amazing. the kind of song that makes you feel home

Summer.

Hollow Ponds

Buy on Bandcamp

Everything's A System, Everything's A Sign

ONE TIME TOO MANY

Barbarossa Imager - out 11th May

Preorder the album http://smarturl.it/imageritunes 

Barbarossa - Home (feat Jose Gonzales)

This song was recorded at Linear Studios in Sydney. With a live band; Mike Haydon, Andy Campbell, Benson Gunner, Max Corby, Bree Tranter and Emma Nuerath. 
The photo was taken under the sea in Thailand. Enjoy x

Tuesday Fresh Cuts

Lovelife-1994

Written, composed, recorded and produced by Sin Tiempo

Faithless

Alex Ebert - Vocals, Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Anthony Cuccia - Cajon
Drew Meez - Synth
Joe Cabral - Soprano Sax
Nico Aglietti - Electric Guitar

Recording Studio Piety Street
Written By Alex Ebert
Produced By Alex Ebert
Executive-Produced Jay Wesley & Mark Bingham
Arranged By Alex Ebert
Engineered by Jay Wesley & Mark Bingham
Mixed By Alex Ebert
Mix Engineer - Jay Wesley
Mastered By Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering in Portland, ME

Lyrics

Love,
You being so cold in love
I be like a broken record
Everybody spoken enough,
Don’t you miss your man in enough
I be like so young and tough
I be like so taut inside
I be just on fire inside
Baby please don’t go

I will be your broken record
Wont you be my, broken record

Love I’m being so god and tough
I be like so dumb and stuff
You be like choking on muff
I’m the insult - your man ender
I, being so hard in love
Play me like a broken record
You be like oh God enough
Don’t Go

I will be your broken record
Wont you be my, broken record

Love,
You being so cold in love
I be like a broken record
Everybody spoken enough,
You just missed your man in love
I be like so young and tough
I be like so taut inside
I be just on fire inside
Baby please don’t go

I will be your broken record
Wont you be my broken record
I will be your broken record
Wont you be my broken record

Broken Record

Modern Drift is taken from Efterklang's 3rd album Magic Chairs from 2010.

Magic Chairs was released on Rumraket in Scandinavia and on 4AD in rest of the world. The album won the inaugural IMPALA European Indie Album of the Year (2010).

www.efterklang.net

Efterklang - Modern Drift

Bounce

Flunk - Play (Unreleased Alternative Version)

"Line of Fire", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.

Buy the track on Amazon: http://glnk.it/1v4
or on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1v5

http://www.junip.net
http://www.mute.com
http://www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:

What would you do
If it all came back to you
Each crest of each wave
Bright as lightning
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining

Standing on higher ground
But when you hear the sounds
You realise it's just a whim (/the wind)
And you notice it matters
Who and what you let under your skin

If put to the test
Would you step back from the line of fire
Hold everything back
All emotions and desires

Convince yourself to be someone else
And hold back from the world
Your lack of confidence
What you choose to believe in
Dictates your rise or your fall

With no one else around you
No one to understand you
No one to hear your calls
Look through all your dark corners
When you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire

I'd do the same as you would
Would do the same as you
Step back from the line of fire

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Junip - Line Of Fire

Postiljonen is a dream pop trio deriving from Scandinavia. The band emerged quietly back in September 2011 and is composed of Norwegian vocalist Mia Bøe alongside Swedish multi-instrumentalists Daniel Sjörs and Joel Nyström Holm. 

After releasing a handful of online only singles in their native Scandinavia (including the heartbreaking interpretation of Whitney Houston’s classic ‘How Will I Know’, renamed here to ‘All That We Had Is Lost’) the trio have managed to create a highly characteristic sound, where ethereal and alluring vocals are interwoven in a mystical, ambient, dreamy and lovable expression. They have been compared to the likes of M83, Air France, Sigur Ros, jj and Cocteau Twins. 

Taking inspiration from old black and white movies, the golden 80s, Balearic scenery, sleepless summer nights and describe themselves as nostalgic daydreamers, all of which mirrors beautifully within Skyer’s ten songs.

Featuring recent single ‘Supreme’ and the forthcoming ‘Atlantis’, Skyer is summery pop music at its best; made for lazy days and dreamy nights.

Postiljonen - On The Run

It All Feels Right

Debut album Sky City out now and available here: 
Digital download: http://smarturl.it/ama1
Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/amamv1
Streaming: http://smarturl.it/amsta1
Amazon Music: http://smarturl.it/amama1

Went To War

Oliver Remix of the first single from the new album Where Does This Door Go - out July 16th.

Pre-order:
http://smarturl.it/MayerHawthrneWDTDGiT
http://www.myplaydirect.com/mayer-hawthorne

Her Favorite Song

Her Favorite Song (Oliver Remix)

Postiljonen is a dream pop trio deriving from Scandinavia. The band emerged quietly back in September 2011 and is composed of Norwegian vocalist Mia Bøe alongside Swedish multi-instrumentalists Daniel Sjörs and Joel Nyström Holm.

After releasing a handful of online only singles in their native Scandinavia (including the heartbreaking interpretation of Whitney Houston’s classic ‘How Will I Know’, renamed here to ‘All That We Had Is Lost’) the trio have managed to create a highly characteristic sound, where ethereal and alluring vocals are interwoven in a mystical, ambient, dreamy and lovable expression. They have been compared to the likes of M83, Air France, Sigur Ros, jj and Cocteau Twins.

Taking inspiration from old black and white movies, the golden 80s, Balearic scenery, sleepless summer nights and describe themselves as nostalgic daydreamers, all of which mirrors beautifully within Skyer’s ten songs.

Featuring singles ‘Supreme’ and Atlantis’, Skyer is summery pop music at its best; made for lazy days and dreamy nights.

Skyer is released on July 22 2013.

http://bestfitrecordings.com/
http://hybr.is/
http://postiljonen.tumblr.com/


Postiljonen - Atlantis

Having grown up in the U.S., the Amason was a Volvo model that passed me by, but in Scandinavia, it was a popular car in the 1960s. Named after the fierce female warriors of Greek mythology, Volvo adopted a Swedish spelling for its design, and the band has followed suit. Perhaps the spirit of a female warrior coupled with the liberatingly swinging ‘60s is a suitable description of this five-piece band of Swedish-born and based touring musicians. Or perhaps their name, chosen spontaneously by Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, is just one aspect of this multi-talented, musically minded group of friends that first came together in 2012.  

The security and strength offered in Amanda Bergman’s vocals is reminiscent of a warrior, but the whole picture of Amason carries much more depth than a single simplicity can encompass. The story of Amason begins with brothers Pontus and Petter Winnberg, whose father was a music teacher and classical musician. When Petter was 16, he studied at a jazz music school, where he met Nils Törnqvist, and from then on the two have played together in a multitude of musical constellations, including Little Majorette. In 2008, Nils saw Amanda playing a gig in Gothenburg with her band Hajen, and was so blown away by the power of her performance that he just had to tell Petter and Pontus about her. Pontus contacted Amanda through Myspace, and the two recorded a few tracks together. A few years later, Pontus met Gustav Ejstes of Dungen through Stockholm-based music collective INGRID. Within this open setting, they started speaking about making music together. When Pontus played Gustav a tape of him and Amanda, who currently writes under the name Idiot Wind, as she howled along to a drunken piano, Gustav also was blown away by Amanda’s voice, her way of expressing herself, and began thinking, “Let’s make something together.” Which is precisely what Pontus posed once the tape had finished. At the tail end of 2012, these five finally arrived in a musical space together.

Having arrived in a collective sonic space, they all hopped aboard a vehicle, with their past paths and divergent musical tastes thrown into the mix, and found this was more than enough to fuel Amason forwards. A sound created out of collaboration, with each member inhabiting an equally important space. Be it Nils on drums, Gustav on organ, guitar, and vocals, Pontus on piano and pedals, Petter on bass and vocals, or Amanda on synth and vocals, these simpatico souls share the creative ground as Scandinavians share their land. Everything is everyone’s. And the music is all the greater for it.

When Pontus first booked time in the studio and miraculously managed to get all five of them there during that time, the rest clicked into place. They started out by putting an idea on the drawing board, thrashing it out on their instruments, recording the tracks, writing a melody and lyrics, and swiftly had some finished songs to present. The first song to hit the Swedish airwaves, “Margins,” was soon followed by a self-entitled EP released in August 2013 on Stockholm-based INGRID, complete with single ”Went to War.” In February 2014, Amason released “Ålen” (The Eel), and on October 28th, 2014 they will release their single “Duvan” (The Dove) worldwide on Fairfax Recordings and INGRID. Their debut album, Sky City, is due for worldwide release in early 2015. 

With lyrics in both their native Swedish and the Swedish musical language of choice, English, Amason create in the moment, record almost instantaneously, and soon after scan the horizons for a stage, where the music truly comes alive, where they can share their collected collective moments. They fill their together time with sound, with music-making, with production and lyric-crafting and the joy of the song. Not to say that they don’t have to work to create what they get. Bringing five busy people together and getting crafted songs down in a state of permanence is a mammoth undertaking in and of itself. But as the old adage goes, where there is a will, there is a way. And the Amason will, the Amason way, is celebrated and magnified and revolves around the power of music. While the classic Volvo Amason still motors onwards in its intention to take people places, so too will a pure love of music drive Amason the band far into the future.

Went To War

Amason

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