I Am The Mountain • 28​/​28​/​28 • 2020

 

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 I (Colton) turned 28 years old on September 28th, therein surpassing the dreaded age of 27. I am releasing 28 songs that I have written over the past decade in honor of this special day. The title 28/28/28 is a nod to all those in the 27 club and to those who have dedicated their life to creating art.

Shelter (the Album) • Sunday Records • 2020

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Shelter 12" Vinyl album is a collection of songs from the Shelter I & II digital release 

Shelter I 

sundayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shelter 

Shelter II 

sundayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shelter-2

Kevin Morby • Wander • 2020

Don't go, don't go please 

Stay here, stay near me 

My whole life baby 

I have been waiting 

Don't go, don't go, please 

Stay here, stay near me 

Don't underestimate Midwest American sun

Try and as you might but you will not outrun the burn 

Say what you want and do what you will

Nothing will cover the faith that's been spilled 

Don't underestimate Midwest American sun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

And I hope you have fun with me too  

Say a prayer for me 

My love outran me 

My whole life baby 

Don't run, don't run so fast 

Always, always end up last 

God-bless and pray for American daughters and sons 

Try as they might to take flight with clipped wings but some won’t 

Do what they want and say what they will 

Nothing will cover the faith that's been spilled 

God-bless and pray our American waters and suns 

Don't outrun me, please don't run 

Please don't run from me, please don’t run 

Please don't run from me, please don’t run 

And I won’t run from you 

Kevin Morby • Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun • 2020

http://www.kevinmorby.com/

Don't go, don't go please 

Stay here, stay near me 

My whole life baby 

I have been waiting 

Don't go, don't go, please 

Stay here, stay near me 

Don't underestimate Midwest American sun

Try and as you might but you will not outrun the burn 

Say what you want and do what you will

Nothing will cover the faith that's been spilled 

Don't underestimate Midwest American sun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

I have fun with you, I have fun 

And I hope you have fun with me too  

Say a prayer for me 

My love outran me 

My whole life baby 

Don't run, don't run so fast 

Always, always end up last 

God-bless and pray for American daughters and sons 

Try as they might to take flight with clipped wings but some won’t 

Do what they want and say what they will 

Nothing will cover the faith that's been spilled 

God-bless and pray our American waters and suns 

Don't outrun me, please don't run 

Please don't run from me, please don’t run 

Please don't run from me, please don’t run 

And I won’t run from you 

Cosmo Sheldrake • Wake Up Calls • 2020

 

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Wake Up Calls’ was created over a nine year period, using recordings of bird song featured on the red and amber lists of endangered British birds (with the exception of a Robin and a Blackbird, which aren’t endangered – yet). 

The album starts at night with a Nightjar and a Nightingale. The music progresses, track by track, through dawn and day time, round to the evening chorus and back to night with another Nightingale and an Owl. Cuckoo Song, is composed by Benjamin Britten and features the sound of a Cuckoo singing above Britten’s grave in Aldeburgh Cemetery, recorded by the soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause. 

Dusty Miller • Empathy • 2020

 

Jeremy Jensen Superb dreampop in a late 80s-early 90s vein. Favorite track: Had Enough.

Emma Kupa • It Will Come Easier • 2020

It Will Come Easier delves through the trials and tribulations of attempting to navigate the crossroads of your early thirties. Head on and raw, Kupa leads us through her tender reflections on relationship regrets, the torment and pressure to succeed, and the dichotomy of now finding herself inclined to choose logic over impulse - “does her smile light up your heart, or do you just want to get under her shirt?” she asks on Does It Feel New. 

Her most personal collection of songs to date, they pick up from the intimate family portraits of Kupa’s debut solo EP, Home Cinema: 

“The album explores aspects of love, escapism and fidelity, but there’s also a thread about accepting feelings of hopelessness when you don’t quite meet the many pressures of life’s expectations”. 

Z Tapes • Friends Covering Friends Vol. I • 2020

Friends Covering Friends Vol. I. 

A compilation to celebrate friendship. Friends covering friends' music.

American Analog Set • Aaron & Maria • 2009

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Aaron and Maria ran

From the Northwest coast to the city and

Now they reside out in Brooklyn Heights

Where the rich kids hide and the years go by

Aaron writes but they both survive

'Cause Maria waits on library lines

And Aaron sighs, "If the TV's right

You put your hat on tight or catch a death outside"

We're living off some modest trust

From daddy 'fore his oil went bust

And loving you is just enough

'Cause no one gives a fuck about us

Save Stereogum: An ‘00s Covers Comp • 2020

Save Stereogum: An ‘00s Covers Comp is an exclusive new compilation we produced just for an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign launching today. We asked over 40 of our favorite artists to record brand new, never-before-heard covers of songs from 2000-2009. (Aughts nostalgia … it’s time!) Donors will receive a .zip download of the compilation — including MP3s, artwork, and liner notes — and will be the envy of their friends because it will never be released again! We won’t be streaming Save Stereogum anywhere and will never reissue it. It’s only available to supporters of this campaign. StereoGUM

Anna McClellan • I saw first light by • 2020

The record is McClellan’s third full-length to date and second for Father/Daughter Records following her 2018 album Yes and No. Early on in her career, the Nebraska-born singer-songwriter was cosigned by Frankie Cosmos, which gave her profile a boost and placed her in a league of comparable contemporaries. Like Cosmos and others such as Florist and Dear Nora, McClellan makes soft, relatively lo-fi twee pop with intimate subject matter and clever lyrics. CoS

Unlike those other acts, though, McClellan’s songs have a woozy and whimsical swing to them that’s distinctly her own. “Desperate” and “Pace of the Universe” are great introductions to both this LP and her as an artist. The former is a humorously self-effacing song about being, well, incredibly desperate for validation, while the latter is about throwing social norms to the wind and embracing vulnerability during catastrophic times (it’s quite relevant).

The Barr Brothers • Saint Cecilia • 2020

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(Ooh-ah ooh-ah, ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah,

Ooh-ah ooh-ah, ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah)

Here in my jungle, I'm the fire chief

I'm up all night 'cause I can't no relief

I've come 600 miles

I've got 600 miles to go

'Cause see, Saint Cecilia, I think of anyone, she oughta know

I've been to New York, I've been to Amsterdam

Boats on the water, joints in my hand

I've been set up and broke down

I've been suspicious too

But if she says she's gonna do it,

Saint Cecilia, that's what she's gonna do

I know you're a martyr, as all of us are

I know where the cross is, and you keep it in your car

That's a sad but prideful state of affairs

Gonna tell Saint Cecilia that she's the only one who really cares

Maybe it's only as a carry on

On the mistletoe

And it's tryies and verses at the risk of the mournin'

Into the wild, into the dark

I've seen your bite and it's worser than your bark

I've got burns on my fingers and scars all over my soul

But when you see Saint Cecilia, she's gonna get it under control

You know you can't stay here, but you can't let me go

You got information that others wanna know

There's a high price flying over your head

When you see Saint Cecilia, you'll either be free or you'll be dead

Maybe it's only as a carry on

On a mistletoe

And as tries and verses at the risk of a mournin'

Go and tell Saint Cecilia, I think of anyone she'll understand

(Ooh-ah ooh-ah, ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah)

DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem • Best of Perception & Today Records and 7'' Sampler • 2012

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years. 

Airlines • Copenhagen • 2020

We want people to hear the beauty of love and of Copenhagen itself reflected in the music, and then to contrast that with the melancholic nature of the lyrics. The entire track is a ying-yang of happiness, pain, longing, love, and acceptance.

The magic of hopping on a plane and heading across the world to see someone you love conflicts with against the pain of sending someone you love on a plane across the world, never knowing if you'll ever see them again.

Airliners · Copenhagen

wiaiwya • Singularity • 2020

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TV People • Nothing More • 2020

"Underlined with thrashing drums and layered with driving guitar riffs, [Time Eats Up] explores the intensity of solitude and isolation, a theme that couldn’t resonate more at this current time." - ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

"The sprawling atmosphere conjured up in singles Kitchen Sinking and Time Eats Up evoke the early genius of post-punk revivalists Interpol." - THE DAILY STAR

"TV People execute punk's confrontational nature with aplomb, and in an incredible manner to boot." - EARMILK

"Just adding to the pedigree of great bands coming from Ireland at the moment." - FRANKIE FRANCIS, AMAZING RADIO

Versus • Blue Thunder (Galaxie 500) • 2020

Versus [New York]: "Fontaine and I [Richard] opened for Galaxie 500 in the summer of 1990, at Woody's in the East Village. (I don't remember it being a particularly hot day, and the internet concurs... 86 degrees. Anyhoo...) We had just met and started playing together, and though we weren't called Versus yet, we were playing songs that Versus eventually recorded. Galaxie of course stood out in contrast to the NY scuzz-rock era, but really prefigured the coming of 'indie-rock.' A timeless band."

Josephine Foster • No Harm Done • 2020

Eight new slow-burning songs branch forth from idiosyncratic country folk blues, sung with sibylline wit and a hint of the absurd, awash in sensually anachronic lyricism. 

Kevin Morby • Campfire • 2020

“It is a depiction of isolation,” Morby said of the album. “Of the past. Of an uncertain future. Of provisions. Of an omen. Of a dead deer. Of an icon. Of a Los Angeles themed hotel in rural Kansas. Of billowing campfires, a mermaid and a highway lined in rabbit fur. It is a depiction of the nervous feeling that comes with the sky’s proud announcement that another day will be soon coming to a close as the pink light recedes and the street lamps and house lights suddenly click on.”

Along with the announcement, Morby has also announced a “virtual tour” in which he’ll play each of his albums the whole way through via livestream. He’s also shared a lead single called “Campfire,” a two-part sprawl that features one of the album’s evocations of its title. The song comes with a video directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, and featuring Crutchfield.

Kramer • Decomposing Trees (Galaxie 500) • 2020

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a shoreline dream • "melting" • 2020

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a shoreline dream has been best described as creating “melodipsych night music” by combining lush sampled textures, wall of sound dynamics, and vocals layered like a synth, similar in vein to bands such as Cocteau Twins, Porcupine Tree and Sigur Rós.

"Delicate curves and beauty... a glorious dawn" – PopMatters

"Begging for you to play it loud" – Surviving The Golden Age

"A wild and beautiful thing" – The Big Takeover

"Goth heaven... one of the leading lights of the neo-shoegaze movement" – DKFM

"Haunting vocals, addictive guitar lines, synth swells to die for & a swirling dark undertone that both scares & soothes all at once" – Primal Music Blog

"The things we like most in stoner rock, dream pop, shoegaze and prog-tinted postrock" – Overblown Magazine

"Shadowy and storming dreaminess.. reminiscent" – Stereo Embers Magazine