Archive for Category: "Download"
Download: Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Live on SNL)
Has an artist ever before been through the HYPE-BACKLASH cycle quite so many times before their debut album’s even been released as Lana Del Rey has in recent months?
Download: Nada Surf – Waiting For Something
Three-and-a-half minutes of irresistible power-pop complete with shining melodies and swooping harmonies.
Download: The xx – Open Eyes
The xx are dropping a new album in 2012. They must have felt pretty festive as they’ve put this, a demo of a new tune, up on their website for free download.
Download: The Weeknd – Echoes of Silence
It is finally here, the third installment that’s been promised for most of the year. House of Balloons was mesmeric and featured on our Top 10 of 2011 list, Thursday was equally so, therefore Echoes of Silence has a lot to live up to.
Download: Lana Del Rey – Off To The Races
Here she plays up to the whole “gangster Nancy Sinatra” shtick she’s going for, again singing about the baddest of the bad boys and one that, apparently, ‘loves me with every beat of his cocaine heart’.
Download: The Kills – Silent Night
Tis the season for indie stars to get all slushy and record Christmas covers! This time it’s the turn The Kills who put their own twist on this acoustic cover of this festive ballad.
Download: The National & Bon Iver – Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks Live for Q
Performing a live session for Canadian radio station Q, Justin Vernon adds delicate harmonies to a stripped-back take on High Violet’s Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.
Download: Florence & The Machine – Take Care (Drake Cover)
Florence and the Machine stop by Radio 1 to deliver, among other things, this cover of Drake’s Take Care, which features Jamie xx, Rihanna and Gil Scott-Heron.
Download: Ryan Adams & Laura Marling – Oh My Sweet Carolina
Broadcast for Channel 4, the show featured this, a beautiful rendition of Adams’ Oh My Sweet Carolina with Marling providing the haunting backing vocal.
Download: Bombay Bicycle Club – Video Games (Lana Del Ray Cover)
It’s a faithful rendition, with plucked acoustic guitar replacing the swathes of strings on the original. Jack Steadman’s voice sounds brilliant and is complimented by Lucy Rose.
Download: The Horrors – Suffragette City (David Bowie Cover)
We think this, a cover of the Ziggy-era David Bowie classic Suffragette City, recorded for Channel 4, is rather good.
