Favourite Free Music of 2014 (A-D)

[First: read more about the list and what ‘free’ actually means.]

ACAB Rocky / Kneedlez (split) – ACAB Rocky // Kneedlez

(RIYL: punk rock, lo fi, bedroom pop)

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Ahava Steal, Kill, Destroy EP

(RIYL: folk, acoustic, ambient, Julianna Barwick)

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Alexia Avina Kind Forest EP

(RIYL: dream pop, folk, intimate)

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Ant’lrd Biblioteca Nod Out

(RIYL: experimental, ambient, fuzz)

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Arrange – Their Bodies in a Fog

(RIYL: bedroom pop, ambient, Orchid Tapes)

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Art Contest – Math Major

(RIYL: math rock, punk, Cap’n Jazz, Dananananaykroyd, Abe Vigoda)

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Astroskeleton you are not alone

(RIYL: Nintendo, 8-bit, chiptune, power pop, Space Boyfriend)

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Aunt Sis 9 Tracks

(RIYL: indie, folktronica, Broken Social Scene)

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Baby Mollusk – Baby Mollusk and the Big Babies

(RIYL: bedroom pop, indie rock, lo-fi)

Balacade – From Memory

(RIYL: indie pop, Cataldo, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse)

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The Bank Trail / Lake Michigan A Split EP

(RIYL: bedroom pop, lo-fi, ambient, covers)

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Bellows Blue Breath

(RIYL: bedroom pop, Small Wonder, Why?)

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Blush Response – Dead Air

(RIYL: shoegaze, dream pop, indie rock, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart)

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Bois Blank (out) EP

(RIYL: dream pop, soul, Bon Iver, Praything)

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Boosegumps Leave Me Alone EP

(RIYL: bedroom pop, lo-fi, sad)

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Born Standing Up Born Standing Up

(RIYL: country, folk, The Wooden Sky, The Head and The Heart)

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Boy Spit Everyone Is Cool

(RIYL: lo-fi, garage rock, Quilt, Cloud Nothings)

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Broke For Free Petal

(RIYL: chillwave, glitch, trip hop, summertime)

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Camping In Alaska Bathe

(RIYL: punk, indie rock, post-hardcore, At the Drive In)

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Captive Portal – Somethign Abbadat EP

(RIYL: electronic, experimental, collages of chopped up sounds)

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Cellulist – Holocene

(RIYL: ambient, drone, experimental)

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Chips Calipso I Walked Outside and Felt the Sun 

(RIYL: dream pop, surfy vibes, pysch, Evangelicals)

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Cold Foamers All Cold Everything

(RIYL: indie rock, lo-fi, Built To Spill)

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Contron Before I Hated Things

(RIYL: lo-fi, acoustic, weird old-timey folk)

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DAILON – Transitions

(RIYL: electronic, beats, “future soul”)

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Dead Folk – It Won’t Take Long

(RIYL: grunge, shoegaze, the 90s)

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Dear – Dear EP

(RIYL: bedroom pop, lo-fi, acoustic)

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We have selected our favourite tracks and made a mix for your listening pleasure. Check out the player below and be sure to tune in tomorrow for the next installment.

Favourite Free Music of 2014 (A-D) from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.