Never Enough Notes e-zine // reviews + interviews + music

Welcome to Mixtape Monday by Mark Green.

Music Music Music. It’s what we love, and we love giving it away to our lovely readers. Some superb new musicians doing what they love – making the world a better place in an MP3 stylee – Get em in your ears people! That’s a lot of loving right there!

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Artist: Breton
Track: Pace Maker
Info:Their signing to FatCat Records follows a very busy year for Breton, a year that saw them release a critically acclaimed EP trilogy, as well as creating fantastic videos (Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Penguin Prison, Flats) and remixes (Temper Trap, Local Natives, IS TROPICAL, Chapel Club, Tricky, Esben and the Witch) under their bretonLABS incarnation.

Breton have also announced they will be joining Tom Vek as sole support on his long-awaited UK tour later this month.

Here are full dates:
13 June – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
14 June – Classic Grand, Glasgow
15 June – HMV Institute Library, Birmingham
16 June – Heaven, London
18 June – Concorde 2, Brighton

Straight after the Tom Vek tour Breton will leave for Mosfellsbaer, Iceland, where they will be recording their self-produced debut album in Sigur Ros’ Sundlaugin Studio.
The as-yet untitled album is set to be released on FatCat Records in early 2012.

Check em out here too! http://www.facebook.com/bretonlabs

Free Download:Breton – Pacemaker.192

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Artist: Wakey! Wakey!
Track: Feral Love
Info:Wakey!Wakey! is the chamber pop product of Michael Grubbs’ eclectic musical education- formative years spent listening to an improbable mix of Gershwin, Brahms and Zeppelin were followed by a stint in NY in the company of ‘Anti-Folk’ contemporaries including Regina Spektor and The Moldy Peaches. The most surreal point in Grubbs’ backstory came when cult U.S. show ‘One Tree Hill’ synced a series finale to a Wakey!Wakey! track(past contributors to the soundtrack include Iron & Wine, Frightened Rabbit and Bon Iver). So enamoured was the show’s producer that he gave Grubbs a recurring acting part as a bartending musician, in a surreal case of life imitating art/art imitating life…..

The band will be headlining London Scala on June 14th (having sold out the Garage last year) as part of an extensive European tour which follows on from sets at SXSW earlier this year. The album is preceded by lead single ‘Light Outside’ on July 18. If you’re able to consider for a mention that would be amazing…..

Free Download: WakeyWakey – Feral Love

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Mark Green