Emmy the Great - First Love (Deluxe Edition)

Band: Emmy the Great
Album: First Love
Genre: Folk, Antifolk
Country of Origin: England
Year: 2009

Track List:

1. Absentee
2. 24
3. We Almost Had A Baby
4. The Easter Parade
5. Dylan
6. On The Museum Island
7. War
8. First Love
9. MIA
10. The Easter Parade Part 2
11. Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe
12. Everything Reminds Me Of You
13. City Song
14. Edward Is Dedward
15. A Bowl Collecting Blood
16. Two Steps Forward
17. Canopies And Drapes

My favorite album of 2009, the debut full length by folk songstress Emma-Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great. Lovely, well arranged Folk and well written lyrics make for a great mix, I find. It's the deluxe edition (received it for Christmas!) so it comes with the Edward is Dedward EP (tracks 14 through 17).

http://www.mediafire.com/?myhenhwtyfk

P.O.S. - Never Better

Band: P.O.S.
Album: Never Better
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2009

Track List:

1. Let It Rattle
2. Drumroll (We're All Thirsty)
3. Savion Glover
4. Purexed
5. Graves (We Wrote The Book)
6. Goodbye
7. Get Smokes
8. Been Afraid
9. Low Light Low Life
10. The Basics (Alright)
11. Out Of Category
12. Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
13. Terrorish
14. Never Better
15. The Brave And The Snake

Latest album by Doomtree member P.O.S., continues his visceral, Punk influenced style of Hip-Hop and has some killer drum machine stuff going on in a number of songs. If you liked Audition or Doomtree, grab this.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gngzo1fmmwy

Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching in Heavy Boots.

Band: Suffocate for Fuck Sake
Album: Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching in Heavy Boots.
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Post-Sludge Doom Metal
Country of Origin: Sweden
Year: 2008

Track List:

1. Blue Lights and Sunshine
2. I Got Worried... I Was so Freaking Scared of that Window, You Know
3. We are Driving through Darkness
4. Twentysix and Full of Plans
5. A Japanese Flag
6. I Keep my Eyes on the Ground, Afraid of Meeting Someone I Know
7. Empty
8. They Try to Cheer Me Up by Saying I Did Once Live a Functioning Life

Debut album by an interesting and little known Swedish band that blends Post-Rock, Post-Hardcore and the Post-Sludge Doom Metal of bands like Isis and Pelican, mixing it with clips of conversations. Great stuff.

http://www.mediafire.com/?iomfztnjlad

Dessa - False Hopes

Band: Dessa
Album: False Hopes
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2005

Track List:

1. Mineshaft
2. Everything Floats (feat. Cecil Otter)
   
3. Press On (feat. Sims)
   
4. 551
5. Kites

EP by Doomtree member Dessa. Highly suggested for fans of female MCs. She has an album due out this year, and if this EP is any sign of what it will be like, it's something I'm looking forward to.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yd23utmn10g

Doomtree - Doomtree

Band: Doomtree
Album: Doomtree
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2008

Track List:

1. Close Your Ears (Intro)
2. Drumsticks
3. Gander Back
4. The Wren
5. Gameshow Host
6. Dots & Dashes
7. Game Over
8. Reak Class (interlude)
9. Last Call
10. Accident
11. Sadie Hawkins
12. The Walrus (interlude)
13. Twentyfourseven
14. Let Me Tell You, Baby
15. Down the Line
16. Kid Gloves
17. Popgun War
18. Reintroduction (interlude)
19. Liver Let Die
20. I'm Talking
21. Jaded

Eponymous release by Hip-Hop collective Doomtree, which consists of MCs P.O.S., Sims, Dessa, Mike Mictlan, and Cecil Otter and DJ/Producers Paper Tiger, MK Larada, Lazerbeak and Turbo Nemesis. For information on how produces and raps on each track, see here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?t4iymt1zwnj

The Blood Brothers - Crimes

Band: The Blood Brothers
Album: Crimes
Genre: Post-Hardcore
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2004

Track List:

1. Feed Me To The Forest
2. Trash Flavored Trash
3. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers
5. Teen Heat
6. Rats And Rats And Rats For Candy
7. Crimes
8. My First Kiss At The Public Execution
9. Live At The Apocalypse Cabaret
10. Beautiful Horses
11. Wolf Party
12. Celebrator
13. Devastator

My favorite album by seminal Post-Hardcore band The Blood Brothers.

http://www.mediafire.com/?m1lni0zoztw

Amanda Woodward - La Décadencede De La Décadence

Band: Amanda Woodward
Album: La Décadencede De La Décadence
Genre: Screamo
Country of Origin: France
Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1. La Décadence De La Décadence
2. Binaire Et Lisible
3. "On" Est Un Con
4. Le Temps Du Deuil
5. Sous Le Feu Nourri
6. Dans Le Cas Où Les Flammes
7. Mise À Sac
8. Massacre À La Poinconneuse

French Screamo.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zxhjwignwnk

Leviathan - A Silhouette in Splinters

Band: Leviathan
Album: A Silhouette in Splinters
Genre: Dark Ambient
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Traveling Over The Ocean's Skull
2. It Comes In Whispers (Part II)
3. Particular Dis-ease
4. Shimmering With Horn Of Woe
5. A Silhouette In Splinters
6. Blood Red And True Part II (A Spell To Vanquish Sea Serpents)

On this 44 minute long EP, Wrest takes Leviathan out of the project's usual raw Black Metal and explores a similar aesthetic with Dark Ambient. Much of the music is created with guitar strains and feedback, lending an almost Drone feel to it.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mhg5dz5xyzm

Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz

Band: Movits!

Album: Äppelknyckarjazz
Genre: Hip-Hop/Jazz/Swing
Country of Origin: Sweden
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Ta på Dig Dansskorna
2. Lite Som...
3. Swing för Hyresgästföreningen
4. ...Fast Tvärtom
5. A-kasseblues
6. Fel Del Av Gården
7. Epistel N:o 1
8. Tom Jones
9. Äppelknyckarjazz
10. Stick Iväg Jack Del II
11. 2 Dollar på Fickan
12. Det Vete Fan
13. Har du Soul?
14. Vals på Vinkelgränd

Swedish Hip-Hop group that heavily mixes Swing and Jazz into their music. It sounds amazing and the album is full of great beats and catchy music, and most importantly, rapping in Swedish.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mykzzztxmyn

Fin de Siècle - Nine Barns

Band: Fin de Siècle
Album: Nine Barns
Genre: Neofolk/Ambient/Experimental
Country of Origin: France
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Introduction
2. Fearless Femme
3. Summertime
4. Prison
5. Daddy
6. Interlude
7. Lonely
8. Nine Barns
9. The Feast
10. Stranger
11. Night Hawks
12. Summertime 2
13. Ashes
14. Epilogue

I can't find any samples anywhere, Fin de Siècle weren't exactly well known. Nine Barns was their last album and is really a quite beautiful, interesting and eerie Ambient album that sometimes boarders on Neofolk in a few songs. The ambience is mostly created through wonderfully creative violin, guitar and drum work, with sound clips and backing synth in many places added to it. The wonderful, intense and eerie atmosphere the violin work of Florence Cailleux can create is especially noticeable on tracks like "Fearless Femme" and "Prison". "Daddy" is an incredibly intriguing musical adaption of Sylvia Plath's poem by the same name, with a recording of Sylvia Plath herself reading the poem placed over Ambient music. If you're interested in something experimental, interesting and absorbing, give this a listen, but skip it if you don't plan on sitting down and opening yourself up to every second of the music.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJLSMESE

Of the Wand and the Moon - Sonnenheim

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Sonnenheim
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Black Moth
2. Nighttime In Sonnenheim
3. Summer Solstice
4. Honour
5. My Black Faith
6. Wonderful Wonderful Sun
7. Hollow Upon Hollow
8. Camouflage
9. Lieblos Hin Zur Dunkelheit
10. Hail Hail Hail II
11. Here's An Ode
12. I Shall Feast
13. Like Wolves
14. Winter Solstice

OtWatM's latest release and fourth full length, and longest release. Same beautiful, rich and gorgeous Neofolk, as touching and enjoyable as the rest of his stuff. I suggest it as much as the rest of what I've upped and hope you'll download and enjoy it all. Definitely a wonderful artist that deserves plenty of attention.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U0KKZDAC

Of the Wand and the Moon - Lucifer

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Lucifer
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2003

Track Listing:

1. Lucifer
2. Naer Skóg Naer Fjöllum
3. Megin Runar
4. Followe Thy Faire Sunne Unhappy Shaddowe
5. Time Time Time
6. Let It Be Ever Thus
7. Reficul II
8. Lucifer

OtWatM's third album and maybe my favorite. It also has one of the coolest covers I've seen, and giving it a good look I think enhances the feel of the music. Something about the atmosphere of the cover mixes exceptionally well with the feeling of the music, something Kim did with Nighttime Nightrhymes as well. Has a sequel to the earlier track "Reficul" ('Lucifer' backwards). Enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3H3W3FCG

Of the Wand and the Moon - I Crave For You 7"

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: I Crave For You 7"
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2001

Track Listing:

1. I Crave for You (New version feat. Matt Howden)
2. In a Robe of Fire (New version)

A very short little EP featuring new versions of songs from Nighttime and Emptiness, before you write it off as a pointless download, listen to the new version of "I Crave For You". Matt Howden (the guy behind Sieben) manages to make a beautiful song even better.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5U7FKDFS

Of the Wand and the Moon - Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2001

Track Listing:

1. Lost in Emptiness
2. My Devotion Will Never Fade
3. In a Robe of Fire
4. Algir Naudir Wunjo
5. Silver Rain
6. Gal Anda
7. Here's to Misery (A Toast)
8. Can I Erase the Demon?
9. Reficul

More OtWatM, and no typos. Oh my. Emptiness is my least favorite of Kim's full lengths here, but still good none the less. "Here's to Misery (A Toast)" is a particularly gorgeous composition. Hope you like it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PSNBH7F3

Of the Wand and the Moon - Midnight Will

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Midnight Will
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2000

Track Listing:

1. Midnight Will
2. A Mass
3. Brace Your Self
4. Winter Veil
5. A Dirge
6. Midnight Will (Live at Hauruck! Festival 03.03.02)
7. Winter Veil (Demo)

More OtWatM. Mistake again: "Brace Your Self" is spelled "Barce Your Self". Unusual number of mistakes here. Oh well.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2CKQPN5E

Of the Wand and the Moon - Sól Ek Sà 7"

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Sól Ek Sà 7"
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 2000

Track Listing:

1. My Blackflamed Sun
2. Sól Ek Sá (MIIX)
3. Lion Serpent Sun

More Of the Wand and the Moon, and more mistags, track 2 and the album are both lacking their accents and the former the parenthesis. Again, sorry. Enjoy, none the less.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EA0GITUT

Of the Wand and the Moon - Nighttime Nightrhymes

Band: Of the Wand and the Moon
Album: Nighttime Nightrhymes
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Denmark
Year: 1999

Track Listing:

1. Gandr
2. I Crave for You
3. Lion Serpent Sun
4. Sól Ek Sá
5. In the Colours of Night
6. The Substance of Simplicity
7. Raven Chant
8. She With Whom Compar'd the Alpes Are Vallies
9. VargQld
10. Wintry Mantle
11. Nighttime Nightrhyme
12. Mauna

One of my favorite Neofolk acts, a solo project by Kim Larsen. Nighttime is his first album and one of my favorites. Just so you know, "VargQld" is listed as "Vargold" in the upload, so you'll need to edit the tag. Sorry.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=820HW0KV

Spiritual Front - Armageddon Gigolò

Band: Spiritual Front
Album: Armageddon Gigolò
Genre: Neofolk
Country of Origin: Italy
Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1. Slave
2. Bastard Angel
3. I Walk the (Dead) Line
4. The Shining Circle
5. My Kingdom for a Horse
6. Jesus Died in Las Vegas
7. Cruisin'
8. Love Through Vaseline
9. Ragged Bed
10. No Kisses on the Mouth
11. Redemption or Myself

Excellent Neofolk with a very distinct feel. Not sure how to describe it, but I find it to be very emotionally charged, personal and touching music which covers a variety of thoughts and experiences. Listen to it yourself to decide, enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W9N67A13

Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio & Spirirtual Front - Satyriasis

Bands: Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Spiritual Front
Album: Satyriasis
Genre: Neofolk, Industrial ("The Pleasure Of Pain")
Country of Origin: Italy (Spiritual Front), Sweden (ORE)
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Your Sex Is The Scar (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio feat. Spiritual Front)
2. Song For The Old Man (Spiritual Front)
3. Hell Is Where The Heart Is - The Gospel Of Tomas (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio)
4. Autopsy of a Love (Spiritual Front)
5. Three Is An Orgy, Four Is Forever (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio)
6. Border (Spiritual Front)
7. Dreaming Of My Scarlet Woman (Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio)
8. The Pleasure Of Pain (Spiritual Front feat. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio)

Split between two of my favorite Neofolk bands, the idea of which formed when the leaders of the two bands met at an orgy in Germany. Satyriasis is the male version of nymphomania, and as is to be expected, many of the songs are very erotically charged, though this is a common aspect of both bands' music. Both the individual songs and the two collaborative efforts are fantastic, and the ORE songs are some of my favorites of theirs. Highly suggested.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AO1BDWRX

Samples

I'll be using shorter descriptions in my posts, replacing the detailed descriptions with links to sample songs in the track listing itself. Hearing the music will give you a better idea of whether you'd enjoy it or not than would reading about it.