More on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/evenings.html

Evenings is a one man band from Charlottesville, VA resident Nathan Broaddus. His music's electronic/analgoue shimmer-gaze invokes a certain whimsical nature, the kind whose steely glare is fixed at some far-off point in distant reminiscence in a similar way to Surrey artist Vondelpark who I wrote about recently, and Felt Drawings - both one man outfits creating beautiful music with a sensitive and brooding centre. Last year's North Dorm Ep is the only release from Evenings so far but there should be plenty here to keep you involved and hooked for some time, especially now…

Tree of Sores
Tree of Sores
DOWNLOAD - http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/download-tree-of-sores-tree-of-sores.html

Trio from Leeds make epic ep of crushing shapeshifting doom. CD version is released on Witchhunter Records, limited to just 150 copies so be quick, if it's not too late already. bands with this much promise don't stay in stock for long. And by promise, I mean already delivering in the extreme. The production might need a bit of beefing to add some more weight, but it's not so necessary. The gnarly grunting basslines and sheer walls of guitar scree morph beween solemn chugging and cyclones of kinetic fury with an…

Liquid Skulls
Dead In Yr Eyes
DOWNLOAD - http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/download-liquid-skulls-dead-in-yr-eyes.html

O.K. so this band will be coming to a blog near you soon - they've already appeared on a handful of the ones I follow and I'm happy to add them to NFR and give this release more webspace. Liquid Skulls work with an inspired melding of influences and sounds, hard to pin down and so free and elegant you'd never want to cage it like that anyway. Drone, folk, finger picking and swampy tones dredged up from muddy depths and plucked from the most feathery clouds - this is animated…

Fall In Love/Let Me Go
a mix for Not For Resale by Michael Avishay of Ghost Animal

DOWNLOAD link & Tracklist explanations after the jump:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/download-ghost-animal-guest-mix-nfr-mix.html

The second of this year's mixes is another guest mix from a current obsession - Ghost Animal. The LA based boy/girl two piece mine a blown out noise blasted seam of Spector haunted West Coast pop music - high on class, decadence and all that comes with that kind of lifestyle too - both sides to the street, glamour on the inside and filth on the floor beneath the high gloss heels. So here's…

Good week.

ps iTunes, I hate you; scrobble my cocking ipod.

01. Craft Spells - 104
02. GuMMy†Be▲R! - 85
03. Evenings - 41
04. Daterape - 37
05. Guards - 33
05. The Soft Moon - 33
05. Twin Shadow - 33
08. Bosco Delrey - 31
09. Sealings - 30
10. Gruff Rhys - 26
11. Peaking Lights – 24

1 - New album on Captured Tracks, sounds almost identical to Wild Nothing but without the prominent basslines. Really good. After The Moment has a gorgeous hook.

2 – Witch Made Knicca king Herr Gummy releases his first…

Drowned in Sound thread haunts my blog, as is its weekly wont.

Officially The Best Week Of Music Listening This Year

…or for months, maybe even Ever if I succumb to the hyperbole fevers. Everything that is free to download I posted on my blog in the last week or so, so if you want it come get it.

01. Ssaliva - 136
02. Clair Cassis - 85
03. †‡† - 72
04. Mamaleek - 65
05. Gayngs - 35
06. Peaking Lights - 33
07. Low - 30
07. Cold Cave - 30
09. Nicolas Jaar - 26
10.…

download links and more words on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/download-ash-eaters-cold-hearts.html

Continuing these incredible few weeks for metal releases, here are download links for free copies of Umesh Amtey's new project The Ash Eaters' 2010 demo Cold Hearts. Mediafire files includes artwork and lyrics.

Amtey's second Moribund released Brown Jenkins album, Angel Eyes was my album of the year in 2008, and with all his Jenkins' releases he has single-handedly drawn a distinct circle from which his unique recasting of black metal and funeral doom has grown, towering alone unchallenged with a monolithic stature. The Ash Eaters follows on from where…

here's the intro))). more words inside the link:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-aimon-amen.html

Tundra Dubs is a Californian based label dealing in the underbelly of modern music; the ugly side of witch house, the confrontationally bleak electronica that conjures the more inhospitable soundscapes in its seances. Immediately stamping its mark as one of their best, almost signature sounding releases, is the debut from the mysterious (been a surprisingly/relatively long time since I've got to say that) ∆AIMON.

Here's the intro, more words agfter the jump:

Born in New York, relocated to Santiago then back to the States where he is now at Brown University, at the tender age of 19, Nicolas Jaar has also already played live and DJ sets in places such as Berlin and Mexico. Being physically well travelled lends his music if not an authentic (because that's a horrid vacuous term when applied to musical provenance) then a suitably echoic sense of conviction. Impossible to pin down into any one genre other than 'Electronic' (if you must, and which he will destroy when he…

Downloads and more words in the link:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/download-portraits-of-american-firing.html

Here's a bit:

Two albums released last year as free downloads from Portraits of American Firing Squads, eight tracks in total, of densly coruscating wordless political invective from the Brooklyn based Austyn Sullivan. There's a deep metallic clanging to the core of these pieces, like a steel skeleton onto which the movement of the pieces are thrown over, billowing fuzz and chattering static. Similar sounds to those in the white-out pale-noise records of Belong, Loscil and Kevin Drumm, the sense of placid violence in the flow of tortured noise…