Tracklisting:
1. All You Need
2. Another Broken Heart
3. Jack
4. It's Just Me
Introducing Cork born, London based, Maria Byrne. She releases her EP - 'All You Need'(Available from iTunes), produced by Karl Odlum (Gemma Hayes, Fionn Regan, David Kitt), this EP was recorded over a few days with a few microphones his living room in Dublin with Dave O' Callaghan on mandolin and guitar, Dave Brunton on percussion and Karl Odlum on bass.
Go God God(2009)
Tracklisting
1. "Skyscapers"
2. "Running"
3. "The Lights"
4. "Keep Me Clear"
5. "Good One"
6. "Death Song"
7. "Damn You Hollywood"
8. "Evergreen"
9. "We Should Keep On"
10. "The Lights Are with Us"
11. "Fear"
12. "Just Because We Can"
Because this band is Irish, amazing, and totally not as big as they should be, I'm only putting up a track download + youtube video, GO OUT AND BUY THEIR ALBUM!!! :)
"A five piece from Cork who take the anguish, angst and pain out of rock 'n' roll opting instead to just be really good. Beautiful, smart, and wealthier than most regular folk, FRED are the people's band, making music for the people, by the super-people. Imagine getting a face massage, that's what FRED's music does, it massages your face but nothing else, for its selective in its technique. It also takes you to the cinema and buys you Coke and a bag of minstrels" Says the band.
Their third album, Go God Go, is being received with such critical mass it is being honed as one of the strongest Irish releases of 2008 ("Startingly good music" - Hotpress, "Saviours of Pop" - State). With the first three singles. Running, Skyscrapers; The Lights, taking over the national airwaves simultaneously, their live reputation and fanbase has grown at a rapid pace, enlisting droves into the Fred army everywhere they go.
Musically the acknowledge legends as Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers and The Beach Boys as well as tipping their hat to such contemporaries as Wilco and The Flaming Lips.
Go God Go was recorded in Love Tap Studios, Cork and mixed by Mark Wallis who is one of the most experienced and versatile producers around regarded by his peers as having the best pair of ears behind any studio having worked with U2, Talking Heads,The Smiths, Iggy Pop, and The Stranglers.
"Fantastic alternative pop" i-D Magazine
"Go God Go as one of the Irish albums of the year to date" AU Magazine
"Beautiful, life -affirming, joyous pop music, brass 'n' all." State Magazine
"Startlingly good music" HotPress
"Fred are a breath of fresh air" The Tribune
"This is terrific stuff" Sunday Business Post
(Fred website)
LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR??
FRED (w/ Zoey Van goey) play Whelans, Wexford Street
Ok, so SOME people didn't really know how the blog( or atleast the downloading of music) worked, so this is a brief explanation.
Click the album image and you'll be brought to a page that will contain download links (eg below) just click the download buttons and there you have it, the album will start to download.
One site has an exception, you'll get a security box, where you have to put in the code to the left, into the box, on the right, then select "download file",and Bob's your uncle!
And to leave a comment, just click on the word "comment" at the bottom of each post and tada!
Everyone should have atleast one Angus and Julia Stone album in their collection! (In my opinion)
Indie/Folk
(click image to download) Down The Way (2010)
Tracklisting
01 - Hold On
02 - Black Crow
03 - For You
04 - Big Jet Plane
05 - Santa Monica Dream
06 - Yellow Brick Road
07 - And The Boys
08 - On The Road
09 - Walk It Off
10 - Hush
11 - Draw Your Swords
12 - I'm Not Yours
13 - The Devil's Tears
"Australian brother/sister duo Angus and Julia Stone return with the follow up to their 2009 critically acclaimed debut A Book Like This. This sophomore album gracefully navigates through 13 tracks, exploring themes of desire, lost love, self-discovery and beauty in the most unlikely of places. Down The Way was self-produced and recorded between England, New York and Australia--from an old sawmill on the riverbanks of Fowey, Cornwall to a studio in Brooklyn, to a water tank in Coolangatta to the streets of London and back to Queens. Stand out tracks include the Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright) co-produced "and the boys," the dark and driving "Black Crow" and the rustic and dreamy "Big Jet Plane.""
Say hello to Jónsi. He was previously the guitarist and vocalist of an Icelandic band called Sigur Rós, but is now establishing himself as a solo artist. Go is a phenomenal record with almost every bar bursting with beauty. It is soulful, fun, naïve and sad in its own fantastical world; if only life really were this good. This is a record that will make you believe it could be. G, will be released on April 5th, 2010… or you can just get it by clicking the image above.
