Kristin Hersh to release her long-awaited new album Crooked as a hardback book!
Currently recording her debut album with Espers’ Greg Weeks, Emily Arin is our newest crush to emerge from the venerable school of dusky, graceful songwriting. Download her EP for free!
free music friday: cibelle
‘Man From Mars’ is the first song to be beamed into our ears from the post-apocalyptic saloon of the Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel, but rather than the full-on assault of vintage exotica we were expecting, it’s actually a very relaxing, vaguely inconsequential track.
free music friday: chrome hoof
The first track to emerge from Chrome Hoof’s forthcoming album Crush Depth, ‘Crystalline’ is a polished but satisfyingly glitchy electronic treat full of inventive tricks and glorious pitfalls.
free music friday: tracey thorn
Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman get tough with one another on a cover of Magnetic Fields’ ‘Yeah!, Oh, Yeah!’. Do not be fooled by the seemingly upbeat, chirpy title – this song is fuelled by venom. “Could you really kill your wife?” “Yeah! Oh, yeah!”
free music friday: white hinterland
If you had (somehow) never heard Justin Timberlake’s electro-pop stomper ‘My Love’ before hearing White Hinterland’s cover version, it seems doubtful you would ever equate the two. Casey Dienel has transformed Timberlake’s club pleaser into a wistful, almost a cappella number.
free music friday: rah digga
Announcing her imminent comeback with this aptly named free download, Rah Digga’s tight, swaggering salutations provide a taster to whet appetites for her upcoming album, tentatively titled The Big 10.