Indie 2017 Part 2

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The New Coast - 'Home'

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My Kind of Medicine EP

Home

Production by Aquilo / Artwork by David Drake - www.daviddrake.co.uk / Written by me.

"Heal" produced by Jens Kuross coming soon. 

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Light Of Day

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Still A Great Night

Again & Again by Boniface is out now via Transgressive / paradYse - http://bonifaceofficial.com/tourist/

You were sleeping in a back yard
Living off of a credit card
Ain't that the way that it always goes
We don't have any money but the money goes somewhere
I moved back into my parent's house
Saving money for my new love
I was just lucky to get you alone
Didn't even really mind that they were taking you home sometimes

And then the winter came
And we were in your bedroom listening to The River
Lying on the floor 'cause you don't have any furniture
Again and again
You said you thought of me
When you were fighting sleet
Dreaming of this in the blue light
Finally holding onto the time as it flies by
Again and again

I lost track of all my old friends
Started working through the weekends
Ain't that the way that it always goes
Sometimes you let go of the people you love to love them right
We got drunk before you moved out
Smoking weed and watching Hitchcock
I was just happy to have you alone
Didn't even really mind that it was the last time alright?

Then the winter came
And you were flying to a city made out of paper
And of course I followed you on a phone but I stayed here 
Again and again
You said you thought of me
When you were fighting sleep
Dreaming of this in the blue light
Finally holding onto the time as it flies by
Again and again

Again & Again

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Found Out

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Cocoa Sugar

In My View

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

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