beady eye, gorillaz and klaxons holiday giveaway grab bag

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As mentioned before the holiday, several musical treats were to be delivered over the weekend. To follow up, here's what Santa uploaded for you to enjoy...

First up, Liam Gallagher's new band, Beady Eye, unveiled a video yesterday — Boxing Day — for "Four Letter Word" off the upcoming debut entitled Different Gear, Still Speeding. It's a straight-ahead rocker in the vein of "Headshrinker" off the underrated Oasis B-sides collection, The Masterplan, with plenty of Liam's trademark sneer:




Next up, Damon Albarn's Gorillaz issued The Fall, a "15 track sonic journal" of the band's recent US tour. You can stream the full album here if you're willing to join the mailing list, or you can download it if you're a member of the Sub Division fan club.

Recorded entirely on an iPad, it features guest appearances from Mick Jones and Bobby Womack. Don't go in expecting too much though, it's a lot of electronic wankery as the video for "Phoner To Arizona" indicates:




Finally, the Klaxons have dug up some old material that was recorded between Myths Of The Near Future and Surfing The Void. You can download the 5-song EP Landmarks Of Lunacy for free with absolutely no strings.

Klaxons were sent back to the drawing board by Polydor during recording of Surfing The Void, so odds are tracks like "The Pale Blue Dot" were among those rejected:




So there you have it. Kinda like a Christmas fruitcake...  you're grateful to have it, but you probably won't enjoy it.

holiday treats from gorillaz and klaxons

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After you're finished unwrapping gifts Christmas morning, jump on your laptop and download some virtual presents from Gorillaz and Klaxons.

First off, Damon Albarn has announced that The Fall, referred to as a "15 track sonic journal" of the band's recent US tour, will be made available free to members of the Gorillaz Sub Division fan club. The album will also get a physical release sometime in early 2011.

Recorded entirely on an iPad, it's a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks — some Albarn solo and others collaborative.  Here's a quick teaser of the video for The Fall's "Phoner To Arizona":




Meanwhile, the Klaxons, who made news last month with their NSFW video for "Twin Flames", will release a free EP Christmas Day.

Landmarks Of Lunacy is a 5-song follow-up to Surfing The Void, but it was actually recorded prior to that album back in 2008.

Produced by James Ford, who recorded the band's debut Myths Of The Near Future, it will be gifted to anyone who cares to visit klaxons.net.

The quality isn't the greatest, but here's a live performance of one of the 5 tracks entitled "Silver Forest":



Merry Christmas, fellow old wavers!