I've been pretty bad with regular updates recently, haven't I? Sorry guys. Things at uni and Surge are making me a very busy boy. Coupled with flu this means a lack of updates for you - but it also means a backlog of free music to get through, so let's do it!
The Vines - Get Out
Get Out is the first track from The Vines' current album Melodia. It's quite a standard track that doesn't see the band pushing their boundaries at all. This doesn't stop it from being a good song - it's a perfectly listenable song that doesn't get boring or strange in any way. And as an album intro track you shouldn't really expect anything else.
The Hair - Half Cut
The Hair are a new band from York and Leeds who are currently touring the UK with Kaiser Chiefs. Their offering to the world of music journalism (and the general public), Half Cut, is an interesting indie-feeling song which shows the band definitely think about how to make their songs interesting. From the listening to their other tracks they have a good range of sounds and I think they have the potential to do well in the world. Watch out for them.
Modernaire - Faites Vos Jeux
Modernaire are a pop trio from Manchester. I guess you could say they sound a bit like Lilly Allen if she didn't sing in that horrible accent and also got into pop electronica. That's all I can really think to say about this, other than you can get more tracks from the Jackdaw Recordings website.
Eugene McGuinness - Not So Academic
Man... how do I describe this? Try taking the Killers and sending them back in time to the days of blues and early rock 'n' roll and you might be somewhere near this. Or you might not. Eugene McGuinness puts a distinctly blues-period aura into his music, while at the same time keeping it distinctly modern. His vocals seem to drift between styles from the 70s and from modern indy bands, and the gap between old and new is bridged even more so with songs full of electric guitar happily sitting beside those backed by a honky-tonk piano.
Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter From Home
Ulrich Schnauss is an ambient electronica artist born in Germany now living in the UK. A Letter From Home is a chillout track that keeps you interested and relaxed throughout - which is all chillout music needs to be, really.
That's it for free music this week. On Wednesday I should be interviewing The Hair for Surge and hopefuly some or all of that interview might filter back to this blog... so until then, goodbye!
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