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Saunter

Coyotes

Halfway to a Threeway - Jim O'Rourke

Kitty

Weight Of Gold Pt1

Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement

Here (Remastered)

Master And Everyone

Wolf Among Wolves

"Highway Blue" is the second single from Erin Durant's new album Islands coming June 21, 2019 via Keeled Scales.

Preorder: keeledscales.com/store/erindurant
erindurant.com

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Piano, vocals - Erin Durant
Electric bass - Tyler Evans
Drum set and percussion - Otto Hauser
Harmonica - Kath Bloom 

Produced by Kyp Malone.
Recorded by Charles Burst at Seaside Lounge (harmonica track recorded by David Shapiro).
Mixed by Gabriel Galvin at Four Foot Studios.
Mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering.

Islands

Erin Durant "Highway Blue"

From the album 'Up On High', out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (UK/EU).

/// PLAYERS

Andy Cabic: vocals, guitars, keyboard
Gabe Noel: bass
Josh Adams: drums
Dan Iead: guitar

/// CREDITS

All songs written by Andy Cabic / Vetiverse Music (BMI)
Produced by Thom Monahan & Andy Cabic
Engineered and mixed by Thom Monahan
Recorded at Starlight Sound, Golden Void & Panoramic House
Mastered by Eric Broyhill at Broyhill Masters
Management by Dave Grazynski at Congress+Main
Cover photography by Terri Loewenthal 
Layout and design by Nathaniel Russell and Vincent Bancheri

/// LYRICS

Once a songbird caught me by surprise
With the strength of its singing
A bright call took flight, pierced the air
Like a lone bell a-ringing

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

I don’t expect to get a second chance
To choose my words as I mean to
But I’d take it all back, I was wrong
Now I know what you’ve been through

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

A songbird’s shadow upon the lawn
Lies in wait since you’re gone

Sun sure falls fast
No shadow cast
What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

Up On High

Vetiver - Wanted, Never Asked

Land of No Junction out January 17th, 2020.

With Land of No Junction, Irish musician Aoife Nessa Frances has built a universe full of intimacy and depth, with lyrics written through a process of what she calls “free thought writing.” The singer/guitarist realizes a remarkably coherent sonic world: buoyant and aqueous, with dark undercurrents. It lends the record fluidity, each song in dialogue with the next not only through language, but the way each musical choice complements or threads into another. Written over several years, the songs traverse and inhabit this indeterminate landscape: the beginnings of love, moments of loss and discovery, fragility and strength, all intermingle and interact. She is sensitively supported by Cian Nugent on bass and lead guitar, Brendan Jenkinson (who also engineered and mixed) on keys, Brendan Doherty on drums and percussion, and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, whose strings weave through the songs like silver thread. It sounds unhurried, masterful, and soothingly whole. Over the course of Land Of No Junction, nostalgia and newness ebb and flow – sounds simmer up in the background of the songs, and are washed over by changes both summoned and not. It shows us a reckoning to be found in flux, and an ongoing acceptance of the inexplicable.

Aoife Nessa Frances - Blow Up

The second chapter from Skyway Man's forthcoming album 'The World Only Ends When You Die', out October 23rd from Mama Bird Recording Co. Pre-order/save/stream/share: https://smarturl.it/mb040

Artwork by Kevin Hooyman.

/// Credits & Players:

Written by James Wallace / Andy Jenkins / Traditional
Engineers - Alan Weatherhead, Kevin Dailey, James Wallace
Background Vocals - Casey Jane, Camille Weatherford
Guitars - Alan Parker
Additional Guitars - Sean Thompson, James Wallace, Kevin Dailey
Drums/Percussion - Pinson Chanselle
Bass - Cameron Ralston
Piano/Keys - James Wallace

/// Lyrics:

Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Hallelu-Hallelujah 

Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Hallelu-Hallelujah 

If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelu-Hallelujah 

(“Railroad”)

In the valley of the railroad bridge there is a garden lush and green
And unusual flowers blossom there
It was there I saw my true love talking to the wind
And it played with a strand of her hair

Are you coming for to carry me home?
Are you coming for to carry me home?

In the blinking of an eye I saw the two of them had gone
They disappeared without making a sound
I walked among the sleepers, along the path of steel
Out a trace of my love can't be found

Are you coming for to carry me home?
Are you coming for to carry me home?

(“Reprise”)

Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelujah

The World Only Ends When You Die

Sometimes Darkness / Railroad / Sometimes Darkness Reprise

Pre-order

Skyway Man - Sometimes Darkness / Railroad / Sometimes Darkness Reprise

Release date: 15th May 2020

So I guess you heard the news?
Woke up to the cry of a battle drum,
No one knew where the riders had come from, nobody in hell stood a chance,
And then came the raining of arrows, in one fell swoop I can call myself a widow,
There is a debt that must be paid,

Sundown, your home was ransacked,
Shot down by the devils riding horseback,
Sundown the banners turn the same shade of black,


So I guess you heard the news?
On the sunrise we rode into the valley below,
A fine line between plain and alley, you know how it goes, the pendulum of war,
And they tell you murder’s never easy but you should’ve seen the ease in which we did it,
How can you deny a man’s revenge?

Sundown, your home was ransacked,
Shot down by the devils riding horseback,
Sundown the banners turn the same shade of black,

Pendulum

Emily Reo - One Eye On The Sky

NYC's Peel Dream Magazine dazzled listeners with their recent release "Agitprop Alterna," a smart album that draws from a wide set of post-punk, shoegaze and indiepop influences but still has an assured, unique sound. Now they're following up with "Moral Panics," a companion EP that features unreleased songs from the "Agitprop Alterna" sessions. Far from being outtakes, these are all songs that stand strong on their own, and gathered together function as a useful corollary to the album. Songs like "New Culture," "Verfremdungseffekt" and "Life At The Movies" continue Peel Dream's investigations into those frought areas where art, culture and commerce meet. Bristling with both ideas and solid tunes, the EP as a whole comprises a crucial piece of the band's discography.

Moral Panics

Peel Dream Magazine - New Culture

"Amsterdam" is the second single from the album "The Club Is Open" by Swedish band "Fort Not" due out 18th September on Meritorio Records.

Available on 12" Vinyl and Digital. Link in Bio.

Fort Not - Amsterdam

Final Master of Great Divide. Due for release August 28th 2020.

The Great Divide

BMH is the third single from Scottish folk-pop collective Randolph’s Leap’s forthcoming album Spirit Level.

“On one hand, it’s about the pretentious things people say to appear interesting. I found humour in the idea that the Big Momma’s House film franchise could be based on a critically-acclaimed and cherished novel (spoiler: it isn’t) and there are some digs at hipster culture. It’s also about a house not feeling like a home. Looking back, I reckon I was probably exaggerating the flaws in the house but I got a bit fixated on it, almost like it was haunting me or conspiring against me somehow.”

Spirit Level is an upbeat, melodic indie-pop album full of personality, catchy hooks and memorable lyrics, rich in textural, polyphonic arrangements, and capturing the infinite charm of Adam Ross, the leader of this 8-piece band.

As a core songwriter with a large ensemble, Adam Ross may draw comparison with Stephin Merritt or Neil Hannon, while mining the rich Scottish seam of Postcard Records and C86. And as with contemporaries King Creosote or Withered Hand, is unafraid of drawing on folk music’s story telling tradition, detailing the minutiae of life’s fluctuations, here packaged up in glorious, anthemic and energetic pop.

The titular ‘spirit level’ is a steady reference point over what had been an unsettled spell writing the album, with Adam Ross uprooting from a decade in Glasgow to a tauntingly lopsided house in rural Aberdeenshire, navigating his way through shifting phases in his well-being and happiness, and reflecting on the untimely death of two greatly admired acquaintances. That balancing act came in the form of music, in an optimistic, even celebratory, collection of songs.

Recorded over a period of a year in Glasgow with keyboard player Pete MacDonald engineering, mixing and producing the sessions at home, the album went off to mastering in the nick of time: the following night Pete’s flat went Up In Smoke in a massive fire, taking everything bar Pete (and his pet hedgehog, Frida) with it.

“The next generation of witty Scottish indie pop” The Quietus

“A band deserving of every shred of love and success which came Belle & Sebastian's way” The Scotsman

"The Jonathan Richman of Scottish indie" The Herald

Randolph’s Leap started out as a pseudonym for the solo output of Adam Ross, and now includes up to 8 people in the full live band. The debut Randolph’s Leap album, Clumsy Knot, came out in 2014, with another four live and studio albums and a handful of singles across labels Fence Collective, Olive Grove Records and Lost Map. In 2018 a touring theatre show called The Isle of Love was devised around the songs of Randolph’s Leap.

They’ve recorded several Marc Riley sessions, performed at Green Man, T in the Park, Indietracks, and The Edinburgh Fringe, and have toured with The Burning Hell and James Yorkston. 
The Randolph’s Leap name is taken from a scenic location on the River Findhorn.

Randolph’s Leap are Adam Ross (songs, vocals, guitar), Adam Armour-Florence (drums), Ali Hendry (trumpet), Andrew MacLellan (guitar), Fraser Gibson (trombone) Heather Fox (violin), Pete MacDonald (keyboards) and Vicki Cole (bass).

Aoife Nessa Frances - Blow Up

Ba Da Bing Records/Grapefruit Records

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