SoundCloud Hopscotch Catch-up, cont'd: Seapony, Taffy, Sad Day For Puppets, California Wives, La Luz, Midlake

We continue hopscotching backwards and forwards through the cloud of Sound, listening to songs we love. Click down arrows and links to download.

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Oh, Pairs!: Sad Day for Puppets, Grand Atlantic, Surfer Blood, Soft Pack, TPOBPAH, Legends, Liechtenstein

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As we near our blog's fourth anniversary, we've noticed literally hundreds of songs we've queued up but still haven't posted. (Some reach back a year or more.) We won't go into the boring reasons why this has happened, but over the next couple of weeks we're going to try to play a little catch-up.

By now you've probably found a lot of these elsewhere, but we'll post them anyway. You will not grieve to hear we will be writing even less than usual. The music's what matters, and we trust your ability to do GoogleBingYahooAskWhatever searches. The following don't necessarily have a lot in common except a) we very much like-to-love them and b) we're posting at least two songs per artist. Hope you enjoy.

Sad Day for Puppets - Monster & the Beast mp3
Sad Day for Puppets - Mother's Tears mp3

Grand Atlantic - She's a Dreamer mp3
Grand Atlantic - Coast Is Clear mp3

Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes mp3
Surfer Blood - Swim (To Reach the End) mp3

The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself mp3
The Soft Pack - C'mon mp3

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - 103 mp3
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than the Stars mp3

The Legends - Always The Same mp3
The Legends - Seconds Away mp3

Liechtenstein - Roses in the Park mp3
Liechtenstein - Stalking Skills mp3

Miss Sell-a-Knee: Strawberry Whiplash, Sad Day For Puppets, The Fresh & Onlys, Hollerado, The Motion Sick, It's A King Thing

Trying to catch up on recent, recentish, and not-that-recent finds, we offer the following.

Strawberry Whiplash - Picture Perfect mp3 - from 2009 Strawberry Whiplash EP - MySpace

Sad Day For Puppets - Again mp3 - single from Cloudberry Records - MySpace

The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond in the Dark mp3 - from August In My Mind EP - MySpace

Hollerado - Juliette mp3 - from Record In A Bag, released 9 February 2010 - MySpace

The Motion Sick - 30 Lives mp3 - from 2008's The Truth Will Catch You, Just Wait - My Space

It's A King Thing - Mush Mouth mp3 - from Philly band's Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, downloadable for free here. - MySpace

Day 2: One for the Team, Whigs, Brakes, Indelicates, Moi Caprice, Charade, Love Is All, Killola, W..T..F., Sad Day for Puppets

No slamming anticipated. Full speed ahead, lads.

The year is still fairly new, so I hope I'm not too late in wishing you a happy one. I also hope you enjoy the following. Iwe surely do.

One for the Team - Dress Up Party mp3 - off of the Minneapolitans' Afternoon Records/Militia Group release, Build It Up - And we're still enjoying this previously posted one:

Take Cover mp3

The Whigs - Like a Vibration mp3 - from Athens, GA band's 2008 release, Mission Control -Thanks to Cable & Tweed for the vibe.
The Indelicates - Fun Is For The Feeble Minded mp3 - The UK band's debut, American Demo, was released last year (2008, remember?).

Brakes - Crystal Tunings mp3 - from the Brighton supergroup's forthcoming FatCat Records release, Touchdown. It's sure to score.

Moi Caprice - To The Lighthouse mp3 - Thanks to Morten at Hits in the Car for the headsup (some time ago) on this excellent Copenhagen band. HITC has another beauty by MC, and a simple click will get you there.

The Charade - Keeping Up Appearances mp3 - the title song from Stockholm band's November 2008 release

Love Is All - Wishing Well mp3 - from Gothenburgers' A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, which rightly finished high up on a number of Best of 2008 lists.

Motorboat mp3 - from their 2006 release, Nine Times That Same Song

Killola - Cracks in the Armor mp3 - from L.A. band's glittery debut, I Am The Messer - Maybe you'd like to join their fans in getting a 'too of the band's logo? Me neither but I like the song.

Wait. Think. Fast. - Clear Our Name mp3 - from L.A.-area band's EP, Vuelve Al Mar

Sad Day for Puppets - Big Waves mp3 - from the Blackebergers' 2008 EP Just Like A Ghost - I've been deeply enjoying this song for some time now.

Humpday Howdy: Future Clouds, Cotton Mather, Tall Dwarfs, Marching Band, Pallers, Parties, Two Hours, Miss D, Sad Day, Death Cab, et. al.

Hello, Mr. Harrison.

Recently somebody made fun of somebody for using the word "Humpday." Some people can be so very cruel. Sigh.

Austinites

Future Clouds and Radar - The Epcot View mp3 - from Peoria, released 4 Nov. - headed by Robert Harrison, formerly of Cotton Mather - Speaking of which, here are a couple of Mathers we previously posted and love.

Cotton Mather - Lost My Motto (Millenium Chrome Version) mp3 - from Hotel Baltimore

Last of the Mohicans mp3 - from The Big Picture, as is the next one

40 Watt Solution mp3

Interlude

Tall Dwarfs - Meet the Beatle mp3 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, wrong Harrison. . .and yet so very, very right.

Scandifun

Marching Band - from this year's Spark Large

For Your Love mp3 - Love that shift at exactly 1:00 (Declarative, not imperative.)

Make No Plans mp3

Pallers - Humdrum mp3 - Thanks to Christian Liljas at Labrador Records.

Femmes Vitales

Miss Derringer - Black Tears mp3
Sad Day For Puppets - Little Light mp3 - More Scandi fun. . .

Strummers

Two Hours Traffic - Sure Can Start mp3

The Parties - Yours and Mine mp3 - San Franciscans chime it nicely, too.

Endgame (No, FR, not that kind! :-) )

Made In China - How Everything Works mp3 - These Bridgewater, New Jerseyites' debut LP Sonic Blog V.1 is due out on 18 Nov. on Recordburger Records. - Thanks to AOL's Spinner.com.

Death Cab For Cutie - 405 (acoustic) mp3