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May 2014 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:17:00 +0000

A collection of songs from artists that were featured on Wake The Deaf throughout the month of May. Dig in.

Tracklist:

1. Kids Will Be Kids – Praything
2. Do You Have Romantic Courage – Hallelujah The Hills
3. The Shore And The Coastline – Now Wakes The Sea
4. The Corrections – Alphabetical Order Orchestra
5. Give Me Time – Roo & The Howl
6. To Remember – City States
7. Vow – Sales
8. In The Rain – Cut Ribbons
9. Feel What – Jacques Greene
10. Down On My Luck – Vic Mensa
11. Greater Than – Sharpless
12. Tennis Court (Flume Remix) – Lorde
13. Warehouses – Kane Ikin
14. Wild Geese – Small Sur
15. Youth – Best Wishes
16. Early Morning – Eagle Lake Owls
17. Dust To Settle – Rough River
18. Slow Down – Scott Orr
19. Gray Lodge Wisdom – Will Stratton
20. Brother, Do You Know The Road? – Hiss Golden Messenger
21. Something Like That – Wolf Collage
22. Muscle and Bone – John Joseph Brill
23. All Your Promises – Jesse Marchant
24. Echo Tropism – Inventions
25. Veiled Grey – Christian Löffler
26. All I Want – Dawn Golden

If you missed them, we have such mixes for January, February, March and April too.

May Mix from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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Wolf Collage

Jon Doyle — Mon, 12 May 2014 09:27:12 +0000

Wolf Collage is the alias of San Francisco resident Rodney Brown. He makes the sort of earnest dream/bedroom pop that I love, and I must say he’s rather good at it. He last full release, Forward, was introduced back in January (and managed to slip by my radar), and is full of all the things

Brown shows that he is equally adept at making straight-up acoustic folk songs (see ‘Are We Done Yet?’ and the title track), alt-rock (as on ‘Glow’) and some bedroom-crafted lo-fi beats (’…Next Stop: Wherever’). ‘Up the Denial’ throws a curveball at its centrepoint, beginning as a nicely strummed acoustic track, before eventually kicking off into full-tilt indie rock. The record shows Brown as a versatile artist, one who is adept at crafting songs in a variety of genres.

Brown has recently released a new track entitled ‘Something Like That’, which will appear on a brand new, self-titled album due later this year. It’s basically a rock song, and it’s great. Check it out in the player below:

You can purchase the new track, along with the impressive Wolf Collage back catalogue (okay, just two other releases, but they’re both really good), over at his Bandcamp page. I, for one, can’t wait to hear what he does next.

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