M3 Volume 9… Available Now
[front and back cover art adapted from JP33.com]
There’s been a definite lack of activity around here over the last few days, mostly attributable to hosting issues and general sloth, but hopefully I can make it up to you with a little M3 Volume 9 action. That’s right, after weeks of empty promises, the hotly-anticipated (by like, two of you) ninth installment in the M3 series has finally arrived, in all its shimmering, summery glory. Despite it’s mid-August release, V9 has a definite late-spring/early-summer vibe about it, but without further adieu, let’s jump right into the tracklisting.Getting the proverbial party started is Travis’ vastly-underrated “Writing To Reach You”, a song which bore its way into British skulls via extensive radio play (it was the band’s seventh-highest charting single) in the late 90’s but went largely overlooked overseas, which is more or less always the case in these situations. Next at bat are a pair of similar-sounding sunny tracks from indie-pop darlings Death Cab For Cutie and Voxtrot, followed by Doves’ “Black and White Town”, which has proven over time to be one of the better singles of 2005. Next up is a stone-cold classic, The Cure’s timeless “Just Like Heaven”, which is the absolute favorite song of the absolute coolest girl I know, thus mandating its inclusion in the mix. The Britpop emphasis continues with Guillemots’ playful “Annie, Let’s Not Wait”, which keeps the vibe intact as we move onto Doves’ second appearance on the compilation, “There Goes The Fear”, possibly the finest track of their fairly-esteemed career, and Stars round out the first half of the mix with their excellent b-side, “Petit Mort”.The second half of the mix sees a shift in production values and brings the focus back to the U.S. with a bevy of lesser-known gems, as two blogger favorites, The Spinto Band and Page France, contribute the best songs of their respective careers in “Oh Mandy” and “Chariot”. A trifecta of brilliant yet underheard tracks follow Sub Poppers’ The Pernice Brothers’ “One Foot In The Grave” leading the way, a great track despite its blatant nicking of the intro to Ted Leo and The Pharmacist’s “Biomusicology”. Next up is a gem from the criminally underhyped Headlights, “TV” (one of the better tracks of 2006), and rounding out the trilogy is “Treetops” from virtually unknown Beat Radio, coming at you straight off the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Rounding out things is Islands’ always-delightful “Rough Gem”, which segues perfectly into the album’s final track, “Black”, brought to you courtesy of Okkervil River.Since this is the first M3 since the relaunch of the site let me just remind you that all songs included on any M3 compilation automatically come with the highest recommendation and those who would rather download the entire thing as a .zip file - as opposed to downloading each track individually - can do so below as well. I hope you have as much fun listening to this as I did making it, and I can promise that things will return to normal around here now that our hosting issues and the posting of M3V9 are behind us.
Download: M3 Volume 9 [follow link]
M3 Volume 9:
01. “Writing To Reach You” - Travis
02. “405″ - Death Cab For Cutie
03. “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives” - Voxtrot
04. “Black and White Town” - Doves
05. “Just Like Heaven” - The Cure
06. “Annie, Let’s Not Wait” - Guillemots
07. “There Goes The Fear” - Doves
08. “Petit Mort” - Stars
09. “Oh Mandy” - The Spinto Band
10. “Chariot” - Page France
11. “One Foot In The Grave” - Pernice Brothers
12. “TV” - Headlights
13. “Treetops” - Beat Radio
14. “Rough Gem” - Islands
15. “Black” - Okkervil River
August 13th, 2006 at 12:25 am
nice art
August 13th, 2006 at 8:31 am
Great selection guys, loving voxtrot and the spinto band.
August 14th, 2006 at 2:19 am
as usual, great, great mix. four more of them and my car cd changer will have nothing but your mixes
August 14th, 2006 at 6:25 am
the artwork is stunning. and the track list too
. Thanks
August 14th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Glad to see that you have the site up and running again.
I just downloaded this cd and the doves songs are great. Ill have to check out more from them
August 16th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Good call with travis. They’ve been a favorite of mine since the man who came out. you’re an animal….
August 16th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Swanky, many thanks!
August 17th, 2006 at 12:47 am
i was waiting for the volume #9. Good art, good music, good blog.
Thanx
August 17th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
F-n amazing.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
I was definitely looking forward to this. I knew it would be good when I saw Travis and Spinto Band in here, but I’m loving the rest of the tracks here. Thanks!
August 20th, 2006 at 2:46 am
[…] Anyway, I’ve got to make two music suggestions. First, go to Good Weather for Airstrikes and download M3 Volume 9. I love this site because they’ve turned me on to so many great artists, and their compilations CDs are fantastic. I had been looking forward to what their newest M3 volume would be, and this one didn’t disappoint me at all. It was already on to a good start having Travis’s “Writing to Reach You,” to begin the CD, and it’s got some Death Cab for Cutie, Spinto Band, Stars. And it’s my newest discovery that I’m very happy to be listening to, Guillemots. They’re my second music suggestion. I bought their CD at the Virgin Megastore at Piccadilly Circus because it was one of their featured albums to listen to. All the music blogs have been talking about them too, but I never got around to visiting their myspace profile or their site. I’m very pleased that this little gamble paid off. Listen to Trains to Brazil and Made up Love song 43 here. Posted in Work, Suggestions, Music in General | […]
August 21st, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Another classic mix, as usual.
Man, I love gwfa!
August 24th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
You haven’t led me astray yet. Thanks for the mix.
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