K Records – part 4

Evening. This is the fourth and final part with selections from American indie label K Records. Enjoy!

(Part 1, 2 and 3.)

(Genres: Electric Sunset = chillwave, Mahjongg = electronic/rock, Tender Forever = pop, The Blow = experimental electronic/pop and The Microphones = experimental lo-fi folk)

Electric Sunset – Electric Sunset
Mahjongg – The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger
Tender Forever – No Snare
The Blow – The Concussive Caress, Or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With The Vacuum
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2

K Records – part 3

Howdy. Here you have part three (of four) with selections from indie label K Records. Enjoy!

(The genres: Beat Happening = indie rock, Karp = noise/punk rock, Little Wings = folk singer-songwriter, Some Velvet Sidewalk = rock and The Crabs = indie pop/rock)

Beat Happening – You Turn Me On
Karp – Self Titled LP
Little Wings – Light Green Leaves
Some Velvet Sidewalk – Whirlpool
The Crabs – What Were Flames Now Smolder

K Records – part 2

Hello again. Here is part two with selections from American indie label K Records. Recommended listening. Enjoy!

(The genres: Desolation Wilderness = psychedelic dream pop, Mecca Normal and Treepeople = indie rock, Mirah = singer-songwriter and The Pine Hill Haints = alt-country)

(The next two parts will be posted tomorrow.)

Desolation Wilderness – New Universe
Mecca Normal – Dovetail
Mirah – Advisory Committee
The Pine Hill Haints – Ghost Dance
Treepeople – Guilt Regret Embarrassment

K Records – part 1

Hi there. This week a bunch of releases from legendary indie label K Records have been added to Spotify. I spent some hours of my precious time to pick 20 albums that I will present to you in four parts. This is part one and it’s all pop here. Highly recommended listening. Enjoy!

(Note: I had to leave out many excellent albums, but I hope the ones I actually do write about will make up for my deliberate omissions.)

Gaze – Shake the Pounce
Glo-Worm – Glimmer
Saturday Looks Good to Me – Fill Up the Room
The Softies – It’s Love
Tiger Trap – Tiger Trap

Introducing InFiné

Hey. This new compilation, recently added to Spotify, is a good introduction to French electronic label InFiné. Enjoy!

(And as with Arandel, it’s strange that this album is not available in France.)

Various Artists – Introducing InFiné

Kindercore x3

Howdy. Some releases from indie label Kindercore Records were added in this weeks first Spotify update. Here are my top three selections. Enjoy!

Dressy Bessy – The California EP
of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum
The Sixth Great Lake – Up the Country

More Mexican Summer

Hey there. A bunch of new 2010 albums from indie label Mexican Summer arrived with the latest Spotify update. Most of these are in the pop/rock domain. Enjoy!

(Also note how you can absolutely tell (almost) from the album covers what kind of music this is. Nice!)

Jacuzzi Boys – Bricks Or Coconuts (Single)
No Joy – No Joy (Single)
The Bitters – East General
The Black Ryder – Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
The Mantles – Pink Information (EP)

Mexican Summer

Hello again. I’ve picked four releases from small American label Mexican Summer. They were all recently added to Spotify. Enjoy!

(Genres: Golden Triangle = Garage rock, Real Estate = lo-fi surf pop/rock[?], Washed Out = Chillwave/Electronic and Weekend = Shoegaze.)

(If you enjoyed Pearl Harbor you will like these releases for sure!)

Golden Triangle – Golden Triangle (EP)
Real Estate – Reality (EP)
Washed Out – Life Of Leisure (EP)
Weekend – All American (Single)

More Labrador: part 3

Hey. Here is the third and final part with more selections form indie pop label Labrador Records. All these releases were added in this weeks first Spotify update. Enjoy!

(Note: These are not available in France and the UK.)

(Labrador Records 1 and 2.) (More Labrador: part 1 and 2)

Club 8 – Strangely Beautiful
Douglas Heart – Douglas Heart
Sambassadeur – Coastal Affairs (EP)
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names – #4 (EP)

More Labrador: part 2

Hi. This is part two with my latest selections from indie pop label Labrador Records. All these albums were added to Spotify earlier this week. Enjoy!

(And again, the latest Labrador batch is not available in France and the UK.)

Edson – Every Day, Every Second
Laurel Music – This Night And The Next
Pelle Carlberg – In A Nutshell
South Ambulance – South Ambulance
Waltz for Debbie – Gone And Out

More Labrador: part 1

Hello friends. Many releases from Labrador Records were added in this weeks first Spotify update. Yesterday I finally did some serious listening. 14 releases were selected and I will present them in three blog posts. The main genre for Labrador is of course pop. Enjoy!

(Note: Most of these are restricted in both France and the UK!)

(Check out my first Labrador series from September last year: part 1 and 2.)

The Legends – Facts And Figures
The Mary Onettes – The Mary Onettes
The Radio Dept. – Lesser Matters
Tribeca – Dragon Down
Wan Light – Let’s Wake Up Somewhere Else

States Rights Records

Hey again. Here are three albums from States Rights Records, all added in the monster Spotify update earlier this week. Enjoy!

(Note: I will eventually get around to selecting some favourites from all the Labrador releases recently added. What did get me off a bit there was the fact that the new releases were restricted in the UK, while the first Labrador batch wasn’t. I’m now trying to find out why that is.)

Lloyd & Michael – Just As God Made Us
Paper – As As
YACHT – Super Warren MMIV

Cooking Vinyl: three

Howdy. Here is the last part with five more selections from independent label Cooking Vinyl. All albums were added in this weeks first Spotify update. Enjoy!

Bauhaus – Go Away White
Bruce Cockburn – Speechless
David Julyan – The Descent
Dot Allison – Exaltation Of Larks
Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West

Cooking Vinyl: two

Hey there. Here you have part two with selections from independent label Cooking Vinyl. All four albums were added in the monster Spotify update earlier this week. Enjoy!

Bert Jansch – When The Circus Comes To Town
Billy Bragg – Don’t Try This At Home
Chuck Prophet – Homemade Blood
Frank Black and the Catholics – Dog In The Sand

Cooking Vinyl: one

Evening. Since plenty of releases from independent label Cooking Vinyl were added in yesterdays monster Spotify update, I have now put together my top selections. This is part one of three with five very good albums. Enjoy!

(Genres here: lots of pop, a little bit of post-punk, some alternative and maybe a bit of rock as well. I put it as “multiple genres” just to be safe.)

Cinerama – Va Va Voom
Clem Snide – Your Favorite Music
Echo & The Bunnymen – Siberia
French Kicks – One Time Bells
Home – XIV

Candlelight Records x4

Howdy folks. Since my last metal posting was 12 days ago I thought it was time for a new one. Here are four recent additions to the Spotify library. All albums were released on Candlelight Records in 2009. Enjoy!

(Subgenres: Black, death and thrash metal.)

Absu – Absu
Savage Messiah – Insurrection Rising
Severed Savior – Servile Insurrection
Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire

Luxury Records

Good evening. When searching for the new song “Lilla London”, which was added in todays Spotify update, I also found a couple of more releases from small Swedish indie label Luxury Records. Label search is my friend. Enjoy!

(The google doc won’t be posted for a while.)

(The Boys EP has both wrong band name and title in Spotify.)

Almedal – …och utan en massa skit (EP)
Anton Kristiansson – Lilla London (single)
Boat Club – Caught The Breeze
Boys – Wapping (EP)
Fontaineblue – Svenska Fåglar EP
Samtidigt Som – Denna sida mot fienden (EP)

Fat Wreck Chords 3

Howdy. Many more releases from punk label Fat Wreck Chords were included in yesterdays big Spotify update. From those fresh releases I’ve selected a total of eight good punk albums to present for you. Enjoy!

(Fat Wreck Chords 1 and 2.)

(Oh, and I think it’s really nice to see all the covers together.)

Against Me! – As The Eternal Cowboy
Anti-Flag – Underground Network
Hi-Standard – Growing Up
Lagwagon – Blaze
No Use for a Name – Daily Grind
Rise Against – Revolutions Per Minute
Strung Out – Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
The Real McKenzies – 10,000 Shots

Kning Disk: part two

Good evening. This is part two of two with selections from small label Kning Disk. In this selection the genres are: instrumental/classical/jazz/ambient. I really like the cover art as well. Enjoy!

(Part one: here)

Nils Frahm – The Bells
Peter Broderick – Docile
Rickard Jäverling – The Valleys
Voice of the Seven Woods – The Journey (EP)
James Blackshaw – Waking into sleep: Göteborg, 27.05.06

Kning Disk: part one

Hey there. Many releases from small independet label Kning Disk have been added to Spotify lately. This is part one of two with my top selections. Genres: ambient/pop/folk/electronic/experimental. Recommended listening for sure. Enjoy!

Balroynigress – Shampoo And Champagne
Erik Enocksson – With its dark tail curled ’round the garage
The Bats – The Guilty Office
Lisa Nordström – 7 states of passion
Misophone – Be glad you are only human