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Esterlyn Spotlight

Free music spotlight today on one of my personal favorites, a band called Esterlyn.  They have three different songs available online, all from their new CD Lamps.  There is also three more available, but I’ll get to that later…

First, about Esterlyn.  Please, keep in mind that I may be a little biased.  They are a indie rock band on Rooster Records.  It’s hard to explain who Esterlyn sounds like, because they don’t sound exactly like anyone.  If asked, I would probably say a bit of House of Heroes, some Mute Math, a good deal of Number One Gun, all while maintaining a they’re own sound.  Driving guitars, keyboards, clean vocals.

Like I said before, I love Esterlyn.  They are one of the few staples on my mp3 player, and are right up with The Wedding, Number One Gun, Disciple, Pillar, and Falling Up as my all-time favorites.  They are also without doubt Christians, and it shows in their lyrics.

In short, they are awesome. 

Anyway, the first song available is “Tie the Leaves”, on the Indie Vision Music Summer Slam Vol. 2 free sampler.  It’s the opening song to Lamps, and one of the catchiest songs I’ve ever heard.  It’s a fast, happy, and short song about how people attempt to copy other people, because they are afraid to be themselves.  Thus, they tie leaves on trees to protect themselves.  This one was at the top of my favorites list for at least a month.

Next is “Reveal Your Love”.  It’s basically a slower, guitar-driven indie-rock worship-song-prayer.  It’s available on the band’s MySpace, so long as you have a MySpace account and are signed in.  Also very good.  While you’re at the band’s MySpace, you can also watch a video about the story of the band’s name, and the debut music video “We All Need”.

Quite possibly the best song of all three, “Faster, Faster” is a catchy rock song.  It practically screams summer with the windows down, racing along the highway.  Unlike the other songs, this song is actually about a girl, and how she comes to accept Christ.  Good stuff.  This song is available on the Fighting from the Ground Up Vol. 1 free internet sampler, also released by Indie Vision Music.

Update: Thanks to CCMSingles, I know have another free Esterlyn song download!  The song is called “Kill Your Own Despair”, and it’s available on the Interlinc website.  It’s an excellent song, which used to be on the band’s MySpace as a free download.  Some of you may already have it, some may not.

Update:  Once again, thanks to CCMSingles for finding another free song by Esterlyn.  The song is “Emptiness”, and looks sweet.  The only downside is it replaced “Reveal Your Love” as the free song on the band’s MySpace.

And now for the bonuses.  Before Esterlyn was Esterlyn, some of the band members were part of a band called Grand Prize.  Stylistically, it was more like Jeremy Camp then the new Esterlyn, but if you want to get the old songs, go right ahead.  Jeremy Camp is cool too.    Three Grand Prize songs can be had on the groups MySpace profile.

-“Tie the Leaves” in Summer Slam Vol. 2-

-Esterlyn on MySpace-

-“Faster, Faster” in Fighting from the Ground Up Vol. 1-

-“Kill Your Own Despair” on Interlinc-

-Grand Prize on MySpace-

Tags: Esterlyn, Grand Prize

Cry of the Afflicted, Hawk Nelson, Leeland, Grand Prize, and Bionicles!

Newer Christian hardcore band Cry of the Afflicted has their song “Take This Day” available for downloading on the Cry of the Afflicted Purevolume profile:

WorshipTogether.com is offering a free download of Leeland’s new song “Enter This Temple” to promote Leeland’s new CD, Opposite Way. The song is only going to be available for a limited time, so be sure to hurry over and pick it up.

Hawk Nelson debuted the music video for latest single “Friend Like That” on Amazon.com last week. I’ve seen it, and I have to say, it’s pretty cool. In my opinion, it’s the Hawk’s best video. But I’ll let you decide that for yourself.

-“Friend Like That” on Amazon-

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Before Esterlyn was Esterlyn, they were Grand Prize. They released one CD Identity before breaking up and eventually reforming as Esterlyn. You can download three songs from them (Grand Prize, not Esterlyn) at their MySpace profile. The songs are excellent.  You do need to be logged in on MySpace to download the songs, however.

-Grand Prize on MySpace-

Tags: Cry of the Afflicted, Grand Prize, Hawk Nelson, Leeland