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This Music Wins
thismusicwins.blogspot.com
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Bournemouth, UK based music blog featuring a selection of downloadable tunes and reviews from both sides of the Atlantic.
#76811 in All , #8 in Music Reviews

Album Review: Little Wings – Black Grass

20 jul 11

[Resonance FM #19] Latitude Festival 2011 Preview: The National, Braids, Avi Buffalo, Still Corners...

[LISTEN TO RESONANCE SAT @ 6.30 / DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW] My Latitude Festival 2011 preview featuring songs from The National, Braids, Avi Buffalo, Still Corners, Caribou and the unmissable Deerhunter....

13 jul 11

[Resonance FM #18] Zola Jesus, Washed Out, Chad Valley, Big Deal, Oh No Moon, Pallers

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN TO RESONANCE] This week’s show on Resonance FM is bringing you new releases from experimental gothic artist Zola Jesus, with their song Vessel, from her upcoming ...

01 jul 11

New: Gold Panda – MPB

Gold Panda dropped his latest track, MPB, via the Gold Panda site this morning, providing us with a wonderfully tight and rhythmic electronic jam not marked by a hint of recklessness. Instead, the tr...

22 jun 11

New: Memoryhouse – The Years EP (Remastered)

Memoryhouse, without doubt the finest purveyors of icy dream pop music in Toronto, possibly even the whole of Canada, are set to release a re-recorded, remixed and re-mastered version of their breakt...

22 jun 11

[Resonance FM #17] Glastonbury 2011 Preview: Twin Brother, Spotlight Kid, Summer Camp, Sea Of Bees,...

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN TO RESONANCE] Brighton indie rock band Twin Brother, second place in this year’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, at the BBC Introducing Stage at 12 noon ...

18 jun 11

[Resonance FM #16] Twin Sister, AXM, Get People, Umber, BLOOD DIAMONDS, House By The Lake

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN LIVE ON RESONANCE] Recent Domino Records signees Twin Sister announce their debut album, and drop new single ‘Bad Street’ as free download. The electronic i...

11 jun 11

New: Beirut – East Harlem / Goshen 7″

An unexpected but welcome drop from Zach Condon’s Beirut has hit stores today, in form of 7″ single ‘East Harlem / Goshen’, via Pompeii Records. A live recording and short int...

06 jun 11

[Resonance FM #15] Zammuto, Milagres, The War On Drugs, The History Of Apple Pie, Seapony, Porcelai...

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN LIVE ON RESONANCE ] Its been a pretty busy week in music compared to the normal rate of happenings – typical, in the sense that right now is the one time of year ...

04 jun 11

Live Review: Jamie Woon @ The Old Firestation, Bournemouth 2/6/11

Smooth, jazz influenced RnB is not something which I make a particular habit of going to see; in fact, I can comfortably say that I have never had the privilege or opportunity of going to a gig quite...

03 jun 11

New: So Many Wizards – Inner City / Best Friends 7″

What started out as the solo project of Nima Kazerouni has now developed into a fully fledged ethereal pop trio, by name of So Many Wizards, and by virtue of a notable knack for writing dreamy, 3 min...

01 jun 11

Album Review: Bon Iver – Bon Iver

Justin Vernon’s iconic “Bon Iver” project, famed for its aura of tranquil obscurity and desolation as much as its immeasurable emotional scope, was taken in to such an extent by the...

01 jun 11

New: Cave Painting – So Calm

Brighton’s Cave Painting placed a second gem of an indie pop song in my inbox this afternoon – this one by the name of ‘So Calm’. Little is known about them to date other than...

31 may 11

New: Blood Orange – Sutphin Boulevard

Blood Orange, the latest musical moniker of prolific musician and producer Dev Hynes, is set to have its debut album ‘Coastal Grooves’ released via Domino Records this August 8th, with ac...

31 may 11

[Resonance FM #14] Beams, Other Lives, Petrels, Timber Timbre, Blood Orange

This week’s This Music Wins show features the twisted IDM and post-dubstep-tinged electronica of British producer Beams, the Autumnal folk rock of Stillwater, Oklahoma band Other Lives, whose s...

28 may 11

New Album: Radioseven – An Escape

Radioseven‘s ‘An Escape’ is a spacey instrumental submission from my inbox, a free 8 track record which evokes almost instantly a hazy, whitened and wintry imagery, glacially cold i...

24 may 11

New: Cults – Cults (NPR Album Stream)

Cults‘ long-awaited debut album ‘Cults’ is now streaming over at NPR, one week ahead of its official release date on May 31st, and for the first time since Cults recent and joyous e...

23 may 11

New Album: Coma Cinema – Abandoned Lands

A pleasant surprise from Matt Cothran’s Coma Cinema project came this Monday, with the early release of his Abandoned Lands EP via band camp. Aside from Coma Cinema’s own contributions, w...

23 may 11

Album Review: Beams – Patches

That ever-thinning line between genuine field-leading experimentalism and fringe dance music just got thinner; at the end of April, British producer turned Prague inhabitant Beams released ‘Pat...

23 may 11

This Music Wins Broadcast @ Netaudio London 15/5/2011.

On Sunday I made my way down to the Netaudio event at the Roundhouse, a yearly event, conference, broadcast and live music convention for which my commissioned piece, a This Music Wins special outlin...

17 may 11

Live Review: The Antlers + Braids @ Heaven, London 12/5/2011

The stakes were always going to be high for Brooklyn three-piece The Antlers in the aftermath of 2009′s iconic ‘Hospice’; rarely had such a heartfelt and deeply conceptual fuzz-folk...

17 may 11

New: Yuck – Milkshake

Yuck, fresh from a string of shows with Tame Impala, are set to drop “Shook Down” / “Milkshake” from their grunge-inspired and frenzied debut album “Yuck” on June ...

10 may 11

Review: Gaymers Camden Crawl 2011 // Weekend Highlights // Bear Driver, Dry The River, Banjo Or Fre...

The Gaymers Camden Crawl Festival 2011 celebrated its tenth birthday this year; 2011 curated one of its strongest line-ups yet, and this coupled up with the sunshine, bank holiday weekend and abundan...

05 may 11

New: Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing (Gold Panda Remix) + Video

A flowingly-dressed and defiant Lykke Li silences co-star Stellan Skarsgård in this duly cinematic music video for new single ‘Sadness Is A Blessing’, wrought by the star-studded producti...

28 apr 11

Live: Mount Kimbie w/ Creep @ Audio, Brighton 26/5/11

For Mount Kimbie, the London post-dubstep duo evidently already leaps and bounds ahead of what is very much still an emerging market in the UK, to have returned from a long stretch in America (where ...

27 apr 11

New Album: Other Lives – Tamer Animals

Oklahoma’s ‘Other Lives‘ are a five man folk ensemble set to release their second album “Tamer Animals” this August 29th via Play It Again Sam Records. ‘For 12R...

27 apr 11

New: Thomas Truax – April Showers

As part of Thomas Truax‘s impressive bid to write, release and record a new track every month for a year throughout 2011, April’s offering has proven his most challenging yet. The elusive...

26 apr 11

[Resonance FM #12] Yeasayer, Joasihno, Alpines, Youth Lagoon, Camden Crawl Preview: Young Dreams, V...

This week’s This Music Wins show on Resonance goes out in anticipation of next weekend’s Camden Crawl festival in London, playing two of the most hotly anticipated acts from my personal f...

26 apr 11

New: Unouomedude – Frequency I & II

Unouomedude‘s July 2010 released Marsh EP was one of the catchiest post-Yuck garage pop albums of the whole Summer, and just under a year on, the one man band has announced a follow up single, ...

20 apr 11

New Album: The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy

The Middle East, the Australian folk band behind the beautiful debut EP ‘The Songs Of The Middle East’ in 2009 and the subsequent follow up EP “Jesus Came To My Birthday Party”...

20 apr 11

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