Dedicated Ears Legal / Free Album/ep List

Pop, alternative, Americana from Sweden based Zebastian and The Sun. Thanks to Zebastian and The Sun for the download!

Pop ambient and dreamy female vocals from Detroit's Cassie Lopez who sings some sad songs in a beautifully somber way. "If Only" is a really cool song. Thanks to Cassie for the download1

American Green - Beautiful Rain, Beautiful Tears  is electronic music form Japan. This is really beautiful melodic stuff. Thanks to American Green and Lost Children for the download.

I am very happy to see this up on Bandcamp. I came across a few of her songs a few years ago, and am now happy to have a whole ep of her beautiful vocals. Thanks to Bobby baby for the free download.

This is some nice relaxing pop from Panama. There is a trippy element to it at times that goes with the ambient feel of this pop. Check it out. Thanks to El Papo Vacino for the free download!

 I loved L E N S when Sam first threw it up on bandcamp and I love this instrumental version which also has an acoustic guitar version of "Eyes Open".  Sam also does a wide range of musical creations on his SITE which also includes a cool booklet about the L E N S back story.  This is a name your price $0 minimum download, thanks for the download Sam. If you do download for free, please share the link with others.



Here's what the story behind Lens is in Sam's words :

"Dr. Lovell Mason, a former roboticist and now a reclusive individual of questionable sanity becomes increasingly desperate for knowledge of the outside world and humanities direction for the future. Unable to bring himself to face the now alien world beyond his house, he creates a mixed data gathering robot, whom he christens 'L E N S'.

Armed with nothing but what his disturbed creator gave him, and the task to 'observe and learn' from all that he sees L E N S enters our world.

Will the world accept him?"

I also thought  I would link his original L E N S album he is selling on his bandcamp.

Learning Music Monthly - 1.11  September Still  is a free download on learningmusicmonthly.com. Thanks to John and LMM for the download! This along with the Readers album are the first albums I would recommend to nubies to LMM . "CGGF" and "September Still" are my favorite tracks on LMM!

Of this album John says, "Most of this album was written while I was starting to imagine the Learning Music band that would form within the coming months. The songs are essentially the same as we play them live, but here performed entirely by myself. Twelve Tone, with its' tone row melody and chromatic chord changes, is a funny juxtaposition to the other minimalist jams." 

   John Wood is the driver of this bus but there are countless other musicians who have contributed to this great free monthly series. I did an interview with John on the main blog.  The short of it is he gets all of his friends together to make this music in monthly installments. All albums are free. There is a big swing in sound, and you are bound to enjoy at least a few of these albums no matter what you listen to. Thanks to John and the musicians for the great idea and great music!

Thanks to Godot for the free download on Jamendo!  This albums hangs out around the crossing point of post punk and 80's new wave with just enough modern touches included. Check this one out!

Experimental pop from Bryyn who is based in Switzerland.  His music is songwriter based and incorporates folk, pop, electronic and a few other styles at times. His complete library can be downloaded on his site bryyn.com on album at a time, artwork included for free.  If you click the link at the top of this download page you can download all 222 plus songs ALL AT ONCE. Though some of his albums  are on Jamendo, he does have a Donate button on his page , if you are so inclined.  Thanks to Brynn for the great music and free downloads! Please spread the word about his site on your Facebook etc. He deserves as much recognition as possible!

Nuuro - Paper Heart is available for free download at Poni republic net-label. This is a cool electronic ep with pop tendencies. Thanks to Nuuro and Poni for the download!

American Green - Roof To Roof is available through Lost Children net-label. This is nice melodic pop based electronic music.

Originally posted by Dedicated Ears on FrostClick, a great place to find Creative Commons music, games and software!

Elements of ambient, shoe gaze, post rock, and indie pop music make We Became Your Family When You Died by Chicago based dream pop/shoe gaze collective Bullets In Madison, one of the most ambitious albums your are likely to listen to. These songs are 4 to 7 minutes long but the indie pop narratives make them seem to go by much quicker.  In post rock and ambient music the emotion as all important, and this album has that in spades with a shimmering wave of strings, percussion and guitar accents that sound wistful.

Original members of the band are John Morton, Aaron Sandberg,  and Mike Stautmeister. Also contributing are Brendan Losch, Erik Bostrom, Luke Farran, Sammy Del Real, and Venetia Pristavec.  The Panic In Amber Blue, their first release in 2003 had quite a few hints of what the band would become. The biggest addition to their sound in the ensuing 7 years and two albums is the strings and ambient piano parts which make We Became Your Family When You Died sound like an indie orchestra. From the driving rhythms of "Animals" to the dream like post rock qualities of guitars on "Joel Found His Angel Cowering In The Garden"  Bullets In Madison show that their command of the emotional content is spot on. The production is also of note as the you are able to hear all of the instruments being played and the  vocals never bleed through to the music itself . This was one of my top plaid albums last year out of the 400 or so I downloaded.  I can never listen to just one song when I put this album on, I always listen all the way through, as I am doing now as I write this.

Eric Morelli is Unicorns and Mustaches. He makes electro acoustic indie pop that has elements of folk and emo.