taken with my new iPhone... burrrrr
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 13, 2014
Buck Meek - Live from a Volcano - 2013
Beautiful authentic songs... The sound is old but oh so nice!
Wolf Collage - Forward: - 2014
Travis Button The versatility that has been shown since "Suburbia Space Program" is just amazing, look forward to seeing what lies ahead for Wolf Collage.
Michael Reilly Captivating songs in what is a fully developed alternative folk style of pop/rock. Great guitar playing and a heartbreaking vocal delivery raise these songs above the normal and display a mature and exciting direction.
Only Magic Left is Art Forward is the crescendo of every teenager's life when he must transition from boy to man. Each song examines this inward state of self-reflection. The anger, the awkwardness, the grief, the loss. But ultimately the acceptance that "he knows exactly where he should be for the very first time". This affirmation of life explodes on the track Glow. Which monumentally shares the best attributes of The National and Youth Lagoon. It's an unforgettable listen and an album you will not soon forget.
Megafauna - 2009
Recorded in a Fortitude Valley garret in 2006, Ben Salter & Conor Macdonald's 'Megafauna' side project is a collection of hissy, claustrophobic low fi folk weirdness. A number of tracks were later ransacked and recycled for Gin Club and Giants of Science songs including the title track and "All Your Men". However the original is still the best.
For fans of Sparklehorse, Eric's Trip, Smog and Grandaddy.
The Everywheres - Strange Love & A Nightmare - 2014
Very nice release out of Halifax.
"A new cassette single called "Strange Love" & "A Nightmare" recorded by The Everywheres at home on North Street in Halifax during the Autumn of 2014. The cover art was done by Nicholas Hanlon. This one is for you if you're feeling slightly frightened by the noises you hear as you walk the daily beat. At this point there are innumerable songs called "Strange Love" or some variation on that theme. You already knew that. And A Nightmare I had a few weeks ago but I can hardly remember. The one thing I know is that there was an angry crowd.
Nov 12, 2014
Hey Rosetta! - Cathedral Bells - single 2014
This song is wonderful. Great album!
That's when the shadow came and darkened your china face
The dancers still shook and swayed, but I couldn't look away
They were all in the chemicals, all hundred cars up an icy hill
And we were stood under them, grim, quietly grimacing
And you spoke with that voice I love
And love awoke in my boiling blood
With this I dissect before
The road is lit, and I'm going home
There'll be no caving in, no suicide, no, no pills and gin.
I hear your voice again, and it stirs me like a pealing bell
Echoes by everything and everywhere
By every fraught fiber in every cell
Here I'm telling you you're not the only one
You're not the only one
No, you're not the only one
You're not the only one feeling this stuff
You're one of us
And that's when the shadow lifts
And the camera reveals her lips
And all the lava under your skin
You gotta always remember it
And try not to talk it off
And say all of that common stuff
No, just let the lava come
And all the love you've been holding off
Yeah, that's when we're rising up
Feel the elevator pull your guts
Each floor is like medicine drops
The only fear is the fear it'll stop
But it won't because
No, it won't because
No, no it won't because
No, it never stops
No, it never stops
No, it won't because
'Cause it's in your blood
You're one of us
Yeah, that's when we're rising up
Out of the ashes and plastic cups
On and on on a dirty rug
While they're all dancing to jungle love
I don't care if a shadow comes and covers us like a shovel of rocks
The party's still going on
I heard cathedral bells
Wet Leather - Past Lives - 2014
Straight from a 4 track cassette recorder and a broken laptop—both currently residing in a freezing basement on the Williamsburg waterfront.
The lives in question are Yours & Mine, full of off-brand electric guitars, sexual failure, genre pastiche, malfunctioning electronics, and a secret but unabashed preference for neurotically erotic pop hooks. I hope that you submit wholesale to their charms.
Nov 10, 2014
Big Lonely - Dirty Clocks - single 2014
The first single off of our full length album, "Close Your Eyes, Keep Talking" - To be released on December 5th, 2014.
Big Lonely is a picnic basket of smoldering emotion, waiting to erupt. When the band members aren't busy being best friends, they spend time pairing dark themes of heartbreak and confused morale with aggressive surf/dance rock.
I’ve come to hate birthdays
And appreciate loss
Tell me how your days been
I seem to have missed it I slept too long
Do you have any good reads?
Could you send them my way?
I’ve been running out of original ways
To spend my day
But just because I closed my eyes once
Doesn’t mean I’m blind
Discomforting condolences bring my mind up to speed
But I’ve been trying not to think fast thoughts
It’s been easy with dirty clocks
My hands can’t help but move slow
I’m tired of holding burning ropes
But I’m too tired to let them go
Just because I closed my eyes once
Doesn’t mean I’m blind
Do you still wear my t-shirt underneath his old sweater?
Is there something else behind your heart?
Minding your tongue when you know that you’re wrong
At least you have the decency to stay far
I know what I won’t ask of my new friend
And I will only speak in half-truths
Time hides more than it heals
Mend the glass on your watch, if you want time to heal
Time is hiding everything
Don’t worry, don’t wait
I’ll run into you again
But just because I closed my eyes once
Doesn’t mean I’m blind
My Drunken Haze - 2014
Greek five piece band My Drunken Haze are based out of Athens in the Mesogia area and make 60's psych-tinged melodies with fiery pop flourishes. Their self-titled debut album, released by Inner Ear Records on 3th of November.
Produced by King Elephant, best known as the drummer of Baby Guru. An album starring the character of a woman in search of love, longing, separation and redemption, set against a backdrop of daydreaming, drugs and the hot sand of a summer beach.
My Drunken Haze formed in the spring of 2010 by guitarist-songwriter and Spir Frelini, as an endeavor to reconcile neo-psychedelic music with the 60's garage guitar sound. In 2011 guitarist Harry Kane joined the band, while in 2012 they found the ethereal singer, Matina Sous Peau. The rhythm section was staffed with Nick Zoura on the drums and Costa Gunn on bass.
Born in 2007 Inner Ear Records is based in the Greek city of Patras. It began as a one-man project and is currently Greece’s leading indie music label, home to some of the most interesting new local bands. Inner Ear is mainly focused on english-speaking alternative rock, pop and modern folk music but it keeps horizons and ears open to any other genre.
photo by: Dionyssis Matiatos
Nov 8, 2014
Nov 7, 2014
Baker Island - You Are A Cathedrar Island - 2014
Noisy Indie Pop a la Wedding Present. Very Good and free!
Nov 6, 2014
Advance Base - Plastic Owen Band - 2014
Collected covers, compilation tracks, demos & rarities 2011-2014
Nov 2, 2014
franny & zooey - I Love You - single 2014
Franny & Zooey is the name behind Juan Julio Peña and Victoria Linares, two buddies that were introduced at a a punk show in Dominican Republic. Years later, in the sizzling summer of 2012 they decided to make some demos for two weeks straight, giving birth to Bananafish (released on Dufflecoat Records in 2013).
The band is heavily influenced by 60’s girl groups and 80’s indiepop.
To The Wedding - Silver Currents - 2014
To The Wedding, San Francisco's Lauren Grubb, has already cemented herself as one of 2014's stand-out artists with just three tracks. Previous singles "Silver Currents" and "Come On" introduced an immersive, unhurried songcraft and now "Set Fire" has come along and trumped them both...
Bigger, larger, even better, "Set Fire" beings similarly restrained, with Lauren's smoky vocals intoxicating softly strummed guitar before enveloping you slowly within a hazy, cinematic monster as skyscraper rhythms build and build into a crescendo of Hope of the States esque instrumental sound. A huge drip feed of emotion awaits. JMTIL
Nov 1, 2014
Buddy - Last Call for the Quiet Life - 2014
Excellent Release, as winter closes in...
Buddy is an evolving collection of Los Angeles musicians, the singer & songwriter of which is a man named Buddy. Buddy’s songs are full of brilliant turns of phrase and suffused with beauty, longing, and sadness.
‘Last Call for the Quiet Life’, Buddy’s sophomore album reflects Buddy’s struggle and reconciliation with himself over the past few years. For Buddy, the songs are a sort of confessional therapy. The album expresses the ups and downs of existence, relationships and family, and the highs and lows of finding yourself in your own life. We caught up with Buddy to discuss his lyrical mindset, enjoying the ‘creative journey’ and his love for The Replacements’ ‘Tim’…
TSH: As you began forming the new album, entitled ‘Last Call for the Quiet Life’, tell us about the unlikely beneficial feature of not knowing where things were going and instead learning to just let it happen and to let things keep unfolding…
Buddy: I’ve learned (the hard way!) in the past that if you try to control things too much artistically and don’t just let creativity happen organically, it’s really easy to stifle it. So, when Will and I started out on the record we were really adamant about letting the songs reveal themselves to us instead of limiting ourselves to a fixed plan. It allowed us to go in a new direction and was a really fun process. (CONTINUE ON The 7th Hex Site)
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