QBiM's March Conest Maddness!

Happy March 1st, everyone, and welcome to QBiM's month of contests, giveaways and reader appreciation! Things started a bit early with the return of a "4 for the Weekend," a regular feature that's been away for awhile. To celebrate its return, we're giving away all four CDs featured in the post! To learn more and get your name in the mix for the free discs, click here:

4 for the weekend, vol. 31: The Return

All month, there'll be special giveaways for members of Quick Before It Melts' Facebook Group, too. Not a member? Well, what are you waiting for?

Today's giveaway features an album we never really talked about last year, but did feature awhile back. Fred Thomas is the brains and mastermind behind Saturday Looks Good To Me, whose album Fill Up The Room, is up for grabs today. SLGTM blend some lush sounds and layered arrangements with a straightforward pop sensibility that takes you in surprising directions and requires multiple listens. Thomas is joined by an ever-rotating cast of musical accomplices who help flesh out this awesome record.

Saturday Looks Good To Me "Make A Plan"
[Fill Up the Room, 2007, K Records]
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For today's giveaway just tell us what you love about Saturdays by leaving a post in the "Saturday Looks Good To Me" discussion on the Quick Before It Melts' Facebook Group. This contest closes when the weekend is over!

Happy Saturday, folks!

You want the candy

photo: Oeren Solkaer Starbird
I've never been greatly impressed by The Raveonettes in the past, but I have to say that I've been taken with "Aly, Walk With Me" from their latest album, Lust Lust Lust enough to give the, erm, lustful duo another chance to get down and dirty with me.

It's swaggering opening and chant-like vocals make "Aly..." a mesmerizing affair. The spaghetti-western instrumentation and cinematic-scope of the locales (walking in the summer, walking in dreams, walking in New York, and Portland, is it?) adds the making of a sultry love affair. It's almost Portishead-like, if Portishead were backed by a fuzzed out guitar band who'd been listening to Darklands or Psychocandy. I think it's fair to say you'll either love it or you'll hate it. And if you hate it, perhaps you'll like Ruby Isle's cover of the track more.

The Raveonettes "Aly, Walk With Me"
[Lust Lust Lust, 2008, Vice]

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