before though this is Bentall's third solo release and his career that kicked of back in 1978 has delivered three independent albums and seven studio albums, in the late eighties he formed The Legendary Hearts who's self-titled debut album made it to Platinum status in his native Canada and [...]

• Barney Bentall - The Outskirts of Buffalo

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Artist:	Barney Bentall
Title:	The Outskirts of Buffalo
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Genre:	Maverick
Year:	2012

Sound & Vision – The Dwells

May 8, 11:46am Beat Surrender

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Sound & Vision – September Girls

May 7, 3:01pm Beat Surrender

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Cam Penner – To Build a Fire

May 6, 4:01pm Beat Surrender

I first came across Cam Penner through the inclusion of his track Rye Whiskey on the excellent compilation What's Kickin' Volume 1 indeed that track remains a favourite, on To Build A Fire however Penner has moved away from the alt-country template and embraces a wider musical palette and an open-minded approach to the recording process that reflects a changing time for the Calgary Alberta artist who has recently 'escaped' from the city to a live in mountains with his partner and new-borne daughter. Setting up the recording kit and instruments [...]

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10 Year Anniversary Compilation by Snowstar Records

May 6, 8:00am Beat Surrender

Dutch indie label Snowstar have put out a anniversary compilation to celebrate 10 years in the business. You can get a copy on a pay-what-you-want basis via Bandcamp - and hopefully it'll tempt you to dig a little further into their back catalogue.

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Feel Bad For You – May 2013 Mixtape

May 5, 4:01pm Beat Surrender

Something for the (long) weekend sir? Here's this month's Feel Bad For Your in all it's glory - enjoy. Thanks to Scott for curating and Popa's Tunes for the artwork. DOWNLOAD 1. Title: The Waist and The Knees Artist: Game Theory Album (year): Lolita Nation (1987) Submitted By: Scott Emmons (@BoogieStudio22) Comments: Scott Miller, of Game Theory and Loud Family, died on April 15. That kind of bummed me out because we are about the same age and [...]

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