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Jul 7, 2020
M180 EP • 2020
“We grew up with social media all around us and were recounting stories in Jimmy Mac’s tour bus, laughing about our school days with Facebook parties, pictures you weren’t meant to see and finding amazing music. A few days later I was reading about yet another teenager greatly troubled with mental health issues and the role the internet played. I had also been keeping up to date about the #MeToo movement and yet another profiled predatory pervert taking advantage of aspiration.”
Zak MINT
‘Goodbye Beautiful’ is a maelstrom of frenetic energy that encapsulates all that the Grimsby outfit are about.’ Clout
“Like a fine wine, getting better with everything they release” It’s All Indie
‘Enraged Rockers MINT With Loud And Clear Wake-Up Call To Save Our Planet’ Turn Up The Volume
“You cannot help but find yourself under Mint‘s spell.” Clunk Mag
‘Mint have created a frenzied assault on the senses’ Indie Buddie
Mar 6, 2020
Chrysalism • YOUR NAME HERE • 2020
“essential romanticism” CLASH
“equal parts melancholic and mesmerising” DIY
“Chrysalism creates late night music for broken hearts” The Line of Best Fit
“the gentle, yet breaking tone of his voice is juxtaposed by dreamy instrumentation” Lyrical Lemonade
Mar 1, 2020
Baseball Gregg • Calendar • 2020
"In a twist of fate, Calendar is less a time-capsule documentation of specific emotions and times, and more of a playlist of sturdy indie pop hits that can stand the test of time. Baseball Gregg and their deep bench of featured artists are onto something here. Unlike its namesake, don’t throw this one away after just one year; slide the dates to the right, rewind, and connect the dots."
-ThrdCoast
Dec 13, 2019
Best of 2019 • Big Thief • "The Toy"
What a fool, familiar dream
I wake up laughing and running
From the boy crying and coming
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
What a tomb we're building here
In the sphere, that's where we all die
In the eye, that's where I'm living
The toy in my hand is real
In the room, her warm hands play
On my breast, what is she singing?
Her form ringing and ringing
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
The toy in my hand is real
Charcoal, the jet planes purr
In the crew, distant as paper
Children burn, faceless vapor
'Cause the toy in my hand is real
Yes, the toy in my hand is real
Nov 27, 2019
Damsel Adams • 2019
“I knew I wanted to make a sexy video that was raw and paid homage to my roots in East LA. Every shot in the video is my hometown of Highland Park. I frequent all the bars there, that is my local movie theater, that is my friend’s bedroom, that is my favorite overpass. I was inspired by LA nights,” says Adams.
Blending classic noir with modern production, 808s beats, synths, sound effects and inspired by LA nights, Adams is delivering an honest and distinctive art.
Oct 8, 2019
Approaching Perfection • A Tribute to DC Berman • 2019
« The idea came from my friend Baptiste Fick, who taught me two decades ago how to play How To Rent a Room on a guitar. “What if we organized a tribute compilation of David Berman?” As is customary at Section 26, I responded : “Let’s do it. We’ll think about it afterwards.” The musicians we started to contact reacted the same way, with short and direct answers. We often got a modest : “I’m in, buddy!” Sometimes, we’d receive whole testimonies of an encounter, an interaction with David Berman around Jewish mysticism, or teenage memories which obviously struck a chord with Baptiste and me. Even the most legitimate refusals were encouraging. Xavier Mazure
Sep 22, 2019
Mia Berg • Intro • 2019
“‘Each new single takes her closer to the prize, and Mia Berg hits home with her emphatic new sad-pop banger ‘You Decided”’
“The Oslo riser is provocatively talented”
(CLASH)
Sep 9, 2019
mercvrial • the stars, like dust • 2019
otherworld - 00:00
carnival - 05:34
pink frost - 09:08
girlwish (ii) - 13:40
hsieh su-wei - 18:37
I’d like you to meet Mercvrial, an eclectic group with shoegaze and dream-pop tendencies that imprint on the sounds of Ride, Slowdive, The Chills and other artists of the like that they embraced during their formative years. On their upcoming EP The Stars, Like Dust, we hear thick guitar beds provide backdrop to atmospheric vocals. It explores the size and significance of human beings on a big rock hurling through space and the ensuing feelings of existential bewilderment.
SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS • Issue #1 (A Tribute to David Berman, Sept 2019)
A Toast to David Berman
This is the first three-track set for a new series of mine called “Spoken Word with Electronics” - David had agreed to participate in a track, with a suggestion to record in the Winter when he'd returned from tour. Time ran out (love to him) but here’s a piece about these three tracks and the process: boingboing.net/2019/09/02/my-unf…d-project-wi.html
Audio for "The Moon" was completed this month, post-death, as a way of grieving his work and celebrating him. This audio comes from a 2016 performance perfectly titled "The Secret Conversation" — One of only four public readings David ever performed. The entire recently surfaced recording is an incredible gift: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPganP_p6Y — There's a fragile sense to the performance here, particularly in the last two sets of spoken lines, that likely would not have been delivered in a recording booth.
Love to David Berman, Thanks for the bright moments.
More pieces from Spoken Word with Electronics in a few months, but I wanted to post this today.
Peace, Ethan. ep.tc/
Jul 21, 2019
Mons Vi • Come On Violet • 2019
A relatively simple arrangement serves the foundation for elevating the emotionality of “Come On Violet.” Primarily supported by an acoustic guitar nestled away in the recesses of the track, Mons Vi’s vocals, as beautiful and delicate as a butterfly’s wings, holds the listener spellbound with heart-rending lyrics akin to poetry.
It's been a little too long to be biding my time,
searching around between bottles of wine.
And the call of the wild,
somehow gets lost in the dark of your eyes.
Come on, Violet,
Come on, Violet.
Spin on a beam at the top of the moon,
run through old scenes that once felt brand new.
You never notice the things you lose.
Could it wake the fear in you?
Come on, Violet,
Come on, Violet.
I'm alone.
Jun 28, 2019
Elliot Lee • Dirt • 2019
Brooklyn based artist Elliot Lee fuses dark pop melodies with edgy vocals and innovative electronic soundscapes to create an unpredictable sound, acting as a voice for the voiceless. With an admiration for the lulling alt-pop of artists like Billie Eilish and Lana Del Ray and the homegrown rebellion of Twenty One Pilots, Elliot Lee holds an awareness of what music that is unhindered by norms can do for the underrepresented.
Jun 26, 2019
We Are Strangers • EP • 2019
Most songs on this project explore his time in recovery, the universal human need for connection, how we often fail in our relationships and find redemption in moving on. He leans heavily on sounds from the late 70's and early 80's fusing together acoustic and electric guitars with lots of atmospheric vintage synths.
Jun 1, 2019
Little Church • "It's Not You" • 2019
"Captures the human reality while still being filled with fantasy and magic"
Wolf in a Suit
"Dreamy songs wandering in and out of complex melodies as hazy memories"
Kaltblut
"Angelically ethereal vocals taking centre stage, the band delicately form a soundscape of intricate bass lines surrounded by psychedelic synths and funky percussion (that) paints an illusion beyond our solar system."
Born Online
"Prominent and gorgeous vocals lead the way and set the tone for an impassioned performance from the band. The sound hints at 80s pop sound whilst keeping to a alternative rock foundation and sparkling synths wash the track in beautiful glittering sound that sets the single into a territory of its own."
Yack
Mar 24, 2019
Luke De-Sciscio - Good Bye Folk Boy - 2019
“It’s hard to find words that express this feeling; RELEASING music.”
“Releasing what was the sound in our bedroom over the last few months, soundtracking our nights and panned from the light that hit the floor of our abyss, becoming the ladder into a newer, better thing.”
“all the best
all my love Love
Luke.”
Aug 29, 2018
ELDORADIO – CULT EP - 2018
Based out of the central Swedish city of Trollhättan, Thomas Keen, Adam Johansson, Anton Thorstensson, August Johansson, and Tomas Berglund are creating rock music that spans the fiery garage rock of Japandroids to the clever indie rock of Yo La Tengo. This combination would make them indie stars if they lived in Brooklyn, Chicago, or London, and a label like Sub Pop or Secretly Canadian would have signed them. Instead, they’re plying their trade as true independent artists and gradually gaining a following. Last week, they released their new EP, Cult, which is one of the year’s finest mini-albums.
May 31, 2018
Jackson Reed - Dark Areas of Description - 2018
A native of Northern Ontario, Reed has undertaken many creative ventures and this album, his second as a solo act, is the most recent. 'Dark Areas of Description', in comparison to Reed’s previous album The November Gales, is a journey through uncharted waters while simultaneously being true to his folk roots.
May 8, 2018
Declan O'Donovan - Hank - 2018
A masterful songwriter collects life's experiences and artfully turns them into songs that capture the imagination of a listener; that contemporary troubadour who utilizes a broad palate of instrumentation to tell intriguing stories through the music they create.
Feb 12, 2018
Kadija Kamara - Nothing Left To Lose (2018 EP)
“a funkier version of St. Vincent or a younger version of Lenny Kravitz” - The Revue
Based in London, Kadija Kamara is a singer songwriter who best describes her sound as ‘Alt Soul’. With a love of 60’s and 70’s analogue sounds, Kadija combines her affinity for retro soul music with a host of modern influences.
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