Looking for some free new music to tide you over this weekend? Well you’re in the right place with the Live4ever Ezine‘s New Tunes guide. We’ve sorted through our packed inbox over the last seven days to offer up the best in mp3s, Soundcloud links and YouTube videos for your viewing and listening pleasure. Check out previous editions of the New Tunes Guide here.
“Changing Horses are British Indie-Folk duo Richard Birtill (vocals and guitar) and Francesca Cullen (vocals, violin, mandolin and melodeon). Stylistically taking influence from the psychedelic likes of The Incredible String Band, and the experimental art-punk of The Fall, theirs is a patchwork of off-kilter folk that has drawn in the plaudits from numerous sources. After holing up in a Nashville studio with session musician / producer Chris Donohue (Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris) the track ‘Cut All Strings’ featured on an HBO documentary and went on to pick up multiple plays on both the Steve Lamacq and Bob Harris BBC radio shows. Last year’s festival season also saw the band grace stages at Kendal Calling, Solfest, Brampton, Crawley Folk Festival and SO festival.”
Cut All Strings by Changing Horses oundcloud.com/heysholaycloud”>Hey Sholay
“Arrows of Love are set to release their explosive new single ‘Honey’ and b-side track ‘Pretend Friends’ on July 9th via Handspun Records/Superdark. Hailing from Hackney, East London, the quintet who blend a mix of seismic indie rock with a wall of art-punk noise have returned with a crunching new track, the first offering since the release of their single ‘Song 1’ in late 2011.”
Arrows of Love – Honey by Arrows Of Love
“The Dying Seconds encompass a special sonic space bordering traditionalism and futurism. Their sound is laced with layered beats and experimental glitchy electronica, textured with melodic percussion, haunting piano and a sublime emotive vocal dripping with feeling and soul. It’s an evocative sound filled with atmosphere and full to the brim with a warm emotional resonance. It’s a sound which has, unsurprisingly, seen The Dying Seconds championed by fellow purveyors of the heartfelt and honest, opulent and brooding – The National – who witnessed an early The Dying Seconds show in Dublin back in 2010.”
“Bringing rock-hard grit and all-girl soul from the San Fernando Valley, Deap Vally is made up of the howl of Lindsey Troy and the rhythm of Julie Edwards. Together, the duo break blues down to its simplest, most fundamental form: beat, melody, and meaning, while their scorching live shows are fast becoming the stuff of legend.”
Deap Vally – ‘Gonna Make My Own Money’ by Deap Vally
“With previous releases for labels such as In The Red, Woodsist, Castle Face, Captured Tracks and Sacred Bones under their belt, The Fresh & Onlys have already carved a name for themselves. Now they return with their fourth LP, the big, sprawling and woozily psychedelic ‘Long Slow Dance’ (or ‘L.S.D.’), out September 3rd.”
“Hailing from Halifax, England, Wot Gorilla? combine elements of math, pop and progressive rock with heavy melodic breakdowns. With a name originating from a track on the 1976 Genesis album ‘Wind & Wuthering’, the four piece band take cues from progressive pop and rock from then and now – but firmly rooted in the latter. The band is known for their technical performances, taking the audience on an unpredictable and energetic journey.”
“In a short period of time, School is Cool powered their way from being a regular start-up band to one of the most exciting and foremost acts in their native country of Belgium. SiC now lead their charge to a wider music-loving audience with their debut UK & Worldwide single, ‘The World Is Gonna End Tonight’, released on the highly respected ‘Fandango’ indie label – a record company synonymous with seeking out the best promising indie talent. The track has already been championed on national UK radio by important influencers such as Steve Lamacq (6Music), Huw Stevens (BBC R1) and John Kennedy (XFM).”
“Mount Eerie is having a big 2012. The month of May saw the release of the critically celebrated Clear Moon which sold out the first pressing almost immediately. June through October are full of shows all over the North American continent (more details on that soon). Constant new singles and reissues fill the summer. It’s perfectly timed that the dark counterpart to Clear Moon is being released on September 4th.”
Mount Eerie – “Pale Lights” (excerpt) by forcefieldpr
“Birmingham’s Poppy & The Jezebels are back with a new single on their own Gumball Machine label on the 28th of May 2012. The band emerged with the ‘Underage’ scene while still at school when they traveled from Birmingham to play alongside The Horrors at the opening night of the original Underage Club at The Coronet in London’s Elephant and Castle. Seriously adept at social networking, the girls were sharing bills with SCUM and Shonen Knife before Mollie’s fourteenth birthday.”
For a free download from Jamie Parisio go to www.jamieparisio.com. ‘Tangles never Tire’ is taken from Jamie Parisio’s debut EP ‘You Promised me the Sea’ which is out now on Spearhavoc Records. Buy your copy here jamieparisio.com/store.cfm.
