This week we've got free MP3 downloads from The Coral, The Young Veins, Young Rebel Set, The Beatsteaks and Foxx Bandits.
Track of the week
This is the second YRS track we've featured in Free Track Fridays and they deserve the top spot. Their achingly-endearing working class acousticism grabs you in a way you just don't anticipate. This band should be bigger than they are.
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Having gone through a bit of a lacklustre period in the last few years, The Coral are back with new album 'Butterfly House' and it sounding a little more invigorated and, surprisingly, a little like the Mamas and Papas.
Unbelievably this is the new project from Panic At The Disco's Ryan Ross and Jon Walker. Surprisingly, The Young Veins have got that suns-kissed, analogue production that you find on Jefferson Airplane's early stuff and they write songs in a similar vein (no pun intended) too. We did not expect this.
The Beatsteaks - Jane Became Insane
These pop-punk stalwarts are massive in their native Germany, but for some reason they've never broken through in the UK. Their new record is a little more garage-rock and not short of nasty riffs.
TG hadn't heard these chaps before we get sent this free download, but - considering they only played their first show this March - they sound like they've been toiling in the underground for a decade. Wistful, lo-fi pop for bloggers and 'muso's.
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