January 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:29:47 +0000

Here’s the January 2016 roundup, a mixtape featuring every artist we covered last month. Due to the holiday break and various end of year lists, it’s not as long as usual, but we are positive you’ll find something that tickles your fancy. Click the artist name in the tracklisting to be taken to the post in question.

Tracklisting:

1. Amerika – Wintersleep
2. Born Confused – Porridge Radio
3. Catchyalater – Frog
4. Water – Opals
5. Listerine – Foxall
6. Nightmare Song – Oscar Lush
7. October Mirage – Island Eyes
8. Past is Personal – West America
9. Roller – Quilt
10. Unattached – Two White Cranes
11. On the Nights You Stay Home – Donovan Woods
12. Call Out – Minor Moon
13. Consolation – The Chairman Dances (Lit Links)
14. First I’m Sorry – Haley Heynderickx
15. Waitress – Soft Lions
16. Vanitas – Hanging Hills
17. Waiting – Faint Peter
18. Farewell Navigator – Naomi Pop
19. Gifts – Real Swell
20. Future Wife – Jacob Faurholt
21. Wall – Slows Down
22. Olly Oxen Free – Creature Speak

P.S. On the subject of roundups, make sure you read about our favourite albums of 2015, our favourite songs and favourite free music.

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Introducing Foxall with new track, ‘Listerine’

Jon Doyle — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:14:09 +0000

I had intended to write a short something about Foxall before Christmas, but the holidays/life got in the way, so you’ll have to make do with this rather late introduction. Anyway, Foxall is the recording project of Ryan Foxall, a Knox College student who started writing music after “being pants’d 11 times in the first week of high school gym class”, and started using the Foxall moniker on the advice of friend/co-writer Jake Stein-Ross (it’s not clear if pants-ing was involved).

His first song is ‘Listerine’, a lo-fi bedroom pop number about moving too little and thinking too much, an ostensibly sad song cut with amusing lyrics and deadpan delivery which hint the whole thing might be a joke (a view furthered by the intro/outro quips). But just when you think you have the track pegged, it evolves into something different, part declaration of love, part plea for help from someone stuck too far away from someone they feel they need.

“I smell like pee and Listerine
I haven’t gotten out of bed since early June
Listen to me I’m blistering
My skin grows pale while outside flowers bloom.
I freeze with fear when you’re not here
and you keep me calm when I feel obscene.”

There are several more Foxall tracks on his Soundcloud page and apparently there will be a Foxall EP sometime in 2016 so keep you ear to the ground.

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January 2016 Roundup – A Mixtape

Introducing Foxall with new track, ‘Listerine’