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You’re Always On My Mind is the lead track from Max Blansjaar’s first Beanie Tapes release. Pre-order the cassette and/or digital edition now over on Bandcamp.

Max Blansjaar’s début EP Spit it Out! is a riotous mix of fuzzy guitars, energetic beats and unexpected samples that feels fresh and exciting. This handful of raw, lo-fi tracks were recorded and mixed in the music room at school during his lunch breaks and free periods. At fifteen years old, Max isn’t hanging around: there are songs to write and you can tell he’s loving every minute of it. Max has spent the last ten years playing classical piano but after picking up the guitar about a year ago he started creating music that has a much more DIY, experimental edge; think Darwin Deez, tUnE-yArDs or Franz Ferdinand rather than Mozart or Handel.

In Spit It Out! Max is really embodying the indie-punk ethic; this isn’t background music, he wants his listeners to feel something. His songs grab our attention and remind us that no matter how old, we are all still just trying to make sense of everything. Max’s songs are a spirited expression of those feelings; without being self-conscious, he’s spitting out what he wants to say and we are listening!

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We’re excited to announce the return of Oxford electro-pop band Candy Says with a new EP “You Are Beautiful; We Are All Beautiful”, to be released 7 June 2019 on cassette and digital. The band released the EP offline in November 2018, selling it exclusively on cassette at gigs as a protest against streaming culture and to reward the fans who turn up to support live music. The first two limited edition cassette runs sold out in two weeks. The new online version (and the third edition of the cassette) includes an extra track “Beautiful Feeling”, which was penned for the recent Netflix film Close and reached the Top 100 in the international Shazam charts.

The first track to be released is Gravity, a sultry pop tune whose bold beats and vintage synths have drawn comparisons to Christine & the Queens, Art School Girlfriend and The Knife. Julia Walker (singer/guitarist/songwriter) explains: “I was feeling empty and trying to find a connection with myself and my relationship. I desperately wanted to write an upbeat song but I’m coming to realise that I have a melancholy inside that I can’t seem to suppress not matter how hard I try.”

Nightshift Magazine reviewed the rare first edition of the tape: “There’s something a little magical about Candy Says’ simplicity, the playful trinketry of the instrumentation and the way it leaves Julia so much space to add the heart and soul to the machinery behind her, the aching humanity amid the efficient factory skitter.” Julia puts it a little differently: “I wanted the sharp electro pop beats and sounds to reflect my outer strength, the strong mechanical machinery that gets us all through the day and the lyrics to reflect my deep unease with how I feel.”

Candy Says recently recruited drummer Silke Blansjaar of Oxford indie punk favourites Self Help and are on tour with the new 3-piece line-up. Despite the melancholy lyrics, the Candy Says live show is somehow always uplifting. Nightshift again: “It’s like they’re on a mission to brighten up the entire world, one infectious slice of pop at a time.”

The EP will be available to pre-order on Bandcamp from 12 April 2019.

You Are Beautiful; We Are All Beautiful

Candy Says - Gravity

The Return Of .. Islet + new track 'Clouds'
UK live dates in May 2019

What you need to know: Remote Welsh outsiders, studying life via a refracting telescope, adept in the art of conjoining parts that don’t fit. A Powys trio whose free-spirited invention and exuberant intensity flows through experimental pop: hypnotic, exhilarating and defiantly unique.

Free flowing with pulsating idiosyncrasies, wrapped up in ethereal atmospherics is the current musical summation of a Welsh band born of one rule: that anything is possible. Earlier maximalist, percussion heavy sounds have for now at least, given way to a more synth driven sound, but the rule remains the same, the results deliriously intoxicating and the possibilities an endless panorama...

“Clouds was born in a heavy pregnant daydream and was finished in a full pelt headlong headrush. It's a song about how I learnt patience." Emma Daman Thomas

2016 - Islet 'Liquid Half Moon' EP
2013 - Islet “Released By The Movement” LP
2012 - Islet “Illuminated People” LP
2010 - Islet “Wimmy” (mini album) 
2010 - Islet “Celebrate This Place” (mini album)
Live dates
3 May Radnorshire Ales Microbrewery 
4 May Machynlleth Comedy Festival
17 May Focus Wales, Wrexham
25 May Cardiff Psych and Noise Fest

Bandcamp https://islet.bandcamp.com/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/islet 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IsletWales
Website: http://islet.wales/

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