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'wp-admin/includes/file.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php'; $temp = download_url( $url ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) && $info = @ getimagesize( $temp ) ) { if ( ! strlen( $title ) ) $title = null; if ( ! $ext = image_type_to_extension( $info[2] ) ) $ext = '.jpg'; $data = array( 'name' => md5( $url ) . $ext, 'tmp_name' => $temp, ); $id = media_handle_sideload( $data, $this->_post_id, $title ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $id ) ) return update_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $this->_thumb_id = $id ); } if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) ) @ unlink( $temp ); } } pop – The Earology Dept. https://www.theearologydept.com Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too. Sun, 22 May 2016 11:46:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 aidan knight | the arp https://www.theearologydept.com/aidan-knight-arp/ https://www.theearologydept.com/aidan-knight-arp/#respond Sun, 22 May 2016 11:44:36 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=13625 aidan knight | the arp Aidan Knight is a modern day bard in the best and most sincere sense of the descriptor. His music is, among other things, robust, genteel and insanely beautiful. The featured track The Arp opens up like a benignly blazing sunrise cresting the far horizon. Song as a scrapbook, …

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aidan knight | the arp

Aidan Knight is a modern day bard in the best and most sincere sense of the descriptor. His music is, among other things, robust, genteel and insanely beautiful. The featured track The Arp opens up like a benignly blazing sunrise cresting the far horizon. Song as a scrapbook, the warm sustenance of a hot cup of tea, a meditative playlist and a pocketful of sweetened Gary Snyder poems. Aidan’s latest album Each Other is collectively more profound, for there exists songs here which will become decorous rings around your bleeding heart. Each Other, What Light (Never Goes Dim), You Are Not Here and Black Dream are also notable standouts. Aidan Knight’s album Each Other is out now courtesy of the Outside Music label. Also, take a peek at the Ft. Langley directed video for All Clear video after the jump. Peace.

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Artist: Aidan Knight
Album: Each Other
Featured Track: The Arp
Label: Outside Music

<a href="http://aidanknight.bandcamp.com/album/each-other">Each Other by Aidan Knight</a>

Aidan Knight, The Arp: Lyrics

there is a break in our voices
there is a crack that never mends
it fills the vase of flowers
until they wilt and fall away

i will not sing to you each evening
i will not mend it just to keep
the opening from closing
the joyful death of what could be

burning memories
what a life I have lived

and we live it again

a finger wrapped in cotton
i cool it in the sea
thinking how could be so stupid
you cannot cut off that part of me

mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmm

burning memories
what a life I have lived

and I’d live it again.

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sorority noise | either way https://www.theearologydept.com/sorority-noise-either-way/ https://www.theearologydept.com/sorority-noise-either-way/#respond Wed, 04 May 2016 13:55:35 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=13586 sorority noise | either way Sorority Noise are solidly east coasters hailing from good old Hartford, Connecticut. And obviously good old Hartford is a pretty good place to stare up an indie rock band. This winsome foursome dedecks their It Kindly Stopped For Me EP with introspective and thoughtful odes to the sour …

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sorority noise | either way

Sorority Noise are solidly east coasters hailing from good old Hartford, Connecticut. And obviously good old Hartford is a pretty good place to stare up an indie rock band. This winsome foursome dedecks their It Kindly Stopped For Me EP with introspective and thoughtful odes to the sour side of living. But it isn’t a bad thing, is it? The rawness and vulnerability of the songs reveal giving fragile hearts and a lovelorn of intimate proportions. Losing someone sucks eggs, but this collection of songs are a bit of catharsis, reached for and obtained, amid a sometimes life of shit. Peace.

<a href="http://sororitynoise.bandcamp.com/album/it-kindly-stopped-for-me">It Kindly Stopped For Me by Sorority Noise</a>

Band: Sorority Noise
Release: It Kindly Stopped For Me EP
Featured Track: Either Way
Record Label: Topshelf Records
Buy it here
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mani orrason | miracle due https://www.theearologydept.com/mani-orrason-miracle-due/ https://www.theearologydept.com/mani-orrason-miracle-due/#respond Sat, 18 Jul 2015 08:27:31 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12659 mani orrason | miracle due Mani Orrason weaves an incredibly hopeful ode. Here is a veritable poster boy song subscribing to the universal belief which espouses “Every dog will have its day.” The track Miracle Due is taken from Repeating Patterns, the debut album from this 16-year old singer-songwriter hailing from Iceland. Peace. …

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mani orrason | miracle due

Mani Orrason weaves an incredibly hopeful ode. Here is a veritable poster boy song subscribing to the universal belief which espouses “Every dog will have its day.” The track Miracle Due is taken from Repeating Patterns, the debut album from this 16-year old singer-songwriter hailing from Iceland. Peace.

Artist: Mani Orrason
Album: Fed All My Days
Featured Track: Miracle Due
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Mani Orrason’s debut album Repeating Patterns tracklisting:

01. Fed All My Days
02. Walls Keep Caving In
03. Change My Mind
04. Money At Home
05. Miracle Due
06. I Paint a Picture
07. Now I’m Alone
08. Working Title
09. Why Are You Sat Alone
10. Lilja
11. Repeating Patterns
12. Regenerate – Forgive – Find Peace

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shivum sharma | after all these years https://www.theearologydept.com/shivum-sharma-years/ https://www.theearologydept.com/shivum-sharma-years/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:53:30 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11911 South Londoner Shivum Sharma lays it on thick with melancholy and introspection wrapped up in sensuous synths and sweet like sugar vocals. The song After All These Years bleeds from the heart and we love every once of it. The After All These Years EP was produced by Liam Howe (FKA Twigs, Tom …

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South Londoner Shivum Sharma lays it on thick with melancholy and introspection wrapped up in sensuous synths and sweet like sugar vocals. The song After All These Years bleeds from the heart and we love every once of it.

The After All These Years EP was produced by Liam Howe (FKA Twigs, Tom Vek). The new collection of songs is the intimate sound of Shivum Sharma evolving his delicate (melismatic infused technique intact) falsetto accompanied with lucid electro-kissed neo soulful R&B. Basically, all the delicate texture that made him an instant blog darling earlier this year.

My fav is still his heart breaking track Flicker taken from his debut Flicker EP released earlier in 2014.

The title track is out now and look for the After All These Years EP to drop December 8th courtesy National Anthem. Peace.

Artist: Shivum Sharma
Track: After All These Years
Album: After All These Years EP
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pablo nutini | let me down easy https://www.theearologydept.com/pablo-nutini-let-easy/ https://www.theearologydept.com/pablo-nutini-let-easy/#respond Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:35:26 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11879 Pablo Nutini will not be denied entry into your heart. And let’s face it this man is destined to settle into the soft tissue of your brain matter like a thorny crucible. So when the needle drops and the song Let Me Down Easy starts to play make sure you have some Cognac (or …

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Pablo Nutini will not be denied entry into your heart. And let’s face it this man is destined to settle into the soft tissue of your brain matter like a thorny crucible. So when the needle drops and the song Let Me Down Easy starts to play make sure you have some Cognac (or some other heavy hitting elixir) close at hand to steady your nerves.

The song is lifted from the stellar release Caustic Love album out now via Warner Music. And if by chance your hands aren’t shaking too much by the records end call me on the phone and say thank you. Peace.

Artist: Pablo Nutini
Release: Caustic Love
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Lyrics:

Let me down easy
Though your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel that staying is wrong?

We are broken by others
But we mend ourselves
We take comfort in strangers
But I don’t think it helps
If every fool were a clown
I would be a king and not a clown
Cause love can’t?
Closer than our hands and our feet

But it’s lost on me
Oh oh
It’s lost on me
Your love for me is wrong
Let me down easy
since you feel that staying is wrong?
There was no sweeter fruit than this
With no taste of bitterness
It was so fresh and sweet before
But I can’t taste it anymore

I was like a man with no candy?
I had everything
But as long as?

Your love for me is wrong
Let me down easy
Your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel that staying is wrong?

On a better day
we’d be waiting on our corner
Selling dreams of redemption
But this time you’ve gone your way
So I’ll go mine
Out of sight, out of love, out of time

Your love for me is wrong
Let me down easy
Your love for me is gone
Let me down easy
Since you feel that staying is wrong?

Let me down easy

writers: Paolo Nutini

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caroline smith | half about being a woman lp https://www.theearologydept.com/caroline-king-half-woman/ https://www.theearologydept.com/caroline-king-half-woman/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:10:23 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11837 Caroline Smith will take your heart and break it, mend it and send you on your merry way smiling like a fool. Ms. Smith does something with words and music which comes naturally and seemingly effortless, yet we know it isn’t either. But, it is her slight of voice and deft cleft notes that …

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Caroline Smith will take your heart and break it, mend it and send you on your merry way smiling like a fool. Ms. Smith does something with words and music which comes naturally and seemingly effortless, yet we know it isn’t either. But, it is her slight of voice and deft cleft notes that not only entertain our ears, but makes us lean in closer.

Her album Half About Being A Woman is a gut check for anyone, Doubting Thomases and otherwise, whomever rolled eyes or twisted collective lips at Ms. Smith’s change up from Folksy torch bearer to a decidedly R&B earthen funk delivery system.

Tracklisting:

1. Bloodstyle
2. Magazine
3. All That I Know Is (I’m your baby)
4. Half About Being a Woman
5. The One Thing
6. Walking Off Strong
7. Kind of Man
8. Buy Me Something
9. Child of Moving On

No matter, because this Minneapolis singer/songwriter is doing her own thang and it is working out just fine. And with backing from the Good Night Sleeps we never really had a chance did we?

If you are already a fan then bless your heart and if not, well let the blessings anoint you and cast a Scarlet fever in your heart of hearts. Check out the Coffee Break On The Road Current 88.3 session and the Magazine video directed by Dan Huiting below. Peace.

Artist: Caroline Smith
Album: Half About Being A Woman
Buy:

United Interests
Amazon
iTunes

Lyrics:
Me and my baby, me and my bloodstyle, he got a hold on me. Me and my baby, me and my bloodstyle, he got a hold on me. Maybe I came for the wrong thing. Maybe I came just to break you down. I know some ladies like the thought of me breaking a man down but the real ones just know- they just know. Me and my baby, me and my bloodstyle, he got a hold on me. Stopping you was like starting the wrong way of moving on. Stopping you was moving me on. Stopping you was like starting the wrong way home but something is still getting me home. Me and my baby, me and my bloodstyle, he got a hold on me. Let me break it down for you: Stopping you was like starting the wrong way of moving on but I’m still moving on. Stopping you was like the starting the wrong way home but this mama here, she’s still getting home. Are you? Me and my baby, me and my bloodstyle, he got a hold on me.

Lyrics:
We got your bed made, we got your lemons squeezed, we got everything here that you could ever need. We got your bed made, we got your lemons squeezed, we got everything here. How could you ever leave? I was a woman. I was a woman from a magazine. When you saw me, all about me, on the stage you said you weren’t going back home ‘til you had me. And then the next day came; I was everything you ever wanted, every piece of me worth having you were on it. I know I gave it all away but a ladies gotta know when we’re playing those games. Baby how could you go up and leave me? Baby how could you go? We got your bed made, we got your lemons squeezed, we got everything here that you could ever need. We got your bed made, we got your lemons squeezed, we got everything here. How could you ever leave? I was a woman. I was a woman from a magazine.

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metronomy | love letters lp | video https://www.theearologydept.com/metronomy-love-letters-video/ https://www.theearologydept.com/metronomy-love-letters-video/#respond Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:13:01 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11528 Recently, the latest album Love Letters, from the ever-changing and perpetually ear-appealing foursome Metronomy is 10-piece deep fried and served with packets of funk sauce. Yes, your ears will need wet wipes for this one. Here is a band with a sound soul-stitched in the artsy annals of some future retro otherworld. Down below …

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Recently, the latest album Love Letters, from the ever-changing and perpetually ear-appealing foursome Metronomy is 10-piece deep fried and served with packets of funk sauce. Yes, your ears will need wet wipes for this one. Here is a band with a sound soul-stitched in the artsy annals of some future retro otherworld. Down below you can check out the brand new and oh so official video the their titled-track Love Letters. This piece was directed by Mr. Michel Gondry, so you know it’s an eyeful of sticky sweet. You can cop Love Letters now via the music outlets below, and check out the band’s Deezer Session you’ll succumb to total swoontaneous combustion. Peace.

iTunes
Amazon US
hmv
Recordstore.co.uk
Rough Trade East

Metronomy Love Letters‘ Tracklist:

1. The Upsetter
2. I’m Aquarius
3. Monstrous
4. Love Letters
5. Month Of Sundays
6. Boy Racers
7. Call Me
8. The Most Immaculate Haircut
9. Reservoir
10. Never Wanted

I couldn’t leave well enough alone without sharing my fav Metronomy remix. Let your ears chew on this for 3:45. Metronomy’s The Look (Two Inch Punch’s Shook Shook Refix). Oh LAWD!

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nico // these days + shinichi osawa edit https://www.theearologydept.com/nico-these-days-shinichi-osawa-edit/ https://www.theearologydept.com/nico-these-days-shinichi-osawa-edit/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:54:51 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=10465 It’s been over a year since I first heard Nico (The Velvet Underground alum) let loose into my world his debut solo album Chelsea Girl (circa. 1967), and even though 365 + days may be time enough to get over some things, such is not the case when talking about the stand out track …

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It’s been over a year since I first heard Nico (The Velvet Underground alum) let loose into my world his debut solo album Chelsea Girl (circa. 1967), and even though 365 + days may be time enough to get over some things, such is not the case when talking about the stand out track These Days. This song, as delicate in introspective as they come still haunts the hollows of many a ear. I’ve also shared a more recent treatment, the These Days (Shinichi Osawa Edit), it takes liberties but the end result is just a bunchful of smoothness and distilled radiance. Peace.

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royal teeth // glow lp + video https://www.theearologydept.com/royal-teeth-glow-lp-video/ https://www.theearologydept.com/royal-teeth-glow-lp-video/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:57:04 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=10151 royal teeth // glow lp If all music tells a story, then Royal Teeth’s joyous, inspired songs spin an exuberant tale of possibility, each note conveying the youthful excitement of venturing out into the great wide world. The songs on the band’s debut album, Glow (courtesy of Dangerbird Records), were penned around the …

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A group love never sounded so darn good.

royal teeth // glow lp

If all music tells a story, then Royal Teeth’s joyous, inspired songs spin an exuberant tale of possibility, each note conveying the youthful excitement of venturing out into the great wide world. The songs on the band’s debut album, Glow (courtesy of Dangerbird Records), were penned around the idea of exploration and spirited adventures into the unknown, and its 12 tracks lay out a kaleidoscopic narrative of discovery.

The group came together in 2010 with Gary, Josh W, Poe, Josh H and Stevie, friends from all across Louisiana who’d gravitated to one another during their early days playing out in New Orleans. It was with the discovery of Nora, the last piece of the puzzle, that the band began to truly hone in on what would become their sound. The aim was to have fun, with no master plan for the music at the outset. As they began to experiment, it became clear that the synthesizers they’d been playing around with elevated their effusive indie pop songs and best conveyed the buoyancy and levity of being young and anxious for the world to open up for you.

“The album is really about finding yourself,” said Nora who, as the visual artist in the group, conveys that cheerful enthusiasm both through the music and the band’s striking artwork and graphics. Peace.

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tesla boy // broken doll https://www.theearologydept.com/tesla-boy-broken-doll/ https://www.theearologydept.com/tesla-boy-broken-doll/#respond Sat, 25 May 2013 09:55:38 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=8668 This month Tesla Boy dropped their highly anticipated sophomore LP ‘The Universe Made Of Darkness’, and naturally we are both impressed and grateful. Get an earful of the single, “Broken Doll,” featuring the Red Velvet cake vocals of Tyson. This track sheds mega sparks via it’s nasty synths and sexy menacing bass line, and we …

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This month Tesla Boy dropped their highly anticipated sophomore LP ‘The Universe Made Of Darkness’, and naturally we are both impressed and grateful. Get an earful of the single, “Broken Doll,” featuring the Red Velvet cake vocals of Tyson. This track sheds mega sparks via it’s nasty synths and sexy menacing bass line, and we can’t seem to get enough. You can get the 12-track album right now via iTunes. Peace.

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