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Next week sees the release of Rabbit Runs A Destiny , the fourth studio album from Birmingham, Alabama native Duquette Johnston . In advance of the big occasion, he has now released a third track from the record to tickle the earbuds and this time it is the excellent Cherry Blossom . It has a slightly more anxious feel than the previous songs we've heard, a fretful, plaintive vocal and some wonderfully ominous fuzzy guitar lines are counterbalanced by lovely harmonies and robust percussion. With every new track we hear, we anticipate the whole [...]
It was love at first listen. Or maybe just a moment of reconciliation with the own existential loneliness. Anyway, listening to Palm Trees, a song "as lonesome as the moon in a devastated wasteland", and especially to the delicate voice of Simon Stålhamrhe, the Stockholm based man behind SMALL FEET, is a singular occurrence. In The post Small Feet - Palm Trees (NBHAP Video Premiere) appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
"Once" is one fifth of the title track from Laura Marling's upcoming album, Once I Was an Eagle (which seems like it could be a weird Bill Callahan reference ), and the song is the very slight and very singular acoustic meditation that its name implies. Marling's voice buzzes with an adulthood that she is physically incapable of having experienced and grown tired of (the singer is only 23). The profundity of the line "I was a child once" - sung in a reflective whisper - seems like it should be lost on someone like Marling, but the [...]
Even with a name like Discoverer, it is fair to say that this one-man band has all the ironically undiscovered talent you could ever need.
No matter how much music you think you listen to, you really barely scrape the surface, even after all the trawling through countless music blogs, PR emails and the odd Soundcloud search. It's why I'm so thankful for knowing great people with equally good tastes in music. Introduced to Old Colours by my good friend Chloe just under a year ago it's been great to hear the bands progression and playing ability develop over this short time span. From humble beginnings of folk inspired pop the band have crafted their style in [...]
Monogatari is a band created by Sebastian Ungh. With an open mind for what could be contained in music, he started writing and recording songs in 2007 with the help of instruments from all over the world; old and new, toys and real instruments joined together in the songs and was collected in the debut album "It May Have Seemed Like a Sign of Hope That the Birds Followed Them Out Into the Vastness of the Open Sea". A live line-up was formed, which after several changes ended up in a septet that performs using a lot of [...]
You might remember that Midlake played Live at the Marquee a couple of years back, on a bill that also featured Grizzly Bear, Camera Obscura and what then were fledgling Villagers. The Texan five piece are returning to Cork on Tuesday, August 13, for a date in Cyprus Avenue. It's [Read more]
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Longtime B3 favorites Quadron style up a live a cappella trio-assisted version of their hit alt-soul track "Hey Love". Lets get those toes tapping, people! Feel good! Quadron ( Soundcloud ) Rating 8.4
Through the keyholes of Shields and a locksmith who has mastered acoustic melody, Futurecop!s’ ‘Superheroes’ single rolls on this week with as much anticipation as this year’s Eurovision contest this coming Saturday; BUT minus the Danish Blue and without the over-incessant overdubbing verbal speculation (from the BBC) that tries its best to be funny - and in essence it’s not. Taken from their forthcoming album, “Hopes, Dreams & Alienation.” ‘Superheroes’ is released through Kiez Beats on 20 May 2013 via Beatport. Released on 3 June 2013 for all other online retailers. Pre-order single on [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: The Byrds, Nirvana, Real Estate Song: Mikal Cronin - Am I Wrong [download here ] What's so good? Mikal [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Atlas Sound, Deerhunter, Phoria, Grizzly Bear Song: Oliver Wilde - Flutter [download here ] What's so good? "Flutter" is [...]
After discovering Laura Brehm's haunting voice featured on Elliot Berger's tune Diamond Sky, I was intrigued to hear more. I headed on over to her Soundcloud. First of, Laura Brehm's Soundcloud is a utopia. I have never before in my all days been exposed to such a vast array of talent from one artist. She has [...]
British newcomers LONDON GRAMMAR present a stylish and atmospheric music video for their latest fascinating single Wasting My Young Years. As you might know, NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION already reported about their last two songs Hey Now and Metal & Dust - and we clearly liked what we heard here. Enjoy the highly emotional The post London Grammar present "Wasting My Young Years" video appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
In hot anticipation of their forthcoming debut album Kodaline have released a beautiful acoustic version of their single Love Like This . Whilst the original burst with charm and charisma the Irish quartet have managed to flip the tables adding a whole new twist through its stripped back appeal. In as poignant manner as ever Kodaline manage to captivate and engage through this emotionally distraught rendition led by the solemnity of its lonesome piano. The heartwarming arrangement showcasing the bands ability in channelling their energy and affection as Stephen Garrigan's tender, pain-stricken vocals [...]
Ah, how we love Matthew Sawyer and his unique/oddball/visitor from Mars perspective on the world. His 2010 album How Ghosts Eat , with backing band The Ghosts remains one of our all time favourites. Good news then to discover that he is returning with a new album later this year on our favourite label Fire Records . We have a track from it below, the typically original Feeeeling . Given the plethora of wonderful releases Fire have already put out in 2013, they should be having their best year ever. [...]
High Coast , a band hailing from Malmö, released their debut EP recently. On it you'll find four tracks with earthy, Americana-vibing acoustic music full of nature poetry. "Talvatis", the song here below, was earlier released as a single, and got it's name from a lake in the north of Sweden. High Coast on Facebook - on Spotify - on Bandcamp
Emily Anne George is a singer-songwriter from Sydney. Influenced by the early sounds of Carole King, Etta James and Leonard Cohen and literature from Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote and Emily Bronte, she writes about personal experience or about the absurdities and observances of life. If her feature single Murderers On The Inside is a typical example of what she is capable of, then we are in for a treat. A haunting melody underpins lyrics that are as insightful as they are honest - and the subject matter is not for the [...]
Ancient Mariner | In Solitude Back at the start of April we introduced you to Ancient Mariner , the solo project of Gabriel Jorgensen. In Solitude , the lead track from his forthcoming EP, simply stopped us in our tracks. Beautifully hushed, densely orchestrated and possessing the kind of rich craft that made his contemporaries such as Andrew Bird and St Vincent so greatly loved, it's no surprise that it attracted recognition from across the globe. Ahead of the EP's release next month, we've teamed up with All [...]
First off, in the interests of a new, humble, and wholly transparent blogosphere, big up Rob Leedham and his ever-more-humourous DiS Does Singles column for turning me onto Bristol miserablist Oliver Wilde . If I hadn't been suitably piqued by a description of Flutter as sounding like the product of Kurt Vile forming a Doves tribute band, I wouldn't have spent all today drifting in and out of a vague, pseudomedicated haze, Wilde's tracks on repeat in my headphones, ignoring my colleagues and my workload. It was one of the best workdays in [...]
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