"Compelling and evocative" - Exclaim!
"Bright Eyes meets Mumford & Sons" - American Songwriter
"Earnest, anthemic" - WXPN
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/
Sep 6, 2019
Frankie Cosmos • Close It Quietly • 2019
Close It Quietly takes the trademark Frankie Cosmos micro-universe and upends it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that’s a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and sounds throughout the album.
This latest record as Frankie Cosmos offers only mild alterations to a winning formula. Close It Quietly is full of short songs – 21 of them packed into 40 minutes – built around trembling vocals and unfussy instrumentals with an unmistakably 1990s bent. The heavier-than-usual arrangement of So Blue is reminiscent of Pavement; the pretty guitar plucks of Never Would score a tale of an old lover not missed.
Squid • Match Bet • 2019
“A more aggressive spin on the funky post-punk of Television and Talking Heads” Stereogum
"Squid are making one of the most exciting rackets in music right now" Q
"Just when you think the British five-piece have settled into a groove and aligned themselves to a sound, they flip the script and hit you with something new" The Fader
"There is something so giddy and charming about this hyped London-via-Brighton indie-punk quintet"
“A rich blend of psychedelia, Europop and punk noise” The Line of Best Fit
“Intense, weird songs that scan like David Byrne conducting LCD Soundsystem” Drowned In Sound
“The Coronation Street theme tune played on flutes by angry children” NME
“Itchily contagious as it is futuristic” Clash
“One of our favourite new artists” So Young Magazine
“A unifying sense of ingenuity and vessel bursting energy” DIY
Sep 5, 2019
David J with Asia Argento & Anton Newcombe • Migena And The Frozen Roses • 2019
David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), who has spent the last 8 months touring the world with Peter Murphy on the Ruby Rising 40 Years Of Bauhaus Tour, releases a second digital only single from his forthcoming new solo album, this time featuring actress Asia Argento and Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre).
Le Flegmatic • Ruines nouvelles • 2019
Chaque phrase, chaque rime me faisaient décoller du siège comme des arcs électriques, et transcendaient les paysages que je traversais.
Tout se retrouvait chargé d'une électricité bleue.
J'ai surtout rencontré le guitariste Romain Nègre. Ça n'a pas été facile pour lui, le pauvre. Je l'ai harcelé tous les jours avec le genre de blues étrange que j'avais en tête, et les albums de Dylan...
J'ai aussi rencontré Luis Mazzoni, génial ingénieur du son, chaman à lampes. Je lui ai parlé de cette « nuit éclatante » que je voulais peindre.
Je voulais allumer la lumière, puis tout éteindre et tout rallumer de nouveau avec de puissants projecteurs.
Sep 4, 2019
Monster Rally • Adventures on the Floating Island • 2019
Monster Rally's new album scores a journey through a lush, exotic, dangerous, and alluring paradise - the Floating Island. The lounge-influenced collection of songs guides the listener through an instrumental narrative inspired by themes of amnesia, discovery, exploration, and mysticism.
Bluey • No Plans • 2019
"... tightly structured pop melodies with swirling synths and an indie rock approach to create a sound that is refreshingly his own."
Sep 3, 2019
The Stairs • The Unnatural Bridge • 2016
A 2002 song for song cover of The Silver Jews' The Natural Bridge album by members of The Stairs. Recorded at 1200 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, MA in two days. An experiment and a tribute, we had fun making this but don't think it stands up. Only listen if curious and a huge fan of the original. You have been warned.
Boy Scouts • "Get Well Soon" • 2019
Boy Scouts’ ‘Get Well Soon’ serves as the first glimpse to the forthcoming LP Free Company out on August 30th. Recorded and produced by Stephen Steinbrink, the track packs a sharp punch through its causative lyrics. ‘Get Well Soon’ is an airy-folk pop song comprised of springy bass lines, lush guitars, and Vick’s entrancing vocals. It’s a song of a tranquil nature, radiating with elegance and providing refined sonic fluxes. ‘Get Well Soon’ is pure bedroom-folk, luring you into finding yourself lost with yesterday’s thoughts, occupied by today’s choices, and captivated by tomorrow’s chances. 405
Tyler Burkhart • No cigar • 2019
Tell us where you're from
What you want to become
And we'll say if you're ok
Where did you go to school?
Right answer and you're cool
Yeah, you're the kid the whole day
You get a sticker in your face
Information 'bout the case
So you know your potential
Don't think you can extend
Don't think you can extend, just comprehend
But I don't wanna hear it
No, it's more than I accept …
k m t p • i love my friends • 2019
i love my friends, they help me feel better whenever i'm down
pick me up, start again
we will be best friends forever
hanging out at the park
staying out after dark
no one can touch us
i really like you and i hope you like me too
thanks for being my friend
i love my friends, they get me through the day in one piece
we catch up over brunch, talk about how we're feeling about everything
hanging out at the party, we get drunk
but it doesn't matter cause i know that you've got my back
we've been friends for a while now
it's been too long, i hope it doesn't come to an end
hanging out at the park
staying out after dark
do you remember how it felt being young and stupid
thanks for being my friend
Sep 2, 2019
Lucas Laufen • A Million Miles From Love • 2019
Delivered intimately and arranged emotionally, the album is wrapped up in melancholy, but embellished with hope. Recorded without the help of software instruments, Lucas features his trumpet throughout the album as well as a wide selection of brass, woodwind, strings and percussion. Poetic lyrics and emotional arrangements complete “I Know Where Silence Lives” as a sincere musical representation of the up and coming musician’s past two years in the world.
Emily Breeze • Work • 2019
It’s such a glossy track that sounds sort of like Mazzy Starr meets Nick Cave & Patti Smith. It was produced by Stew Jackson of Massive Attack and comes from Emily’s new album ‘Rituals’ which is due out on September 6th on Sugar Shack Records.
Sep 1, 2019
Indie Covers Mixtape • 2019
It's been awhile since I made a compilation of indie covers, but today is the day I do it differently. The artists cover 20 80's classics in their own unique way…
Documentary about the Silver Jews • 2007
A film by Michael Tully documenting two shows by the Jews in Tel Aviv and an afternoon in Jerusalem during their first ever tour. 15 years after the band's inception, this tour is treated as the amazing and improbable event that it was.
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