Thursday, February 24, 2011
Creamtastic Fresh Tracks: Free Album Downloads From Big Surr, Field Days, Tyler James and More
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM
* For fans of feel-good, lo-fi California pop, I give you Big Surr’s Miss You Most EP. Best Coast enthusiasts, be warned: This one may be directly up your alley. “Alright” and “You Got Somethin’ ” are standouts. Hear "Alright" below. [Download Big Surr’s Miss You Most EP via Mediafire.]
* Our own Lance Conzett already hipped you guys to Casa Castile’s Vake EP months ago, but it bears repeating. I got the chance to catch Andrew Nabuco & Co. live at Tuesday night’s Rock the Block, and I was not disappointed. Incredibly smart, remarkably dense bedroom pop with gorgeous melodies and brilliant instrumentation. Without a doubt, my most-played local release at the moment. Hear "Lights, Flashes" below. [Download Casa Castile’s Vake EP via Mediafire.]
* Heartfelt, intimate folk-pop from Field Days. It’s called Projector, and it features a lot of doubled vocals, improvised percussion and other bedroom-pop tricks. Hear "Half Past Tennessee" below. [Download Field Days’ Projector via New York Groove.]
* Local soul-inflected pop crooner Tyler James offers his It Took the Fire. Methinks I hear some smooth, smooth Wurlitzer parts upon a few of these tracks. (Or maybe it's a Fender Rhodes? Sorry, dudes. I'm not a keys guy.) Think of Ben Folds, Ben Lee or Ben Kweller’s more placid numbers. Hear "All I Got" below. [Download Tyler James’ It Took the Fire via NoiseTrade.]
* And last but most certainly not least, Infinity Cat has a Spring 2011 sampler for you. The mix features a handful of tracks that aren't exactly fresh — tunes from defunct outfits MEEMAW and Cake Bake Betty, for instance — but there are also tunes from folks like Hell Beach, Natural Child, JEFF, PUJOL, Denney and the Jets, FIELDED and more. [Download Infinity Cat’s Spring 2011 MP3 Sampler via JEFF the Brotherhood.]
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