ODDITY: Earth For Foxes

My second favourite thing is when bands give us free music. My favourite thing is when free music is really really good. Earth for Foxes is a one man vocals free Electro-pop, almost 8 bit, band out of the US. From what I can garner they have no official album released and are unsigned as of yet.

For an unsigned band they are making on hell of a splash. Featured by Quicksilver and Pitchfork recently, I'm sure a deal is already in the works, or on it's way for an album.

With the recent wave of "not quite Owl City" bands, I have been getting sick of the Bright Eyes 2.0 feel of these one man basement electro-pop acts. Usually, what ruins them are the awful voices and autotune. Or overuse of ironic (I hope) samples. By dropping the vox all together, Earth for Foxes save themselves. Also, much to my delight they mix it up for tracks like Turtles, which is much slower than the poppier Batz and Foxes. I am fairly certain that the idea is to bring an element of each animal into the songs and he definitely pulls it off(if so, Chicadees are the 80's backing track of the animal world).

Instead of being another "more of the same" band for me, they're definitely one to watch. More including free music, after the jump.

To make things better, you can listen to a bunch of their tracks for free at http://www.earthforfoxes.com/. It's a Tumblr redirect, so you can follow them there. I recommend giving them a listen, I mean, it's free, how can it hurt? Batz! is my favourite track, just gets under your skin.