BarryGruff's October 2015 Playlist

Nancy Leticia - Bitches

'Liquorice EP' by JUNK.

Label: CHUD Records
Cat No: CH006
Release Date: Monday 4th May 2015
Format: Cassette tape/digital download

Under exclusive licence to CHUD Records.

This is a private stream and may not be shared by any party. 

A public stream of lead track Dirt In My Eye will be made available on 8th of April.


JUNK. - Dennis Wilson

silver matter: four human friends from vancouver who play noisy dream pop.

https://silvermatter.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/silvermattermusic/

silver matter - punks grown up

Following a series of off-kilter rythmical explorations for Black Acre and Obsession Recordings, Primitive World’s Sam Willis releases on Ecstatic Recordings for the first time with the limited edition 'Ascension' cassette EP.

’Ascension’ is a four track expedition into the fertile jungle of Primitive World's protean techno, packed with grainy 12-bit pads, jerking oscilations and skittering low-res percussion. Inspired by the symbolism found in various cultures (ritualistically represeted by stairs, trees, ropes etc.) as “self elevation of the human soul and union with God” that represent the axis between the profane and sacred worlds.

First Edition 50 copies transparent purple SOLD OUT

Second Edition 50 copies jelly green BUY NOW!

BUY!

Primitive World - Ascention I

Recorded by JUICE / IBC Recording Engineer
Mixed & Mastered by JUICE
Photo credit: Mike Smith

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contact: juicebanduk@gmail.com

Acid Kids

More free downloads are available on Bandcamp!

Dance (Get Off Your Ass)

Order 'Executive Towers' on cassette right now on Dream Catalogue

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/executive-towers-pre-order

MP3 + Cassette

Jade Statues - Executive Suite

Radium Girls

Field Music return with new 14 track album ‘Commontime’, set to be released on 5th February 2016 via Memphis Industries. 
The first song to be taken from the album is ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’, an insistent, sax-punctuated groove and a conversation between two friends struggling to say farewell to the bad old boozy days, when they should “get to bed like everyone else".

 
Over the past four years, North-East siblings Peter and David Brewis have threaded their way through one extra-curricular project after another but were inevitably drawn back to working together on their own songs. "As much fun as we might have had on our own or collaborating, we missed just spending time in the studio, the two of us, trying things out and playing together." explains David.

The space that Field Music vacated in those four years still appears to be empty. No one else really does what Field Music do: the interweaving vocals, the rhythmic gear changes, the slightly off-chords, but with the sensibility that keeps them within touching distance of pop music. But with Commontime, Field Music show off their unashamed love of choruses in a way they’ve only hinted at before.

Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the brothers playing and singing together again, but also features a wider array of players, including original Field Music keyboardist Andrew Moore, Peter's wife Jennie Brewis and new member of the live band Liz Corney on vocals, plus a panoply of other players.

“We wanted to embrace being a duo and, perversely, that made us feel more comfortable about all of those conspicuous cameos” reveals David.  Over the fourteen songs of Commontime, real life conversations are replayed, acquaintances come and go, hard won friendships are left to drift and diffuse snap shots of the everyday are pulled together into what must rank amongst Field Music’s best works to date. 

Commontime is available to pre-order at www-field-music.co.uk on limited edition 2 x 180gram green vinyl + download code, CD, and download. The first 250 physical orders include an exclusive signed print.   The album is also available to pre-order on iTunes with an instant download of ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’.



Commontime

The Noisy Days Are Over (Edit)

Field Music - The Noisy Days Are Over (Single Version)

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUKHtLDN3Y
auramics.com 

Press Reviews:  Founders of Time': "Bewitching, beguiling & beautiful..One of the finest tracks to be released all year" http://auramics.com 

(Now on itunes, spotify, bandcamp & XSounds Album 3 Disc 7" Record.) 

Auramics are a psychedelic, radiophonic, dreampop, hauntology music group comprised of @KristiScarvelis and GlenLeeFlynn. Their name “Auramics” was inspired by Daphne Oram's "Oramics Machine," which the two connected to in their interest of drawing/art, cut up collage sound and music, "Aura" relating to metaphysical practices and "Aural" in regards to hearing.

Links:
Webpage: http://auramics.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/auramics
Twitter: http://twitter.com/auramics
Instagram: http://instagram.com/auramics_
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/auramics

Buy/Stream:
Bandcamp: https://auramics.bandcamp.com/releases
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3C1JmskupC96ZRKEjmKnfk
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/auramics/id1017437154
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/artist/7256257

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Press/Reviews: http://auramics.com/press.html

10.29.15: "Auramics - 'Founders of Time': "Bewitching, beguiling & beautiful..One of the finest tracks to be released all year" - Barry Gruff http://barrygruff.com/2015/10/29/introducing-auramics/

10.7.15: "Disquieting, woozy and very much seductively calibrated in a delightfully kooky late 60’s shimmer toning, this folks is Auramics, a Brooklyn based duo by the name of Kristi and Glen whose spectral sepia shaded gem stone ‘founders of time’ demurs and delights with an uncannily ethereal ghostliness..." - The Sunday Experience
https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/auramics/

12.24.15: "Founders of Time" in "Favourite 100 tracks of 2015" 

12.14.15: "Founders of Time" in Afrodelia's chart "Seductive Sounds" 

12.11.15: Auramics "Founders of Time" on the radio show in athens, greece along with Julia Holter, AIR and others at Intersonik Radio.
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XSounds:
“Founders of Time” is also a part of an art & sound project and concept album called “X Sounds”, that they were asked to contribute to for Burlei of San Francisco, a record label and art curation depot. It features different musicians and music with household sampled sounds alongside photography. Their song was on display at the Fort Houston Art Gallery the same day as the release. This concept album is available on limited edition double sided 7-inch picture discs. More info about the XSounds and Burlei at Burlei.com. 
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"Founders of Time" Song Lyrics, Music & Arrangement  © 2015 Auramics. @KristiScarvelis & GlenLeeFlynn. All rights reserved.

Founders of Time

‘So Long’ is the new single from Martha Ffion. 
Martha Ffion will be playing the following shows in November.
19th November - The Eagle, Salford
27th November - The Waiting Rooms, London
28th November - The Moon Club, Cardiff

Buy link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/so-long/id1047848923?i=1047848927


So Long

Full Album/Cassette: softserve.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-oct-2015

Guitar music — this simply sums up the first full-length from Vancouver, BC's Soft Serve. Self-recorded in the apartment to the personal studio, this self-titled introduction experiments with both cassette 4-track and DI recording techniques, putting one foot in the past while planting another firmly in the present.

Songs on the album lyrically touch on everything from family dynamics, personal mantras, staying behind while the rest travel the world, to the disdain for the boomer generation. Hints of Felt, the Clean, Josef K, Go-Betweens, Feelies and Orange Juice can be found when looking, but this is not a throwback by any means. The songs find themselves grounded in the present state of rock music with a sentiment.

Steaming: Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Rdio, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube, Microsoft Groove, and Beats/MediaNet

Email - theswelltimes@gmail.com
Bandcamp - www.softserve.bandcamp.com/
Facebook- www.facebook.com/vancouversof...
Twitter - twitter.com/soffftserve
Instagram - @soffftserve

Better Off When You're Gone

Fake Sorrow (Radio Edit)

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