excellent sound and great energy throughout

My god! You guys just keep getting better and better. Fu*k an EP, go straight for the full length. No joke!

The norm is typically one song per band but when it comes to A.M. I cannot help myself! Added 'Mono Focus', 'Deep Architecture' (ext ver) & 'Winter Sun' to my latest--->> https://soundcloud.com/chris-tressler-1/sets/shoegaze-love-89

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Whorish Boorish - My Favorite Memory (Rough Demo)

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

Free download at bit.ly/temporaryep

Coming off the heels of this past summer’s Imago LP, we are pleased to announce Lost Film’s new EP, Temporary. Led by Jimmy Hewitt, the band’s sole permanent member, Lost Film is the minimalist – and in this iteration – lo-fi guitar pop project that followed Hewitt’s now defunct band, Orca Orca.

Unlike the lush, full-band recordings of Imago, the Temporary EP brings Jimmy back to the place he feels most comfortable as an artist, and put simply, where it all began – isolated, and alone at the microphone.

Melodic and often times dreamy, the instrumentation takes a much more tepid approach to the guitar-based indie pop Jimmy has developed as Lost Film. For one, it’s a lot less "pop" in the bombastic and hook-laden way you would routinely expect, but instead explores a more nuanced and introspective approach to writing that is still very obviously informed by, and at it’s core, pop music.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Lost Film – Still Youth

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

Recorded and mixed by Peter Hove
Produced by Alpha Male and Peter Hove

Mono Focus

Release Date: January 20th, 2017
Pre-Order: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/barricades-and-angels

In May of 1979, UK native Martin Newell was 26 years old and in transition. He’d just split up with his girlfriend and moved out of the Colchester house they’d shared for four years. A month later, Newell also stepped down as the singer for Gypp, a band he’d been in for three years. Though they had a great live reputation and a strong regional following, Newell, with some misgivings, felt their music was out-of-step with the times. That same year, he turned down the offer of a literature degree course at university as well. Why bother? He had a part-time washing-up job, a guitar and a room in a rambling, boho house. He could just tear the whole thing down and start again. And so he did.

That summer, friend and recording engineer Dave Hoser heard some of Newell’s demos and offered to help record them on his 4-track equipment, dubbed "The Octopus Mobile." With some of Newell’s former optimism and energy restored, he put together a new band: the then 23-year-old drummer Michael 'Stix' Natkanski, former Gypp bass player Tony Phillips and Braintree guitarist Malcolm Burch (a/k/a Max Volume). Calling themselves The Stray Trolleys, the music here predates Newell's work as The Cleaners from Venus and the bulk of the sessions on their sole album, Barricades and Angels, were recorded at Octopus Studios during spring and summer of 1980. Amazingly, although they had little to no rehearsals, all backing tracks were recorded fairly quickly and everyone got on well, especially in the pub afterwards.

So, what's the story here? A few youngish unknowns got together in a little home-built country studio and recorded a handful of songs for an album that eventually emerged on a DIY cassette? They weren't perfect, but there is something very special about this collection. The music captures a time. Just listen.

Remastered. CD and LP Download includes bonus track, “Mrs. Killer.”

The Stray Trolleys - A Bluebeat Kid

Wouldn't Even Know is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Additional vocals by Bill Ryder Jones

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net
www.facebook.com/AmberArcades/

Wouldn't Even Know (feat. Bill Ryder Jones)

Under The Weather

Apartment In The City

Tears Run Rings return with a new four-track release, "Somewhere EP," out October 19th on limited clear 10" vinyl and digital formats through a global label partnership of Shelflife and Deep Space Recordings. 

The band released their third album, "In Surges," in 2016.  The four songs on this new EP were written when the band met over a weekend in the late fall of 2016, and recorded over the next two years.  The EP is, as usual, largely a long distance effort, primarily recorded in both Portland and San Francisco home studios.  However, this EP marks the first time working with Kurt Feldman (Ice Choir, POBPAH, The Depreciation Guild), who mixed all the tracks.

The lead track ,"Helios Heliadae," features Matthew’s airy layered vocals alongside driving rhythms giving a nod to the early 80’s New Zealand sound.  The next song, "Someone Somewhere," is a dreamy pop song that, on one hand, is a return to the lush, transcendent sweeping sound from the band's debut album, but also showcases the band's more polished pop sensibilities.  Next, the jangly "Be Still" exerts a frantic energy  reminiscent of bands like Moose and Pale Saints.  The EP closes with the introspective "Daylight," a song drenched in soft melancholy and shimmering beauty.  

Tears Run Rings are playing live for the first time in 10 years this fall, with shows in Portland, Oregon (October 20th at Turn! Turn! Turn!), and in Michigan as part of the Kalamashoegazer festival on November 10th at Bells (with Ringo Deathstarr, Airiel, Soft Science, Springhouse, Tambourina, Seashine, and Brief Candles).  The band is working on a fourth album.

Somewhere EP

Tears Run Rings - Helios Heliadae

Shady Bug's sophomore album "Lemon Lime" is out March 8th via Exploding In Sound Records. 
Pre-order at: http://bit.ly/ShadyBug

Shady Bug - Make It Up

From Aden Arabie (2013) & 7inch "I did something wrong" released by Shacklewell Recordings (2015)
Recorded and mixed by Dan Hammond in Estudios Reno.
(December 2012) 
Photo by Carlotta Cosials and art by Diego García.
All the songs by The Parrots. 

Mono Focus

Alpha Male

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