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Lauren O'Connell - House of the Rising Sun

Two Suns

Daniel

les big byrd "vi borde prata men det är för sent"

Taken from the album 'Fall Forever', out now on Kanine Records.

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Tour Dates

16th May - Espace B, Paris, France
3rd June - Resident  Instore, Brighton, UK
10th June - Fall Forever Album Launch Show - St Pancras Church, London
11th June - Long Division Festival, Wakefield, UK
13th June - Oslo, London, UK (Sold Out)*
14th June - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, UK*
15th June - CCA. Glasgow, UK*
16th June - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK*
30th June - DC9,Washington, DC , US
1st July -  Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, US
2nd July - The Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY , US
3rd July - Great Scott, Allston, MA, US
5th July - Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B., Montreal, QC, Canada 
6th July - The Garrison,Toronto, ON, Canada
8th July -  Schubas Tavern, Chicago, IL, US 
9th July - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, US 
12th July -  Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA, US 
13th July - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US 
14th July - Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
17th July - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US 
19th July - The Hideout, San Diego, CA, US 
20th July - Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ, US
22nd July - Club Dada, Dallas, TX, US 
23rd July - Barracuda, Austin, TX, US 
25th July - The Masquerade (Purgatory), Atlanta, GA, US 
26th July - Cat’s Cradle (Backroom), Carrboro, NC, US 
27th July - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD, US
*W/ Wild Nothing

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new single from ionnalee, creator and front person of audiovisual project iamamiwhoami.

song written by ionnalee and Com Truise
produced by ionnalee

mixed by Barbelle
mastered by Sören von Malmborg

visual direction by ionnalee and John Strandh
artwork photo: John Strandh
graphic design: Jacob Hulmston

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Tekno Love Song

Bat for lashes - what a girl to do ( fixedform version )

New album 'Heavy Heavy', released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune: https://youngfathers.lnk.to/heavySo

Avalanche

Be Mine

Hamilton Leithauser cover - I liked the way he did the first verse the best, so I did the whole song in that style.

Here they come (Hamilton Leithauser cover)

There were plenty of reasons for Londoner James Mathé to simply keep course after the release of his well received debut album, Chemical Campfires in 2008 on Fence Records: a flourishing reputation as one of Britain's most exciting acoustic troubadours, a prominent spot in Johnny Flynn and Jose Gonzales' backing bands, the roar of applause from the audience at a sold-out show at New York's Bowery Ballroom still ringing in his ears. But Mathé had other ideas. “I loved the acoustic scene, but knew it was not all I was about,” he remembers. “So I dug out all my old Casiotone keyboards, drum machines and analogue synths and just started writing.”

Bloodlines, then, is a compelling reinvention and sees Mathé’s emotive missives from young adulthood rewired into elegiac electronic anthems, dusted with huge spectral gasps of reverb and soul-wrenching organ melodies. Unusually for such an electronic album, it was recorded on vintage analogue gear and straight to tape.  “I really fancied getting back to basics,” says Mathé “I was tired of trying to iron out all the mistakes in modern production. I wanted to record live to tape, keeping all the mistakes in, warts and all.”   

From the sultry ache of opener Bloodline – a nod to Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy “about not picking up the bad habits of the generation before you”, says Mathé – to the Pharrell Williams-inspired urban crunch of ‘Turbine’, all the way to ‘The Load’, written when Mathé was indulging in his love of Jurassic 5 era 90s hip hop, Bloodlines is a brilliantly varied listen that pulls and paws at your heartstrings.    If there's a gloriously loose, tenebrous feel to songs like the blue-eyed electro-soul ‘Pagliacco’, it might have something to do with the Londoner's organic approach to song writing. “I just sit down with my dictaphone and make sense of what comes out afterwards. The best stuff usually comes when I’m hungover or not really thinking. The minute I try to be clever with words, it just sounds shit,” Mathé laughs.  Instead, the album's lyrics burn with a simple, poignant immediacy and Mathé sings them with touching, soulful grace. 

Recently signed to iconic London label Memphis Industries (Field Music, POLIÇA, The Go! Team, Dutch Uncles), Mathé is influenced by everything from soul men Stevie Wonder, D'Angelo and Levon Helm to Dirty Projectors and Sufjan Stevens but points to one inspiration in particular for the overall mood of Bloodlines – Vincent Gallo’s cult '90s film Buffalo 66, a twisted romance about a tap dancer who falls for her convict kidnapper – “the end scene which features Yes's Heart of the Sunrise and the scene with Cristina Ricci dancing to King Crimson’s Moonshine at a bowling hall especially,” he notes. 

Tender yet triumphant, Bloodlines marks Mathé as one of Britain's most versatile and adventurous artists.


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