A few weeks ago I posted a song by the Acid House Kings, and since then I’ve bought their LP and listened to it over and over. I still like the song I posted before (“This Heart Is a Stone”) the best, but the others are also good. Anyway, it turns out that the Acid House Kings’ label, Labrador Records, is awesome in and of itself, and has posted a mix equivalent to 4 albums culled from their various bands for free on their website. And what’s even cooler, they encouraged people to share it via The Pirate Bay, a torrent tracker site which has been coming under a lot of fire from the MPAA lately. It’s nice that some of the indie labels like Labrador are realizing that a) giving music away can be good marketing and b) torrents aren’t only for illegal sharing. (It probably doesn’t hurt that Labrador is a Swedish label, just as The Pirate Bay is a Sweden-based site.)

Anyway, go here to snag the torrent. (If you don’t already have a BitTorrent client, I recommend Azureus.)

Here are a few samples off the mix. All of the bands are from Sweden, to my knowledge, but most of the songs are in English. They’re all pretty much in the same general indie-pop category; if you like these, you’ll like the rest, too.

Acid House Kings – Do What You Wanna Do
Acid House Kings – This Heart is a Stone (repeat from earlier post, but I enjoy it too much not to post it again)
Douglas Heart – Smoke Screen
Loveninjas – Keep Your Love
Ronderlin – Reflected
Sambassadeur – Between the Lines