ForkCast - PitchforkMedia's Free MP3 Downloads

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Pitchforkmedia offers free downloads, which are constantly updated. Here are some excerpted short reviews on what they are offering today:

MP3: Acid Mothers Temple.: "La Le Lo (excerpt)"

"Mantra of Love" is destined to be a classic release in the expanding catalogue of one of today’s most exciting psychedelic ensembles. The recording is made up of two tracks. "La Le Lo," is a traditional Occitan piece largely based around the very melodic vocals of Cotton Casino. The recording’s fifteen minute closing piece, "L’Ambition dans le Miroir," is a melodic and easy-listening piece, with spacey electronics and great guitar lines. [alien8recordings.com]

MP3: Bizzart.: "Pink Summer in Hell"

Unlike scattershot contemporaries Bizzart and producer Accident come with full vision and aim. The music spills over in an organic assemblage of raw sound: electric guitars, saxophones and manipulated drums jar equally against Bizzart’s vocal ebb. Here he begins to bury his ax deep in the heart of the modern M.C., speaking in self-examinations, disappointments and haphazard poetry reminiscent of early David Byrne. [soundsareactive.com]

MP3: Call and Response.: "Trapped Under Ice"

Call and Response are a musical ensemble hailing from the Bay Area, California. The music they compose is filled with rhythm, harmony, and warmth. Elements of classic pop, spacey jazz, film soundtracks, folk and soul music are only some of the musical inspirations drawn upon by the group. ...With this record, the band innovates a sound that is impressionistic, mystical, and beautiful. [badmanrecordingco.com]

MP3: Clann Zu.: "There Will Be No Morning Copy"

Australia's Clann Zú brilliantly combine dark, funereal instrumentation and haunting, depressive melodies, with lyrical themes exploring imperialism, war, and dispossession, the criminality of the Church and Theocracy, and deeply personal anguish and affliction. Strikingly original and intensely passionate, this is an album that grows on you more with each successive listen, and ultimately owns you. [g7welcomingcommittee.com]

MP3: Dirty Projectors.: "Graves and Ballads"

Dave Longstreth is the man behind, or perhaps in front of, the music called Dirty Projectors. ...This is classical and pop music's bodies-entwined, souls-commingled wedding! [westernvinyl.com]

MP3: Les Georges Leningrad.: "Georges V"

Alien8 Recordings is excited to announce the re-issue of "Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou" from Montreal’s most notorious post-punks, Les Georges Leningrad. [alien8recordings.com]

MP3: Jim Guthrie.: "So Small"

.. PHILOSOPHICAL AND SLACKER SWEET, GUTHRIE IS BEGINNING TO MOVE FROM REEDY NEEDINESS TO BEATLESISH SWEEPING AND LUSH; BUT NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED, THE MUSIC NEVER LOSES THE EAGER SPARK OF SOMETHING SOMEBODY JUST THOUGHT UP." [threegutrecords.com]

MP3: n.Lannon.: "Demons"

Musician Nyles Lannon is active on many musical fronts. Around his hometown of San Francisco, he is known as guitarist in the band Film School (One of Spin magazineís "surprise" Best Acts of 2004).... And now we find Lannon moving in a different direction, this time to the realm of acoustic/electronic ambient pop with n.Lannon Chemical Friends (Badman). With heart-felt lyricism as well as solid musicianship, n.Lannon proves he is as comfortable with intricate finger picking and singing as he is programming beats and synthesizers. Hushed vocals float over dreamy washes of guitar that turn gritty and vengeful. Acoustic guitar flows with glitchy beats and ghostly sound fragments. Combining influences like Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd and Gary Numan with more recent electronic influences such as Boards of Canada and Fennesz, n.Lannon's songs weave strong melodies with distant ambience and sparkling electronic production....[badmanrecordingco.com]

MP3: The Like Young.: "Worry a Lot"

...With Barry Phipps (Coctails) back at the boards and some lyrical brimstone on the mic, The Like Young lose the suits and let it all hang out. [parasol.com]

MP3: Migala.: "El Tigre Que Hay en Ti"

...The musical process of the new record runs parallel and often intertwines with the visual creation, which aims to play an anti-rhetorical role rather than pose as a mere decoration. .. Generally, it’s the songs that inspire the images, but more often than not, the visuals take over and shape the song. ..Its images are sometimes rather narrative and make a casual and low-resolution use of cinematographic genders -sci-fi, thrillers, fantasy, and kung-fu and gangster movies- and transport them to Migala’s personal music universe. [acuareladiscos.com]

MP3: Molasses.: "Sign of Judgment"

This inspired example of the group's utterly original music displays the raw, world-weary voice of old Americana, the abandon of improvisation and experiment, the spiritually-charged atmosphere of church music, and the adventure of the avant-garde... all swirling around the musings of singer-songwriter Scott Chernoff. ...Music for guitars, strings, banjo, oud, percussion, piano, organ, harmonium, singing saws and voice. [alien8recordings.com]

MP3: Pleasant Grove.: "Elaborate Son"

Germany's Glitterhouse Records caught Pleasant Grove's stunning SXSW 2000 Music Showcase. ...It's a mesmerizing set of songs - gut-wrenching, sophisticated, built up from the barest arrangement to an often explosive climax- while echoing dense layers of sound and devices. [badmanrecordingco.com]

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They're changed the name to ForkCast - and the offerings are still pretty good