A couple of freebies

A couple of free samplers lying around on the web:

The Cartier website (the jewellers and such, I assume) has some indie and mainstream pop as free downloads as part of a promotion they’re running.   The indie pop needs to be downloaded a track at a time (ugly, clunky website, you need to hit the download icon in the upper left of the screen to get started), but there’s some good stuff there, recordings otherwise unreleased by some talented people, so its worth a quarter hour or so persevering.  The mainstream pop is in a single zip file (‘download all’ at the bottom of this page).  Thanks to lemoneyes at the emusic message boards for pointing this one out.

Chris Fuller, a talented singer-songwriter with a leaning towards acoustic folk, has a song diary on his website with upwards of fifty tracks on it.  He uploads material in progress as he works on it, and there’s some great tracks there.  He’s also got an album on Amie Street, currently a little over a buck, if you want more.

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: Two new uploads to Amie Street. Good Night States, an acoustic pop-rock group, have three new singles out, and Wil Maring, acoustic country-folk, has a couple of EPs.  Wil’s a woman.  I hadn’t come across her before, so this wasn’t immediately clear to me either.  Both are still free as I write this.