Mellow Miscellany: Hidden Pictures, Rite Flyers, Freelove Fenner, Citradels, Honeymoon, Broken Fires

We're in kind of a mood mellow on this last day of May. Hope that's okay.


Thanks to Last.fm friend and Bandcamp followee Miyuki for the headsup on the latest from this Oakland band we've enjoyed for years. And here are some n-y-pers from a previous HP LP.

That riff at 00.05 in Song #3 kind of reminds us of the recurring riff in KISS's "Comin' Home," you? Okay, right, discipline, pp, stay focussssed. Well, can we just mention we also really like #9??? Whatever.


Gotta thank Jennifer LeDuc for the SOTO headsup on this Austin band. Song has kind of an, I don't know, XTC feel to it, yes? . . . Um, focus, pp?


Found this at It's a Jangle Out There, for which, many thanks. N-Y-P download here.

Read a most interesting interview of the Melbourne band at The Active Listener.


We also love #2 on this Brooklyn band's EP.


Yessss, we pick up the pace just a jot for this post's Swansea song.

rECENT fINDS: Puma Pumku, Dolores, Scupper, DEAFCULT, The Sun Machine, Undone

We've been enjoying these and wondered if you might, too. 

Faves from The Active Listener Sampler 32: The Hanging Stars, Mystery Flavors, Wesley Fuller, The Noble Krell, Tangerine Love Puppies, High Mountain Bluebirds

Mr. Nathan Ford has recently posted one of the best ever samplers fronted by the indispensable blog/label, The Active Listener. Here are our favorites, tendered with many thanks to Mr. Ford and TAL. We strongly suggest you click here and check out the rest.

B-b-b-b-but, pp, aren't all the songs available in each of the widgets below????? 

Why, yes, yes they are, you clever Thing you.








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Still Afloat at SoundCloud: Dead Parties, Colored Lights, Funeral Advantage, Averkiou, King Kartel, Tusks

We've struggled through the week regretting we hadn't shared with you all we'd recently found at SoundCloud. So let us try and make partial amends with a baker's handful of songs we're loving. This still isn't all we've found there, so the struggle continues.

That previous one we posted by these Barcelonaussie charmerchimers is still downloadable here.

Freely download the Norsemen's song here.

Face off with the Beantown band here.

We recently posted some seven-year old songs by this Gainesville group 

with the unpronounceable name. This younger song is downloadable here.

We also posted one previously by this Manchester band, and it's still here!!!

Visit the excellent Brighton band here.
Update: They seem to have negated its freebietude. Usually 
we respond in kind, but what the Hades, let it stand.

Music of the Sphere: Crocodiles, White Reaper, DMA's, What Tyrants, King Tuff

Crocs

We thank the following bloggers for posting the following songs.

Crocodiles - Foolin' Around - Rollo & Grady

White Reaper - I Don't Think She Cares - Side One Track One

DMA's - Laced - KEXP Blog

What Tyrants - No Luck - Still in Rock

King Tuff - She's On Fire (Pickathon 2013) - Still in Rock

Custom Made for You: Feel Weird, The Thing, Paper Apes, Human Hymn, The Astral Planes, Stereoma

Floating around on SoundCloud, we chanced upon an invigorating series of samplers from an entity called Custom Made Music. All the songs in the four samplers we sampled are available for free download. Forthwith, a few of our favorites.

Strange Babes' Eponymous Debut

Yankiwi band Strange Babes have dropped an excellent debut album and are making it available here for free downloading. Go to Facebook for other kinds of acculturation.

Four from The Accord

We weren't able to gather much written information on Leeds band The Accord, but the musical inputs more than satisfied. They've got more freebies and streamies at their Soundcloud page, and you can read a bit here. Below are four (or five) of our favorites so far. (Click down arrows to download.)

Mighty Fine Finds: Mystery Flavors, Shadow Folk, Crosa Rosa

Oot and aboot, we found this loot.

Many thanks to The Active Listener for the headsup on these frightfully satisfying Frisco jangleurs. Nathan's got some freebies by a couple more artistes here.




Each of these next two widgets opens with our favorite from these excellent Halifax, NS, psychpoppers name o' Shadow Folk.






Thanks to Psychgazer for the intro to this merry band from Nottingham, yclept "Crosa Rosa."




Actually, #1 ("Jigsaw") is the one we prefer, but sometimes Bandcamp just will work its will. Bitch.


Here's the Crosa Rosa tune on to which Psychgazer first turned us. You can buy it here.

Music of the Sphere: Flyying Colours, Wolf Alice, Straight Arrows, Livids, Pankhabilli, Birth of Joy, Bruce!, Tame Impala, Dog Party, Sweet John Bloom

We say it often and with good reason: thank you, bloggertypes, for the excellent tuneage.

Flyying Colours - Running Late - Polaroid (pic)

Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile - KEXP Blog

Straight Arrows - Can't Stand It - Nu Rave Brain Wave

Livids - Ms Bluff - Rollo & Grady

Pankhabilli - The Ladder (demo) - Rollo & Grady

Birth of Joy - Keep Your Eyes Shut - Indie Rock Cafe

Bruce! - Money And Go - Indie Rock Cafe

Tame Impala - Disciples - Side One Track One

Dog Party - Peanut Butter Dream - Side One Track One

Sweet John Bloom - Tell Me - Side One Track One

Recent Disco Veries: Anderson Council, Cool Whips, Sharkmuffin, Jim Nothing, WOD, Cosmic Letdown, Young Liberals, Day Creeper

Here are some recent discoveries we love and you might.


Two excellent TAC songs we posted long ago are still available here.


The full LP by this Portland band is here, a couple more mighty fine freebies here.


Jaws' favorite band. (It's why he haunts the Jersey Shore.)


The rest of the songs on these Christchurchers' EP are rather raucous, and that might be just what you want/need.

Tasty tune from Melbourne.


The songtitle means "Mary," in case you were wondering.


An oldie but goodie by this Brisband. We also like #8 a lot.


New(ish)bie from Columbus.

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 3: Warm Soda, Matthew Melton, Jacco Gardner, Pretty Greens, Meatbodies, Madcaps, Numb Bats, Broncho

Here's our third and final salvo of initial finds at the excellent, new-to-us blog, Still in Rock. We've already encountered a ton of great music at Thibault's lair and look forward to ever more discoveries over the days and centuries to come. You'll be seeing them in our periodic Music of the Sphere offerings. The first two posts can be found here and here. With grateful hearts do we say, "Thank you, SiR."



Warm Soda - Young Restless Hearts - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - Tell Me in a Whisper - Still in Rock
Warm Soda- Lola & Jeanie Loves Pop - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - When Your Eyes Meet Mine & The One I Need - Still in Rock - Post has an excellent interview with bandleader Matthew Melton
Matthew Melton - Outside of Paradise & Promise It to Me - Still in Rock - Our humble little Matthew Melton retrospective is here. That Snake Flowers 2 ditty is still downloadable, in case you were wondering.

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself & Hypnophobia - Still in Rock
The Pretty Greens - First Time - Still in Rock
Meatbodies - Disorder & The Master - Still in Rock
The Madcaps - High School Trouble Maker & I Knew It All - Still in Rock
Numb Bats - To Do - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #72.
Broncho - It's On - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #52.

Those last two are from Still in Rock's Best Tracks of 2014 post. There are several more great ones we've already posted (e.g., Meatbodies' "Tremmors" and Wand's "Flying Golem"), so please do check out the entire list.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Trevor Forever

This excellent popper is from the forthcoming SSLYBY LP, The High Country, due to drop June 2 on Polyvinyl. We just now noticed Side One Track One has it available for download, in case someone's interested.

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 2: Guided by Voices, Doug Gillard, Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, Fuzz, White Fence

Okay, so there is a kind of theme here in Installment 2: Les collaborateurs! The first two below were both guided by voices, while the next four were and are more gloriously intertwined than we have the power to suss out. The fact that Thibault of Still in Rock loves them all, too, is one of the many reasons we love Still in Rock. (And thanks, Thibault, for the courteous note.) Installment 1 is still available here.



Guided by Voices - Planet Score - Still in Rock

Doug Gillard - Ready for Death - Still in Rock

Mikal Cronin - Shout It Out & Apathy & Gone - Still in Rock

Ty Segall - Tall Man Skinny Lady - Still in Rock
Fuzz - 21st Century Schizoid Man - Still in Rock
Ty Segall - They Told Me Too & Thank God For Sinners - Still in Rock

White Fence - Like That - Still in Rock - Post has fun interview with Tim Presley.
White Fence - Sandra (When The Earth Dies) & Arrow Man - Still in Rock
White Fence - White Cat & Chairs In The Dark - Still in Rock

By the way, we didn't want to deprive you of the joy of the hunt: Thibault has quite a few other numbers by some of these artists, so tally-ho!

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 1: Eeries, Milk 'N' Cookies, Resonars, Triptides, Mountain Bike, Creation, Winter, Calypso, Paperhead, Magic Castles

It's always exciting to find a blog new-to-us and posting quantities of music we already like, along with much we hadn't yet come across. That happened last week at the Brooklyn-based, French-language blog, Still in Rock. So much did we find there that we will post our favorites in at least three installments. We initially spent four or five happy hours at SiR, and are now visiting every day, but perhaps your schedule will not afford you such leisure. (Frankly, we recommend you carve out such leisure, but hey, "it's your life and you can do what you want" - within whatever delimitations might apply.)

We've kind of organized the three posts thematically, but to try and explain the "logic" involved probably isn't worth the effort. So here we go.

The Eeries - No Fun & Till I Come By - Still in Rock
Milk 'N' Cookies - Broken Melody - Still in Rock
The Resonars - Definitely Crescent Ridge (mono version) - Still in Rock
Triptides - Clementine & English Rain - Still in Rock
Mountain Bike - Russian Roulette Casino - Still in Rock

The Creation - Making Time & Try And Stop Me - Still in Rock
Winter - Crazy - Still in Rock
Calypso - Is Not Now - Still in Rock
The Paperhead - None Other Than - Still in Rock
Magic Castles - Dragonfly - Still in Rock

We might also mention that SiR is helpfully organized, with all kinds of interesting classifications that merit consideration and, perhaps, occasionally, amicable cavil. It is also beautifully written, with depths of insight of which we are neither capable nor wont to plumb. Additionally, reading through Google Translate adds an element of droll whimsicality of which a more thorough familiarity with the Gallic tongue might well rob us.