Sarah Winchester – Northeast Kingdom

(RIYL: folk, sad, A Weather, J. Tillman)

Sea Wolf – Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke

(RIYL: folk, indie rock, Leaves in the River)

Shipwrecks – Unknown Demos

(RIYL: folk, bedroom pop, sad)

Sledding With Tigers – A Necessary Bummer

(RIYL: folk punk, ramshackle fun, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Paul Baribeau)

Slow Violence – New Teen Angst Pt. 2

(RIYL: ambient, dream pop, super slo-mo R&B)

Splendidid – Finx

(RIYL: dream pop, surfing, summer)

The spookfish – Living Room

(RIYL: experimental, surreal synth pop, age-old folk music)

The Sweater I Gave You – Three / Four

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

Swim Lessons – Winged and Wounded

(RIYL: indie pop, lo-fi, You Won’t)

Thad Kopec – Noble Neighbour

(RIYL: folk, americana, Blind Pilot, Bowerbirds)

Thorsten Nesch – Spilling the Beans

(RIYL: folk, lo-fi, acoustic)

Trashlord – One

(RIYL: punk, fuzzy indie rock, LVL Up)

TV Girl – French Exit

(RIYL: indie pop, hip hop, spoken word samples)

Two White Cranes – Twowhitecranes

(RIYL: folk, singer-songwriter, Emmy the Great)

Un Blonde – Habit Anything

(RIYL: lo-fi, experimental, art pop)

Unknown Tone Records – Unknown Tone Vol. III (Compilation)

(RIYL: ambient, experimental, field recordings)

Unradiant – S/T

(RIYL: ambient, downtempo, electronica)

Violeta Päivänkakkara – Kipinä​.​jp

(RIYL: electronic, folk, chill)

VVhile – More

(RIYL: lo-fi, noise, pop punk)

WALBERT MK – THE ‘WALBERT MK’ TAPE 2K14

(RIYL: pop, electronic, indie)

Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra – Well Soon

(RIYL: indie pop, acoustic, kazoos)

Water Music – Wolves

(RIYL: folk, indie rock Sparklehorse)

Wet Wood – s/t

(RIYL: experimental, psychedelic, krautrock)

Whatever, Dad – 100% Take Home! Grade Pending

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

Wood Spider – Decadence

(RIYL: folk, punk, gypsy, Defiance Ohio)

The Yellow Dress – Faint Music // Ordinary Light

(RIYL: folk, indie pop, The Mountain Goats, The Magnetic Fields)

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

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Tracklisting:
1. Le Sigh – Johnny Foreigner
2. What You Need – Jacques Greene
3. Opinion Piece – Jon Hynes
4. Is What It Is – She Keeps Bees
5. Dead Lamb – King of Cats
6. Full of Minnows – Happyness (from 80n7)
7. Gypsy Dead Girl – Field Medic
8. Do Girls – Theophilus London
9. Fireworks (Reprise) – Radiator Hospital
10. Garden – Hiatus
11. All the Experts Say – Joyride!
12. 24 – Shipwrecks
13. The Way He Looks at Me – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
14. G – Young Jesus
15. Spring Sheet – Fairweather Currents
16. 925 – Gorgeous Bully (from 80n7)
17. On the Rocks – The Rural Alberta Advantage
18. Never Catch Me – Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar
19. Seraphine – Peirson
20. Colorado – Noah Young

September Mix from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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So what we get are six songs recorded quickly and in (presumably) humble surroundings. But we also get heartfelt songwriting from a young man who quite obviously means it. My current favourite track is ‘24’, a melancholy song that longs for a better time while being stuck in a city. “I went to the one place in the city where I could hear myself think,” Fabrizio sings, before detailing trips (with a significant other) to simpler places, driving to South Dakota, walking in the mountains, seeing the Pacific for the first time. It closes with the line ’at 24 I feel like a ghost.’ You can hear in the player below:

You can download unknown demos on a name-your-price basis via the Shipwrecks Bandcamp page.

P.S. If you are not familiar with his previous releases, check them out here.

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Tracklisting:

1. Borrowed Tune (Neil Young Cover) – Field Report*
2. Someone Like You (Adele Cover) – Shipwrecks & Island of Misfit Toys
3. Good Good Things (The Descendents Cover) – Edsel
4. Ceremony (New Order Cover) – Chromatics
5. Angels (The XX Cover) – KOTKEE
6. Dark Eyes (Bob Dylan Cover) – Dirty Projectors
7. If I Had No Place To Fall (Townes Van Zandt Cover) – Nathaniel Rateliff^
8. Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover) – Praything
9. From the Soil, a Violin (Goose Lake Cover) – Wand (formerly First Nations)
10. I Can’t Talk About It (El Perro Del Mar Cover) – His Clancyness
11. Such Great Heights (Postal Service Cover) – Iron & Wine
12. From The Morning (Nick Drake Cover) – Pickering Pick
13. Night Moves (Bob Seger Cover) – Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson^
14. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (Traditional) – Daniel Rossen
15. My Dreams Have Withered and Died (Richard and Linda Thompson Cover) – Angel Olsen & Marissa Nadler
16. No Ordinary Love (Sade Cover) – The Rosebuds
17. You Aint Seen Nothing Yet (Bachman Turner Overdrive Cover) – Yo La Tengo
18. Indian Sunburn (Schooner Cover) – Wesley Wolfe
19. Ohio (Damien Jurado Cover) – Neil Halstead*
20. I See a Darkness (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Cover) – Johnny Cash

* = taken from Fuel/Friends Chapel Sessions
^ = taken from Daytrotter Sessions

Please remember to support the artists! We’ve included links on the tracklisting that will take you somewhere more specific for each band so be sure to check out their original material. Also visit Daytrotter and Fuel/Friends, the sessions they do are well worth your time.

The Covers Mix: Volume #6 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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(RIYL – “Defeatist Folk”, Nostalgia, House of Wolves)

Pop Winds – Earth To Friends

(RIYL – Psych Pop, Animal Collective, Parts & Labor, Braids)

Praything – Her Skin Caught The Glow

(RIYL – Indie Pop, Pianos, Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Youth Lagoon)

Rem’s Floating Chandelier – Think Of The Willows

(RIYL – Chillwave, Ambient, Dream Pop, Variety)

Ricky Eat Acid – Ambien Music

(RIYL – Ambient, Drone, Melancholy)

Ricky Eat Acid + Arrange – Sketches

(RIYL – Ambient, Collaborations, Ricky Eat Acid, Arrange)

Roman Ruins – Homebuilding

(RIYL – Electronic Pop, Animal Collective, Beach House)

Sean Atkins – Volume One / Volume 1.5 / Volume Two

(RIYL – Acoustic, Singer Songwriters, Bright Eyes, J. Tillman)

Selkies – Tall Grass

(RIYL – Psych Folk, Nature, Mountain Man, Joanna Newsom, Lemolo)

Seth Frightening – Don’t You Worry (Heat Death)

(RIYL:Experimental Folk, Smog, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grouper).

Shipwrecks – Whatever

(RIYL: Bedroom Pop, Talons’, Phil Elvrum, Sufjan Stevens)

Sledding With Tigers – Being Nice is Still Cool

(RIYL: Folk Punk, Defiance Ohio, Andrew Jackson Jihad).

Snow Mantled Love – Romance 126

(RIYL: Dream Pop, Sharon Van Etten, Beach House, Twin Sister, Sigur Ros).

Spook Houses – Trying

(RIYL: Indie Rock, Pavement, Titus Andronicus).

Squanto – On Being Lumpy

(RIYL: Ambient, Folk, Nils Frahm, Talons’)

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15. Isaac Delusion – Early Morning EP

(Cracki)

14. Shipwrecks – Whatever

(Self Released)

13. The Long Haul – Debtors

(Tangled Talk)

12. Daniel Rossen – Silent Hour/Golden Mile

(Warp)

11. Snow Mantled Love – Romance 126

(Self Released)

10. Wake Owl – Wild Country

(Vagrant)

9. Groundislava – TV Dream

(Friends of Friends)

8. Why? – Sod In The Seed

(Anticon / City Slang)

7. The Wandering Lake – Ashame

(Self Released)

6. Memotone – Hands

(A Future Without)

5. Throwing Snow – Clamor

(Snowfall)

4. The Antlers – Undersea

(Transgressive)

3. Shlohmo – Vacation

(Friends of Friends)

2. Tyler Butler – Violence

(Self Released)

1. TNGHT – TNGHT

(Warp / Lucky Me)

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