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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Fresh Juice – Compilation Vol. 1

Liam Doyle — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:35:13 +0000

Fresh Juice are an online radio show based in Gloucester here in the UK. Every Monday night at 7pm UK time, they play a great selection of music that fits into that (very) loose bracket of lo-fi: bedroom pop, slacker pop, DIY, alternative, etc. In other words, the kind of stuff we like.

Not content with curating a great radio show, Fresh Juice have also recently become a record label. Or, more accurately, a cassette label. Their first release is a compilation of songs all discovered while mining the rich seams of talent to be found on that alien planet we know as Bandcamp, featuring artists from both sides of the Atlantic. What better way to introduce the general vibe of the radio show.

The comp opens with a lean and stylish track from San Francisco’s Concon, followed by a track from fellow Frisco artist Max Gardener’s forthcoming album Memory Lounge. Velcro Team brings pulsing lo-fi electro pop, The Carraways a bright and surfy take on the Britpop formula and Smiles deliver shoegaze-shaded indie pop.

Portland’s Turtlenecked delivers a lovely bedroom pop track, which explodes with noise in the final third, before London’s Real Swell bring oddball electronic pop and Cheltenham producer Samuel Francis closes proceedings with a shimmering slice of electronica, falling somewhere in the valley between emotive ambience and groovy beats.

You can get The Fresh Juice Compilation Vol. 1 right now via their Bandcamp page, on a nifty-looking cassette (see below) or as a digital download. And remember to tune in to Fresh Juice every Monday!

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