Last week I might have taken a break, but the music keeps coming. Here are the free music downloads for the week of September 24, 2012 from the various digital download venues. Maybe next time I'll look for more than Google's and Apple's offerings.
Google Play Free Songs of the Day
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That’s What’s Up
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic
Zeros
“That’s What’s Up” starts as almost
cartoonish hoedown – all twangy guitar and banjo, walking bass line and
sing-song lyrics playing on the old “church-steeple-people” rhyme – but it also
blooms into something more than that: a raucous, upbeat chorus lit by an organ
flickering with heat haze, and an a capella soul bridge, all neatly tied up by
one final ringing bell. It’s a lot of song for four minutes. – Eric Grandy,
Google Play
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Purple
California Wives
On “Purple,” Chicago band
California Wives strike at the sweet spot between ’80s new wave and that
decade’s dream pop underground. Singer Jayson Kramer whispers and sighs over a
bobbing bass line, double-time hi-hats, billowing synths and bright guitar
stabs. It’s a breezy yet propulsive tune. – Eric Grandy, Google Play
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Night Nurse
Dean & Britta
Luna’s Dean & Britta put their
own gauzy, dreamy style into this cheeky tune that recalls everything from old
Nancy Sinatra records to ribald, tattered paperbacks like Coffee, Tea or Me.
The duo would soon get back to a more guitar-oriented sound but this debut
single is a modern chill classic. The “Night Nurse” in question may be a
uniform-clad, nocturnal visitor, or the sleepy NyQuil-like elixir from Dean
Wareham’s native New Zealand. – Nick Dedina, Google Play
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Nick of Time
Bonnie Raitt
The wishful title track to Bonnie
Raitt’s 1989 Nick of Time is an affecting meditation on entering middle age
that struck a strangely resonant chord: it reframed the singer’s relevance as a
gracefully poised rock stylist and helped to propel her towards a Grammy for
Album of the Year. The enduring power of the track – one of two on the album
that Raitt wrote herself – lies in the combination of her plaintive delivery
and the deceptively easygoing groove. – Nate Cavalieri, Google Play
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Untitled (How Does It Feel)
D’Angelo
This Grammy-winning song is also
famous for its video of a naked D’Angelo singing to the camera as his toned
body glistens. Without that healthy slice of beefcake, “Untitled” is a long
neo-soul vamp as D’Angelo’s falsetto builds to an erotically-charged scream.
He’s paying homage to Prince’s late-’80s Lovesexy period, but Prince never
sounded like this. – Mosi Reeves, Google Play
iTunes Single of the Week
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Champion
The Chevin
These four childhood mates traveled
from their native Leeds, England to the Texan desert to record their debut
album, Borderland. The rocking
collection kicks off with “Champion,” which boasts melodic swells of keyboard
and guitar surfed by Coyle Girelli, whose soaring vocals remind us of early
Bono. The band’s massive sound makes The Chevin tailor-made for stadium shows
and the quartet has already gotten its first taste, when it played Wembley
Arena last December.
Starbucks Pick of the Week
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Live and Die
The Avett Brothers
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