Listen, also: low-tech shoegazers Tree Wave return with free 10 Inch EP

Apparently we're in the midst of a Very Musical Wednesday, so let's keep it going as strong as could be imagined with this: the latest, long anticipated and entirely free EP from frequently featured Dallas hacked-up hardware shoegaze (or are we actually calling it chip-gaze now?) outfit Tree Wave, simply titled 10 Inch.

It's hard to pick just one of the four tracks to feature, but above is my favorite, realaudio9, which comes as close to the gloriously upbeat, muddied ethereal drone of My Bloody Valentine as I believe is allowed by law, before then opening up into a section of hypnotic cut-up rhythm.

It's a bit of a departure from their earlier Cabana EP, which relied much more blatantly on the sounds of the Atari 2600's SynthCart, C64 equivalent CynthCart, and a firmware hacked Epson LQ500 dot-matrix printer, all instruments of Tree Wave lead Paul Slocum's own design.

But, all four tracks are extremely strong, and carry hints of off-kilter 'oriental' melodies that vaguely remind me how much I've missed now-defunct Athens group Macha (see also, especially: their collaborative EP with Bedhead).

Slocum's had some difficulty keeping the site alive for all the downloading, but it looks like it's back to stable now: grab the EP while you still can. [UPDATE: Slocum's mirrored the release here, too, if you're having download troubles.]