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.
“Hotly tipped alt-indie outfit, Vices, will release their brand new EP, Hotel Monsoon, this autumn. Spotted by Jeff Saltzman (Producer; The Killers, Hot Fuzz, ex Green Day manager) in a small LA bar, he took the Reading born, London based band to his recording studio in Hollywood and produced their debut album, The Wind I Walk Into. We played all up Sunset Boulevard at the Viper Room and Roxy”, recalls Rory Seabrook (Drummer). “Then one guy, Jeff came down to a show and wanted to record us immediately.'”
“British indie-pop four piece Burning Shapes release Joe Hirst (Bloc Party, Ian Brown, Razorlight, Beth Gibbons) produced debut album ‘These Things Happen’ through Friendly Tribe with the help of some ‘Bad Karma’. The band introduced their signature sound in 2011 with debut single ‘Drop’ and gained national attention over the summer for their innovative use of QR codes as a music distribution tool for their album. Follow up double a-side ‘Silence Amplified / Someone Else’s Words’ further defined the Burning Shapes sound as a confident union of harmony fuelled west coast pop and British indie with the latter track offering a blissed out nod to their not so distant past as an acoustic/electronica outfit called Sound Sanctuary.”
“Palm is the third single from Leicester based shoe-gaze electro 4-piece I Am In Love. Having scored a spot on BBC Radio 1’s playlist with their debut single I Want You, Palm shows the band continuing their fine form, exploring further their unique brand of dark and emotive electro-indie.”
PALM by i am in love
“Taking their influences from such bands as Bloc Party,Bombay Bicycle Club and The Libertines, Street Party In Soho release their debut single “Take Your Time” on Monday 29th October. The band are from Newcastle and still only 16 years old. “Take Your Time” is an amazing debut single from this young band. Sometimes only youth can show the country the way to go. Street Party In Soho are the future.”
“This October, Irish multi-influenced musician Pat Dam Smyth releases ‘Friends’, the new single from debut album ‘The Great Divide’ on Monumental Music Group. ‘Friends’ is a poignant tribute to the value of real friendship, a realisation made by the songwriter during a time when he had completely withdrawn from society. Pat says ‘sometimes it takes something negative to happen before you realise what you had’. The soft lyrical melody of the introduction gives way to angst-ridden harmonies with a classic rock-meets-bluegrass refrain.”
“South Londoner Daniel Woolhouse sees his music as, “sitting somewhere between real and synthetic”, but the emotional impact of his alter ego Deptford Goth is about as human as it gets. Imbued with an intimate, intense, yearning melancholy, perfectly matched to a seamlessly woven ‘scape of synths, beats and atmospheric vocals, new track ‘Life After Defo’ confirms the arrival of an astonishing new talent. But who is Deptford Goth? We know his real name, age (28), the colour of his eyes (blue) and that he worked as a primary teacher’s assistant before committing fully to music. He’s already turned out remixes for Purity Ring, Blood Diamonds and S.C.U.M. and his talent extends to making the video to “Life After Defo” himself. He has been compared to James Blake in that electronically tweaked zone where synth-pop, R&B and soul meet; whilst lovers of The xx may recognise a kindred spirit. But the haunting electronic soul of “Life After Defo” feels very different to both, and three times as heartbreaking.”
“Enigmatic duo G R E A T W A V E S hail from Liverpool and London, now residing in Manchester, the two share a vision for making boundless music and have done so from the moment they met. A plethora of synths, drum machines, cascading guitars, and organic field recordings, accompany front man David De Lacy’s deep, penetrating vocals and streams of consciousness. Live performances include hypnotic projections of flowers bursting forth into life, the movement of clouds and the slow rising of the moon as De Lacy howls across swathes of Oliver Cooper’s electronics.”
Into The Blue by G R E A T W A V E S
“Last year London girl band Pris enjoyed regular plays on 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Nemone), Radio 1 (Huw Stephens) and Amazing Radio thanks to past offerings ‘Blue Tack Baby’ and ‘The Better You Look’. This year they’ve stripped their sound down to reveal its sparse indie pop knickers…Imagine the children of Courtney Love (the attitude, not the rambling mess) and Gary Barlow (the pop brain, not the suits), throw in the effortless cool of Debbie Harry and sexy glamour of Mark Bolan. This is Pris.”
