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Life’s Decay

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This is quite a mixture of genres, mainly dark acoustic sounds with a touch of classical. What really makes it interesting is the French vocals. After all, Life’s Decay is a Paris-based duo offering several tracks as free downloads on Last.fm.

I got Inksterna (2007) in the radio but also liked Emerance (2009):

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My Personal Murderer

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Rarely do I get music recommendations on Last.fm and those few are mostly self-marketers. Like this time when Bellerafont (age 20, from Ukraine), the frontman of My Personal Murderer sent his latest song, She’s Dead. Don’t ask why, I haven’t been listening to this band ever before.

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Regardless, I liked what I heard. All their songs are fascinatingly depressive with lyrics of doom and soft guitar-driven melodies. They live on Facebook instead of having a website and most of their material is free to download from Last.fm.

As a bonus here’s a video for Danger Dancer (2011):

Say hello to my kids

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Say hello to my kids is a post-rock / indie band from Belgium. Their single You’ve become is used by filmmaker Ramon Haindl as a soundtrack for a photo-shoot documentary short.

Their latest EP, Victims, is free to stream on Bandcamp but for sale only on iTunes. Several tracks from their previous two EPs are available to download on Last.fm, though.

Much like Maybeshewill, the DIY spirit is important for them as well: during their first two EPs they produced, recorded, mixed and mastered everything themselves.

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The Best Pessimist

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This is the one man project of musician and composer Sergey Lunev from Odessa, Ukraine. He has several piano-driven instrumental post rock pieces to download for free on Last.fm. So far my favourite is I Just Want To Be Your Everything. I can relate.

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Audiocæneat!

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Audiocæneat! is a German post-rock / shoegaze band, which was formed in 2009 in Dresden. Their 6-track debut album, Red Sessions, came out in November 2010. The opening number, The Truth Unfolded I, is free to download from Last.fm while the album is for sale on Bandcamp starting at €2.99.

The Echelon Effect

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The Echelon Effect is David Walters from London, UK. He makes instrumental epic-sounding post-rock tracks often tending towards chillout and ambient. Some of them are free to download from Last.fm, others are uploaded to Youtube. All songs, however, are available in lossless and lossy formats on Bandcamp on a name your price basis with no minimum set. Here are a few to try:

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Sleep Dealer

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Stargazing melancholic post-rock music from Moscow. The one-man project’s first EP was released on the Radio Hand Netlabel and downloadable for free, along with several other songs from Last.fm. Take your pick, or listen to Nozomi (望み/Wish) here:

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A slight problem is that the EP’s Rapidshare link is down and the Russian site wants people to look at ads first and whatnot. Using mad skills, black magic and a lot of Google translate I was able to grab the file, sparing you, dear readers, from the hassle: you can get The Way Home directly from sesam.hu. Happy listening!

Nohopekids

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If you have a melancholic monday, put the new Nohopekids EP on. This fast-paced lo-fi garage punk is sure to shake up anyone. According to Piresian Beach Zsófi, it’s like The Stooges, or 60s protopunk albums. All nine tracks are downloadable from bandcamp.

Gravefruit Sound

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How about breaking the chain of dark music and melancholia with a bit of reggae. I stumbled upon Gravefruit Sound on Facebook even though the local stations are said to have picked up their hit song Szabad leszek (I’ll be free). It’s quite catchy.

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The best part is that their 2009 album Kéz a kézben (Hand in hand) is downloadable for absolutely nada from their (very amateurish) site. The package comes with reasonably good ID3 tags and an acceptable cover image for the 256kbps mp3s.