Picnic Lightning is mostly Aaron Sherwood. These songs have exp pop foundations, yet they are still full fledged pop songs that work very well. The mix of instruments and electronic is really cool. There are psyche pop flourishes that I really enjoyed. This is a name your price $0 minimum so any and all monetary consideration is appreciated. Thanks to Aaron for the download!
Loch Lomond - Trumpets For Paper Children is a free download on hushrecords.com. They also take donations for the artists as well. Loch Lomond are from the Portland, Oregon and their sound is a big full orchestration that recalls Decemberists and Horsefeathers. I love the sound of the band from that area including Mimicking Birds and Heather Broderick as well. Great stuff. Loch Lomond have other releases for sale on Hush Records as well. I will be checking those out.
Corrina Repp - The Other Side Is Mud is on French label hushrecords.com. Thanks to them and Corrina for the free download. You can also donate some money for the album on the page linked here.
The 1999 CDR release from Corrina Repp that defined her early 'minimal' period. Sited as the favorite release from the HUSH records catalog in a recent 2008 decade retrospective. We're bringing it back, and making it available (for the second time actually) as a digital download.
More cool acoustic songs from A Book About Elephants who is Christina Tsui. Her first album was Milk The Moon and is on Hush Shop Records. is featured on this blog as well. The These were self recorded and sound really good. This is a free download, but donations for the music is greatly appreciated.
A Book About Elephants - Milk The Moon is a free download on French label hushrecords.com. Christina Tsui is this band. These are some bare bones folk songs here that have strong vocals and really good song writing. Look for my post on her new album HERE. If you choose to donate you can do so at Hush records site.
From her bio : A good slice of her life was spent reading and admiring the watercolor pages of such children's books as Maurice Sendak's "Little Bear" and Jean de Brunhoff's "The Story of Babar," from which the name 'A Book About Elephants' draws partial inspiration. (She also thinks elephants are just really cute.) Christina approaches songwriting much like these books approach storytelling--relying on personal experience, imagery, and small stretches of the imagination to create something simple and close to the heart. With the help of one Podington Bear and his ear for lush, delicate instrumentals, A Book About Elephants is ready to take its music out of the bare-bones bedroom-"studio" and into your ears.
Lo fi/shoe-gaze pop from Canada. This has some really good grooves on it like on "Blue Heron". Thanks to Little Jungles for the free download!
Nice time tempo shifts on these songs. "We Were Foxes" is an addictive little track. Love the snare sound on that. This is a nice indie album. Thanks to the band for the download!
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