Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Halcyon Digest

Absolutely amazing, totally agree that it does seem to be a more fleshed out and fully formed version of Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox's solo effort) than a direct continuation of previous Deerhunter albums, although there is a definite lineage.

if that wasn't all the explanation you needed you are beyond redemption.

The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas

Tied with The Magnetic Fields as one of the few artists where I am yet to find a song that I do not enjoy a crazy amount, given time I will probably end up putting up every one of their albums (definitely no easy task, given the quite literally absurd amount of releases by these two artists)

A truly fantastic album, filled with exceptional lyrics and perfectly constructed acoustic songs, definitely one of the best of its kind, I would seriously recommend giving this a listen, even if you aren't normally into this sort of thing.

All Hail West Texas

Crywank - James Is Going To Die Soon Demos

Acoustic folk punk from a kid up in Manchester (not sure if I can really say that considering he is probably older than me.) Full of emotion and stuff, and he has a really great voice, I hope he gets a bit more popular and starts touring further south. Also he looks so much like someone I know and it amuses me to imagine that all along it was actually him creating these heartfelt songs.

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James Is Going To Die Soon Demos

Unouomedude - Marsh

Unouomedude (You know you owe me dude, yeah pretty clever huh?) is a Jacksonville, Florida based Lo-Fi artist who really does make some great music, it's nothing especially complex, but it's done exceptionally well, and you can't help but feel really damn good when it's playing, and you know a guy's pretty rad when he adds you as a facebook friend because you joined his group. Download the whole of his new Marsh EP for free on his bandcamp. I mean I seriously feel so good everytime one of his songs comes on it's unreal.

Listen to this song and try and tell me it didn't put a smile on your face/eat cake on your birthday

Cassettes Won't Listen - Animal Ox

This is a strange one, but it's looked for a lot, so I hope someone somewhere will appreciate it, in a nutshell this is a mash up of the excellent New York rap duo Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein with samples from the Baltimore based experimental super band Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion. This was done by the New York electronic artist Cassettes Won't Listen. This is a mashup of excellent rap with excellent experimental by another excellent artist. And believe me, this really is good, not to mention the album art is freakin' sweet.

This album actually got released for free, but for some reason they decided that they should completely remove all download links after a few weeks. I'm so happy I actually managed to get this before it was taken down, and I'd like to think I'm doing a public service by sharing this.

Animal Ox

Wavves - King Of The Beach

King Of The Beach

Druggy pop surf punk! This is just some nice music that you don't really need to think about, with a healthy amount of reverb, although compared to his first two albums this sounds crystal clear. Also look a cat with a joint!!

Neon Indian - Sleep Paralysist (Video)