The Heart Strings – New Golden Days
December 23, 2011 § Leave a comment
Taken from the album ‘Try Fly Blue Sky’
Out now on Grandpa Stan (Bandcamp)
Stan says: #almostthere. A free download extracted from the back end of the vault in honour of the festive season (courtesy of The Heart Strings). Happy yuletide and safe traveling. See you in 2012.
Jon Hopkins + Ólafur Arnalds
December 12, 2011 § Leave a comment
‘Abandon Window’ taken from the album ‘For Nihon’
(All proceeds to Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund)
Out now on Unseen (Buy)
‘Near Light’ taken from the album ‘Living Room Songs’
Out now on Erased Tapes (Buy)
Stan says: #Monday. Two of our most liked classical/ambient recordings from recent months, both of which are currently providing an excellent counterweight to this mornings excess caffeine intake. We highly recommend the parent albums for each of these tracks.
The Go! Team + TV Girl
December 9, 2011 § Leave a comment
The Go! Team – ‘Voice Yr Choice’ (Tobacco Remix)
Original version taken from the album ‘Rolling Blackouts’ (iTunes)
Out now on Memphis Industries
TV Girl – ‘Benny and the Jetts’
Taken from the ‘Benny and the Jetts’ EP (Bandcamp)
Stan says: #Friday. One of our favourite bass lines of the year courtesy of The Go! Team’s Tobacco Remix, and a vintage shuffle from TV Girl that still works its up-beat magic on us despite excessive listening.
Twin Sister – Kimmi In A Rice Field
December 7, 2011 § Leave a comment
Taken from the album ‘In Heaven’
Out now on Domino (iTunes)
Twin Sister site here
Stan says: #Wednesday. Amidst a competition induced glut of remixes, the original version from Twin Sister’s recent long player remains our favourite by a country mile. It may be about alien abduction but we can’t help but think it’s got a little bit of seasonal spirit hidden away in there too.
Young Dreams
December 2, 2011 § Leave a comment
Album to be released on House Of Telle/Modular Recordings 2012 (date TBC)
Download MP3 from Modular here. Visit Young Dreams here.
Stan says: #Friday. News that a full length debut by Norwegian act Young Dreams was in the offing for early 2012 was happily received around these parts. The Kingdom of Norway recently broke into our top 5 countries to be visited list, and while this is mainly down to a latent interest in Fjord jumping, songs like this never hurt.
GRANDPA STAN 
Tunng – Jenny Again
December 14, 2011 § Leave a comment
Taken from the album ‘Comments Of The Inner Chorus’ (iTunes)
Out now on Full Time Hobby
Stan says: #Wednesday. Following the release of their ‘Live From The BBC’ album last week (iTunes), Tunng have been taking up a healthy amount of our musical listening time once again. We love the live version of ‘Jenny Again’ but a freshly conducted straw poll still has the original coming out a shade ahead ’round here.
[Grab a free download of ‘Bullets'(‘Live From The BBC’) via the Full Time Hobby site here]