Playlist #2: 6 songs. “Tuning up the radio: From feedback & fuzz to bright & gleaming tunes.”

1. Feedle - Picturedrome (New)
2. People of Water - Vale of Aching Hearts
3. Internet Forever - Break Bones (New)
4. Head & Neck Sessions - Twelve Twelve
5. Stricken City - Lost Art (New)
6. Smile Down Upon Us - My Body’s Continent (New)

NOTES:

1. Churned up and earthquaking electro-bleeps. Quiet after-shocks, pumping energy down in the core. Feedle originally found a release on the Spoilt Victorian Child music blog’s record label. He’s still snapping people out of their lethargy on his new album, created on a life-raft in the middle of the Atlantic. Honest.

2. Originally posted back in May. “They’ve forced Afrobeat to go all desert-storm, with instrumental precision: an assault of funk and drum, staged on a huge battlefield.” New material has been promised, I expect they’ll deserve their own post when that happens.

3. Internet Forever: Probably four-track recorded glockenspiel anger meets teenage ideals, Casio’s, old microphones aren’t quite enough to carry the challenge. “There’s gotta be a way…. that we save you…”

4. Head & Neck Sessions were originally posted last November. Chilled electronica, an echo, never lost.

5. A new track from some of London’s rising stars. Check their myspace for U.K. gigs, tunes, indie-pop jams.

6. I’ve written about this folk-electronica track for The Morning News saying, ” a quilt of rustling leaves and dewy feathers that shelter you, a warmth evoked throughout this album…fire encourages a voice that combined with the twang of autumn/winter folk guitar sounds better as summer calls it quits.”
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You can’t get much further from the economic criss than Rod Thomas’ new video. The safety of childhood television and sock puppets resonate strangely this week.

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