So there I was, browsing through the various free downloads available at NPR Music (recession-friendly shopping, as I think of it). I had found some stuff I liked pretty well—at the very least, well enough to download it for free. Then I stumbled across something that I found truly exciting, and I reacted the way any music lover would: I thought, “I must blog this.”
Unlike the other artists whose music I’d just downloaded (stuff by The Decemberists, K’Naan and Heartless Bastards, among others), I’d never heard of the British band The Heavy. Well, now I have… and you have too. Watch this:
That video is from a four-song in-studio performance at KEXP-90.3 in Seattle. More details and an MP3 download of the session are available here, and a YouTube playlist including the other three songs is here. The Heavy’s two albums so far are available on CD or MP3 download at Amazon.
UPDATE: The Heavy’s home page lists the band’s upcoming shows, which happen to include two in New York and one in Philly in the coming week. Damn… I’m having one of those “wrong coast” moments.
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