Jan 31, 2014
Swiss Alps - Take Ecstasy With Me (The Magnetic Fields) - 2014
"The Swiss Alps are the portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Since the Middle Ages, transit across the Alps played an important role in history. The region north of the St. Gotthard Pass became the nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the early 14th century."
Jan 28, 2014
The Telewire - Like Everything - 2014
Kahunasan Shoegaze fans will absolutely "like everything" on this release.
Pedal effects and phased guitars set to to STUN!
'Fall into Nothing' sounds like an out-take from 'Leave Them All Behind' Ride.
Outstanding soundscapes. Favorite track: Fall Into Nothing.
Jake It's enough to restore your faith in the cultural viability of solo home-recording technology.
Cock & Swan - Recess Tangle Vol. 2 - 2014
Run by KEXP DJ Alex Ruder, Hush Hush Records is dedicated to curating an emotional and introspective sound that's free of specific genre boundaries and ideal for headphone sessions, late-night travels, intimate encounters, and contemplative rides on public transportation.
Recess Tangle Vol. 2 is the SECOND volume of remixes from Secret Angles, with remixes by Cex, Graintable, Big Spider's Back, Snowman Plan, Suttikeeree, Chants, Stem Collector, Domokos, Brian Binning, OCnotes, Korma, and Tokyo Bloodworm.
Jan 26, 2014
Horrible Houses - Letting Go - single 2014
Preferably played in a car stereo.
'can you drive
canyon babe
the only book i've read
is the one you wrote'
Jan 25, 2014
Fever Kids - Holding Grass - 2014
A new project from Athens-based female singer-songwriter Stella and Keep Shelly in Athens guitar player Alex. The duo began writing music together in 2011. In a home recording studio they have created a sound that oscillates between pure pop and electro, with well-hidden disco elements.
Holding Grass is hitting the airwaves unstoppable across Greece!
Their first official release on Inner Ear is a 7” vinyl single including the tracks “Holding Grass” (A side) and “Peter, Debbie, Mary” (B side), both produced by Fever Kids.
Egg Hell - Once Part Of A Whole Ship Hell - 2014
Sao Paulo-born and Athens-Based Jef Maarawi’s solo project has now expanded into a five-piece band and the debut «Once Part Of A Whole Ship» will be a pleasant surprise for those who are discovering for the first time the music world behind the weird name Egg Hell.
«Once Part Of A Whole Ship» is an album as varied musically as it is thematically. Romantic folk-rock influences and lyricism encounter elements of psychedelic pop and electronic music. Egg Hell plays with its subject matter symbolically, literally, and most of all humorously, in the darkest and most human of ways. 11 tracks-messages traveling in a bottle on the waves in order to convey the smallness of human existence against the forces of nature and the agony of being stranded on a raft as expressed through the conditional nature of hope.
Hospitality – Trouble - 2014
Hospitality’s self-titled debut album was a love letter to life in your early twenties – a carefree, cartwheeling attempt to see the good in bad decisions, and only the sweet in bittersweet romance. A few years on, their second LP Trouble doesn’t just feel like an expansion of these themes, but a direct sequel: resigned to the realities of late twenties disappointments, and finding lyrical escapism in empty, imaginary landscapes.
Gone are the colourful bursts of brass flooding the choruses. Gone also are the peppy drum beats elevating acoustica into carnival. Instead, songs like ‘Going Out’ swing their hips on a slow, sultry groove; call and response casually falling down the fretboard, with acres of room around the instruments.
Jan 24, 2014
Pwrhaus - Be Free - 2014
With a flair for the epic and an ear cupped toward the sentimentality of ’50s rock ‘n’ soul, Portland’s PWRHAUS have claimed their very own creative corner. At eight members strong, the sheer size of the band is imposing; their capacity for capturing moods within strong songwriting that utilizes chamber and baroque sensibilities is a bit of an anomaly for the bar/club set, but the band has steadily transcended their outsider status to bigger stages, including a fantastic set at last year’s PDX Pop Now! The band’s new self-titled record is a fantastic, dream-like undertaking, melding the velvety vocals of frontman/guitarist/pianist Tonality Star with a wall of foggy, mildly dark instrumentation. There probably isn’t one bad song on the record, and in the live setting, the band’s attention to the same intricacies it hones in the studio remains present. That translates to good, good things.
— Ryan J. Prado, The Portland Mercury
Jan 22, 2014
Weather
In the midst of a deep freeze in Montreal. Qc.
- 29 degrees today...
Been sitting around listening to Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Black Religious Music,
Feels right...
Been sitting around listening to Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Black Religious Music,
Feels right...
Jan 21, 2014
New Tales To Tell - Love and Rockets Tribute - 2009
Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins — that rose from the ashes of Bauhaus in the mid-’80s: “Love and Rockets are many things, but what they are more than anything are agents of that mysterious force known as rock ‘n’ roll, a force loved by many but truly understood by a few.” Pixies
Tracklist: New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets
1. Black Francis, “All in My Mind”
2. Puscifer, “Holiday on the Moon”
3. War Tapes, “Love Me”
4. Blaqk Audio, “No New Tale to Tell”
5. Dubfire, “I Feel Speed”
6. The Dandy Warhols, “Inside the Outside”
7. The Flaming Lips, “Kundalini Express”
8. Sweethead, “Life in Laralay”
9. Film School, “An American Dream”
10. A Place to Bury Strangers,”The Light”
11. Monster Magnet vs Adrian Young, “Mirror People”
12. The Stone Foxes, “Fever”
13. Frankenstein 3000, “No Big Deal”
14. VEX, “It Could Be Sunshine”
15. Better Than Ezra, “So Alive”
16. Chantal Claret vs Adrian Young, “Lazy”
17. Ian Moore, “Sweet F.A.”
18. Snowden, “No Words No More”
Jan 20, 2014
Against Me ! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues - 2014
Incredible release...
The bracingly political Florida punk band Against Me! has been a going concern since 1997, but Transgender Dysphoria Blues can't help but feel like a debut: It's the group's first album since singer Tom Gabel came out as a woman. Now named Laura Jane Grace, she still barks her lyrics with fiercely assertive intelligence — with a voice as yet largely unchanged from the one in the band's earlier work — but Against Me!'s subject matter can't help but be turned on its head.
It's right there in Transgender Dysphoria Blues' title that Against Me! intends to address Grace's new identity upfront: This is a coming-out record first and foremost, from its opening line — "Your tells are so obvious / shoulders too broad for a girl" — through songs that channel her fears and characteristic defiance. At times joltingly profane, Transgender Dysphoria Blues doesn't let up for 29 brisk minutes, but real tenderness and vulnerability surfaces in the melee. In "Unconditional Love," Grace repeats the self-lacerating line, "Even if your love was unconditional / it still wouldn't be enough to save me" — a terrifying and revealing notion, even as Grace remains by all accounts happily married to her wife.
Against Me!'s music only addressed gender issues in passing before Transgender Dysphoria Blues, so the album certainly qualifies as a left turn. But the end result is just as catchy and anthemic as the terrific speedball punk records that precede it. Gabel always told the truth as he saw it, so it makes sense that Laura Jane Grace would do the same, with the added benefit of comfort and courage in her own skin. - NPR
Jan 15, 2014
Those Willows - Existential Folks - 2013
Those Willows are Portland, Oregon-based and Detroit, Michigan-bred duo, Jack Wells and Mel Tarter. The vocally driven pair combined forces in 2007 to create a sound of their own.
With haunting harmonies and memorable melodies their high-energy performances incorporate indie, folk, jazz, pop and soul to entertain audiences of all ages and inclinations. Those Willows released their first full-length album, Rivertown, to much acclaim in February 2012 and their new 4 song EP, “Existential Folks,” will be released on October 15, 2013.
bandcamp / buy name your price
“Those Willows are internationally honored in the world’s most prestigious song writing competition. With a record setting 20,000-plus entries from 119 countries, the pair scored award nominations for three songs in three categories.” - International Songwriting Competition (Feb 20, 2013)
“If (they) were one of Detroit’s famous motor vehicles, they’d be a top-down convertible, driving a back country road on a sunshiny Sunday afternoon.” - Dan Macintosh, Indie-Music.com (Jun 06, 2011)
Treli Feli Repi - Mau Comportamento - 2014
I tend not to post music in another languages (don't ask me why?!?) but this one, out of Rio De Janeiro is too good... Lo-fi music makes me punch drunk happy, so I don't care if I have no clue what they are saying. It's raw, it's noisy, it's true; music made with passion and conviction all the way through. I feel odd saying this but the words are so melodic, it's easy to interpret all my happy thoughts into the sound pounding from the speakers!
Give it a try for free over at their BC page. Thanks for the submission.
Jan 12, 2014
The Clothes - Fairy Lights Dress - 2013
The Clothes have opted for an unashamedly nostalgic sound. For the exuberant opener ‘Cry Baby’, the guitars pay huge debts to both the Postcard Records era as well as the C86 brigade but the slightly fey vocals owe an equal amount to current revivalists, The Drums. On the similarly infectious ‘Creepy, Creepy World, Creepy Creepy Creepy Shoes’ and ‘Back In Town’ they sound like Buzzcocks, albeit a couple of notches slower in pace. Even though the appeal of Scoposki’s vocals wears thin by the end of the record, Palmiz’s drumming is impressive throughout, especially when she’s on inventive, rapid fire form for ‘No Future’.
Playlists: serendipity tapes: cold lands, warm hearts
blithe field // twigs & yarn // 2muchachos // studiocanoe // amazing nirvana rmx by coloquix // hood // s // [post-foetus] // lunova labs // pawn // sora // wim // american green //
nebulas // shayou // message to bears
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