1) Mittens – Deer Park Mirage
This is the title track from Madrid-based Spanish indiepoppers Mittens’ debut album released in May of last year. Gotta love that Spanish lilt when they sing in English – so so lovely. Thanks again to Francisco Javier (our portal into everything cool, indie and Spanish – he promises his own blog soon) who sent them over to TOW as a tip. For Spanish indie pop geeks Guillermo Farre is the man behind this project, also known as Wild Honey.
2) Marina Gallardo – Climbing The Walls
Again our thanks go out to Francisco. And then we had a look around saw that Wears The Trousers featured her a while back too. Sheesh, it’s hard keeping up with the cool kids! Andalucian native Marina is two album’s in and last year released Some Monsters Die And Others Return on Barcelona label Foehn Records. At only a minute and twenty seconds in length, Climbing The Walls is a gentle, mournful lament, which would send even the most tortured insomniac off to sleep.