Friday Freebies

Murder Mystery
Some times things pop into my inbox that just make my day that little but more sunny. This week I got an email from New York indie pop/rock group Murder Mystery, who wanted to point me in the direction of a couple of free downloads that they had just posted on their website. I'm chuffed that they did as they're a couple of class wee pop tunes, I am defo going to be trying to find out more.

Your Neighbour The Liar
The Edinburgh four piece are back with new EP 'Welcome to a Life of Insecurity and Paralyzing Self​-​doubt' which they've only gone and posted up for free download on their Bandcamp page.

Arran Arctic
Former Fresh Meat-starlet Arran Arctic has a posted his new single, 'The Door' which is taken from his forthcoming album 'In My Hands', up for free on his website.

of Montreal
You can download their new single, “Coquet Coquette,” just click here.

Wounded Knee
The Edinburgh A'cappella folkster has posted a new tune called 'Nem Tha Choo', it's about football. Mental as fuck, yet utterly brilliant at the same time.

The Thermals
Another cracking band from Portland, seriously how fucking amazing is it out there in Oregon?! There is a free download of their new song 'I Don't Believe You' up for grabs on Stereogum.

Baddies
They decided to record 'We beat our chests' in German and now they've posted it up for as a free download. Jus click the linkto get yourself a copy of 'Wir schalgen unsere brust'.

Paws
Yet another excellent new free download from those wonderful folk at Wiseblood Industries, this time it's Paws new single Violet Vicky Violet. Download it here.

Teenage Fanclub
I guess most of you will already have this, I know I posted it before, but this time 'Baby Lee' is up for free download over on Amazon.

Pete and the Pirates
They've just posted a cover version of Lets Wrestle's 'Man with Pica Syndrome'.

Grouper
Portland artist Elizabeth (Liz) Harris aka Grouper has posted a whole host of recordings up for free, you can find out if she's your cup of tea here.

Philip Selway
Yep the bloke from Radiohead. He's recorded a new album and now he's giving away a free track from it. Just head on over to his homepage and get downloading.

Snipe
The hipster as fuck website has posted a free mixtape featuring Caribou, Crystal Castles, Meursault and Ariel Pink. Download it here.

Funny/Not Funny Record
The label has posted a free download of their 'F/NF Summer Mix Tape 2010' featuring lots of stuff I have never heard of, but some kind fellow called Keith swears by it. Which is good enought for me.

I Am Kloot
The Manchester outfit have a free download of their song 'Lately' up for grabs over on Amazon.

Kowalskiy's Komplimentary Korner

The Martial Arts
The doc has pulled another wee corker out of the bag this week, with some "beeeautifully summery jingly-jangly pop" from Glasgow's very own The Martial Arts. They have a free download of their album "Your Sinclair" here. Good work that man!

Friday Freebies

Midlake
Last weekend the Guardian gave away an exclusive free five track download entitled The 'Denton Session', if it passed you by then you'll be happy to learn that it's freely available here.

French Horn Rebellion
Sign up to their mailing list and in exchange they'll send you a special mini EP for nowt. If you like what you hear then it might be worth noting that they're playing their first ever Glasgow show at the Flying Duck on the 26th of this month.

your neighbour the liar
Edinburgh band 'your neighbour the liar' have put up their album (actually it's 3 tracks, but hey who's complaining. Actually I'm complaining wtf?! 3 tracks is not an album, it's barely an EP), 'the michael cera type' up on their Bandcamp to download for free.

Factory Kids
Ed from 17Seconds just released an EP by this duo, bloody good it is too, check it out. If you want a wee taster of what to expect then you can download one of their old singles, 'Not Enough', over at Odd Box Records and yep it's free.

Ooberman
The former sugar-pop band have put up ten years worth of recordings, that's one hundred tracks for free download, all you have to do is sign up their newsletter. Lovely stuff.

Lovers Turn To Monsters
Lovers Turn To Monsters, or Kyle Wood has he's known to hfriends and family, has put a couple of albums up for free download. 'Cars, Bars and Shooting Stars' and cover album 'A Collection of Lo​-​Fi Covers' are both up for free download over on his Bandcamp page.

Mitchell Museum
I'm afraid this isn't some free mitchell museum tracks, it's a mix album called 'Chicken Dinner Mix' which up for free download. It's rather nifty, get it here.

Peter Gabriel
Now this is something I never thought I'd post, but really you have to hear this to believe quite how good this is. Mr Gabriel has covered Bon Iver's 'Flume' and it is quite simply stunning. Get yourself a copy here.

Owen Pallett
The artist fromerly known as Final Fantasy has put a remix of the song Keep The Dog Quiet which you can download for free here.