Veronica Falls #3 - New Song and Tour

http://veronicafalls.bigcartel.com/
http://veronicafalls.com/

Head on over to Veronica Falls website above, you can get an exclusive new song (so it's more than worth your trip). I'm yet to hear anything bad by this lot and this freebie keeps that momentum going nicely. The two singles are both must purchases (I'm sad enough to own both UK and US versions), "Found Love in a Graveyard" is one of my songs of the year, it is a lovely little ramshackle of infectious and basically bloody brilliant indie pop.

They play London White Heat on 16th Nov (w/ Blue on Blue). If it didn't clash with Caitlin I'd be there. Album tour I shall endeavour to get along. UK wide dates on their website above.

A wonderful little accoustic session for some dutch chanel can be found here.
Here is "Graveyard"
Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard by morrisday

Piresian Beach #2 - Parttalan EP

http://piresianbeach.bandcamp.com/

I posted about Hungarian artist Piresian Beach at the end of August, now we have a new 5 track EP named 'Parttalan' (download the entire EP for free on the link below)...

It continues with the same lo-fi bluesy /punk aesthetics, but on "Summertime" there is also this infectious beat combined with dark fussed out distorted and wailing guitar. It's quite excellent.

Listen for yourself:
Piresian Beach - Summertime by morrisday

EP Link Originally posted by unholy rhythms:
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?aribbu5ryhmqirt  

and one of the earlier tracks which made me discover her, this is my favourite of the first tracks from Piresian Beach, "Lost":
Piresian Beach - Lost by morrisday

Esben & The Witch #3 - New Album Details

http://esbenandthewitch.bigcartel.com/
http://esbenandthewitch.co.uk/

Esben & The Witch annouced details of their debut album last week, being a bit slow, it's taken me until now to post about it!

Violet Cries is to be released 31st January 2011 and will be one of the first CD's that are essential next year. Pre-order from the link above.
Download a track off it, "Warpath"; possibly the perfect thing to get you ready for the impending winter of gloom:
Esben & The Witch - Warpath by morrisday

If you haven't already make sure you've seen the excellent video for the first track we heard off the album "Marching Song":

The Soft Moon - New Music "Introducing"

http://www.myspace.com/thesoftmoon

This is just what I needed right now; something dark, moody and damn right sinister - a bit like how I've been feeling since the weekend after a self inflicted overdose of alcohol!

The Soft Moon is the project of Luis Vasquez who has released a couple of singles and has an album on the way through New York label Captured Tracks. A clear nod to the bygone 80's era of post-punk a la Bauhaus combined with some New Order riffs but there is enough new sounds to create something pretty fresh. It's unsettling,  intense but also pretty wonderful.

Listen:
The Soft Moon - Tiny Spiders by morrisday

Ramona #2 - Live at Camden Barfly

http://www.myspace.com/weloveramona

I said the highlight was Kitten in my last post, that was true, but Ramona were pretty good in their own right. Certainly showcasing a great deal of potential and a future star in the making in Karen-Ann.

With Steven McQueen they have an anthem in the making, their second song (haven't seen a setlist so not sure on title) was probably my favourite. They blend indie pop with a great bit of punk spirit and raw. "Tell That Girl" a new track that's popped up on their myspace highlights that perfectly, I can see stardom on the horizon.

They did this on Friday too, not my favourite 90's indie-classic but this video is well worth a look:

Kitten #2 - Live at Camden Barfly

Further to my post last week, I did go to check out Kitten and Ramona at the Barfly on Friday night. I'm very glad I managed to get my tired bones to Camden as I had another great night.

The stand-out were definitely Kitten, they literally blew me away with a relentless, energetic 45 minute show of spellbinding indie rock that started with a cover of "Transmission" before showcasing their EP and some other songs I wasn't familiar with. It's fair to say the set has given them the tag of "my favourite new band".

On hearing the EP I labelled them with indie-pop, I'd certainly upgrade that sound for the live show, their set was full of frantic raw emotion that completely belied their age (apart from some repeated shouts of "we're called Kitten and we're from LA" - we got it the first time!). For a self professed "bunch of kids" the show was amazing. Chloe has a stage presence that draws comparisons to Karen O and as a live act Yeah Yeah Yeahs are probably a very good choice of similarity. There stint of London shows is now over but they are playing a few shows in LA. Next time they are back in London, I'll be there.

You can watch two live songs from a recent CMJ show here and you can order their debut 7" here - a CD version of the 'Sunday School' EP looks penned in for a December release.

The song "Kitten With A Whip" was so good live, Chloe was crawling around the floor and looking pretty crazy, loved it. Listen to the EP version of "Kill The Light" below:
Kitten - Kill The Light by infinityyeah