Yearlong: 2017

All Again (Future Self EP)

"Winners" by Delicate Steve
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Delicate Steve - Winners

From the album Fa Fa Fa Fired, out January 27th from Mama Bird Recording Co.

Ryan Oxford - Flashes of Rage

This is Lowland Hum's third full length album, Thin. The album was released February 10, 2017.

After four years of nearly constant touring we found ourselves in the first relatively slow season we’ve known since we began our collaboration as Lowland Hum in 2012. We spent the spring and summer of this year seeking health and clarity, and recording this family of songs using our minimal studio equipment assembled in a friend’s attic. It has been a necessary pause, and a gift, allowing space for our deepest collaboration yet. These songs are an unadorned illustration of this season of slow reorientation and we are thankful to get to share them with you.

Lowland Hum is Daniel and Lauren Goans.
All songs written by Daniel Levi Goans and Lauren Plank Goans. 
All songs © 2017 Daniel Levi Goans Music (ASCAP) 
Thin was engineered, produced and performed by Daniel and Lauren, and recorded in John's attic in Charlottesville, VA.
Additional vocal engineering by Jeff Crawford at Fidelitorium in Kernersville, NC.
Thin was mixed by Mark Nevers and mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman.
Artwork and embroidery by Lauren Goans.
Daniel plays guitars made by master craftsman and dear friend, Bob Rigaud.

A huge and hearty thanks to John McCray for generously sharing his attic with us, and to Alan Brilliant, whose friendship and support helped make this album possible and this season joyful.

“Do not forget the story of Icarus, who wanted to fly to the sun, and having arrived at a certain height, lost his wings and dropped into the sea. You will often feel than neither you nor I are what we hope to become someday…wanting in stability, simplicity and sincerity. One cannot become simple and true in one day. But let us persevere, above all let us have patience; those who believe hasten not.” - Vincent Van Gogh

www.lowlandhum.com

Thin

08 Thin Places

First single from Meg Duffy's Hand Habits. Debut LP out Feb 10, 2017 on Woodsist Records.

"Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York. She has been putting her time in on the road and in the studio over the past two years with pacific northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multi-instrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles - it is appropriate that this album was recorded by Meg herself - for Meg, who has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision 'til its end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water, and before you know it it is all around you - a bath, and Meg's whisper has made its way inside you. Like many bedroom-debuts before it (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper)  let this be the first of many to come, for Meg has music in her touch - and this is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, but instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement; 'hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass'."- Kevin Morby

HAND HABITS - All The While

Rather Be Lonely

Never Going Home

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Hazel English -  Make It Better

Taken from the new album "Framework"
Release: 13.01.2017

A Projection - Transition

"Internal World" is taken from Cloud Nothings' forthcoming album "Life Without Sound." Out January 27th, 2017 on Carpark Records.

Pre-orders available here:
Carpark Records (US)- http://smarturl.it/withoutsound_carpark
Wichita Recordings (UK) - http://smarturl.it/withoutsound_wichita
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/withoutsound_itunes

TOUR DATES
January 26th - Cleveland, OH - Beachland ballroom 
January 27th - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace
January 28th - Montreal, QC - Fairmount Theatre
January 30th - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
January 31st - Boston, MA - Paradise
February 1st - New York, NY - Webster Hall
February 3rd - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
February 4th - Columbus, OH - A&R Music Bar
February 6th - Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College
February 7th - Detroit, MI - El Club
February 9th - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
February 10th - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 
February 11th - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line
February 12th - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall
February 15th - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
February 16th - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
February 17th - Seattle, WA - Barboza
February 18th - Seattle, WA - Barboza
February 20th - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
February 22nd - Los Angeles, CA - Teregram Ballroom
March 1st - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
March 2nd - Malmo, SE - Babel
March 3rd - Stockholm, SE - Debaser Strand
March 5th - Oslo, NO - Parkteatret
March 6th - Hamburg, DE - Knust
March 7th - Berlin, DE - Bi Nuu
March 8th - Munich, DE - Kranhalle
March 9th - Cologne, DE - Luxor
March 11th - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
March 12th - Brussels, BE - Botanique
March 14th - Paris, FR - Petit Bain
March 16th - Bristol, UK - Thekla
March 17th - Glasgow, UK - Stereo
March 18th - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
March 19th - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
March 21st - London, UK - Koko
March 22nd - Birmingham, UK - The Hare & Hounds
March 23rd - Brighton, UK - The Haunt

SOCIALS
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cloudnothings/
twitter - https://twitter.com/cloudnothings
instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cloudnothings/

"Internal World"

Caged Animals is the musical moniker for Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Vincent Cacchione and his family band.  With a long history in the city’s DIY music scene, Cacchione emerged from his role fronting Soft Black (whose members included DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith) to form Caged Animals. The band features his sister Talya, partner Magali Charron, childhood friend Patrick Curry, and recent recruit Chris Aiello who adds his alto-saxophone to the groups rich arrangement.

“Night Dances” is the second track to be shared from the bands forthcoming LP. It follows on the success of “Wildflowers,” which quickly became a Top 10 Viral Track on Spotify, peaking at #7 in the US and #8 Globally. It was recently used in an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio.

“Night Dances” picks up where “Wildflowers” left off but delivers even more depth and melody. Built around a spatial groove and nocturnal atmosphere, “Night Dances” trades in the kind of noir-tinged-pop The Guardian described as “the perfect soundtrack if they remade Blue Velvet.”

Most pertinently, “Night Dances” sees longtime harmony vocalist, Magali Charron, step into the spotlight as lead singer. Her vocal is delicate and rich, evoking the hushed immediacy of Julee Cruise or the late Trish Keenan. Surrounding Magali’s airy delivery with undulating synthesizers, pulsing Stratocasters, and echo-laden saxophone, Cacchione’s words evoke the spirituality of seeking:

“Your bones are broken / Your dreams are all unspoken / A strange devotion put you back in motion,” pines Charron, affirming that hope is anything but lost, it’s just not where we’ve been looking.

As the sun sets, our characters pilgrimage leads them to one frozen moment, where life’s struggles recede into the movements of love and music.

“I wrote Night Dances for Magali to sing,” explains Cacchione, “this is a romantic song and probably the closest I can come to explaining what the mystery of going through life together feels like for me. I feel so lucky to have Magali’s beautiful voice bring these words to life.”

Distilling their unique musical vision into it’s most focused form, Caged Animals remain understated and curious on “Night Dances.” Their pop-forward melodicism is both well-worn and refreshing; remaining direct, soulful, and uniquely unguarded. A full album is expected in early 2017.

Night Dances

Down To The Sea (Dusk)

Smoke Signals

Themes For Dying Earth is available here:

Spotify: spoti.fi/2lwiTKP | iTunes: apple.co/2iO4rvU | Bandcamp: bit.ly/Themes-Preorder

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Teen Daze (Jamison Isaak) is a British-Columbia based artist and producer. He released his fifth LP Themes For Dying Earth on February 10th through his new label, FLORA.

After last year's foray into vibrant indie-pop, Themes finds Teen Daze returning to more ambient, electronic production with new insight: "I learned so much from the experience making Morning World, it would be a step backwards if I didn't apply it." This comes through in songs like "Lost", "Rising" and the first single, "Cycle", which fuse the synthesized sound of early Teen Daze records with the live energy of his more recent works. Themes is also distinct in its collaborative nature. Jamison has worked with other artists in the past, but never to this degree and expanse: "Making the last record alongside other people helped me realize that inviting additional minds to the creative process brings out the best in me."

Conceptually and thematically, this album is one of Jamison's most personal, navigating topics both intimate and broad: "Much of my work is inspired by nature, and it's scary to think that future generations may not have that same relationship. The album starts with Cycle, a song about my personal experience dealing with anxiety and depression, and it slowly zooms out to cover some of the external forces, like climate change, that are affecting those experiences. After touring last fall, I came home so cynical and worn out, I decided take all the nervous energy I had about the world, and filter it through more optimistic, positive sounds."

Themes For Dying Earth

Get The LP Here

First Rain (with S. Carey)

Julia Lucille's new album Chthonic comes out April 7, 2017 via Keeled Scales on LP/CD/CS & digital release.

Recorded and mixed at Dandy Sounds
Produced by Dan Duszynski 
Mastered by Carl Saff
Vocals and guitar: Julia Lucille
Guitar: Paul Mitchell
Drums & Bass: Dan Duszynski
Pedal Steel: Luke Dawson
Illustration: Aimee Lusty 
Design: Keith Davis Young & Garrett DeRossett

Eternally

"My Old Man" is from Mac DeMarco's forthcoming album, This Old Dog, out May 5th, 2017, on Captured Tracks. All iTunes pre-orders come with Instrumentals of This Old Dog and instant grat downloads of lead singles, “My Old Man,” and “This Old Dog.”

Pre-Order Digital here: smarturl.it/thisolddog
Pre-Order Physical here: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/this-old-dog

Mac DeMarco

This Old Dog

Mac DeMarco // My Old Man

This came to us in a dream and we couldn't resist.   Much love to @vulfpeck since they are straight-up wizards.

Return Of The Vulfmack

That long-awaited (well, for me anyway) fourth Meursault album is finally on the fairly immediate horizon. It will be released on CD and vinyl on the 27th February, will be called I Will Kill Again, and Klopfgeist is the first single from it.

After a relatively big rock sound on 2012’s Something For the Weakened collapsed in on itself to be channelled into the tense, darkly enigmatic characters of Supermoon, before being in turn shrugged off like a chrysalis as the reborn Meursault emerged, this song feels as emblematic of the new album as any could be.

It’s got that classic Meursault turn of phrase, an elusive narrative and a vague sense of foreboding - all common aesthetic threads which pull the album together.

Neil himself says this about the song:
“Frank Sinatra died in Los Angeles on May 14th, 1998. His final words were "I’m losing”. 
The rest is just ghosts and metronomes.”

UPCOMING LIVE DATES (full band shows):
3rd February (Celtic Connections) – The Hug and Pint, Glasgow (Sold Out)
25th February (Song, by Toad's Granfalloon) – Summerhall, Edinburgh (Tickets)
4th March - The Lexington, London (Tickets)

Some nice things people said about comeback EP Simple is Good:
"a remarkable return - literate and emotionally engrossing" – Clash
"Like questions from a child drilling through the hardest of hearts and demanding our self-reflection" 
- Gold Flake Paint
“It continues the epic and grand nature of the 2012 album Something For the Weakened, but somehow manages to feel thoughtful and graceful in nature.” - TVBomb

Meursault - Klopfgeist

https://foglake.bandcamp.com/album/dragonchaser

dragonchaser

Fog Lake - Breaking Over Branches

Talos // Odyssey 

iTunes: http://apple.co/2lb8G9c
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2kDPKfb

Taken from the debut album, 'Wild Alee', out now.
iTunes: http://bit.ly/wildalee
Spotify: http://bit.ly/taloswildalee
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/wildaleeLP


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ODYSSEY LYRICS

Unloosen the sky
And suffer the sights.
Then you walked out in raging water.

An offer that's died.
What use int he white endless sight 
Indy I was always here to warn you.

In this odyssey
It's hard to leave
I hold at the breach
I've got my reasons

In this odyssey
It's hard to leave
I hold at the breach
I've got my reasons

I wake to your likeness
But how come you're here?
I wasn't found in delight
It's the call before it's far from over

Our temples are hearts
But then heaven alee!
Heavy the final force,
And I was downed in dying water.
And I was downed in…

In this odyssey
It's hard to leave 
I hold at the breach 
Ive got my reasons

In this odyssey
It's hard to leave 
I hold at the breach 
I've got my reasons
(I'm cast out in the cold)

Now I'm wading water
Then I'm cast out in the cold
[Fading right. Just once. We know.]

Now I'm wading water
Then I'm in the boiling snow
[Heave that light off of you love] (x2)

In this odyssey 
It's hard to leave 
I hold at the breach 
I've got my reasons
(I'm cast out in the cold)

In this odyssey it's hard to leave 
I hold at the breach
I've got my reasons
(I'm cast out in the cold)

Odyssey

Ordinary Day, the newest single from The Districts.

Catch The Districts on tour:
March 22 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
March 23 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
March 25 – Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
March 26 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
March 27 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall

April 12 – Albany, NY @ The Hollow
April 13 – Buffalo, NY @ Ninth Ward
April 14 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
April 15 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
April 17 – Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
April 18 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
April 19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
April 21 – Davenport, IA @ Baked
April 22 – Champaign, IL @ The Accord
April 23 – Columbia, MO @ Rose Music Hall
April 25 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s
April 26 – Cincinnati, OH @ Woodward Theater
April 28 – Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club

May 19 – Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
May 20 – Birmingham, UK @ The Institute
May 22 – Paris, FR @ The French Escape at La Maroquinerie
May 23 – London, UK @ The Dome
May 25 – Berlin, DE @ Badehaus Szimpla
May 26 – Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling at Paradiso

Yearlong: 2017

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