lofi Quebecois dream pop served up on a bed of shoegaze... La Belle Province poursuis bien!
Jan 11, 2014
Jan 9, 2014
Black Flowers Cafè - be/polar - 2014
Four piece band from Cosenza. A strongly brit-attitude mixed with lights & sounds from the south. Not just a loss of time, you know...
“What's refreshing about 'Black Flowers Cafe' is that they never labour the point. Some songs seem to end suddenly where other bands would have continued things further, and this helps keep the interest level high.” — The Sound Of Confusion
“Quando si torna a terra, resta il ricordo di un viaggio interessante e movimentato, condotto da una band che non ha paura di volare alto – “alto” non nel senso di stelle e pianeti bensì di modelli e ambizioni esibiti senza remore.” — Letizia Bognanni, Rockit
Jan 8, 2014
The Hedgehogs - I Can't Find Myself - 2014
The Hedgehogs is a six-piece psychedelic garage-rock band from Aalborg, denmark, formed in 2009.
The first EP - The Extended Play Sessions - quickly sold out and since then the band have played all over denmark with great bands like Dragontears, Tyvek, Spider Babies, Highway Child and the Setting Son.
Liza Anne - The Colder Months - 2013
Nashville-based artist Liza Anne is set to release her debut album, The Colder Months, independently on February 4th. American Songwriter had the exclusive premiere of the title track and first single, “The Colder Months,” which can be streamed here. To say that Liza Anne is ambitious is an understatement. At only 19, she is a full-time student at Belmont University studying songwriting, a part-time barista at a Nashville coffee shop and now the creator of a beautiful, haunting and deep freshman record.
Liza Anne’s music is rooted in folk with strong pop influences, a style that has been brought to the forefront by artists such as Daughter and First Aid Kit. Early accomplishments in Liza’s career include performing alongside established artists such as Matthew Perryman Jones, The Icarus Account, and Landon Austin. Liza also recently released a cover of “Wrecking Ball,” which was featured in a competition on RyanSecrest.com and can be viewed here.
The Colder Months not only showcases Liza’s proficiency for songwriting, but also highlights the musical talent brewing at Belmont University, with everyone involved in its creation a current or former student. The album was recorded at Schematic Studios with producer Zachary Dyke, and was mastered by audio engineer Chad Wahlbrink (Soil & The Sun, Caleb Groh). Liza commented on her debut effort saying, “I never intended on writing a full length record so early in my career, but I couldn't stop writing. I've written some of my most honest and painful moments into these songs. This album is a collection of stories that I’ve lived, and I hope they are found relatable."
Holly Echo - Out the Window Music - 2013
Really great sounds from TO Canada... A blizzard of shoegaze and chamber pop served up on a hushed popsicle stix of harmony. Check it out - reminds me of MBV / Lush / Joan and the Nutsack
Snow Mantled Love - conversations - 2013
This is such a nice release - I am crazy about bands that know how to build a song; SML nail it! And the best thing of all, they love to share their creations for free... Listen to them now please!
a little trio from london, ontario. making bedroom pop in a tiny studio. perry hammoud, jonathan zarola, and danielle fricke.
Snow Mantled Love have created yet another collection of ambient, soothing bedroom pop lullabies. Full of dreamlike extended jams, Conversations draws you into its world and doesn't let go. Favorite track: The Bear.
Snow Mantled Love have just become one of my favourite bands. Favorite track: Familiar Ground.
Illogical Time Concerns - Ttorches - 2013
I decided to take a minimal tone that I had been experimenting with for awhile and try to sustain it for an album in the attempt to make the quietest music I've ever made. I consider this to be my late night album and recommend listening to it during hours of darkness and/or contemplation.
Jan 7, 2014
Playlist Covers
DISC 01
01 - The Arctic Flow - If You Need Someone (The Field Mice)
02 - Beach Fossils - Alison (Slowdive)
03 - Another Green World - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
04 - Tape Waves - Age Of Consent (New Order)
05 - Blouse - Pale Spectre (The Wake)
06 - The Gentle Isolation - Sea Horses (Blueboy)
07 - Golden Gardens - Pale Shelter (Tears For Fears)
08 - Foxes In Fiction - Heaven Or Las Vegas (Cocteau Twins)
09 - Soft Shadows - French Disko (Stereolab)
10 - Broken Little Sister - A To Fade In (Adorable)
11 - Memoryhouse - When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine)
12 - Stumbleine - Fade Into You (feat. Steffaloo) (Mazzy Star)
13 - The Spectors - Femme Fatale ( The Velvet Underground & Nico)
14 - Worries - Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls)
15 - Keep Shelly In Athens - Just Like Honey (Jesus And Mary Chain)
DISC 02
01 - Coma Cinema - I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)
02 - The Secret Goldfish - Come As You Are (Nirvana Cover)
03 - Tinsels - Tell Me How It Feels (Sweetest Ache)
04 - Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)
05 - Four Visions - 40 Days (Slowdive)
06 - The Sleepyheads - Feeling Called Love (Wire)
07 - White Ring - Hey Hey, My My (Neil Young)
08 - Hammock - Black Metallic (Catherine Wheel)
09 - Ghost Animal - Brand New Life (Young Marble Giants)
10 - Pure Bathing Culture - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
11 - Typsy Panthre - Pretty In Pink (Psychedelic Furs)
12 - Swiss Alps - Summershine (The Sea Urchins)
13 - The Garlands - Forever Live And Die (OMD)
14 - Mondrian - Manic, Magic, Majestic (Band Of Holy Joy)
15 - The Go Find - Pink Frost (The Chills)
16 - Bathing Beauty - Christmas Tears (The Hit Parade)
Check it out over at For Ex-Lovers
Jan 5, 2014
The Story of... Neutral Milk Hotel
"Two-Headed Boy" is a disturbing puzzle that never quite coalesces into more than a collection of disquieting images equating sex, death, sideshow freaks, and the emotional release of dancing to the radio, "catching signals that sound in the dark." Unlike the rest of the album, which sets Jeff Mangum's vocals and acoustic guitar to neo-psychedelic blends of odd instrumentation, "Two-Headed Boy" is a live-sounding solo recording that sounds as if it was recorded to a cheap cassette deck -- the volume audibly pegs into distortion in a couple of spots as Mangum hits emotional climaxes -- and is all the more immediately powerful for it. - All Music Guide
“Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.”
― Jeff Mangum
“And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.”
― Jeff Mangum
Neutral Milk Hotel, composed of Mangum, Julian Koster, Jeremy Barnes and Scott Spillane, had already accumulated a large following by the time In the Aeroplane over the Sea , their second album, was released in late 1997. But Aeroplane elicited a response from listeners that made a palpable wave in the music world. The album inspired a profound emotional response in people; many a cynical music critic wrote of being moved to tears by its baroque beauty and raw honesty.
Mangum's reclusiveness was legendary: Slate descibed him as indie rock's Salinger.
we have this album and another very good one, and that to me is serious riches. Amazing to think how it started, how at the core of it all was guts. I keep thinking of "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding," and one of Dylan's truest lines: "If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine." Aeroplane is what happens when you have that knowledge and still take the risk. Pfork
I get another opportunity to see NMH in Montreal. The excitement is crazy!
Montreal Show in association with POP Montreal!
Jan 4, 2014
VARSITY - Turns Out b/w Downtown - 2013
It starts slow, is admittedly sloppy, isn’t recorded particularly well, but the bedrock of this is undeniably Wilco. You might even persuade me into believing their favorite album is Summerteeth, what with the swirling keyboards and the fuzz. But these kids have their own voice, and they have something to say. Their earnest midwest sentiments (the way they emphasis fucking around is just perfect) and their jubilance with having found an excellent chorus are easy to get caught up in. There’s a lot to love here, and I bet they have the best time playing live. MfR
Jan 3, 2014
tyler burkhart - hibernator - 2013
Tyler creates such a dynamic lo-fi feeling to his songwriting - it is delicate yet at times raw. A small sampling of two pretty cool songs. The title dictates the tone of this mini release.
Nap time!
Drink More Records Compilation # 3 - 2014
Great comp. coming out of Brooklyn NY, featuring artists from all around the globe!
Indie, Electronic, Shoegaze, Garage, Blues, Punk, Lo-Fi, Psychadelic, PowerPop, Math, Neo-Folk, Hardcore and any interesting combination of the above.
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