When you receive somewhere in the vicinity of twelve trillion submissions a day, it's easy for the odd track to slip through the cracks. So apologies to both band and you for bringing this song to your ears a few months late. You might know it by now, if not, then it's by Perth experimental indie band Lanark, it's called 'Able Oust', and as they probably don't say in that part of the world, it's a little ripper.
Lanark's website
Johnathan Rice - My Heart Belongs To You
The interwoven world of alternative music can get a little complex, so let us tell you that Johnathan Rice is one half of the duo Jenny And Johnny with his girlfriend Jenny Lewis who's in Rilo Kiley. Got it? Good. Well this lovely, romantic tune with it's gruesome video is from his upcoming album 'Good Graces'. It's an old-fashioned but modern produced alt-pop/indie tune, and yes, that it Jenny in the video.
Horse Lords - Bending The Lash
The LAMC series of split 7" singles has thrown up some to class material. We hadn't even heard of Baltimore quartet Horse Lords before this beauty turned up on one such release. 'Bending The Lash' doesn't really fit a genre, but if you can imagine someone like Silver Apples or Neu! bursting on to the scene now then it might not sound dissimilar to this.
Horse Lords' website
Buy the single
Lower Dens - Non Grata
Speaking of which, the other side of the fine slice of vinyl mentioned above comes from a band we're a little more familiar with. Fellow Baltimore group Lower Dens who we covered a number of times last year when they released their acclaimed album 'Nootropics'. 'Non Grata' doesn't sound like a cut that didn't make the album, it sounds new, fresh and right up to their usual high standards.
Lower Dens' website
Mini Dresses - Watching You
In what's been a quite otherworldly and dreamy Five For Free, it seems right to end on some classic sounding dreampop. So here's Austin band (they may be based in Boston now!) Mini Dresses who have just released two free tracks. We've chosen to go with the echoey, hazy and lush 'Watching You' but if you pop to their site you can get the more jangly 'Everywhere I Go' as a freebie too.
Mini Dresses' website
Stream or buy the single
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