[Weekly Mix] 2020.08 (5)

alt-Pop, Indie Pop, Sophisti-Pop, Downtempo, Pop

trophy wife

We suffered a loss a few years ago that plunged us into depression and grief.  We kept seeing him and hearing him in the house for months after, but he was gone.  

This song was written in that time as a way to express that deep loss we felt and to always remember him.

Art work done by Felipe Echevarria.  Visit his website:
https://www.felipeechevarria.com/

The light shines in from the moon
Clair de Lune plays in a room
You’re in my arms saying good-bye
Holding you just makes me cry
Your shadow keeps following me
I look around, there’s nothing to see
I hear a sound from down the hall
And silently, I fall

Silently We Fall

Remix of the 3rd single from my upcoming album spirits

Burning (Static Pull Remix)

4 - D.K. - JOURNEY TO THE SUN

Taken from 'Lines + Colours' EP by Moiré, out March 25, 2016.

Follow Moiré: https://soundcloud.com/moirelines

Order vinyl + digital at The Ghostly Store: www.theghostlystore.com/products/lines-colours-ep

Lines + Colours

Moiré - Lines + Colours

Performed live on CJSW Calgary's independent radio station
June 24th 2018
Recorded by: Audrey Niksic
Thanks to CJSW and Sled Island Festival
Coming out on a CD compilation of CJSW live sessions soon <3

Remote Control *Live* @ CJSW

Cosmos

Deep Space Station

Another track from our new album 'Flashback' which is released 31 May 2019. To Pre-Order, click link above.

Released by:
Impossible Objects of Desire

Flashback

Gammon

Telefon Tel Aviv - Stay away from being maybe

Night Melody

What Sorrow

Netherlands artist Robin Kester returns with new single Sweat And Fright, a rhythmic, soulful slice of spectral psych-tinged electronica recalling Broadcast which she describes as “an ode to nightmares.”

The single’s subject matter is indicative of Kester’s forthcoming mini album This Is Not A Democracy  (11th Sept, AT EASE) as a whole, with its abstract exploration of nightmares, escapism, free will, and shifting mental states. 

Kester’s sound is equally as dream-like with its blending of her gentle beguiling vocal and experimentations with retro guitars, vintage synthesizers and an antique vibraphonette. Produced by Marien Dorleijn (of Dutch band Moss) in his studio set deep within an old psychiatric institute, the production style draws on inspiration from luscious  70’s pop, with touches of the dream-pop of Beach House, the otherworldly, ethereal qualities of artists such as Weyes Blood and Sufjan Stevens and a nod to the chamber-pop of Cate Le Bon.

Sweat And Fright is the fourth single taken from This Is Not A Democracy, following last month’s Cigarette Song, a dreamy collaboration with Conor O’Brien (Villagers), Remove And Delete which is currently being championed by Guy Garvey (BBC 6 Music) and was included in American DJ and tastemaker Chris Douridas’ KCRW playlist, and Day Is Done which will feature in upcoming American indie film Press Play out later this year.

Back in the Netherlands Kester is a much-acclaimed emerging artist, last month she recorded a legendary 2 Meter Session following in the footsteps of the likes of Radiohead and Nirvana. This follows a series of accolades following the release of early singles and her debut ‘Peel The Skin’ EP (2018),  including a spot on Spotify’s Viral Chart, appearances on high profile TV and radio shows including Vrije Geluiden, Nooit Meer Slapen (Radio 1) and 3voor12 Radio (3fm), a ‘Track of the Week’  slot in de Volkskrant, and the kudos of being named ‘Talent to Watch’ by Dutch journalist Gijsbert Kamer (Volkskrant, Radio 1). 

Kester has toured with the likes of  Villagers, Bent Van Looy, Alela Diane, Laura Gibson, The Bony King of Nowhere and Haley Haley Heynderickx in the Netherlands,  and  has performed at leading national festivals such as Here Comes The Summer, Motel Mozaique and Tweetakt.

Sweat And Fright was written by Robin Kester, recorded and produced by Marien Dorleijn, mixed by Pieter Vonk, and mastered by Darius van Helfteren. It features Maarten Vos on cello and modular synths. It is released as a digital single on 28th August, with Kester’s min-album This Is Not A Democracy following on 11th September via AT EASE.

Robin Kester- Sweat and Fright

Headspin (ft. Charlotte Spiral)

“Labour-oppressive wellness initiatives; machinic lubricants. Half a decade of unprocessed bitterness, constricted by social norms as corporate structures. The Program fails through successive firmware updates while, in the background, slideshow graphics show that rage tends towards infinity. The face of a destabilised workforce in a society that secretes symbolic concessions as a defence reflex against meaningful change. Your positive attitude is keeping us all in line.” - Emil Mniszko

Written by Public Body
Produced by Theo Verney 
Recorded at Brighton Electric Studios
Artwork by Emil Mniszko

Released 27/08/2020

Ask Me Later

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - https://smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some time now. With The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Donaldson has finally created a vivid reflection of this dreary scene. You Might be Happy Someday is an oblique strand of SF outer-avenue cloud cover that stretches across the Atlantic to the grey docks of Bristol as captured in Sarah Records’ fetishized insert photos.

Despite the deceptively congenial presentation, Happy is often a heavy record. After a litany of Donaldson’s past iterations (from experimental abstraction to post-punk and pop), The Reds, Pinks & Purples is Glenn D’s most personal project. Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop. Almost every track is written in second person, creating a feeling of overheard private inner conversations-on-repeat: soft-lob criticisms, supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions, You Might be Happy Someday is a smeared window into the (kindly) cynical thoughts of a romantic misanthrope.

Like the work of other U.S. depresso-pop purveyors East River Pipe, The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ mini-album is the kind of record that is both unsettling and comforting. When you’re four drinks deep and you’ve worn your Smiths records out, You Might Be Happy Someday is on deck to have wine spilled on it while you dance alone in the kitchen.

You Might Be Happy Someday is released on Tough Love on 2nd October. Fittingly, the record will be pressed on to 'pastel pink' colour vinyl, with a limited run of 300 copies.

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Last Summer In A Rented Room

'Repeat' is taken from Naked Roommate's debut album 'Do The Duvet', out September 4th through Upset The Rhythm and Trouble In Mind.

Available to pre-order here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Do The Duvet

Naked Roommate - 'Repeat'

It's real, it's a label, it's artist management, it's a platform, it's complicated, as always... but it's going to be fun. It's AT EASE.

Robin Kester- Sweat and Fright

AT EASE

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