Back last summer we posted about White Dress and their self-titled EP full of songs quivering with tension, menace and despair.
Here is the video for a new song I’m Smoke. Looks good!
You can still pick up her previous releases from cdbaby here or on eMusic.
You can visit her MySpace here.
Download White Dress – Five Feet Of Road mp3 (from White Dress EP)
Download White Dress – No Solid State mp3 (from White Dress EP)
Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we’ve posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think.
Black Angels – Telephone mp3
Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies
Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3
Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story of a serial killer
The Migrant – The Organ Grinder mp3
Gentle, low-key start before the swelling, insistent guitar strum builds and builds while the plaintive vocals keep pace the whole time
Efren – Stay High mp3
Psych-folk tale of trying to lose love, dreams of family past, tall boys, gambling, and whiskey stills…
TV Torso – I Can See Your Face mp3
Excellent, hypnotic pulses and sixties harmonies
Amen Dunes – By The Bridal mp3
Hazy, sunlit psychedelic folk
Nick Marsh – Best Shag In The World mp3
Like an evil Richard Hawley on smack singing something from Blue Velvet
Victorian English Gentlemens Club – A Biting Wind Followed By An Occasional Drift Of Snow (Was No Way To Cure A Hangover) mp3
Excellent new track from post–punk, art-rock weirdos
White Noise Sound – Sunset mp3
Corrosive feedback, pulsating krautrock rhythms, floating vocals and wall-of-sound guitars combine into an ear-shattering, blissed out climax
White Dress – No Solid State mp3
Noir rock, taut and quivering with all kinds of emotion poured into the vocals
Small Black – Photojournalist mp3
Lilting sliding beat dropping into a gorgeous moment of ambient wash
Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences – I’m In Love With A Hospital Receptionist mp3
Anti-folk masters of oddball lyrics, black humour, biting satire and sometimes poignant political comment
Ono Palindromes – Black Lungs mp3
Ferocious energy, vicious circling guitars and gunshot percussion
The National – You Were A Kindness mp3
New, suitably downtempo piano ballad
American Graveyard – Common Ones mp3
Debauched Americana, delivered in the timeless style of all classic protest songs
Truman Peyote Featuring Emily Reo – Turn Into Feathers mp3
Like something from a banned 1970s horror flick it quickly transforms into a delightfully skewed three minute pop song for freaks and outsiders
Haunted Windchimes – Don’t Take My Baby Away (Baby Back) mp3
Authentic, bewitching folk that draws you in and holds you tight
Baby Eagle – Day Of Our Departing mp3
A corking track with echoes of Neil Young, Gram Parsons and Pavement
We Are Trees – Dear Chan Marshall mp3
Deceptively simple song with some lovely flamenco style guitar and clever lyrics
Pepper Rabbit – Older Brother mp3
Folk with chamber leanings and a twisted, slightly psych-pop edge
The War On Drugs – Comin’ Through mp3
Strummed guitar delight from forthcoming album
Roy Paymon – Imonetta mp3
Simply georgeous, fragile pop song
Our cover versions of the month are these two:
Download Fever Ray – Mercy Street mp3
Download Mumford & Sons – Unfinished Business mp3
And three excellent new tracks to finish off with: firstly another cover – The Drums doing Arcade Fire, the new taster track from indie-folk God Sufjan Stevens and finally some superb, caustic, drone punk from The Band In Heaven.
Download The Drums – We Used To Wait mp3
Download Sufjan Stevens – I Walked mp3 (from The Age of Adz)
Download The Band In Heaven – Suicide Pact mp3 (from The Band In Heaven / Weird Wives Split Tape)
A few days ago we posted about noir-ish lounge-country rockers White Dress and their excellent new self-titled EP. At the time we didn’t have release details, but the label have been in touch to say it is now available as a completely free download.
So, we’ve given you two tracks already, another new one is below, and you can get the final two just by clicking here. Seriously why wouldn’t you?
Download White Dress – Light Hearted mp3 (from White Dress EP)
Download White Dress – Five Feet Of Road mp3 (from White Dress EP)
Download White Dress – No Solid State mp3 (from White Dress EP)
White Dress are led by vocalist Arum Rae and hail from Austin, Texas – she describes her music as lounge Country and noir rock and lists Mark Lanegan as a major influence…a combination that was more than enough to pique our interest.
We have been listening to their self-titled EP which can make for some wonderfully tense listening – the songs are taut and quivering with all kinds of emotion poured into the vocals and it is easy to see where the PJ Harvey comparisons come from. But there is much, much more going on than mere imitation – these songs are delivered with real feeling and fluctuate between real menace and black despair.
Soulful and raw, her voice with its fantastic range and the exceptional playing to back it up has meant that we’ve had this on repeat since we first heard it. Highly recommended.
We don’t have any release details yet, but you can get her previous releases from cdbaby here or on eMusic.
You can visit her MySpace here.
Download White Dress – Five Feet Of Road mp3 (from White Dress EP)
Download White Dress – No Solid State mp3 (from White Dress EP)
