Despite the end of the year fast approaching, thankfully the quality of new music shows no signs of slowing. Here are the best of our November offerings, together with some tasty new tracks to round off the mix.Over thirty great songs – just right for the roaring fire and the cocoa!
Download Siskiyou – Twigs And Stones mp3 (from Keep Away The Dead)
Brilliantly judged restless blend of country rock, folk, and grand orchestral rock.
Download The Cloud Nothings – No Future / No Past mp3 (from Attack On Memory)
Intense indie rock – their best yet?
Download The Morning Birds – Born To Be Alive mp3 (from Surrender To This EP)
Skips along on the back of a groove so funky that it sounds like it was kidnapped from a 1970s New York disco and dragged into the new Millennium.
Download A Place To Bury Strangers – So Far Away mp3 (from Onwards To The Wall EP)
This on the other hand is a storming slab of pulverising noisemongering!
Download D.B. Rouse – The Hungover Lowdown Beat Up Burnt Out Blues mp3 (from Repent EP)
Folk yes, but beautifully judged with poignancy and pathos, self-reflection, regrets and dreams.
Download New London Fire – The Dirt The Blood The Faith mp3 (from The Dirt The Blood The Faith)
Sumptuous folk-western that howls its defiance and stands righteous in its anger at injustices suffered.
Download Black Creek – The Mustang mp3 (from Ragged Shark)
Dirty country rock and barrelling bar-room boogie.
Download Wounded Lion – Roman Values mp3 (from IVXLCDM)
Two and a half minutes of insane garage punk that is driven along by a heavyweight riff, pulsating percussion and a classic shouted vocal.
Download The Whalers – Lighthouse mp3 (from Paddle Easy EP)
Hypnotic, surf-inspired indie rock.
Download Lissy Trullie – Madeleine mp3 (from Lissy Trullie)
Slow-burning indie with echoes of the Velvets, even a bit of shoegaze maybe, but all is anchored by a distorted groove and her brilliant voice.
Download The Great Lakes – Blood On My Tooth mp3
Country jam given a healthy injection of rockabilly rhythm.
Download Monument Valley – Dear John Letters mp3 (from Tongues EP)
Excellent slice of introspective, melancholia from new singer-songwriter.
Download Bear Driver – Never Never mp3
Woozy, four-minute slice of delicious fuzz-pop.
Download Sharon Van Etten – Serpents mp3 (from Tramp)
Stunning advance track from forthcoming new album.
Download Fairlamb – The Way It Goes mp3 (from People Change)
Waspish lyrics and gently strummed acoustics.
Download The Dodos – So Cold mp3 (Previously Unreleased)
More indie-folk par excellence.
Download Galaxy Sunrise – When Pigs Fly mp3 (from When Pigs Fly single)
Lovely excursion into hazy psych-pop.
Download The Boombox Hearts – Crank It Up mp3
Lo-fi melancholic folk from Denmark.
Download Electric Flowers – Circles mp3 (from Electric Circles EP)
A sonic epic. Nuff said.
Download The Quiet Americans – Be Alone mp3 (from Medicine EP)
Old fashioned, fuzzed-up rock’n’roll.
Download Joakim Fritzner – Thoughts On Us 23-3 mp3 (from It’s Not Me…)
Catchy, folkish strum and guaranteed earworm.
Download Wooden Wand – Winter In Kentucky mp3 (from Briarwood)
Masterful ramshackle countryish-rock.
Download The Dead Jerichos – Please Yourself mp3 (from Please Yourself EP)
Drenched, droney guitar lines and shattered fragments of disco, punk, and post hardcore rhythms.
Download The Royal Sea – This Summer mp3 (from The Royal Sea)
Surf-drums and sugar coated adrenalin rush – this should have been the woozy, feel good hit of the summer. Our pick of the month.
Download Pontiak – Lions Of Least mp3 (from Echo Ono)
Pulverising psych-rock.
Download Secret Colours – Faust mp3 (from EP3)
Channels the finest of the greats of late ’60s psychedelia, ’90s newgaze reverence, and a touch of driving, bucolic, no frills RnR straight from the greasiest of garages.
Download i am Love – Truest mp3 (from Truest 7″)
Rich, thoughtful folk with beautifully paced ebb and flow.
Download Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea mp3 (from Weald)
Simply stunning excursion into a shifting, twilight world that slowly builds on the back of a sparse, plucked guitar and almost spoken vocals into a swirling, epic peak of rhythmic guitars and cracked vocal harmonies.
And there’s more. To round off the mix we have a gorgeous new one from MM faves, the folky Bowerbirds who will release a new album in March on Dead Oceans, the first taste of individual bubblegum garage from Hunx (as in & His Punx) solo effort appropriately called Hairdresser Blues, the effortlessly sleazy Black Bananas (formerly RTX) and Rad Times from their forthcoming album Rad Times Xpress IV and lastly former Dawes member Alex Casnoff has a new band Harriet and a new EP Tell The Right Story. I Slept With All Your Mothers is the brilliantly named and gripping lead track.
As always…enjoy!
Download The Bowerbirds – Tuck The Darkness In mp3 (from The Clearing)
Download Hunx – Always Forever mp3 (from Hairdresser Blues)
Download Harriet – I Slept With All Your Mothers mp3 (from Tell The Right Story EP)
Download Black Bananas – Rad Times mp3 (from Rad Times Xpress IV)
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