Free download from Steel Trees

Steel Trees have something for you… A free download of their current single ‘Loggerhead’.

Signed to Dirty Fuzz Records, the Sheffield based band share similar angular traits to fellow Yorkshiremen Hawk Eyes and have already scored previous support slots with Dinosaur Jr, Baby Godzilla and Turbowolf.

The track can be streamed/downloaded via the widget below.

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Free download from Mordred

San Francisco’s Mordred are back and they’ve got a gift for you! ‘The Baroness’ is a track which very much heralds the much loved cult band’s return. It’s their first single for more than two decades…and you can download it ABSOLUTELY FREE from their official Facebook page below. …And to think, last time we heard from these guys, the internet barely existed.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS: Vauxhall & Us: A French Tribute To Morrissey

vauxhallThe world has seen release of many tribute albums, many tossed off with casual indifference that miss the mark completely.  Occasionally, one comes along that’s just so misguided you end up wondering how it came to be in the first place.  The idea of thirteen different low-key French artists recreating Morrissey’s 1994 album ‘Vauxhall & I’ could easily sound like a bad one from the off, but somehow, through an array of reasonable talent – not to mention excellent source material and sheer balls – ‘Vauxhall & Us’ works.  Without Morrissey’s distinctive croon adding to a many a black humour within his lyrics, these songs sound markedly different.  Their charm is still often apparent, but in a wholly different way.  The acoustic setting on some of the recordings allows Moz’s gift of words to remain the biggest draw of all, but the European slant evident from time to time also lends a certain charm.

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