Brian Sendrowitz the Brain of Beat Radio

Brian Sendrowitz is the brain child behind Beat Radio. If you haven't already downloaded treetops do it now and thank me later. I have to give credit to 3hive for introducing me to this guy back in september. Anyway Brian has all kinds of tracks for download on his site as well as two albums up on iTunes. His solo work is a little more folky but his voice is essentially the same as the beat radio stuff. Brian has I think 3 fans on Last.fm but I'm sure once the Beat Radio Ecstatic EP comes out he is bound to have some people interested in his older stuff. The song "Desdemona"is my favorite solo track for now as it repeats the refrain, "I'm just a man" with a strumming guitar, organ and harmonica to boot. While the production value of this ep is low it sounds as raw as the Beat Radio demos. In this case raw is good.

the preservation ep (check out brian sendrowitz.com for more downloads)
fearful
silver birds
olivia
preservation theme
the man i should be
desdemona
standing at the shore


In addition to this stuff I've been listening to a lot of Tapes N Tapes lateley. Look a few posts back for the Tapes downloads. The two new Pearl Jam tracks are beginning to grown on me as well. iTunes has "unemployable" up for essentially 50 cents tagged onto "worldwide suicide", a dollar for both. Band of Horses was reviewed in Pitchfork today with a 8.8, pretty impressive but I think I a lot of their stuff is Jim James like. Their album is definitely worth picking up though.