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soak | blud | chvrches remix | video


 
SOAK is not only a great stage name for the 17-year old from Northern Ireland, but it also a state of being, in that Bridie Monds-Watson is absorbing the world around her and channeling those indelible impressions into sweetly spun music.

CHVRCHES has signed SOAK to their newly minted Goodbye Records, and perhaps in celebration offers a Remix of SOAK’s tenderly beautiful song Blud. Also, check after the jump for the accompanying video as well. Peace. Continue reading “soak | blud | chvrches remix | video”

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protomartyr | come & see


 
Protomartyr is more than a Detroit-based band. This is a band which embodies all the good and bad of a troubled city on the cusp of deliverance or economic irrelevancy. Their songs are raw and a bit schizophrenic to the opposite of anything resembling a fault. Yet, there exists beauty of an austere sort of nature. This is post-punk angst revitalized and resurrected from obscurity. Frontman Joe Casey’s dry ice vocals set the tone for the achingly raucous songs which occupy their forthcoming album Under Color of Official Right via Hardly Art Records. These are fast paced odes of pain wrapped with dirty bandages, and the fact that they don’t heal right only lends authenticity of character to an album that is an apt catharsis for despair. This album is an up-all-nighter for damn sure. Look for Under Color of Official Right to drop April 8th. Peace. Continue reading “protomartyr | come & see”

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the mary onettes // naive dream


 
Swedish band of four The Mary Onettes are known for making the stuff of the most pliant and docile dreamscapes and turning them into a reality you can swoon to. For fans of soughing winds and gurgling brooks the latest track Naive, from TMO’s fourthcoming release the mini-LP Portico, is the perfect magic mushroom to transport you to Never Never Land. The album Portico drops March 4th via Labrador Records. Continue reading “the mary onettes // naive dream”

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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

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”