With all that in mind…. GET SOME FOILFACE… IT’S STILL HERE… AND THERE’LL BE MORE ONE DAY SOON… AND IT WON’T WHIFF OF SONIC DOG SHIT… PROMISE…

No-one famous ever came from Milton Keynes,
All your dreams are just puddles left from the storms,
You’re just horny,
But then again maybe it’s this pill drink.

When the summer of your days are just a blaze
In a haze of Australians dying,
Lying on your back sweaty cracked,
Double-tracked like your life is running oh so parallel
To the surprising rising of a thousand backwoodsmen,
It’s kiss and tell, it’s wishing wells,
It’s the real hell of another man’s empty cellar,

No good stories ever came from Stoke-On-Trent,
You’re bent out of shape and hating people,
You’re evil, but then again,
At least you’ve got your pill drink.

No-one erotic ever came from East Kilbride,
You’re wide-eyed and unnecessary,
This is a very, very bad thing,
But at least you’ve got your pill drink.

When there’s someone in the background of every supermarket
Shouting words like, ‘semester’ and, ‘vacation’,
You know that they’re the kind of people
Who pay for empty cartons at the end of their shop
‘Cause they’ve eaten everything,
They treat it like a day out,
They treat it like an adventure,
They invite you around their house
To watch re-runs of Birds of a Feather,
They send you video messages to your phone
Of inbreds chain-sawing the heads off pigs,
They shove both thumbs up,
Smiling.

The question is – who is Cubass? All I know is that he’s only ever recorded one tune, likes snickers and lives somewhere near Manchester. He’s like the Lord Lucan of alt-acoustic loveliness. Here’s the tune:-

(MP3) Cubass – Take On Me

Rumour has it, he’s a big fan of Foilface. That said, he’s also supposedly a big fan of Mama Mia and Mariah Carey, so there’s no accounting for taste….

So, what has Diff’rent Strokes got in common with the new Mancunian musical bandwagon that is Foilface? Well, if Mr Drummond was Foilface, Arnold and Willis would definitely be The Abodes – the gonk-pop duo spawned in the rural ghettoes of North Wales and now based and sonically swimming around the inner city beauty of Manchester.

The Abodes currently have two full-length albums full of recent music available on Last.fm for absolutely nowt (that’s ’nuffink’, for all you southerners out there). All you need to do is visit the album links on their Last.fm page and get downloading – http://www.last.fm/music/The+Abodes

If you’re wondering what they sound like, imagine a musical supermarket sweep attended by Ween and The Beta Band in a shop owned by Gruff Rhys and Beck. Or alternatively think, lo-fi gonk-pop or weird-out acoustica. All you really need to know is it’s top stuff and it’s completely and utterly FREE. All The Abodes ask is that you befriend them on the site if you’re a Last.fm member, tag up their tunes and leave them some messages n’ stuff.

35 tunes are available to listen to and download and more of their gently mental sounds will be finding their way onto to their Last.fm page very soon too – so get your very own little bit of musical Manchester magic now…

Pudgy faced lo fi culture never sounded better…

Download the free mp3. It’s ready and waiting for your listening pleasure.

If Kate Bush were a fat Northern slacker with a penchant for fruit beers and sobbing she/he would happily put their name to this new blast of sad music. Plus it’s free so there’s nothing to lose. Have some lovely new manchester music on us.

This week, I have mostly been listening to some sonic mind treats in the form of Tokyo2005‘s new free uk music downloads. If you don’t listen to anything else this week, then definitely listen to these fine new UK sounds. Tokyo2005 is the sort of emotionally engaging music that will lift your soul and make you think you can do stuff that you clearly can’t, but will enjoy believing that you can for a few dreamy moments of ‘mind MTV’.

There.

So anyway, there’s this ace new Manchester band called Foilface, right, and…

As the conversation unfolds, it usually transpires that these folk have been listening to the pap-pedalling mainstream radio stations so much, that their ears have started morphing into small fluffy animals in a Darwin-esque attempt to preserve the brain from “pop rot”.

It’s true; if you want to immerse yourself in rubbish new music, it’s a far easier goal than slipping out a number two these days (with astonishingly similar results). But, for those among us who actively seek out great new tunes, rather than getting subconsciously angered by enduring the 600th journey round an old geezer’s wedding favourites, the age of ones and zeros has opened up many strange and wonderful avenues to explore amazing new sounds.

We like to think that the free mp3s of recent music by Foilface demonstrates this point rather well. It’s not going to be to everyone’s taste (Steve Wright, for example?) but it is offered for free, with good intent and no catches, so give your ears a treat and let us know what your brain reckons!