Shadow Folk - "Dexter" & "Billy"

The two below are our favorites from a split EP featuring Halifax chimers/charmers, Shadow Folk. Thanks to The Active Listener for the headsup on this event, not to mention that earlier one, all of whose plentiful pleasures are still available for free download.

Mighty Fine Finds: Mystery Flavors, Shadow Folk, Crosa Rosa

Oot and aboot, we found this loot.

Many thanks to The Active Listener for the headsup on these frightfully satisfying Frisco jangleurs. Nathan's got some freebies by a couple more artistes here.




Each of these next two widgets opens with our favorite from these excellent Halifax, NS, psychpoppers name o' Shadow Folk.






Thanks to Psychgazer for the intro to this merry band from Nottingham, yclept "Crosa Rosa."




Actually, #1 ("Jigsaw") is the one we prefer, but sometimes Bandcamp just will work its will. Bitch.


Here's the Crosa Rosa tune on to which Psychgazer first turned us. You can buy it here.

From The Active Listener: House of Fire, Rainy Afternoons, Mark Alan Lofgren, Shadow Folk, Coloured Clocks, Galileo 7, Roaring 420s, Frantic Chant

Apparently old (or young) Nathan Ford does more posts and label stuff eating his corn flakes than we do in a month of pseudobloggery. Yes, it's the latest installment - #22 by number - of The Active Listener's excellent compilation series. Here are our favorites from a particularly high-class comp. And as always, we thank Master Nathan Ford for his ever-abundant thoughtfulness, generosity, and psychspertise.

And at the risk of further highlighting our personal bloggerly inactivity (except over/up there in Songdrop Playmoss, where we've been dropping like flies in a Raid raid), here are some we shoulda but didna post here previously. (It is, btw, a risk we are somewhat willing to take.)

Activated x 8x8, Shadow Folk, Os Noctàmbulos, Schnauser, Dark Ocean Colors . . .and Nathan

We're so, so glad once again to get activated by the ever-active Nathan over at The Active Listener. Here are our three favorites from his latest name-your-price compilation, which just so happens to be lucky No. 13.

And once again, the pleasure of what we found at No. 12 supercedes the embarrassment we feel at being far less active of late than the aforementioned ever-active Nathan.