SoundCloud 9: Echo Ladies, HYLA, Spinning Jennies, The Sky Drops, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Viv and The Sect, The Phantom Sound, Hollow Trees, The Colors

Looking over our list of free and legals from SoundCloud we discovered a bunch we like or love but, to our horror, hadn't yet posted. So here they are, beginning with the most recently found (although not necessarily most recently recorded). They cover quite a range of genres and moods, so be prepared. Click the down-arrows to download, except as noted.

From: Malmo - Facebook

From: Perth - Facebook

From: San Francisco - Facebook

Many thanks to Jeff Shelton of The Well Wishers for making this longtime fave available.

From: Wilmington, DE - Facebook

From: Los Angeles - Facebook

From: Mexico - Facebook

For free download, go here and click ". . . More--Download."

From: London - Facebook

From: Austin - Facebook

And here's a nice little Baroque pop number that's downloadable but, for some reason, unwidgetable (by us anyway). Listen to it below via YouTube if you, like, want to.

The Colors - When Worlds Collide - Go here and then click ". . . More--Download." - from their 2016 LP Teenage Furniture on Nacional Records - As soon as we nail down further info, we'll put it here.

The Sky Drops Righteous Gaze

The Sky Drops - Swimming with Fishes mp3

The Sky Drops - Hang On mp3

Both are from Bourgeois Beat, which dropped August 11.

We're on their mailing list, and have been for some time now. So thrilled we were when our favorite Delawareans, Rob Montejo and Monika Bullette, let us know of their latest release and let fly the two droplets posted above. Be assured that when they drop, we drop, and listen, enraptured, as previously indicated. Click for more. And in the meantime. . .

The Sky Drops - Million mp3
(The only bad thing about this incandescent beauty is that it eventually ends. But, then, that's what "Repeat" is for.)

The Sky Drops - Now Would Be mp3


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From the Archives

As many of you who have tried it will attest, blogging can be extremely cerebral. Not for me, of course: I go strictly by feeling, and awhile ago my feelings said, "Go to the Archives and make us groove." After diving in, I emerged cleansed and refreshed. After combing through them, I emerged well groomed. Etc. Clicking the song titles should launch the songs.*** Clicking the artists' names will take you to the original posts, where you will find all kinds of potentially useful matter.

The Sky Drops - Million mp3

The Comas - Come My Sunshine mp3

Coco B's - Sister Cold Caller mp3

Mason Proper - My My (Bad Fruit) mp3
The Saps - Hospital mp3

Mitch Easter - Time Warping mp3

Johnny Monaco - The Wrong Crowd mp3
Broadfield Marchers – Kingdom for Lions mp3
Ruetschle - Can You Remember? mp3

Great Northern - The Middle mp3
Winterpills – Broken Arm mp3

Palomar - You’re Keeping Us Up mp3

***I was getting some popup-blocking action when testing some of these links. If this happens to you, hold down Ctrl when clicking the song title. Only a suggestion.

The Sky Drops

Neither is wincing, but they're no lightweights. Not at all. There's a lode of magic here, and when The Sky Drops, I mine it. (Mixing metaphors is way fun, too.) TSD were one of my early posts and more than ever psych me good. I'm awfully glad I got on their emailing list because the first two below were waiting for me today. "Million" gets me very, very excited, and "Sentimental" steps close behind. I'll also repost a favorite from earlier and encourage you to follow links hither, thither, and yon. Thanks, Monika and Rob!

The Sky Drops
Million mp3
Sentimental mp3
Now Would Be mp3

The Sky Drops. . .

. . .and we like it. Wandering through MySpace, I found these Wilmington, Delawareans to be friends of The Telescopes, who are friends of The Jesus and Mary Chain. And any friend of a friend of TJ&MC, etc. . . I already had them from earlier in the year and liked them then, too. Besides, my shoes are getting dead scruffy. Their website likens this male/female duo to The Everly Brothers. Your call.

The Sky Drops
Now Would Be mp3
Green to Red mp3
Hang On mp3