May 28, 2016

mock orange - Put The Kid On The Sleepy Horse - 2016



Having been a band for over two decades, Evansville, IN’s Mock Orange have seen and done quite a bit throughout the years. Despite releasing a handful of ever-evolving albums and EPs, touring the world over, and slowly amassing a devoted fanbase, there was bound to be a hiccup at some point. It arrived upon the culmination of the band’s most recent recording sessions when a hard drive failure meant all of their recordings were in jeopardy. Fast forward a couple years — and several hard drive specialists later — and the recordings were finally recovered safely.

VA - Dreams Never End, A Tribute To New Order - 2015



Conceived by TBTCI Records with the contribution of all bands present in this project. 
We are dedicated this tribute to Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris. 

VA - Soft as Fire in The House of Love - 2016



The House of Love are one of the greatest, most underrated British guitar bands. Hailing from London in the late 80’s, their detailed psychedelic guitar work marked a new era in guitar renaissance. The House of Love’s music is filled with melancholic splendor. Clear, shimmering electric guitars, warm sonic acoustics, along with Guy Chadwick’s tormented, joyful and florid tone and lyrics remind us of their songwriting brilliance. The House of Love stand on their own. From their unparalleled produced studio albums to their powerful live performances, their music transcends the test of time. 

- Victor MA Nash (Appeal to Heaven) 

Helen Love - Smash Hits - 2016


Female lead indie pop/punk band out of the UK. Really nice.

Tibet - Above The Moon - 2016



A UK alt-rock style… worth a listen.

May 24, 2016

Cat Be Damned - Daydreams in a Roach Motel - 2016


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Manel Rodriguez EP - 2016



Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music of Twin Peaks - 2016



Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art commissioned Xiu Xiu to reinterpret the music from Twin Peaks for their David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. Since then, the band has performed select concerts all over the globe culminating in a proper studio album of the compositions. 

"It’s difficult to overstate the cultural impact of Twin Peaks 25 years ago. Transferring his art-house cinema ethic to the small screen, David Lynch’s cerebral, surrealist murder mystery series towered like a desert skyscraper over the wastelands of mainstream US TV drama.

A large part of the series’ appeal lay in the hypnotic, spectral soundtrack that won a Grammy for its composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Invited earlier this year to reinterpret that music for a Lynch retrospective at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Californian avant-noise trio Xiu Xiu have now taking their work on a world tour." - The Guardian

May 23, 2016

Spring Full Moon


Spring's Full moon

pet cemtery & henoheno & brittle brian & francis cool - split - 2016



a nice little comp from a great label… four artists two songs each all free!

May 21, 2016

Courtney Barnett - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - 2014



Courtney Barnett can tell you a story like she's your best friend — provided your best friend is a funny poet with an Australian accent. Listen to "Avant Gardener," an autobiographical account of trying to turn a life around through gardening, only to be foiled by a severe allergic reaction. The tale that follows at this Tiny Desk Concert, "History Eraser," is a ramble in an alcohol-fueled dream state; it features some of the best lyric-writing in music today. Here's a sample from that song:

"I found an Ezra Pound and made a bet that if I found a cigarette I'd drop it all and marry you. Just then a song comes on: "You can't always get what you want" — The Rolling Stones, oh, woe is we, the irony! The Stones became the moss and once all inhibitions lost, the hipsters made a mission to the farm. We drove by tractor there, the yellow straw replaced our hair, we laced the dairy river with the cream of sweet vermouth."

The only downside for a fan like me is that these songs have been kicking around my head for more than a year. As she played them, I found myself hoping for something new, too. And so it was that Barnett graced the Tiny Desk with a brand-new tune, not yet on a record, about a suburb near Melbourne known as Preston; it's a song about house-hunting that she appropriately calls "Depreston." The song is thoughtful, acerbic and funny, just like the woman who sings it. --BOB BOILEN

Set List

"Avant Gardener"
"History Eraser"
"Depreston"

Tombstones In Their Eyes - Bad Clouds - 2016


Looking for something a bit more epic to fill your earphones? check out this psych rock release; it will fill your ears and more.

Walrus - Goodbye Something - 2016


Trippy, psychedelic, all real… Solid release out of Halifax.

Crystal Shipsss - Holly - 2016



On Crystal Shipsss' 4th album Holly bubblegum pop & lo-fi weirdness collides with noisy outbursts. The dreamy shoegazy sound is related to acts like Galaxie 500 and Slowdive, but you'll also find catchy M83ish synth pop on this pink mini album.

Michael Jaroski - Quiet Town - 2016


Interesting singer songwriter plucking away some folk ditties… Nice sunny day release.

The fin. - White Breath - 2016




There’s a theme running through the beauteous new EP by The fin. that permeates more than just the song titles. Oceanic imagery features heavily in Yuto Uchino’s lyrics, as references to ship, shore and submersion loom large. The singer articulates these tales of impermanence and transition to a shimmering, sophisticated indie art-pop backing that will be familiar to fin. fans, even though there’s a greater electronic influence to this EP, as synths carry more of the weight, melodically and rhythmically. 
Opener ‘White Breath’ builds on its vehement piano/vocal intro to envelop a cropped hypnotic groove with springy keyboard stabs, dubby fx and, of course, Uchino’s soaring harmonies. “I saw you jumped into the sea/What could you see from there?” the singer then questions to the symphonic arpeggios of ‘Divers’, set to a characteristically minimalist beat and crunchy bassline that segues into a second act of controlled yet quietly euphoric trance-pop.

Darla and the Blonde - Eugenia - 2016



Having shared taster track ‘The End Of The Party’ – a searing glam-rock groove underpinning an infectious lyrical riff on revolution – to much acclaim, radical Hackney rockers Darla And The Blonde reveal the details of their first full EP, ‘Eugenia’, released on 20 May. 
The first of five eclectic but equally invigorating alt.rock nuggets, ‘In Admiration Of The Female Spy’ is a melodic musing on the escapades of feminine espionage set to a forceful three minutes thirty of edgy new wave. The dexterity of the band is to the fore as an intricate bassline shadows the catchy vocal harmonies through the verses before the chorus is announced by a crescendo of crunching overdriven guitar. 
Follow-up ballad ‘Vampyr’ has an air of fragile beauty that belies its themes of age, decay and mortality, its celestial vocal pattern meandering across a metronomic tick-tock rhythm that lends the song a further touch of the fantastical. 
’The Article’ tells the story of Eugenia Falleni (after whom the EP is named), a female-to-male transgender man who was falsely tried for murder in the early 20th century. Atop the song’s heavyweight folk-grunge score, Jen Demaris and Nina Lovelace’s voices ring out a powerful shanty-like tale to resound long in the mind. 
Part prog-rock, part widescreen gothic-pop, ‘Hexenhammer’ was originally released as a single on Halloween 2014 and its unorthodox melody lines are a fitting fabulist homage to the novel ‘Dark Aemilia’ by Sally O’Reilly, in which the protagonist dabbles in the dark arts. “If you say his name I’ll lay a Hexenhammer at your door” runs Demaris and Lovelace’s anthemic chorus. 

Yvonne McDonnell - I'm Not This Layer Of Skin - single 2016



Not Her Own is all about empowerment; about having the ability to positively stand up to life’s daily struggles, delivered through the effervescent beauty of Yvonne’s emotive vocals. Yvonne is not only inspired by musical influences such as Nick Cave and Joanna Newsom, but also by poets such as Alfred Lord Tennyson andEdgar Allen Poe, helping to inspire her to write the opening tracks I’m Not This Layer Of Skin and The Savages. 

VOGUE DOTS - IF YOU STAY - Single - 2016



a bit Mt Wolf/ Beach House

May 18, 2016

Picturebox - Songs of Joy - 2016


Melodic music from the cathedral city of Canterbury. Songs about girls, animals, football, anything, everything, nothing.


Chris Clavin - The Roads Don't Lead Home - 2016



If you like the Mountain Goats you'll like this!

Originally released on Crafty Records on LP (thanks). This was the first album released under the name Chris Clavin, but should really be a Captain Chaos album, since it's the same thing. 

By that I mean, all songs are written and recorded as quickly as possible. The intent being to have fun writing and not take it too serious, of course this ends you up with some pretty simple songs. I hope you like them. 

The Hayman Kupa Band - Someone to Care For - 2016



The first single from the Hayman Kupa band even though the single follows on from Darren and Emma's first single 'Boy' Look at What You Can't Have Now.' 

May 15, 2016

Nathaniel Rateliff - Falling Faster Than You Can Run - Audiotree Live - 2014


Im on the run
Aim
Breakin away
On the feet of you all
And catchin the stone
with a side of my head

hold me back
walkin it home
im takin the tracks
so leave me alone
you can see me fall
faster than 
you can run

take it away
if you're feelin its wrong
kickin it back
watch it dissolve
tug on the line
Chained to the wall
I heard you call

We're not gonna make it at all

Runnin
im gonna fall
probably should

well catch me
you never could
I planned out the distance
from where you stood
When I hit the ground 
gonna laugh out loud
gonna lay there a while and stare at the clouds

baby it looks bad
or maybe from the angle im at
well i tear off my shirt
and wrap it around
your wound

Mother Evergreen - 2016



smooth, silky indie pop songs… Nice release.

Naps - The Most Beautiful Place - 2016


Super cool little indie pop release out of Tallahassee, Florida. Great release.

Motiongazer - olivia - 2016


experimental, diy bedroom noodling out of Tennessee.

Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost - 2016



The first album recorded by someone other than the band themselves, Modern Baseball enlisted Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Joyce Manor) at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia to help refine their sound on Holy Ghost. In a tight 28 minutes, Holy Ghost covers an impressive emotional range, with co-songwriters Jacob Ewald and Brendan Lukens literally splitting the record in half. The record kicks off with six songs from Ewald and ends with five from Lukens. What they ended up with was a complete record of the past two years– the highs alongside the lows, tales from the road and glorious days at home alongside songs of heartbreak and personal struggle.

Yikes - Commercial Music - 2016



Slacker sensibility run through these tracks… Cool Pavement cover to boot.

SPORT - Slow - 2016


A little bit of indie, a little bit of punk merge together on this solid release.

May 13, 2016

Star Parks - Don't Dwell - 2016



'This often-brilliant record feels like the summer’s ultimate calling-card' – Gold Flake Paint 

'Evocative of a past era but casting a new spell each time you play it' – Under the Radar Magazine 

'I like this, my Mum would like this, you probably like this. What's not to like?' – The 405

VA - Blue Thunder: A Tribute to Galaxie 500 - 2016


The music is and must necessarily be magical, otherwise loses its strength, its essence. And that magic is in every song of every album of Galaxie 500, and that is never erased. That's the feeling that I still have from the first time I heard Tugboat. 

Thank you, Dean, Naomi, and Damon 

May 9, 2016

skating - ultra blue - 2016



Filip Zemčík Psychedelic emo experimentations to make you feel like skateboarding in New England

May 7, 2016

Teen Body - Get Home Safe - 2016


Shimmering guitars and hazy vocals… nice release.

Manon meurt - 2014


chrisgendo very relaxing. any album i constantly pop in before going to bed gets my wholehearted recommendation and this is one of them

Jabod Atmospheric shoegaze with shimmering guitars, ethereal vocals and well-timed crescendos that takes me back to the early 90s (and particularly Pale Saints, masters of the stirring shoegaze soundscape).

Roselit Bone - Dreamless Sleep (Split w​/​Jenny Don't & the Spurs) - 2016


We are Roselit Bone. We play knife-fight music. We play psychotic cowboy music. We will suck the smile off your drunk face.

May 5, 2016

No Dice Tapes - the year all bad things went away and everything turned out to be fine - 2016


Here is a compilation of songs with no clear theme other than that they're all really good. All profits from the cassettes as well as all donations for the downloads will go to the amazing Manchester based charity Action for Trans Health to help them continue the great job that they do. Read more about the charity here: actionfortranshealth.org.uk

Spartan Jet-Plex - Touch Tone - 2016


Bedroom folk pop with hushed female vocals. Nice release.

Alice b - Vad gör jag nu - 2016


Swedish pop goodness…

Fort Frances - Alio - 2016



“You definitely want to keep your eyes on this band,” Bruce Warren at WXPN wrote in 2013 when Fort Frances released Harbour,, a self-recorded EP that landed the band on stage with a who’s who list of emerging indie rock names including The Lone Bellow, Bahamas, PHOX, Kopecky and We Are Augustines. 

Now, with the band’s release of Alio, that prediction appears to be true. With Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim) at the production helm, the band’s new EP stretches well beyond their Americana roots to unlock the potential that’s been building for the past two years with louder guitars, jubilant horns and dueling rhythm sections.