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Another Friday, Another Music List

Here's a round-up of the music I've been recommending this week on Twitter.

For UK Readers

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• Jack Johnson: If I Had Eyes - Typically syncopated, guitar-led ballad from a live performance. Easy on the ears. ***
  
  
• Once again not Music, but you may be interested if you liked the look of the Chill Pill travel speakers I mentioned a while back. Amazon Vine sent me a LINX B-Tube to try. It's a USB-charged bluetooth stereo speaker system in a 6" steel tube, which also has line-in. Sounds quality is tremendous, and when used with a cellphone it doubles as a great speaker-phone with echo cancellation. Battery life is surprisingly long (on the scale of a couple of days from one charge) and it comes with USB cables (as well as charging from a normal Nokia charger too). I've been travelling with it the last two weeks and I love it. Mine was free but at £15 I don't think you can go wrong.

For US Readers

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• Great Lake Swimmers: Pulling On A Line - Still producing reliably comfortable folk/pop, this track follows in earlier footsteps and signals another workmanlike album. ***


• Boozoo Bajou: Same Sun - Deliciously laid-back female lounge vocals, love it ****


• Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Hanuman - Energetic flamencoesque instrumental track will have you dancing around the room stomping your feet ****

[Note that these links and offers are highly likely to corrode over time]

Labels: Music

posted at 3:19 PM (UK) | |