Archive for the ‘Discovery Download’ Category
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Jadakiss lets listeners peek underneath his steely façade on “Hold You Down.” The rough Yonkers rapper details his rules for thug love and makes kissy noises as Emanny serenades the hook. And the backbeat, a cutup of Biz Markie’s “Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz,” is always a good look. “Hold You Down” appears on Jada’s I Love You (A Dedication to My Fans) — The Mixtape.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. These dapper gents make the concept of paralysis by analysis sound smoother than linoleum. “Black & White” starts as a piano ballad brushed with falsetto crooning and then becomes a rollercoaster ride — much like a romantic relationship, the focus of this soul-pop jam sprinkled with disco rhythms. The slow-then-fast see-saw hits a jazzy stride with a string-accented breakdown that’ll make you want to get up and get on down.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Christian rapper Tedashii (or Tdot) raps so hard about spiritual bankruptcy that he’s got Old Scratch shook. “Riot” is a harsh critique of life lived without a moral compass — set to a mashing, thrashing, electro-tinged hip-hop beat. A member of the 116 Clique, Tedashii starts a “Riot” with his third album, Blacklight.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Music is a powerful component of worship, but even more so if it comes with arena-filling arrangements and throaty lead vocals that would appeal to fans of Coldplay, Muse, and The Killers. Abandon specializes in exactly this kind of sound. Its latest single, “Feel It In Your Heart,” has roots in alternative rock, but its message has a spiritual perspective: “Oh you can turn it up as loud as it will go/But it will never make its way to your soul/until you feel it in your heart.” Amen!
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. If you witnessed the live version of Owl City anytime over the past few years, you may have caught Breanne Düren on stage, working magic on backing vocals and keyboards for Adam Young’s synth-pop project. On her own, Düren has created a singular mixture of ’50s pop minimalism, ’60s girl groups, and 21st century radio-ready pop with her own quirks that come through in the spirited, endearing vocals.
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The debut album from these shoegazers from Down Under, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, doesn’t have a superfluous song in its 11-song mix — and even flaunts a few dreamy alt-country jams that bring to mind mid-’90s David Lynch cinematography. Like the engravings on a memorial, Scott Von Ryper and Aimee Nash’s haunting and unintelligible lyrics are subtle etchings upon an escarpment of droning guitars layered with chilling effects. It’s music with a story, but it doesn’t force its narrative on the listener.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Founded in Orange County and now based in Los Angeles’ creatively thriving Silver Lake neighborhood, this fledgling modern rock quartet already sounds impressively accomplished. On “Leaving On the 5th,” singer/guitarist David Dennis’ voice goes from nonchalant at the front end to freely impassioned by the final measures. Guitarist/keyboardist Anthony Aguiar, bass guitarist Phillip Munset II, and drummer Kurt Allen provide a steady and colourful rhythmic foundation that constantly drives the song’s kinetic energy.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Mississippi’s Noel Gourdin mixes up the sublime and the soul-searching on this track from Fresh: The Definition. Thick, crisp beats roll on next to florid piano fills and Gourdin’s falsetto-laden song of praise to all the beautiful ones out there.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. When Jamie Grace was only 11 years old, she was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. Now this Atlanta based singer/songwriter is telling her story through contemporary Christian music. The inspirational tune, “Hold Me,” would be right at home at a campfire sing-along with its feel-good acoustic guitar strumming and tobyMac’s ragga stylings. A catalog of troubles — from bad-day blues to a crisis in time-management — are no match for the soothing power of the Lord.
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