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Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:19:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 james blake | modern soul https://www.theearologydept.com/james-blake/ https://www.theearologydept.com/james-blake/#respond Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:19:10 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=13480 james blake | modern soul James Blake dropped his latest single Modern Soul and if you have any reservations about whether or not he’s still got the goods, well doubt no more. Not unlike any of Mr. B’s previous output this one too is heavy on the tranquil and beautifully subdued. Check it …

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james blake | modern soul

James Blake dropped his latest single Modern Soul and if you have any reservations about whether or not he’s still got the goods, well doubt no more. Not unlike any of Mr. B’s previous output this one too is heavy on the tranquil and beautifully subdued. Check it out below and stay tunes for news of a possible 2016 release. Peace.

Artist: James Blake
Featured Track: Modern Soul
iTunes
Amazon
Google Play

James Blake, Modern Soul: Lyrics

I know a crossroads where I see them, see them
I want it to be over, I want it to be over
So I swim to you while I’m sleeping
Through sage green rivers of England

I see the scenery changes, changes
I want it to be over, I want it to be over
When I don’t think of you, the willpower
What I didn’t see was I was talking to so many people at once
I had no idea I was
I had no idea of the difference between
The way I saw your face and the way it was

Because of a few songs (x8)

I remember laughing; to take that away from you
To take that away from you; I remember laughing
I remember laughing; to take that away from you
To take that away from you; I remember laughing
The smaller the waves; you let me down
The longer I will defend you
The smaller the waves; you let me down
The longer I will defend you (because of a few songs)

I want it to be over, I want it to be over (x3)

I know a crossroads where I see them, see them

I want it to be over, I want it to be over (x3)

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hot chip | burning up https://www.theearologydept.com/hot-chip-burning-up/ https://www.theearologydept.com/hot-chip-burning-up/#respond Sun, 03 May 2015 13:32:08 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12098 Hot Chip is well known for conjuring up inventive and highly dance worthy musical fare. And let’s be honest its been a minute since the boys from London graced our ears with a beat or two. Well wait no more with a new album underway there is hope yet the summer isn’t going to …

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Hot Chip is well known for conjuring up inventive and highly dance worthy musical fare. And let’s be honest its been a minute since the boys from London graced our ears with a beat or two. Well wait no more with a new album underway there is hope yet the summer isn’t going to be a total wash. Below take a listen and sing along to Burning Up the new single lifted from Hot Chip’s forthcoming Why Make Sense? I love this song because is has a chill manner like my cat Reginald but I don’t have to empty the litter box. Yes, I am weird but this song definitely isn’t. Welcome back Mr. Goddard. Peace.

Band: Hot Chip
Album: Why Make Sense?
Featured Track: Burning Up

You can Pre-Order the new Deluxe Version of the Why Make Sense? album via iTunes or via Domino Records and get instant downloads of Burning Up, Huarache Lights and Need You Now. Coolest Beans!

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emmy the great | swimming pool https://www.theearologydept.com/emmy-the-great-swimming-pool/ https://www.theearologydept.com/emmy-the-great-swimming-pool/#respond Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:47:22 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12043 London native Emmy The Great (aka Emma-Lee Moss) offer a very endearing track in the sound form of Swimming Pool. I love this offering for its laid back nonplussed delivery and the quite admire it for being a non-conventional backin male vocals. That’s it and I like it. Peace. Artist: Emmy The …

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London native Emmy The Great (aka Emma-Lee Moss) offer a very endearing track in the sound form of Swimming Pool. I love this offering for its laid back nonplussed delivery and the quite admire it for being a non-conventional backin male vocals. That’s it and I like it. Peace.

Artist: Emmy The Great
Album: S EP
Featured Track: Swimming Pool
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far out magazine | childhood | rosa brook https://www.theearologydept.com/far-magazine-childhood-rosa-brook/ https://www.theearologydept.com/far-magazine-childhood-rosa-brook/#respond Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:37:37 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11793 “The wonderment of spontaneity and serendipitous findings are rife with both good and bad stuff, but the good stuff prevails.” So, I’m tweeting, as I am want to do. All pliant and dextrous fingers doing what the brain bids then. Eyes taking it all in, searching fervently for a cool bit of cool to …

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“The wonderment of spontaneity and serendipitous findings are rife with both good and bad stuff, but the good stuff prevails.”

So, I’m tweeting, as I am want to do. All pliant and dextrous fingers doing what the brain bids then. Eyes taking it all in, searching fervently for a cool bit of cool to share. I am determined and in the end a very lucky “sum bitch”.

The absolute synergy of the act of tweeting yields this:

Apparently, some obvious cool and anonymous somebody @ Far Out Magazine starts following The Earology Dept, as they most certainly should. And as proper Twitter etiquette (and plain good manners) dictate I naturally “Follow back”.

Now, here comes the good and fluky part. My curious fingers hustle me over to Far Out Magazine. I pleased as spiked punch because FAM covers music, and well I like music (understatement). Not only do these fine Brits do music thing, but alas they do it very well, or so my ears inform moi.

Back story. My ears are happiest when given the chance to discover and taste new music. And whilst sampling from the FOM aural buffet these faithful ears on mine chanced upon the track Blue Velvet by the London-based band Childhood. The band of four dropped their Lacuna album recently courtesy of Marathon Artists. Although the song Blue Velvet was my initial brush I am currently crushing hard on their sensuous track Falls Away (check it out below, down further… oh yesss that’s it… right there!).

Artist: Childhood
Album:
Order: iTunes
Tracklisting:

1. Blue Velvet

2. You Could Be Different

3. As I Am

4. Right Beneath Me

5. Falls Away

6. Sweeter Preacher

7. Tides

8. Solemn Skies

9. Chiliad

10. Pay For Cool

11. When You Rise

12. Just Floating

13. Pinballs

14. Haltija

There’s more. So I am thinking to myself. “Self. You’re a smart self and wouldn’t it be cool if you checked out Childhood’s Facebook fan page?” When the I that is me aligns with the self which is also me, then self does it’s best work. Over at Childhood’s FB page the fine gents had on display for all the free world to see (the Chinese citizenry are so missing out) the track by Fell by newbie Rosa Brooks. Instant loveship!

So, all in all, a pretty good day. Peace.

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jade hopcroft | leave you alone https://www.theearologydept.com/jade-hopcroft-leve-alone/ https://www.theearologydept.com/jade-hopcroft-leve-alone/#respond Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:31:28 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11766 When Jade Hopcroft opens up her mouth take cover! With her latest Leave You Alone she let’s fly with such irresistible and succulent shrapnel. Her lyrics are double-edged too, for they eviscerate those with an inability to resist such beauty. But Ms. Hopcroft also reveals her vulnerabilities meted out in degrees of magic spell …

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When Jade Hopcroft opens up her mouth take cover! With her latest Leave You Alone she let’s fly with such irresistible and succulent shrapnel. Her lyrics are double-edged too, for they eviscerate those with an inability to resist such beauty. But Ms. Hopcroft also reveals her vulnerabilities meted out in degrees of magic spell and infinite fragility, and if that isn’t the moon upon a stick then I shan’t tell you what is. Peace.

Artist: Jade Hopcroft
Song: Leave You Alone
Lyrics: Written & Performed by Jade Hopcroft © 2014

I need to confess
I don’t know what
you have done

I’m over thinking things
Before it’s all begun

You don’t make it easy on me
Is this your ideal of fun?

You’re holding back
Could you let the blood just run?

I keep wearing thin
You keep scratching at my skin
Why can’t I leave you alone

You need me the same
I’ll play all your little games
‘Cause I can’t leave you alone

Do you want to confess?
Do you find it hard to sleep?

Do I have this affect on you?
Are you struggling to breathe?

But I won’t make this easy on you
I can’t let you just leave

I keep wearing thin
You keep scratching at my skin
Why I can’t I leave you alone

You need me the same
I’ll play all your little games
“Cause I can’t leave you alone

Will I always need?
Always see you around?

I could take it on
Every fault but I couldn’t leave you now

(2x)
I keep wearing thin
You keep scratching at my skin
Why I can’t I leave you alone

You need me the same
I’ll play all your little games
“Cause I can’t leave you alone.

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theoish & maeve | popcorn owls https://www.theearologydept.com/theoish-maeve-popcorn-owls/ https://www.theearologydept.com/theoish-maeve-popcorn-owls/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:42:19 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11760 Mythical producer Theoish refracts London-based artist Maeve Moayedi‘s vocals into one of the most endearing songs EVER! The track Popcorn Owls comes at you like the gently lapping tongue of Lady Rainicorn. 좋은 물건. Yes, I just used a Adventure Time reference to describe a song. GENIUS! The song was given to me like …

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Mythical producer Theoish refracts London-based artist Maeve Moayedi‘s vocals into one of the most endearing songs EVER! The track Popcorn Owls comes at you like the gently lapping tongue of Lady Rainicorn. 좋은 물건. Yes, I just used a Adventure Time reference to describe a song. GENIUS!

The song was given to me like a gift from my magical muse Ms. Stavee. Thank you darlin’. Peace.

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cloud boat | model of you | our sunday best https://www.theearologydept.com/cloud-boat-model-sunday-best/ https://www.theearologydept.com/cloud-boat-model-sunday-best/#respond Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:47:57 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11726 Cloud Boat is a duo of two (Sam Ricketts & Tom Clarke), but they bring together the pieces of countless souls. Tom Clarke has a voice chiseled from the light just reaching us after light years of travel. His is a voice alive with dead things. It is the relic of hope and fear, it …

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A cathedral of sound where within a soul can finally know rest.

Cloud Boat is a duo of two (Sam Ricketts & Tom Clarke), but they bring together the pieces of countless souls. Tom Clarke has a voice chiseled from the light just reaching us after light years of travel. His is a voice alive with dead things. It is the relic of hope and fear, it is a sweet drop of sound which enters our collective ears and ignites the spark of life. A sound particle on which the first steps of resilience are built

iTunes

Cloud Boat, Model Of You, Tracklisting:
01. Prelude
02. Hideaway
03. Carmine
04. Portraits of Eyes
05. Bricks Are For
06. The Glow
07. Golden Lights
08. Aurelia
09. Thoughts In Mine
10. Told You
11. All of My Years
12. Hallow

The duos sophomore album Model Of You emanates with songs which appear light and gossamer, but in reality are laden with the heavy stuff of our human experiences. The trick is, they make the weighty and fissured cross of anxiety and mental disarray bearable. Head over to NPR’s First Listen to check out the Model Of You in it’s entirety. However, after the jump hear a glimpse, the songs Hideaway and the Smith’s cover, Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want Tonight are imbued with séance and restrained melancholy. Peace.

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paul cook & the chronicles | radar ep https://www.theearologydept.com/paul-cook-chronicles-radar-ep/ https://www.theearologydept.com/paul-cook-chronicles-radar-ep/#respond Sun, 25 May 2014 12:05:24 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11685 Paul Cook & The Chronicles offer up a bit of bright, uptempo and unrequited love. The track “Radar,” comes to your ears via London, UK. Look for the Radar EP to drop June 2nd, 2014. Paul Cook & The Chronicles is a promising solo project for indie singer-songwriter Paul Cook. The Radar EP precedes …

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Paul Cook & The Chronicles offer up a bit of bright, uptempo and unrequited love. The track “Radar,” comes to your ears via London, UK. Look for the Radar EP to drop June 2nd, 2014. Paul Cook & The Chronicles is a promising solo project for indie singer-songwriter Paul Cook. The Radar EP precedes the fourth and final album in Paul Cook & The Chronicles ‘Volumes’ which drops later this year. Peace.

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hics // tangle ep https://www.theearologydept.com/hics-tangle-ep/ https://www.theearologydept.com/hics-tangle-ep/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:23:47 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=9873 hics // tangle ep The latest single from the London six-piece band Hics is capable of altering one’s mood in the most blissed out way imaginable. Listen to their debut Tangle EP and know tranquility married to a surplusage of the soulful. The Tangle EP drops August 19th. Peace.

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The latest single from the London six-piece band Hics is capable of altering one’s mood in the most blissed out way imaginable. Listen to their debut Tangle EP and know tranquility married to a surplusage of the soulful. The Tangle EP drops August 19th. Peace.

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cece // framework ep https://www.theearologydept.com/cece-framework-ep/ https://www.theearologydept.com/cece-framework-ep/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:51 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=8937 In life there is both light and darkness. Where you chose to dwell is up to you. But admittedly at times we lose our way trying to make it through the labyrinth of our existence. The music of CeCe, a mere 19-year old, can help light your way. Check out her Framework EP via Quatre …

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In life there is both light and darkness. Where you chose to dwell is up to you. But admittedly at times we lose our way trying to make it through the labyrinth of our existence. The music of CeCe, a mere 19-year old, can help light your way. Check out her Framework EP via Quatre Femmes Records and find comfort and security (at least whilst the music plays) in this quadlection (made up word) of intimate songs. Peace.

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