A bit of an exclusive for TLOBF on this dull and grey Wednesday morning: we’ve got a taster from Pontiak’s latest long-player.

[Exclusive] Erland & The Carnival download – Simon Tong’s latest project!
Erland is Erland Cooper, guitarist, singer and former resident of remote Orkney. The Carnival are guitarist Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad, The Queen) and drummer David Nock (Paul McCartney’s The Fireman). We’ve got an exclusive taster of their new album inside!

[Download] Air France vs. Saint Etienne – Spring
“Spring is the song we fucked to when we were eleven and took rohypnol raw”. Air France remix the classic Saint Etienne track ‘Spring’. Download inside!

[UK Exclusive] Animal Collective vs. Phoenix: ‘Love Like A Sunset’ mp3
We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to offer you Animal Collective’s sublime interpretation of the Phoenix track ‘Love Like A Sunset’ as a free download. Link inside.

[Download] Exclusive LoveLikeFire cover of Magnetic Fields
LoveLikeFire hit these shores in September but during their quiet times, they’ve managed to record a cover of The Magnetic Fields track ‘Abigail Belle of Kilronan’, and we’ve got an exclusive download of it!

Introducing :: The Balky Mule
The Balky Mule is the sound of one man experimenting with his own musical surroundings. Seemingly throwing every instrument lying around into an organic lo-fi melting pot of sweet pop ditties and wyrd folk.

Download brand new My Latest Novel song! [TLOBF Exclusive]
‘All In All Is All’ is everything a My Latest Novel track should be; defiant and dramatic with soaring instrumentation and gorgeous harmonies. If this is a hint of what the rest of the album will sound like then Deaths and Entrances could well be reaching for Album Of The Year status pretty damn quickly.
Napoleon IIIrd mini-album announced, tour with Wild Beasts
Napoleon IIIrd returns next month in support of brand new EP/mini-album Hideki Yukawa, the first release since the cult success of his 2007 debut ‘In Debt To’. Download an EXCLUSIVE track inside..
EXCLUSIVE! Download a track from Alessi’s Ark debut
We’ve got an exclusive track from Alessi’s Ark debut album to give away to our readers!
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