MP3: Misophone - The Sea has Spoken

They’ve recorded hundreds of songs. A label from Sweden is due to release to the public one of their ten albums of material in November. The Sea Has Spoken a capital E “Epic” of Eastern-European styled folk. A real tale, more than observations of bad poets lost, blind, feeling their way around in urban jungles. It quivers, and forces me to turn the pages quickly. But nothing is given away until the story tells it, the moment that you start to hear and feel the twists and turns. Highly recommended.

Myspace.com/Misophone

Tags: Best of NBGL, Folk, Johnny 5 Is Alive, Not London by Mike Smith
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Great writing about British music showcased across a variety of mp3 blogs much like this one. They don’t solely write about British music like I do, but they do do it very well.

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Music For Robots: Dirty Alice: …A lot of life is just in between shit — just chilling at work, or sitting at home on your couch or driving to places. This is a song for those times… strings soothe and guitars crash all while a bass bubbles up underneath… [more + mp3]

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Fluxblog: Citizen Helene: It’s only one guitar and one voice overdubbed into a gorgeous harmony, but it’s enough to build this perfect image in my mind. It’s a small apartment, a walk up in some old building with a gray stone facade… [read the rest and get mp3-goodness]

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Pitchfork’s Forkcast: Fryars: He’s fallen a bit further from the generic post-Strokes, post-Libertines UK indie tree than most of his peers… Garrett’s debonair Morrissey croon does carry a hint of Julian Casablancas’ downtown chic, “The Ides” is a bright keyboard pop song swathed in Postal Service-style digital effects. [more + mp3]

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Tags: tuneup by Mike Smith
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MP3: Puzzle - Weekend

I bet Puzzle have a lot of friends. I imagine they sit having fun with their friends, then get up and play some fantastic indie-pop songs and then continue and making new friends. I am told this is but a minutiae of their potential, with properly recorded material still to come but this live recorded track has ticks in all the right boxes, and influences tucked away in all the good places “Belle and Sebastian, Animal Collective, Sleater kinney”. More to come…

myspace.com/puzzlepuzzle

Tags: Best of NBGL, Johnny 5 Is Alive, Not London, not-folk-music by Mike Smith
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