Archives for the ‘Downloads’ Category

New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)

By Craig Smith • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Downloads

Oh, rock me, rock me, The New Pornographers. Now this is more like it. After the, I don’t wanna say disappointment, but there I said it, of Challengers, Carl, Dan, Neko and co are back in speaker blowing return to form with this the first taste from their forthcoming album Together, released May 3/4 through [...]



Magnetic Fields – Book of Love

By Craig Smith • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Downloads

Merge Records recently announced the long-awaited April 20 release of The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box set on limited-edition 10” vinyl. Story has it that Stephin Merritt came up with the idea for while sitting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar, and originally planned for it to be a live musical revue, with [...]



Shearwater – Black Eyes

By Craig Smith • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Downloads

Released on February 15th, (9th in North America) The Golden Archipelago is the third album in a triptych of beautiful and ambitious excursions about man’s impact on the natural world from Austin’s Shearwater. This time singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands – a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden [...]



Big Pink – Fact Mix 89

By Caleb Rudd • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: Downloads

We all know the Big Pink’s own work is terrific (A Brief History Of Love is out now through 4ad/Remote Control) so it’s no surprise to find out their music taste is also awesome. A mix they did for Fact magazine ranges from the indie influences you’d expect (Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Jesus & Mary Chain) but also [...]



Vampire Weekend – Horchata

By Caleb Rudd • Oct 6th, 2009 • Category: Downloads

First showcased at Way Out West Vampire Weekend’s new track “Horchata”, from the forthcoming album Contra (January 8 XL) is now available to download. It continues in the indie and afro pop vein of their earlier work but with a rhyming couplet as bonkers as “In December drinking horchata/I look psychotic in a balaclava” it’s [...]



Dappled Cities – The Price

By Craig Smith • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: Downloads

With their latest album Zounds being rewarded with an American release, high hopes are held for these Sydney boys. A solid 8/10 review on Webcuts, Dappled Cities have us in barely restrained sonic rapture. For your listening pleasure download “The Price” (6.2mb, 192kps)



Vivian Girls – Can’t Get Over You

By Caleb Rudd • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Downloads

From Vivian Girls’ new album Everything Goes Wrong, here is “Can’t Get Over You”.

Download “Can’t Get Over You” (3.3MB, 128 kps)



Bridezilla – Beaches

By Caleb Rudd • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Downloads

After two years of feverish anticipation, Sydney five-piece Bridezilla present their stunning debut, The First Dance, this 7th November on Inertia Recordings. The first taste is the beautiful and beguiling “Beaches”.
Download “Beaches” (2.2MB, 128 kps)



Jay Reatard ‘Falls’ on New Album

By Craig Smith • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Downloads, News


Animal Collective Free Download

By Craig Smith • May 21st, 2009 • Category: Downloads, News

The sun is out, summer is here (in this part of the world) and Animal Collective have decided to get in on the action by releasing “Summertime Clothes” as the second single from their Webcuts-approved Merriweather Post Pavilon album which will be released on June 29 on 12″ and digital single.
“Summertime Clothes” is a [...]