Get Well Soon is one of the newest acts signed to Berlin-based record label City Slang. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper, from Mannheim, Germany, Get Well Soon sounds a lot like… uh, something. Maybe if you were to pit Caribou in a fight with Beirut, with Ian Curtis as the referee, and have Yeasayer dance around the match chanting tribally with torches in their hands. I don’t really know what to say. It’s darn catchy, though. The product of prodigious talent, and really darned nice production values. Get into it.

Colour Revolt are a band who will not remain slightly unknown for too much longer. Assembled from the hurricane-wrecked heaps that used to be cities and towns in south Mississippi, the music of Colour Revolt embodies a very raw, and rather unrelenting vision of living. Living on the edge of nothing, on the edge of something, in the devastation that arrives without warning, in the all-too-simple hell of Eden. Music to listen to when the sky is angry.

We are the things that God said. We’ve got the marks on our heads. Our houses turned into graves. Some things are better left unsaid.

Their new album, Plunder, Beg, & Curse is out on Fat Possum 4/1.

[Colour Revolt Official Site]
[Colour Revolt on MySpace]
[Colour Revolt on Virb]

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Through a couple, quick, miraculous connections in the past couple of weeks I have managed to track down an ex-member of Piltdown Man and beg for unreleased tracks from him!

He sent me three songs, one of them here for your enjoyment, with all three zipped up for you to spread the goodness!

These were from a split EP with Luxury that never happened. Now, to track down the possible LP tracks…

Download 3 new songs here! [zip, 9.5MB]

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Southeast Engine hail from Athens, OH. They’re something of a modern, electric, bluegrass, rock band with a profound grasp of the mundane and its implications of the fantastic. They’re from Ohio, for starters, they’re from a college town, they’re talented musicians, well-read and have been steadily making music for a number of years, now. Last year, they recorded and released A Wheel Within A Wheel on Misra Records, and it has been widely proclaimed (by those who listen) to be the best thing they’ve ever written. I ran into a few stray songs of theirs floating about on the internet and was rather impressed.

[Southeast Engine Official Site]
[Southeast Engine on MySpace]

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Michigan’s The Great Fiction are one of those bands that never quite fully embraces the seemingly obvious influences behind their sound. They just always sound like The Great Fiction. Not Radiohead mixed with Coldplay mixed with Elbow mixed with Sigur Rós mixed with ABBA mixed with Kent mixed with Peter Gabriel mixed with Animal Collective or whatever you want to insert as a sound they remind you of. They are just patently themselves.

Anybody acquainted with my 2007 Year in Review will note that I placed their album, “Slow Progress For Simplicity” at #2. All of these tracks here are b-sides or unreleased, and a smidge representative of just how good that album is.

[The Great Fiction on MySpace]
[The Great Fiction on iTunes]

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