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http://www.howlinrecords.com.br/alternativa-musical-bandas-independentes-criam-tributo-romantico/

Never Say Goodbye (MBV Cover)



GRAVE118 - Whirr 'Sway' out 9/23/14 on CD/LP/Tape/Digital (pre-order here: www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html)

When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr—a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse—pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that’s heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders—Whirr’s Nick Bassett and Nothing’s Dominic Palermo—decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He’s never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers’ debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett’s move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland’s Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett’s material, folding his songs into the album’s presiding sense of dusky melancholy.
“It’s not conceptual, entirely, but it’s intended to ebb and flow in a certain way—one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating,” Bassett says. “We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. ”
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless “Heavy” churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you’ve long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, “Sway” floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr’s typical propulsion. Even here, during the record’s prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids.
“The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock,” Bassett confirms. “There are these more aggressive punk elements—noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs.”
“Clear” brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication—“I want words/to understand you,” runs one plaintive, surging bit—in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes’ drums and Eddie Saldago’s orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that’s the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.


Whirr - Lines

One more down for the new album...few more to go.

New Fleeting Joys Song Preview

The B-side of an upcoming single by Tender Age, out this Fall on SINIS Recordings.

Tender Age - Get High b/w Always - 02 - Always

EXXASENS - BACK TO EARTH
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EXXASENS comes back to Earth after a eight-year space travel and 4 DiY albums, including the acclaimed ELEVEN MILES (Aloud Music LTD 2011) and SATELLITES (Aloud Music LTD 2013) and one compilation (2007-2014, Ricco Label, Japan). In this period, EXXASENS has evolved from a one-man solo project (Jordi Ruiz) to a fully-fledged band. 

Jordi Ruiz (guitars/programming), Sergio Ledesma (synths/keys), Cesc Cespedes (bass) and Oriol Planells (drums) have recorded the last EXXASENS’ album at Siete Barbas Studios (Barcelona). Containing 8 inspiring songs, BACK TO EARTH offers the band’s renewed vision of instrumental music which introduces choirs, stratospheric guitar solos, electronic groove and even a sung song. The first album single “My hands are planets” is now released with a new video which is the sequel of the remarkable "Rocket to the sky" from the previous album (currently with more than 50.000 visits online).

The powerful and rich multimedia live show delivered by EXXASENS has brought the band to play in some of the most important European stages such as Primavera Sound (Spain, 2015), Dunk! Fest (Belgium, 2014), ProgPower Europe (Netherlands, 2015) or Astral Fest (Russia, 2011, 2013).

EXXASENS’ new album, BACK TO EARTH, will be released in September 7th 2015 by Aloud Music Ltd in Europe, by Ricco Label in Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia), and by Rock-House in Russia. News about pre-order and editions will be revealed soon.

Your Dreams Are My Dreams

The Laurels - Turn On Your Mind

Empress

STROOM (10/11/15)

London based analogue enthusiasts Komati have announced that they're set to drop their 'Ghost Dancer' EP via Bad Life on January 29th.

A regular on UK label, the duo are known known for their modular based, techno enthused take on house, fractured acid and the grey area sound that lies in between. Their latest 2-track effort continues this work; offering up a pair of peak time floor fillers aimed squarely at the dance floor. Driven by an inescapable if subtle intensity, Komati's beats hint at a passion for more abstract strains of techno through their deft drum-programming without straying into 'experimental' territory.

With their inbound EP having already picked up heavy support from the likes of Shadow Child, Dusky, wAFF, Ame and Joris Voorn amongst a host of others, we feel more justified than ever in tipping Komati for a big 2016.

Komati - Ghost Dancer

©2016
Produced and Mixed by Eoin McDermott

Cruelest Animal - Cassette Mix

As taken from the "It's all figured out EP" released on Hybris Recordings 20/5 2016.

Lyrics: Erik Lindestad
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For the first time. In a long time. 
We've been holding on to the railings. 
There's no easy climb, just to stay high. Now we're holding on. 

And on. 

I don't how, no control now. 
Afloat between the floor and the ceiling. 
There's no peace of mind. We're the last in line. And we're holding on. 

And on.

The Land Below - And On

5 - Sapphire

First track of our debut EP 'Murky Waters.' Available in this universe very shortly!

Walk by the weirs, where water flows and kids throw stones, that's where you'll find me.
Past Rachel's ruins run rivers wide, a restless sigh through the sycamore trees.

So I jumped in and felt the cool water run through my hair and over my skin. No room for despair, submerged so deeply. 
The water and me, in serenity.

©2016 Garbáiste 


The Weirs

Make It Rain

July 2012
Vinyl only, original records (except for the track at 50' that is a dubplate given to me by my friend Nino)

Dedicated to my mother who passed away 10 years ago.
Jeremy.

10 Years Without You

Shoegaze / Psychedelia / Noise
sunshinecultrecords.bandcamp.com

Jack Horgan
Mark Waldron-Hyden
Daniel O'Sullivan
Steven Flynn
Jack Corrigan

Cruelest Animal - Cassette Mix

The Sunshine Factory

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