Round-Up: August 2013

Greetings! Here at MuzikDizcovery, we run across more amazing artists than you can shake a fist at...or write about, unfortunately. Round-Up is a monthly feature that attempts to cover some of the great musicians who we may have missed but are just as deserving of our attention.

It may be September now, but for Canadian indie band Paper Lions, the summer isn't quite yet over. The band just released its new LP My Friends on August 20, a rollicking collection of songs on youth. Soaked in sunny guitar chords, upbeat drum beats, and anthemic hooks wrapped in fuzzy production, it's a sweet little intersection between math-rock and garage pop. Paper Lions wraps scrappy underdog sentiments into suave songwriting arrangements, and the resulting songs wield sonic force without losing any of the charming sincerity found in the lyrics. The entire album is available for stream here, and here's a stream of free download "Philadelphia."