This past summer recording engineer and Delicious Audio contributor Shane O’Connor took six bands of his choice into Monsterland Recording Studio in Brooklyn. Each band recorded one song in one day, and the result is Brooklyn Heat 2010, a compilation featuring up-and-coming Brooklyn acts Shark?, Quilty (top picture), Quiet Loudly, Little Racer, Magnetic Island (in the picture below) and GunFight! The compilation features no-frills indie rock that runs the gamut from rowdy rock n’ roll sing-alongs (Shark?’s “You Ignore Me” and GunFight!’s “I Would Be Your Man”), to dissonant and spacey pop (Quiet Loudly’s “Be My Baby Mama” and Quilty’s “In the Guts”), and infectious, angular post-punk (Magnetic Island’s “Shake the Fog” and Little Racer’s “On The Run”). According to O’Connor, the bands were chosen without a specific theme, but simply because they each offer “exciting live shows, [and] were willing to promote themselves in interesting ways, and were open to collaboration with other artists.” Each song on Brooklyn Heat 2010 compliments the next perfectly, providing for an undeniably fun and engaging listen. And yes, it’s free to download, so go grab these tracks right now.
