The Relaunch! - Free, Legal Music Within!

Right so, like many people on this here internet, I've been rubbish at maintaining my blog. Apologies for that. But from now on I'll do better. I promise, you have my word! So here's how it's going to go down (as those pesky kids say) -

Every Tuesday there will be 3-4-FREE where you'll be able to download 3 tracks that represent the cream of the free, legal downloads of that week.

Every Sunday I'll introduce you to a shiny new band that deserve your attention.

And every so often there will be a post on pretty much anything I feel like commenting on. Like the post just below this talking about Quentin Letts' article on the state of British comedy.

So I hope it all works out and you enjoy it :)

Here's today' 3-4-FREE. Since it's a relaunch I thought I'd provide you not with 3 tracks but 3 entire albums, oh yes siree!

First off is Sway's Delivery 2 mixtape.

Now, hip hop and grime are not the bread and butter of my musical diet. They're more like asparagus - I like to have it occasionally but it's not going to be on my plate all the time like good ol' bread and butter. That said Delivery 2: Lost In Transit is absolutely superb and is currently getting some bread and butter style playtime on my Ipod at the moment. Coming between the Delivery mixtape and Sway's album Deliverance, which is planned for 2011, Delivery 2 continues the fast paced flows and wide-ranged sampling of the first mixtape and cements Sway's place in the upper echelons of the UK grime scene. Top Track: Bring Me (feat. Klayz)

Next up is the debut album from half-Maltese, half-German indie-poppers Bark Bark Disco - Your Mum Says Hello!

A perfect example of sweet, lo-fi pop music made in a bedroom - catchy choruses, odd instruments and lashings of fun make this truly irresistible. The highlight is the Swedish pornstar-inspired Song For The Lovers (see the brilliant and almost, but not quite, NSFW video just here) which has a remarkable amount of charm for a song containing the line 'Sod the romance, let me get in your pants'. Top Track: Song For The Lovers

And finally on this week's 3-4-FREE - it's the Music Alliance Pact's Second Birthday album . The MAP is a group of music blogs from around the world including The Pop Cop from Scotland, Swedesplease in Sweden and America's I Guess I'm Floating. Each blog has put forward a track from its own country for this 35 song compilation. As you'd probably expect, it's a diverse mix, featuring an Israeli pschobilly cover of The Pixies' Mr Grieves, some Estonian electro-wave and even a bit of Indonesian death-rock. If you want a whirlwind world tour of current music this is definitely not to be missed. Top Track: Tallinn Daggers - Island Phi Ley.

Hope you enjoy this bumper, 67-song edition of 3-4-FREE and remember to check in on Sunday for details of your new favourite band.