Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes (Expresso Service)

"Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes (Expresso Service)"

Half Moon Run are a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal. The band members, who previously lived in British Columbia and in Ottawa, include singer Devon Portielje on vocals, guitar and percussion; Conner Molander on vocals, guitar and keyboard; Dylan Phillips on vocals, drums and keyboard; and Isaac Symonds on vocals, percussions, mandolin, keyboard and guitar.

They have played South by Southwest, Osheaga, Canadian Music Week and Glastonbury Festival 2013, and have opened for such artists as Metric, Patrick Watson[1] and Mumford & Sons. They are currently supporting Of Monsters and Men on their North American Tour. Their debut album, Dark Eyes, was released in 2013, and was co-produced with Daniel Lagacé and Nygel Asselin. They have toured Europe and Australia. Critical acclaim has included praise for their three-part harmonies.
In August 2013, Ubisoft launched a new Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag trailer featuring their song Full Circle. The official video on YouTube passed 1 million views overnight.

Half Moon Run are touring Australia: Click Here for tour dates

Tracklist

1. Full Circle
2. Call Me in the Afternoon
3. No More Losing the War
4. She Wants to Know
5. Need It
6. Give Up
7. Judgement
8. Drug You
9. Nerve
10. Fire Escape
11. 21 Gun Salute

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Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped in Red (Expresso Service)

"Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped in Red (Expresso Service)"

Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist Kelly Clarkson release her first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red. The album features brand new instant classics such as the first single, “Underneath The Tree,” and title track, “Wrapped In Red” as well as Christmas favorites, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, “Blue Christmas”, “Run Run Rudolph,” “Please Come Home For Christmas” and many more.

The album’s first single, “Underneath The Tree,” was written by Kelly and hit songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin as well as produced by Kurstin. Kelly enlisted Kurstin who was one of her partner’s on the Grammy Award winning album Stronger. Together, Kelly and Greg bring a fresh, contemporary sound to this new holiday music ensuring the songs are big hits and evergreen holiday favorites.

Kelly states, “I’m super excited to put out my first Christmas record. I absolutely love Christmas music and have had a total blast recording and writing for it. I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”

Tracklist:

1. Wrapped in Red
2. Underneath the Tree
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4. Run Run Rudolph
5. Please Come Home for Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing)
6. Every Christmas
7. Blue Christmas
8. Baby, It’s Cold Outside feat. Ronnie Dunn
9. Winter Dreams (Brandon’s Song)
10. White Christmas
11. My Favorite Things
12. 4 Carats
13. Just for Now
14. Silent Night
15. I’ll Be Home for Christmas

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Sounds Like Cafe – Volume 40 (Ruby Anniversary Edition)

"Sounds Like Cafe – Volume 40 (Ruby Anniversary Edition)"

Volume 40 – 40th anniversary is known as the “Ruby Anniversary”. Celebrating our 40th compilation for cafe’s in 2013 it’s been a wild ride. However, like all good things, they must come to an end. We at Sounds Like Cafe have decided this will be the last physical compilation we will release.

Do not dispair! we still will be sending out great music, all compilations from here on out will be delivered in a convenient digital format so you never have to worry about scratched or lost CD’s (that probably all fell behind the counter). If you are currently a cafe receiving CD’s and would like to continue receiving great music, just head over to our cafe sign up page and select “Just Digital”

Our 40th and final physical release is certainly one to go out with a bang. Sit back and enjoy the all star play list:

1. Fiona Joy Hawkins – Naked Love
2. Germein Sisters – Da Da Doo
3. Natasha Duarte – Say That You Love Me
4. Naomi Sunderland – Willow
5. Knox – Slow Down
7. Alex Bowen – Wait For Me
8. Simon Astley – City Lights
9. Kinsky – The Stalker pt1
10. Throwing Shapes – A Simple Plan
11. Daniel Dawes – Today’s The Day
12. Bob Pigott – Sydney Song
13. The Fish John West Reject – The Orchard
14. Halfway Homebouy – Holding Out My Hand.

Mark Wilkinson – Hand Picked (Expresso Service)

"Mark Wilkinson – Hand Picked (Expresso Service)"

Mark Wilkinson
Hand Picked 

Mark Wilkinson is a musician of substance. His lyrical depth, gift for melody, and impassioned delivery are quickly establishing him as one of Australia’s most highly regarded singers and songwriters.

Celebrating the success of single ‘Middle Ground’ from his acoustic album Hand Picked, Mark climbed to #2 on the Australian iTunes singer/songwriter charts, surpassing artists like Grammy nominee Ed Sheeran and The Lumineers, and reached #12 on the ARIA singles charts.  Regularly found busking on the streets, Mark has also managed to sell a staggering 40,000 physical records direct-to-fan.

Tracklist

1. A Different Road

2. Middle Ground

3. Hey Baby

4. When I’m Not Around

5. Edge of the World

6. Man In the Window

7. Always Laughing

8. Mystified

9. Hallelujah

10. A Note

Get it on iTunes.

Lou Doillon – Places (Espresso Service)

"Lou Doillon – Places (Espresso Service)"
Lou Doillon
‘Places’ (Cartell Music)
 

Lou Doillon might have spent most of her 30 years as a model and actress, but with her song writing, its not glossy surfaces that intrigue  her. It’s imperfections; she savours them in her lyrics. Best known as Charlotte Gainsbourg’s sister and Jane Birkin’s daughter, Doillon emerged as a star in her own right when her debut album, ‘Places’, won Best Female Artist at the French Grammies. With titles such as I.C.U and Same Old Game, the album teases at themes such as betrayal, unrequited love and finding yourself.

In stores August 2nd. 

 

Tracklist

1. I.C.U.
2. Devil or Angel
3. One Day After Another
4. Defiant
5. Same Old Game
6. Jealousy
7. Make A Sound
8. Hushaby
9. Questions and Answers
10. Places
11. Real Smart

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Kate Ceberano -Kensal Road (Espresso Service)

"Kate Ceberano -Kensal Road (Espresso Service)"
Kate Ceberano
‘Kensal Road’ (Sony Music)
 

Kensal Road is a collection of the first recordings of original material from celebrated Australian artist Kate Ceberano in ten years.

During this time, Kate has dedicated herself to her role as mother, ambassador, for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Berlei, and numerous successful artistic ventures that include recording cover albums, roles on TV, theatre, and work as Artistic Director for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, resulting in record-breaking ticket sales this year.

Ultimately, Kat Ceberano is an esteemed singer/songwriter and it is to this arena she returns with ‘Kensal Road’

Musically, ‘Kensal Road’ echoes Kate’s early musical influences of Hawaiian folk music and Fleetwood Mac, but equally the music reflects the very current sounds of the nu-folk and nu-country movement, reflected in such singer/songwriters like Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling

Kensal Road is available in stores and on iTunes now.

Tracklist

1. Garden State
2. You and I
3. So Far From Home
4. Champion
5. Have It All
6. Magnet
7. Louis’ Song
8. My Heavy Heart
9. Jez
10. How High
11. The Little Things.

SoundsLikeCafe – Volume 39

"SoundsLikeCafe – Volume 39"

It’s another instalment of our SoundsLikeCafe Compilation series, and just as volume 38 delivered, so does volume 39. This time with tracks from the likes of Natasha Duarte, Paul Kelly, Kathryn Rollins, Lone Bellow and Natalie Maines.

SoundsLikeCafe was distributed to over 1300 cafe’s across the nation and is still the leader in cafe music.

Natasha Duarte – What A Night
Kathryn Rollins – Reckless
Lone Bellow – Bleeding Out
Natalie Maines – Without You
Paul Kelly – I’m On Your Side
The Troubel With Templeton – You Are New
Fiona Joy Hawkins – Running On Joy
Jade Leonard – Joan of Arc
Bitzer – Bad Boy For Love
Neo – I Like Your Style
Bob Pigott – Dive Like A Dolphin
Bartlett Bros – Last Resistance
Vitabeats – One World Rhythm
Halfway Homebuoy – Sirens (Team Wing Radio Edit)
Mark Cashin – Waiting in This Moment
Daxton – Bring It On

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Junip – Junip (Espresso Release)

"Junip – Junip (Espresso Release)"

Sweden’s critically acclaimed Junip are set to release their eponymous, self- titled sophomore album on April 26, 2013 via Shock Records.

Formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1998 and fronted by inimitable singer- songwriter, José González, Junip the album has been a long time coming.

Rounded out by drummer Elias Araya and keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn, Junip was recorded and self-produced by the trio and Don Alsterberg (Soundtrack of Our Lives, International Noise Conspiracy).

Junip comprises ten tracks of existential crisis that González describes as being “…about growing up and taking responsibility in that moment when all of a sudden your life changes, you’re in a new situation…your ideals are challenged and you have to think things through from a new angle.”

The attitude and mood of the album is expressed at the outset with opener, Line of Fire. Melding melody with motoric repetition while building to a

dramatic, symphonic climax, González asks, “What would you say/ If you had to leave today/ Leave everything behind/ Even though, for once, you’re shining?”

Current single, Your Life, Your Call, straddles the divide between melancholic sentiment and infectious drum-machine handclaps and exuberant singsong chorus. The song is a tightrope act that González himself took time to adjust to. “I felt like trying on new clothes when we first listened to it – it took a while to get comfortable with it…” he says.

Junip, for all its brooding darkness and melodrama, is ultimately about redemption. As González explains, “…the grass will grow after snow melts away: finding that hopeful feeling between the lines, that’s what the whole record is about.”

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Chance Waters – Infinity (Espresso Release)

"Chance Waters – Infinity (Espresso Release)"

Chance Waters (formerly Phatchance) has ditched the moniker and burst onto the Australian music scene with the first single from his new record Infinity, ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ receiving high rotation on triple j over the last few months. Now Chance Waters has come back swinging with ‘Young & Dumb’, the under-your-skin-catchy follow up single featuring enchanting Australian songstress, Bertie Blackman.

Infinity is a mature, intelligent and ambitious record which impressively fuses thought provoking subject matter with musical elements from a wide array of genres, underpinned with a charmingly accessible pop-aesthetic. The album, as its title and intricate artwork hints, is a challengingly existential collection of songs. Chance is equally in his element questioning the fabric of reality (Infinity), joking about the end of days (Maybe Tomorrow) and confronting personal demons (Feel Alright) – but above all Infinity is a record which demonstrates the depth of detail and passion that sets Chance’s writing apart.

The bulk of the production on the album is handled by recent hit machine One Above (Hilltop Hoods – I Love It/Illy – Heard It All) and textured with contributions from dozens of musicians, guest producers and feature artists. Equally as comfortable singing harmonies and choruses as he is rapping verses, Chance effortlessly transitions between styles many of his contemporaries would be afraid to touch and operates as a song writer in a way that’s uncommon for his genre.

Simply put Infinity is one of the most movingly written albums to emerge from the local hip-hop scene and a perfect demonstration of why the buzz around Chance Waters is building so quickly.

 

Buy it here.