Daily MPfree: Future Islands

We’ve a good one for you today: Future Islands‘ “melodramatic popular song”. This is the opening track from their brilliant 2010 album “In Evening Air”, which is out now on Thrill Jockey. They hit the UK in late September: watch the next issue for more.

Future Islands – Walking Through That Door by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Babe Rainbow

Babe Rainbow is our friend Cameron Reed from Vancouver. Having just played the Warm Up Sessions at PS1 in Brooklyn with Animal Collective and CFCF he’s released this Screwed Mixtape, featuring a load of Babe Rainbow tunes and assorted remixes of tracks you might recognise such as Comanechi and Zomby. There’s also a brilliant “The Descent” style video for Shaved at the bottom there. Enjoy.

Babe Rainbow – Popcommon (Rico Uno’s Fast Blend)
Babe Rainbow – Shaved
Midnight Juggernauts – The New Technology (Babe Rainbow Dark & Dubby Remix)
Babe Rainbow – Mexico (Rico Uno’s Drifter Blend)
Babe Rainbow – Tummy Sticks (Rico Uno’s Got To Be Strong Blend)
Demarco – True Friend (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Fine Mist – In The Mountains (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Comanechi – On & On (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Zomby – Aquafresh (Babe Rainbow Stilettos Blend)
Basketball – Lightning Lip
Wavves – Weed Demon (Babe Rainbow Surf-Step Edit)
DOOM – Gazzillion Ear (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Babe Rainbow & Basketball – Proper (Rico Uno This Feeling Blend)

Daily MPfree: Tim & Sam vs Foreign Office

Well, this is all very nice. Rosy-cheeked chamber-pop muffins Tim & Sam (pictured above) have remixed Hackney’s Foreign Office (pictured below), turning their bangin’ post-punk into a sun-dappled indie jaunt; Foreign Office respond by putting a donk on a Tim & Sam number. Both bands are finding their feet and finding fans – hear the results of their remix face-off below.

Tim & Sam – Finders Keepers (Foreign Office remix) by snipelondon

Foreign Office – Leaving the House (Tim and Sam Remix) by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Anthony & The Johnsons

Anthony Heggarty is back with his Johnsons. “Thank You For Your Love” is a gentle soul ballad with his familiar wavering falsetto and a nice arrangement on piano, strings and brass. Even though this one is a little more upbeat than some of his more funereal prior work, it still sounds like heartbreak in motion. That voice is so loaded with pathos, even celebrations sound endlessly tearful.

Anthony & The Johnsons – Thank You For Your Love by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Ganglians

More summery, echoey Americana guitar pop, this time from Ganglians, with a dash of twee and a dash of arch raised-eyebrow-ness. They’re playing at the awesome La Route Du Rock festival in Brittany next weekend. So utterly there.

Ganglians – Candy Girl by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Silver Columns (Caribou Remix)

Our Issue #2 lead story Caribou has remixed Silver Columns. I’ve included this beautiful nature picture instead of a picture of Dan Snaith not because he mings or anything, just for a bit of variety, like.

Silver Columns – Always On (Caribou Remix) by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Marnie Stern

Marnie Stern, she of hi-NRG fretboard shredding and impassioned squealing fame, is back with yet more awesome shit for your ears. This is the first track to be released from her new eponymous album, out 15th October.

Marnie Stern – For Ash by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Deerhunter

Bradford Cox’s Deerhunter have revealed two new tracks from their forthcoming album “Halcyon Digest“. As the title suggests, these tracks are more in the lost-pop vein than the more ambient psychedelic rock of “Microcastles”. Fine by us. The album is released on September 27th in the UK on 4AD.

New Deerhunter by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Gold Blood

Today: a fierce burst of electro from acclaimed LDN duo Gold Blood. It’s nasty, sexy, sarcastic music, several leagues above your average Shoreditch electro act; Gold Blood are all about unvarnished, almost brutal sounds with a subliminal sophistication. They’re genuinely stunning live: see them at The Alibi in Dalston tonight, and get a free 4-track selection here.

Gold Blood – Dont Waste My Time by snipelondon

Daily MPfree: Grum remixes Everything Everything

Glaswegian master-remixer Grum can do no wrong it seems. Here he beefs up the already pretty catchy “MY KZ, UR BF” by indie-band-du-jour Everything Everything into a big old disco party banger. CHOOSE GRUM, indeed – his debut album “Heartbeats” is an instant dance-pop classic, out now.

Everything Everything – MY KZ, UR BF (Grum Remix) by EverythingEverything