Frog • GROG • 2023

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Eclectic and wildly creative, this fully realized LP veers from the gorgeous grooving funk of “Black on Black on Black” to the classic pop of“Maybelline” before “New Ro” exemplifies the “gothic and cartoonish” characteristics that songwriter Daniel Bateman describes his latest work with.

Hallelujah The Hills • Alone, In Love • 2023

Joanna Sternberg • Neighbors • 2023

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Amanda Palmer, The Righteous Babes • The Last Day of our Acquaintance • 2023

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VARSITY • Cowboy Killer • 2023

You're the real thing

Big boots and diamond rings

Hypnotical legs

You said what up babe

You pulled up right

The only cowboy for miles

800 degrees

In your mirror ball gaze

You used to say

On the open road today

There are no shortcuts or heartaches

Hashimoto • That Would Be You • 2022

You will always be

A true fighter for the sea

You help us understand

What we need to help the land

The coolest person ever

To sit on a St-Viateur terrace

That would be you, always you

The groovy shades

The clothes you made

The smile that feels like Saturday

It killed me every time

It killed me every time

You pronounced B-u-t-t-o-n-s

I miss it

One time we got to be

Music Circle King and Queen

We sang Daniel Lanois’ Stormy Sky

I hold that memory tight

I hold that memory high

Who’s that on the bike?

A damn cool rock star

Korg in the basket

You’re a star of Mile End

Fighter for the planet

You’re its excellent friend

It’s a certainty

You will always be

The coolest person on St-Viateur

That would be you

Always you

 

Burn The Louvre • Alison (feat. Stephanie Deshane) • 2022

"Alison" is a fun indie pop duet featuring singer/songwriter Stephanie Deshane. It's about that person who comes into your life and leaves very suddenly, but I'd like to think that a girl like "Alison" always leaves on a positive note. The moral of the story is that just because an interaction or relationship might be temporary, that doesn't mean that it can't be meaningful.

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Advance Base • Little Sable Point Lighthouse • 2022

For the weekend

that Elise turned 28

she booked a motel room

on the Michigan side of the lake

with her boyfriend CJ

a couple miles down the way

from Little Sable Point Lighthouse

They went swimming

drank beer & watched TV

but on the second night

CJ couldn't sleep

so he snuck out with her keys

& drove the Cherokee

out to see the lighthouse

Staring up at the tower

watching the big light spin

hypnotized by the silver beam

that cut right through the dim

that's how Elise imagined him

he was never seen again

Years later

in Michigan again

for the second wedding

of an old school friend

Elise & her husband

happen by

Little Sable Point Lighthouse

Just a ghost now

decommissioned some time before

it had been the site

of endless imagined horror

but with a calm that surprised her

Elise parked the car

& walked out to see the lighthouse

Staring up at the tower

that now stood dark

surrounded by the quiet

of Silver Lake State Park

Elise squinted at the scene

she remembered from her dreams

David Holmes feat. Raven Violet • It's Over, If We Run Out Of Love • 2022

Belfast-born David Holmes boasts a formidable CV, with 5 solo albums and 25 soundtracks to his name. His screen work ranges from Steven Soderbergh’s classic Ocean’s Eleven trilogy and Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed Hunger, to stylish TV drams including London Spy and The Fall. 

ratbath • fairy forts • 2021

written in paris, france

recorded on an iphone

black sack, the faces pass on the train

big grin, he’s lost in sin-mple pleasures shamed

you’re new, so new to this place

but just a few towns away

you are oddly-sorted

fairy forts and banshees call your name

newgrange, the causeway

a giant's claim to fame

speck of dust, you must recall your home

corpses at wakes, triscoll and fairy forts

we sat in class and I got a vision of a sash

covered in blood and stairs go up and up and up

I heard the words

you explained the same red round of fabric lost in pain

the steps, a death and bullets into legs

I spoke in poems, takes a brave one to say

the classroom was so grey I could never dip into my astral supply

this time, loosened the shine

talk of tier na nog untwined our minds

we cry at different things but we’re inside an orb of pain

it’s black and hard, our limbs are shards

there’s always fairy forts

 

Saccades • Lady Blue (Peaking Lights Remix) • 2021

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Porridge Radio • Wet Road • 2021

Gem Club • Spirit & Decline • 2021

hushed among the bells 

the arrow struck your shoulder 

forced to the ground 

with the shredded pulp 

of red apples 

and you're near 

your hands are touching hands 

and you're near 

the violence swells with its song 

i am starting to lose focus 

the distance in decline 

while i'm watching your spirit 

rise 

watched for the point 

when you'd wake from it 

with the sun against your back

Pete Astor • Paradise • 2021

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Even from my good side 

I don't look right 

I hate where my mind goes 

Half of the time 

Guess we all get older now 

I don't wanna be here if you're not 

I'll remember you 

You said 

 

Spilt Milk • A Drinking Song • 2021

We were asked by the Groninger Museum to make a song with a painting from their collection in mind. Giorgio Morandi's still life with his familiar glasses and bottles stood out, because of its subtlety and repetitiveness. Qualities we felt at ease with. We don't know what's inside the bottles. It could be milk, could be wine, could be nothing. Yeat's 'A Drinking Song' turned out to complete the song perfectly. 

A Drinking Song - William Butler Yeats 

Wine comes in at the mouth 

And love comes in at the eye; 

That's all we shall know for truth 

Before we grow old and die. 

I lift the glass to my mouth, 

I look at you, and I sigh. 

blue herons • endless rain • 2021

A hundred days of endless rain 

Compounded by relentless gray 

I can’t distinguish between the day 

A hundred days of endless rain 

Compounded by relentless gray 

I can’t distinguish between the day 

What happens when the rain 

What happens when the rain 

What happens when the rain won’t end 

 

Gina Leonard • Hard Time • 2021

One half of Mumble Tide.

One third of Rampton Prom.

 

Phantom Handshakes • No Better Plan • 2021

Phantom Handshakes is a lo-fi, dream pop collaboration between Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar.

 

Tyler Burkhart • Only Yesterday • 2021

Only yesterday 

I was just a kid 

Never thought I’d grow at all 

but then one day I did 

Who can help but turn 

into someone else? 

I don’t wanna spend my life 

tryin to figure out myself 

Who would wanna be 

a celebrity? 

people follow you around 

but there’s nothing much to see 

See your name in lights 

in flourescent bulbs 

I don't wanna get so high 

that I’d be afraid to fall 

Called you up to say 

I had that dream again 

can’t remember how it starts 

but this is how it ends