New songs from Carmen & The Devil

Carmen & The Devil, The finest Finnish country/folk duo has some new songs for you. You might have heard these new Carmen & The Devil originals on their stunningly beautiful live concerts during the recent months, but now they’ve added the songs to their Soundcloud as well (there’s also a limited edition cassette that contains these new tunes, but that might be a bit tricky to find). This wonderful band will be mostly investigating the Austrian old time country scene for the next couple of years, but let’s hope they manage to get that debut album done and dusted sometime during 2012. That’s going to be a thing of beauty. The new songs are Tell-Tale Heart and Row Row and you’ll find them below. Hit the soundcloud link, if you haven’t heard the older ones, because those are equally amazing.

Carmen & The Devil: Tell-Tale Heart:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/28673494″]
 
Carmen & The Devil: Row Row:

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Carmen & The Devil at Facebook
Carmen & The Devil at Reverbnation
Carmen & The Devil at Soundcloud

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Marmalakes – Even Clothed

I wrote a couple of words about Chase Weinacht’s two great solo albums back in june. Now his band Marmalakes has released a new EP entitled Even Clothed and oh my.. this is even better. I’m becoming seriously addicted to the music these guys make. This young band from Austin, TX is capable of writing really amazing folk-pop songs that contain beautiful, delicate harmonies and colourful arrangements. I’m totally loving this. For example this last song of the EP Balmorhea is mindblowingly brilliant. Listen to it below and check out the whole EP on their bandcamp. If I still wrote reviews, I think this would get full five hearts.

Marmalakes at Bandcamp
Marmalakes at Facebook

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Roger Joseph Manning Jr. appears on the upcoming Esa Linna single

Esa Linna is getting ready to release a debut single She’s Not A Human Being in the coming months and a debut album is scheduled to be released later in 2012. This is already great news as it is, because Esa is definitely capable of stitching together awesome pop tunes. However, there’s also one minor (well major) detail that adds a truckload of excitement on top of it all. Pop wizard Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish etc) will play keys and sing harmonies on She’s Not A Human Being. That’s cooler than Alain Delon in Le Samourai.

Esa Linna Website

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