Room Thirteen

Proud to be one of the unsigned picks of the month on Room Thirteen: "Jon White aka If This Is A Man is a Staffordshire based singer songwriter and his new album was written, performed and recorded in a bedroom over this Summer. The record "Random Acts Of Kindness Have Saved Lives" is described by Jon as mixture of genres from slowcore through psychedelia and folk to electronic and shoegaze....

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Binge Cringe Whinge

Cheers to Scott at BCW for the review: "Year: 2011 Genre: Folk, indie Random Acts displays a flair for genre-hopping that caught me off guard. Towards the end of the sweet folky opening track Indelible, I was sucker punched when the climax roared in with a choir-like effect. I was wearing a smile when my head snapped back from the recoil though. From there the album progresses very pleasingly,...

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The Indie Artist Podcast

Write up in The Indie Artist Podcast, the guys were also good enough to include me in their podcast, episode 5, which you can listen to here: http://theindieartistpodcast.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/episode-five-god-gave-rock-and-roll-to-you/ "So when I write these things I do as much research as I can, I check the band’s facebook, they’re tumblr, maybe stalk a few tweets. I’ll read past interviews...

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Polar Sunspots

Today's pick on Polar Sunspots: "Dreamy, genre hopping release from England. Takes influence from various genres, including shoegaze, folk, psychedelica, slowcore and ambient. You can expect to hear some electronic elements too. If This Is A Man manages to do this whilst still remaining cohesive – no easy feat as you can probably guess! Really heartfelt and emotional album. Highly recommend...

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Sethmol Album Review

Thanks to Ian Witzel for this review on Sethmol "A somber reel of psychedelic guitar strings is cast into the pond of the soul. Tiny ripples break the surface and cascade outward, sending a solemn vibration to the senses. The sound waves lure positive organisms to the air and repel all negativity, creating a submerged cocoon of safety. If This Is a Man are giving new definition to the word slowcore....

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Networking Review

Review of Networking in Indie Music News:  Hello Independent Music readers/fans. I went on a bit of a rant the other day. Basically I really appreciate music when musicians spend so much time creating magical boxes of emotion. Then you get artists like Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black who work on segments of money making toblerone that the popular public indulge on. Well guess what?...

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New Album

New album is now properly out for people to listen to. It's called Random Acts Of Kindness Have Saved Lives and you can stream it on the new Bandcamp here: www.ifthisisaman.bandcamp.com or preferably download it from Megaupload here. If you download it here you get the songs in full WAV files which have lost none of the sound quality that the files on bandcamp have, they really sound a lot clearer...

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Megaupload - Beginner's Guide

If you haven't used Megaupload before it's really simple once you know how. If you don't have it already you need to download WinRar (or another software for extracting/compressing files). It's a small, clean and free trial of a software which you can use to compress folders on your computer to make them easy to share online or just to free up space. Just search WinRar download on google. Or get it...

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Random Acts Of Kindness Have Saved Lives

  If This Is A Man - Random Acts Of Kindness Have Saved LivesReleased: 08.09.11 Tracklist 1.Indelible2.Rabbit Holes3.Networking4.Shepard5.Your Old Room6.Nostalgic7.As Above As Below8.Little Things9.Starlin...

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Watch The Tapes

 Cheers to Billy at Watch The Tapes for this: "A quiet waif of an album I found in my inbox. Random Acts of Kindness is an understated effort, and if you aren’t paying attention it will fly by your ears before you know you were listening to it. But when you do listen, it’s rewarding. If This is a Man clearly has a distinct vision for his music and it blends a variety of influences (shoegaze,...

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Lucy Listens

I put a little preview of the album up on bandcamp and sent it to a hand full of places for previews. One of the picks on Lucy Listens: "Little Things- If This Is A Man: A soft lovely voice with alike music to accompany it. This is another song that comes from a whole album of good songs. The Album is called Random Acts Of Kindness Have Saved Lives." http://lucylistensblog.blogspot.com/2011/0...

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