Bandcamp Hunting #1 - 5 Things You Should Hear

Only lately I started to discover the magic of Bandcamp. Since it's so wonderful and contains endless creators and music styles, I decided to "dig" for some new tunes, hoping it may give you an opportunity to listen to stuff which could have escaped from your ear... so let's go...

The No Sorrows - The No Sorrows

A six piece band from London, who released a new album on 5th of August, 2013 (that means yesterday...). You can find here Shoegaze, Folk and Indie mixed togther in a wonderful harmony...


Black City Lights - Another Life
This Electronic Duo from Wellington, New Zealand released their debut album on 6th Of August (Today!) and it seems that Calum Robb and Julia Catherine Parr are here to stay. Don't miss dark Give It Up!


It Was Romance - Boys With Girlfriends
That's might be only one song, but multi-instrumentalist Lane Moore from Brooklyn made it all alone! I find her voice similiar in some way to Beth Gibbons and Julia Holter, a great starting point


Alpaca Sports - He Doesn't Even Like You
This big band (more than ten people!) from Goteborg, Sweden are doing music for fun and it seems that they really enjoy it. It reminded me Camera Obscura and She & Him with their breezy two songs


Ozarks - Ozarks 
This album was released about a year ago but I couldn't ignore its great production and lyrics. I can locate them somewhere between Progressive Rock and Barouqe Rock, sounds timeless.

2013: Top 60 So Far (Part #3): Places 31-40

So we've passed 20 albums so far: Places 51-60 and Places 41-50 so it's time to move on to the next 10 albums, which were worth listening in the past half year.

Number 40: Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

Who Are They? A Veteran New Wave/ Dark Wave Trio from Basildon (13th album)
Why? Because they're still one of the most influencing bands in my life....

Listen: My Little Universe

Number 39: Low - The Invisible Way

Who Are They? A veteran American Indie Rock Trio from Minnestoa (10th album)
Why? Because of the great melodies and beautiful lyrics

Listen: Just Make It Stop

Number 38: Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record

Who Is She? An Indie Folk singer from Illinois (2nd album)
Why? Because of her Folky attitude and personal songs

Listen: Singing Time

Number 37: Beacon -  The Way We Separate

Who Are They? An Electronic Brooklyn-based duo (2nd album)
Why? Because if there is still trip hop, it must sound like this

Listen: Bring You Back

Number 36: She & Him - Volume 3

Who Are They? A collaboration of M. Ward and Zooey Daschanel (4th album)
Why? Because they are getting better from one recording to the other

Listen: Somebody Sweet To Talk To

Number 35: Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter

Who Is He? An Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist (4th album)
Why? Because it's make me feel like I'm sitting next to a bonfire in the middle of Icelandic winter

Listen: Old Skin

Number 34: Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Who Are They? An English London-based Dubstep duo (2nd album)
Why? Because they where the second best Dubstep album so far this year

Listen: Meter, Pale, Tone

Number 33: Austra - Olympia

Who Are They? A Canadian Toronto-based Electronic band (2nd album)
Why? Because of the special voice of Katie Stelmanis and the 80's-like sound

Listen: Painful like

Number 32: Widowspeak - Almanc

Who Are They? An Indie Rock band from Brooklyn (2nd album)
Why? One of the new surprises of this year

Listen: Dyed In The Wool

Number 31: Iron & Wine

Who Is He? Talented Samuel Beam from South Carolina (5th album)
Why? Because everything he touches turn to gold (Even though he made better records before)

Listen: Joy

Volume 3 - She & Him [Review]

If you don't like bitter-sweet music, which sounds like Nostalgia Pop music from the breezy 60's, you can skip this article right now. If you like this kind of music, I'm convinced you'd love the new release of She & Him named Volume 3, which was released on 7th of May, 2013. This album continues the same spirit of the previous ones made by the collaboration of Zooey Deschanel (Yeah, the cute girl from New Girl and Indie movie [500] Days Of Summer) and M. Ward. In contrast to their earlier records, this one is more mature, maybe because it was the first release since Zooey Deschanel and her her husband, Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie, separated. The music may sound sweet, but the songs' lyrics are about togetherness and separations, which make you wonder what the hell Ben Gibbard was thinking about when they divorced. Meanwhile, it seems that Zooey Dschanel keeps doing the things she likes in her own sweet way and it sounds great with the melodies of M Ward guitar. That's not a ground breaking album but it'll keep you warm in colder nights.

Album Rating: 7/10

I Could Have Been Your Girl (Taken From Volume 3, 2013)

In The Sun (Taken From Volume 2, 2010)

Somebody Sweet To Talk To (Taken From Volume 3, 2013)

Black Hole (Taken From Volume 1, 2008)

London (Taken From Volume 3, 2013)

Candy's Of The Week: 9th of March 2013

This week was full of great music. I've collected for you 10 songs that may stay in my mind longer than one week like Rhye, She & Him, Ivan & Alyosha, Houses, Devendra Banhart, Steven Wilson, Frida Sundemo and Eleanor Friedberger together with 2 songs from albums that celebrated 20 years anniversary by Sting and Lenny Kravitz. Have a nice weekend

Blast From The Past 1: Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way? (Taken From Are You Gonna Go My Way, 1993)

 Rhye - Open Taken From Woman, 2013

 

Frida Sundemo - Home

 She And Him - I Never Wanted Your Love From Forthcoming Volume III, 2013

Houses - Beginnings Taken From Forthcoming A Quiet Darkness, 2013

 

Ivan & Alyosha - Running For Cover Taken From All The Times We Had,2013

 

Eleanor Friedberger - Stare At The Sun Taken From Forthcoming Personal Record, 2013

 

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing Taken From The Raven That Refused To Sing, 2013

Devendra Banhart - Won't You Come Over Taken From Mala, 2013

Blast From The Past 2: Sting - Shape Of My Heart Taken From Ten Summoners Tales, 1993