A taste of Vancouver, BC (Vancouver-ish, and a touch more from BC).

A selection of some favourite, Vancouver(ish) finds from the past 2 and a bit years. 

The Vancouver Connection

Nancy Leticia - Bitches

Church Garden

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

'Running Away' is a track on the PAINTED FRUITS new sophomore release 'Fruit Salad'. Artpop from Victoria, BC. 

More Info / Buy -> http://shakerecz.com

PAINTED FRUITS - Running Away

04 Repetition

Sun In Eyes

Who's Your Lover

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

Preview of our first EP. 
Recorded by Jay Arner. 
Coming soon!!!

Don't Laugh

Deep End

From the forthcoming LP "Jay II" to be released June 17, 2016 on Mint Records.

Jay Arner - Like A Dracula

Track from brand new release from HANSMOLE!!! 'Comfort' is scheduled for official physical release on February 8th. Ethereal electro-pop from Victoria, BC!!! Super limited run!

More Info / Buy -> http://shakerecz.com

HANSMOLE - Watermelon Sugar

Supermoon - Bottleships

Read More on THUMP: ttp://thump.vice.com/en_ca/track/vancouvers-pomo-returns-with-burbling-new-track-blue-soda-part-2

Pre-order Pomo Presents: Tempo Dreams Vol 4: https://bastardjazz.bandcamp.com/album/pomo-presents-tempo-dreams-vol-4

@pomobeats
@bastardjazz

Pomo - Blue Soda(Part 2)

www.bousadamusic.com

look out I feel the waves
rough nights but the calmest days
stuck here til the swell it fades
burnt out, joint burn till its cleared away 
in thought, ya Im lost again
round and round no it never ends
the hard road
is when the freeway ends 

knowing that your heart holds
strings that I can’t see
flying up so high though
I feel them guiding me
believe it cause my heart knows
when its beating up my spine
find yourself
and lose my mind

you and me we let it be
the things I want
the things you need
hard pressed left it on the outside 
now we hide and
words I know been there before
to stay or leave how is one to know love
feel it in my bones
I’m on my own

set out, left to find my way
right road, eatin forks all day 
black white all i see is grey 
white light, black road leads you to the grave hey
some things we can never know 
splitting hairs means there’s 
two ways to go babe
and The root is hard to know

how is it these things roll
round and round my mind
push it up the hill dear
rolls down the other side
feeling like I’m stuck though
get out of my head
knowing that all lights burn  
bright until their dead

you and me we let it be
the things I want
the things you need
hard pressed left it on the outside
now we hide and
words I know been there before
to stay or leave, how is one to know love
feel it in my bones
I’m on my own

you and me we let it be
the things I want the things you need
hard pressed left me it on the outside
now I hide
words I know been there before
to stay or leave, it keeps me wanting more love
how is one to know
I’m on my own


♥Hype Machine♥

On my own

Our second number comes at you straight from his Macintosh to the dance floor. Thom Kolb's Kinship moniker will soon have many a bodies in motion, out for a jive at the Saturday jig. 

Kinship - Skinhead

Check out the premiere on exclaim! http://exclaim.ca/music/article/pavel-alright 

Alright

Guitars, bass & vox by Stevie Moonboots 
Drums by Dave Mulvaney 
Keys by Richie Alexander of Did You Die
Tambourine by Felix Fung 

Recorded and produced by Felix Fung at Little Red Sounds, Vancouver BC
Mastered by Greg Mindorff @ Suite Sound Labs, Vancouver BC

Available to purchase here:
https://theorangekyte.bandcamp.com/track/which-vivian


Which Vivian?

"Eh" 

Artwork by Devon White
http://cheffer.ca/

Kinship - "Eh"

Danny Diggs - WINo

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