Listen Before You Buy

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”. QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare If you’ve been reading the site for for any amount of time then you might’ve seen me mention The Delta Mirror on a few occasions, and on one of those occasions posting a few of their songs and a video.  Well that was back in April and their album “Machines That Listen” is still [...]

TweetShare Read a review of The Delta Mirror’s debut album “Machines That Listen” and ten times out of ten you’ll read about each of these nine songs taking place in nine different rooms of a hospital.  It’s true, they do, but it seems to be the focus of many-a-blog and the music escapes their insight. [...]

TweetShare I found Elbows Like Swords’ (one-man band Adam) dark and melodic music via Last.fm and Los Campesinos’ Twitter stream and instantly fell in love, playing his three songs over and over and over and over again. From Edinburgh, Scotland (as am I) he describes his music as “drowning in a nightclub toilet while your [...]

TweetShare Dark, brooding, and Gothic, Blessure Grave from San Diego blend music from The Cure, Joy Division and Cocteau Twins into one frighteningly atmospheric and introspected sound that can either instigate a bad mood and get you out of one, but bad moods are awesome (they give you license to be a justifiable dick to anyone!) so [...]