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Music Alliance Pact 2nd Anniversary Compilation
The Music Alliance Pact is two years old this month and there’s a treat in store for you today in celebration of the occasion.
I’ve tried to take music blogging in less obvious directions with The Pop Cop, but the success of MAP has been completely unexpected.
Since its launch in October 2008 with 12 blogs – each representing the finest new music from their country of origin on the 15th of every month – the project has trebled in size and currently incorporates all the territories listed at the foot of the blog.
To date, 24 Scottish artists have been picked by The Pop Cop for MAP exposure and now 23* of them have donated a song for a special anniversary compilation which you can download for free.
Many of the tracks are exclusive to this album or very rare, so think of it as a little thank-you to everyone who has supported the Music Alliance Pact.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Roddy Hart – Close To The Flame
Also available on Road Of Bones album
2. Beerjacket – Crooked Finger
Previously unreleased, recorded exclusively for this compilation
3. Dotjr – This Is My Life
Previously unreleased
4. Evan Crichton – Coppola And Hearts
Previously unreleased, recorded exclusively for this compilation
5. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Down To The Bare Bones
Also available on Roll Up Your Sleeves single (FatCat Records)
6. There Will Be Fireworks – Talking Backwards
Previously unreleased
7. Boycotts – Shoot You Down
Previously unreleased
8. The Seventeenth Century – Countryside
Previously unreleased
9. Maple Leaves – Tapestry
Also available on Tapestry single (Koshka)
10. My Cousin I Bid You Farewell – I’m Yours
Previously unreleased
11. The Xcerts – Photobooth (Death Cab For Cutie cover)
Previously unreleased
12. Meursault – Another
Also available on All Creatures Will Make Merry album (Song, By Toad Records)
13. The Unwinding Hours – Burning River
Also available on Tour EP
14. The Kays Lavelle – Aftermath
Also available on Be Still This Gentle Morning album (Wiseblood Industries)
15. Galleries – Rescue Plan
Previously unreleased
16. Werd – Drinkin’ By Myself
Previously unreleased
17. Admiral Fallow – Delivered (Alternate Version)
Previously unreleased
18. Washington Irving – Phantom Buck
Also available on Little Wanderer, Head Thee Home EP (Instinctive Racoon Records)
19. Sorren Maclean – Cold Old Corridor
Also available on Bus Tax And Bars single
20. Kid Canaveral – Missing Me
Also available on Second Time Around single
21. LightGuides – The Casting Call
Also available on LightGuides/Make Sparks split single
22. Dems – Lioness
Also available on Bandcamp
23. Endor – For The Love Of Yamamoto & Ogawa
Also available on Without The Help Of Sparks single
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MUSIC ALLIANCE PACT 2ND ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION
*The only missing MAP artist is Broken Records as their record label, 4AD, refused to sanction the use of any of their songs.
6 Responses to “Music Alliance Pact 2nd Anniversary Compilation”
October 2nd, 2010 at 15:25
Why does recorded exclusively or previously unreleased have to mean acoustic? Why do Scottish bands love acoustic versions of songs? Also, why is Werd still being taken seriously. He should never have been included on a compilation with artists that are, for the most part, attempting to write credible, original and relevant music. At the very least you should add a footnote suggesting that some might view him as a joke. These confusions aside I enjoyed listening to this compilation. I had heard some of the material before and was aware of most of the artists but my surprise highlights were by far, Burning River by The Unwinding Hours; I never got a hold of the tour EP but love the record and have always been a fan of Craig’s voice, and I’m Yours by My Cousin I bid You Farewell. This song was a real treat for me because it doesn’t sound like a band from Scotland at all. It was also the only song I listened to more than once. Great tune!
All in all, good work Mr Pop Cop! You should make this an annual thing. Your top 12 tracks of the year as a Christmas album?
October 2nd, 2010 at 16:48
Very good, thank you. Big fan of The Unwinding Hours, There Will Be Fireworks and We Were Promised Jetpacks.
October 3rd, 2010 at 15:46
Great compilation Jason! Poor, poor show from 4AD though. Haven’t Broken Records got an album coming out that this would have been great, free, multi-country-wide publicity for? Considering they’re giving away ‘A Leaving Song’ for free, what’d be the harm in 4AD allowing you to use it?!?
October 3rd, 2010 at 22:13
RE Fictionscoutsanonymous: Your argument doesn’t quite stack up… virtually all of the acoustic tracks here are from artists who are acoustic-based anyway, the only exception being The Xcerts. Werd is an amazingly talented rapper, you should check out his other stuff, but each to their own I guess. And don’t you worry, you’ll get plenty of Xmas prezzies from me!
RE David: Trust me, I made all those points to 4AD. The sad thing was that the band themselves were totally up for it.
October 4th, 2010 at 08:40
Rock bands! Guitars bursting in your face like flames! Molten electric rock! Rock! Graaaarrrrrrr! Like a frickin’ turbo jet – BOOOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!
October 6th, 2010 at 10:55
I am following MAP for more than a year now. I believe it was a great idea. Keep up the good work!!
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