It’s another one of those weeks where I’ve came across very little I’ve liked enough to stick in the freebies, believe it or not there is some element of quality control in here.

Edinburgh Man had some good stuff on his podcast this week though, so I’ve nicked some of that.

Bianca
Sneaking in late, after I’d already drafter up this post, so missing out on an cough illustrious position on the wee reciept, are the first freely available from Bianca. They are fairly recent additions to the Good Grief family, a family who haven’t disappointed me yet. Mellower than their label mates, the two free tracks from Bianca available here are still rather fine.

Joshua Burnside
This being the first of stuff heard on Edinburgh Man. I’ve only listened to half of the Black Dog Sin EP as I’m writing this, but I’ve enjoyed that half, and don’t expect it to go wildly off the rails from here on. Grab the EP for whatever you want to pay here.

Baffin Island
Our second “you lazy bugger, you swiped that from a podcast” freebie of the week comes from transatlantic collaboration Baffin Island. Idaho and Glasgow combine for some lovely indie pop, free download here.

Mad Nurse
Aaaaand here’s the “shocking lack of research” selection. The self titled Mad Nurse EP seems to be pretty old, the release date is listed as 2011, but I’ve only just found it on Bandcamp today. Look, shut up and stop complaining and just go get it here, right?

Let’s Talk About Space
They used to talk about trees, now they’ve gone off planet, grab the latest song from Let’s Talk About Space here, for free!

HCBP
I’m sure someone from HCBP is in another band I like, and they’d tweeted the link to this album. I now have no idea who it was though, since I’m too dim to keep notes. I can tell you that HCMP’s album, Charger, is a fun little rocky bluesy romp though, and you can pay what you want for it here.

That’s your lot for this week. Good luck to Neil from Scottish Fiction in finding something in there to stick on his Friday Freebies slot on the radio show.

It’s a small but perfectly formed selection of freebies this week. Dig in and see if anything floats your boat.

Walker Smith Jr.
I really like two piece bands. Joining the list of bands I like who happen to only have two members are Walker Smith Jr. Kyle of Lovers Turn To Monsters was talking about this lot last week over on Scottish Fiction and it seemed like they’d be up my street. I didn’t have to wait long, as they’ve stuck three songs up on Bandcamp to download for whatever you want to pay. I was right though, they are right up my street. They pretty much sound like approximately 14 of my favourite bands crammed in a washing machine. That’s a compliment.

Cleavers
Cleavers have only been together a bit over a year, but in that time have been busy wee beavers. A steady stream of gigs have been accompanied by a nice wee bunch of releases, and they’ve pretty rapidly become one of my favourite new(ish) bands from these shores in ages. At some point I’ll trick them into an Aye Tunes gig if I have my way. This week they’ve flung out a cover version of Joy Division’s Transmission, which manages to dodge the usual results of a Joy Division cover by being not shit. You can grab that here. For their own songs just delve into their Bandcamp, where everything is available as name your price downloads. I’d especially suggest giving their most recent single, Life Is Shit, a listen. Good art too.

Flutes
Like an idiot, I keep forgetting to include this freebie from Flutes. In fact, I geenrally just keep forgetting to say nice things about Flutes on here. Their self titled album from last year was fab, but due to my continued inability to review anything I never got round to saying so. Flutes have a new single, Kilburn, out at the start of next month which you can listen to here. The b-side is a cover of Haddaway’s What Is Love? and you can get your paws of that for free right now here.

Slutever
Great name, ace scuzzy pop songs, shouty girls and references to Josie and the Pussycats, it’s like Slutever tapped into my brain for stuff that will make me pine after them. There’s lots of stuff to grab for whatever you want to pay for it here.