Daily Downloads
Catch x Ayres x Jess : “Flash Lights Mix 5″
Person L : “Good Days” from ‘The Positives’ (use secret code 11172009)
Kreg & Dez : “Stupid Fruity Hookah”
Tom Shaw : “Stop in the Valley” from ‘Blind Lemons Buddy’
Phosphorescent : “Mermaid Parade” from ‘Here’s To Taking It Easy’s’ (out May 11th)
The Black Swans : “Rooster” from ‘Words Are Stupid’ (available now)
Airship : “Kids” from ‘Algebra EP’ (out May 11th)
Dead Country : “Euro Thrash” from ‘Dead Country’
The New Pornographers : “Crash Years” from ‘Together’ (out May 4th)
Angels & Airwaves – Love
From the introspective debut ‘We Don’t Need to Whisper’ to the exploratory ‘I, Empire’, Angels & Airwaves are one of the few big stadium rock bands left whose album releases add a little delight to everyday happenings.
The third full-length named ‘Love’ was released a while back and on the first few weeks hit an astonishing amount of downloads – over 500 000. The record marks a new approach by band to consumer and fan. Free of all charge, you can get on the action of ‘Love’ on angels-and-airwaves.com.
The 11-song epos, soon coming to a theater near you, entrusts on DeLonge’s songwriting talents to grasp the fan-approved sound of previous records and bundle them into an esoteric explanation of human relationships and the mystery of love. While being offered free-of-charge the record has a twisted familiarity to it – the ease of access to ‘Love’ can play against it but with a nicely arranged introduction piece and the more memorable songs put at the start, the record can only gain followers.
Smart business people as AVA are, they’ve easily combined their authentic, larger-than-life sound and pop qualities with the most popular subject of music since the beginning of time. All the way ‘Love’ feels solid, accomplished and wired exactly to tackle your emotions with the familiar background acoustics, occasional anthemism, melancholic melodies, spacious echos, attractive guitar riffs and, as always, brilliantly sounding drums. The main difference sonically between the previous records are the amassed spheric and electronica volumes that evoke the intro’s and outro’s and paint a familiar picture in sophisticated and eclectic colors.![]()
If you like or hate DeLonge or Blink, give ‘Love’ a spin, because Angels & Airwaves are still one of the most distinctly sounding big rock bands from the US with an excitement and hope to their songs that can make you run marathons.
Seems that a white guy with guitar still has a place in music.
Free Music for Tuesday
Kate Miller-Heidke : “Are you F*#king Kidding Me?” (The Facebook Song)
The Dig : “You’re Already Gone” from ‘Electric Toys’ (Out June 8th)
Skeat : “Dumelang” from ‘Basimanyana Mamela Meropa’
The Burning Hotels : “To Whom It May Concern” from ‘Novels’ (Out Today!) – Review here
Sabrina Siegel : ‘A Silent Forest’
Collage Ensemble : “Petis Peiu” from ‘Forty Seven Minutes Four Seconds’
Stigma : “The Undertaker” from ‘Concerto for the Undead’ (Out April 30th!)








