Swedish hardcore act Break Me has posted a brand new song for download: https://breakmehc.com/bilder/Broke%20my%20word.mp3
Swedish stonerrockers Blowback have posted some old tracks for free download: https://www.blowback.se/sound.php
Looks like Klicktrack has some competition on the way: https://www.nimson.com/
Don't forget that It's a trap! also sells DRM-free hi-res mp3s, along with CDs and vinyl.
Division of Laura Lee sideproject Frantic Mantis has posted another new track for free download: https://www.franticmantis.com/2006/06/repa-3.html
Indieworkshop reviews Swedish IDM artist Folie: https://www.indieworkshop.com/music.php?id=2521
I'm a big fan of that record and would recommend it highly.
Dusted is less than impressed with the new Dissection: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2929
Norwegian indiepop duo Gargoyle is now on myspace with a bunch of new tracks: https://www.myspace.com/gargoylegalant
Cake On Cake has posted another brand new song on myspace, "Sun chairs": https://www.myspace.com/cakeoncake
Bloodlights, the new band founded by Captain Poon of Gluecifer now has a confirmed lineup, an official website and will be hitting the studio later this month. Jonas Thire (Amulet) will play drums and Rune Elli from NBP is on bass and a as-yet-unnamed lead guitarist will be added later. Check the (unfortunately, 100% flash-based) site here: https://www.bloodlights.com/
Absolut Noise talks to The Knife: https://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2006/06/interview-knife_115006202133918265.html
Norwegian "thrashpop"/new-wave revival act Surferosa has just recorded two songs with the oh-so-hip crew behind Bergen-based label YFM/Your Favorite Music (FYI: YFM is run by the folks in Datarock). Ivar "Blanco" Nicolaisen of Silver provides some backup vocals and the two pieces are entitled "Fashion facist" and "The last stand".
Lo-Fi-Fnk's new website is now online: https://www.lo-fi-fnk.com/
MP3: Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago
Noxagt isn't quite like the other bands on the Load Records roster. Even though the label is well-known for putting out all sorts of challenging art-rock, I usually associate their aesthetic with louder/faster duos such as Friends Forever and Lightning Bolt. Those bands are fine I suppose, but I find that they tend to get fairly tedious upon repeat listens. Noxagt however traffics in a different kind of brutality - a bass-heavy pummeling that's not so preoccupied with filling space as it is with laying down beats that make your head nod. The baritone/bass/drums instrumentation naturally accentuates the low-end and the (mostly) mid-tempo pacing of the songs gives the material room to breathe. This song I've posted today is particularly slow and dirge-like. At first it doesn't really seem like it's going anywhere, but once it opens up, it sure gets painful. It a good way, of course.
Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago
MP3: Starlet - Sunshine
Happy Friday! Got another summery mp3 post for you today courtesy of contributor Nancy Baym:
To follow up on my last music-for-dumping-your-partner-with-a-smile-on-your-face contribution from the Caesars', here's another song likening breaking up to sun bursting through the clouds. "Let the sunshine in/Let the sunshine through/A brighter tomorrow/Cuz I'm through with you," sing Malmö's late-great Starlet in their inimitable pretty ever so askew lazy yet lovely way. This song is from their 2002 album "When sun falls on my feet". Starlet are somewhere between jangle and twee, melancholy and soothing. Enjoy.
Starlet - Sunshine