Heading to SXSW March 11-16 The Preatures are a rock and roll band from Sydney, Australia. Their second EP ‘Is This How You Feel’ was recorded and produced by lead guitarist Jack Moffitt and released in 2013. After the jump check out their highly addictive track, “Is This How You Feel?”. Peace. Continue reading “the preatures // is this how you feel?”
kid cudi // satellite flight: the journey to mother moon
Kid Cudi seems to always engage in the unexpected. Whether it is penning creative mind-warping lyrics or progressive and on-point mash-ups with unlikely musicians, he keeps it stupefyingly interesting and just-after-the-rain fresh.
The last 24-hours, although a surprise, is a classic Kid Cudi antic, and he drops not just a track or two or even an EP, but a whole full-length LP. Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon is from beginning to end a full-blown astral intra-stellar travelogue. Listen to song by song as it unfurls and revels an event horizon vantage point that’ll illuminate and continually fascinate your ears no end. My favs are Balmain Jeans, Return Of The Moon Man (Original Score) and the Radiohead tinged Troubled Boy. Great release.
You can cop it from Google Play, Amazon and also via iTunes. Peace.
Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon tracklist:
01. Destination: Mother Moon
02. Going To The Ceremony
03. SATELLITE FLIGHT
04. Copernicus Landing
05. Balmain Jeans
06. Too Bad I Have To Destroy You Now
07. Internal Bleeding
08. In My Dreams 2015
09. Return Of The Moon Man (Original Score)
10. Troubled Boy
sensual harassment // escape from alpha draconis ep + video
Sensual Harassment is the musical twosome (vocalist Craig Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler) from the Williamsburg locale of Brooklyn, NYC. Here’s a band with a strong sentiment for 80’s rock and the then burgeoning neo-Disco movement of the same decade (New Order, Erasure and Echo & The Bunnymen come to mind). Their songs spring to life all fizzy and full of pop, and do the caress your ear thingy like a would be paramour of substantial…um dexterity? If you haven’t, check out the very enjoyable and finger lickin’ good Escape From Alpha Draconis EP out now. After the jump check out the new six-song EP and the Capri Suntan video. Peace. Continue reading “sensual harassment // escape from alpha draconis ep + video”
gardens & villa | dunes | official video
The five members of the band, Adam Rasmussen, Chris Lynch, Dusty Ineman, Levi Hayden and Shane McKillop, left their hometown and base of sunny Santa Barbara to record with Tim Goldsworthy (Cut Copy, DFA Records, Hercules & Love Affair) at Key Club, a converted locksmith’s building in Benton Harbor, MI. Ripped out of their usual environment into a cold midwestern locale, the band finds a new voice on Dunes. The band brings their catchy rhythms and bold synth lines from previous records but continues developing a richer sound now experimenting with unique gear including Sly Stone‘s custom-built Flickinger recording console and direction from Goldsworthy. Their album Dunes is out now courtesy of Secretly Canadian. Peace. Continue reading “gardens & villa | dunes | official video”
incan abraham // concorde
Friends since kindergarten, the members of Incan Abraham (Giuliano Pizzulo, Teddy Cafaro, Spencer Mandel) channel their finger-painted past in their debut LP, fusing Lost Boys tribal energy with guitar, synth, and harmony vocal soundscapes that arc, plummet and circle like bikes in desert washes. After spending college marooned on opposite coasts, the friends reunited on a whim in a secluded house in upstate New York for a weekend that turned into a month spent writing music and contemplating their shared histories of childhood escapism and pop nostalgia.
Returning to their native Los Angeles, they seasoned their sound in the arid air and eclectic east side music scene, until a fateful encounter with their producer-to-be and sonic sherpa Lewis Pesacov (Best Coast, FIDLAR, Fool’s Gold). The resulting album Tolerance will be released on April 8th courtesy of White Iris Records. Check out the first single Concorde after the jump. Peace. Continue reading “incan abraham // concorde”
timber timbre // hot dreams + official video
On Hot Dreams, the title single off Timber Timbre‘s third studio album for Arts & Crafts, Taylor Kirk and collaborator Simon Trottier daub vibrant color across the restless evolution of the band’s earthy, angular palette. Seductive guitars drape over languid synthesizers, animating an otherwise reticent Kirk singing in his singular low intonation. The consonance of Mika Posen’s strings mingle with vintage contributions from Olivier Fairfield on drums and Mathieu Charbonneau on keys. Guest Colin Stetson envelops the backing vocals of Romy Lightman (Tasseomancy, Austra) in timeless cycles of velvet saxophone. The breathtaking video produced by Scott Cudmore and Michael LeBlanc clearly defines the new space of Hot Dreams’ Timber Timbre, slathered in viscous tonality: a new sonic admission, ringing sensuality and caprice, neon and haze. Hot Dreams is Timber Timbre’s most fully realized work in a sinuous and infinitely rewarding catalogue of vivid imagistic music. The album drops April 1, 2014. Pre-Order right here. Peace. Continue reading “timber timbre // hot dreams + official video”
no // leave the door wide open
The LA-based six-piece NO are gearing up for incredible year, check out the first song and lead single, Leave The Door Wide Open, from the band’s full-length debut El Prado. Also, they will be performing at this year’s Noise Pop in beautiful San Francisco on February 28th, heading on down to Austin, TX for SXSW next month, after which the band is part of this year’s Sasquatch incredible line-up. Lastly, the guys will be a part of the Arts & Crafts’ North American label tour featuring The Darcys and Reuben And The Dark, which kicks off in their hometown on March 8th at The Troubadour and commences in Canada on March 25 in Toronto. Peace. Continue reading “no // leave the door wide open”
papercuts // still knocking at the door
Papercuts release the lead single from the forthcoming Easy Sound Recording Co. debut, Life Among The Savages. The music of Jason Robert Quever seems distilled from a far off and distant local, mainly from the depths of ruby red and beating heart. The album drops May, 6, 2014 in the US and Canada and May 12, 2014 in Europe courtesy of Memphis Industries. Peace. Continue reading “papercuts // still knocking at the door”
the sherpas | six steps |official video
The Sherpas release a video for their latest rock rhythmic track Six Steps. From the very beginning the guitar licks start a frenetic free fall and soon the song is in a full blown groove vibe. The track is taken from the bands recent Six Steps single, the b-side contains an alternate version of the song Telescope. You should also check out the bands previous release Soirée EP. Peace. Continue reading “the sherpas | six steps |official video”