January 16

January 2016 Sounds

Here are this week's bands and new artists that FRUKT FIXERS has been listening to this week. From the lo-fi scuzz joy of Night Beats to the majestic soaring melodies of Emilie & Ogden, it's 10 new acts you'll be hearing a lot about in 2016. Compiled by Simon Singleton, FRUKT Music Editor.

www.fruktfixers.com

1. Pumarosa — Priestess
2. Bad Wave — Runaway
3. Ariana & the Rose — Give Up the Ghost
4. Night Beats — No Cops
5. Lou E - What Do You Do It For?
6. J Churcher — Yesterday
7. Wovoka Gentle — Peace Is Its Own Reward
8. A Nighthawk — Dune
9. Emilie & Ogden - Ten Thousand
10. Wildhart - Fantasy

THE FIX - 29th January 2016

folk

The Tudor Crisps family enclosure half time playlist

http://gorgeousbully.bandcamp.com/album/the-young-obese

Never Cry

This week Brighton’s Home School hit the club - a fusion of members that also occupy The Magic Gang and previous-postcarders Bayy. Not to be dismissed as side-project guff, Home School is very much a primary project from young’n’handsome Jack Kaye.

Driven by a true smut groove that could champion a sped up Andrew Cedermark number, ‘Mellow Neighbour’ is the antithesis of how chilled out Zachary Cole Smith’s mother is right now.

To purchase the postcard, head to http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/

Home School - Mellow Neighbour

This song is going on the compilation Sick Of Hits Vol. 1 with Playlounge and Yrrs! YOU SHOULD GET ONE HERE: 

http://reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/album/sick-of-hits-vol-1-2

Mind The Demon

Emitter

taken from the '5 Years of Bedroom Suck Records' compilation, available now.

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com/shop/bsr-050-va-5-years-of-bedroom-suck/

Terrible Truths - False Hope

Tell Me Again

PRE-ORDER 12" (red transparent vinyl - 100 only) - http://smarturl.it/Yung.Alter.redvinyl

Danish four-piece, Yung, announce their international debut EP, Alter, with single ‘Nobody Cares’ - a brash and persuasive slice of Nordic punk, with a rare sense of rhythm and melody bands that recalls the Replacements, Jay Retard and Ty Segall. Alter is released on March 2nd through Tough Love Records on limited edition 12" vinyl and digital formats. NOTE TO COLLECTORS - 100 copies will be available on red vinyl ONLY from the Tough Love Store - 

Formed in the summer of 2013 by 20 year old frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjær (guitar, vocals) in  the north of Aarhus - Denmark’s second largest city and what locals would say, the current punk rock capital - along with friends Frederik Nybo Veile (drums), Tobias Guldborg Tarp (bass) and Emil Zethsen (guitar), Yung have spent the past year building up a formidable live reputation in their native Denmark. As their name would suggest, Yung play with a youthful exuberance and feverish energy that leaves little room to catch your breath. 

Growing out of Mikkel’s teenage dreams and the harsh reality of what is the everyday life of young adulthood, Alter serves both as a vehicle for and an escape from the bewildered frustration of having to deal with life’s treadmill - trying to find a tolerable and  meaningful place in the world, whilst wasting time at useless jobs in order to enjoy whatever little freedom that’s left; to hang out with friends and, first and foremost, devote his time to music. It's no coincidence that Alter was written and recorded just two months after the band formed - there's an urgency here, and that primacy is self-evident in their music. 

Kicking in with a shrill guitar duel, lead single ‘Nobody Cares’ soon flourishes into a bouyant rhythm section. It’s all a trick of the light, however - the true abrasive face of the track revealing itself in a snarl of punk-rock euphoria and burnt-out vocals. It’s a track that veers between images of wide-eyed beachside holidays and a tortured desert wilderness, and it’s all the more gripping for its polarity. As such, it's the perfect introduction to Alter - and Yung - as a whole. 


iTunes (w/ IG)

Yung - Nobody Cares

Who Sold My Generation

No Cops

download for free here: http://bit.ly/1MfqIcs

the dust and dirt
blind us slowly
but give a hint of a view to make it feel alright
and though it hurts
we keep on climbing
cause our addictions take us from inside
a sturdy back
but brittle bones
too weak to show

we would say anything just to hear what we want
right or wrong
then we lie to be forgiven
we would sell anything just to buy who we're not
any cost
we kill our way to heaven

we search alone
for golden crowns
cause if we find it we'll have it all to ourselves
so one by one
we lay our bricks down
to pave a road on the shoulders of somebody else
a sturdy back
but brittle bones
too weak to show

we would say anything just to hear what we want
right or wrong
then we lie to be forgiven
we would sell anything just to buy who we're not
any cost
we kill our way to heaven


gtrs by adam agati

SPOTIFY

Kill Our Way To Heaven

Written by Ariana Di Lorenzo, Tom Fuller & The Nexus
Produced by Tom Fuller

Ariana and the Rose - Give Up the Ghost

EDIT: support the YT upload, maybe? c': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmc0mahaig

DOUBLE EDIT: yo the mp3 can be found in the link above! thanks so much for 1k downloads aaa ///

not vocaloid wow

but yeah i really wanted to contribute something to the fandom, so have a heartwrenching song about frisk's (and not chara) thoughts while fighting sans

me? i love getting dunked on and do not regret anything

forgive my shitty mixmox

lyrics by the lovely @ateotu

I didn’t know what I got into
Somehow I can’t go back even if I really wanted to
So what more can I do?
Here at the end, it’s just me and you

I never wanted to play by all the rules
A knife in hand, I’m playing out the part of the fool

So here we go, you can judge me thoroughly
It’s too late for apologies.

Go ahead and just hit me since you’re able
We know my determination is unstable
I’m not even mad because I keep on dying
But I don’t even know why I’m trying.

This isn’t what I want, yet it’s what I asked for
Curiosity over all my morals
I took away our perfect, happy ending
Resetting the world despite the warnings

Right now I’m made of LOVE ahh… of LOVE ahh…

I know who you are, you remember who I am
We knew that once in a timeline, we had grown to be good friends
And yet I killed your brother without giving him a chance
Every time you throw me down, I hope you kill me once again.

So go ahead and just hit me since you’re able
All the sin that I can feel is unbearable
If I could only hit you once it would be over
But the consequences last forever

The flowers are in bloom as the birds will tell
It’s a beautiful day to be burning in Hell
You gave me advice, I chose genocide,
But I know how to make it right.

I am made of LOVE ahh… but I’ll give up for you.

Stronger Than You (Undertale Parody Response)

Lionlimb's debut full length "Shoo" is out March 4th, 2016. 
Lionlimb "Shoo" LP: http://hyperurl.co/lionlimbshoolp

Shoo

Lionlimb "Domino" Official Single

http://badpaintings.bigcartel.com/product/proto-idiot-also-known-as-the-colony-boys

TWO FULL LENGTH ALBUMS on one cassette - 'Also Known As' & 'His Colony Boys' by Proto Idiot. The cassette includes digital download code.

Proto Idiot is the ignorant, irrelevant and unwanted offspring of three musical morons from Manchester. Founded by chief chump Andrew Anderson (guitarist in The Hipshakes, Marble Vanity and The Creep Outs), Proto Idiot has made stupid music since 2007, a mix of 60s garage, 70s glam and 80s oddball...a post-punk Bay City Rollers.

Formerly a one-man thing but now a full-band affair, Andrew is joined by drummer Callum Trent D'Arley and bassist Michael Floyd Seal. They've got a slew of sides on great labels like Trouble in Mind, Slovenly and OddBox, with those in the know comparing the sound to The Soft Boys, TV Personalities and The Kinks.

Now Bad Paintings has decided to adopt these strange simpletons and put out two of their unreleased records as a bumper edition tape. Packed with more gifts than a rich kid's Christmas, Also Known As & His Colony Boys shows the band at their best: catchy, quick and ever-so-slightly crappy. Featuring members of Black Time and The Hipshakes this is the epitome of lo-fi fuzz pop.

Proto Idiot - Seventeen

Runaway

https://smarturl.it/SeramicSpotify

https://www.facebook.com/seramicofficial/
https://www.twitter.com/seramicofficial

Image - A Slow Descent by Lola Bunting, 2015

Found

People Say

'EPII ' is now available to pre-order: 
iTunes: http://apple.co/1OEfDHI
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/20LS9b8

www.tenderofficial.com

Afternoon

Novo Amor
https://soundcloud.com/novo-amor
https://www.facebook.com/novoamorsongs
https://twitter.com/nvoamr
https://www.youtube.com/user/novoamoroffical

Picture by Rosie Anne Proser
https://flic.kr/p/oeeEt1
https://www.facebook.com/RosieAnnePhotography
http://www.rosieanneprosser.com/

Sheepy on Spotify
http://bit.ly/MrSuicideSheepSpotify

Anchor

Download

Novo Amor - Anchor

Lyrics
Dear Brother, you don’t look yourself
Get some rest and it’ll be over
Now you’re cradled in my arms
Never thought the day would come again

Please be careful with your head
I can’t bear to lose you in a hospital bed
Leaving fifty years early
Don’t just be a memory to me

I’d take those broken bones if I could fix them
Hold you close, make the most of what is left

Dear Brother, you don’t look yourself
You don’t look yourself
Leaving fifty years early
Don’t just be a memory to me

I’d take those broken bones if I could fix them
Hold you close, make the most of what is left
I’d take those broken bones if I could fix them
Hold you close, make the most of what is left

Look at me I’m fine 
I’ll be just fine
Not paranoid
Not paranoid
Not paranoid
I’ll be just fine

I’d take those broken bones if I could fix them
Hold you close, make the most of what is left

Facebook - www.facebook.com/glassglassglassglass
Twitter - twitter.com/glassmusic_
Instagram - instagram.com/glassmusic_/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9qCGn5uW8


Broken Bones

Order: bit.ly/1lhkzoR

Artist: Public Memory 
Album: Wuthering Drum 
Label: felte
Release Date: March 18, 2016

http://felte.net/
https://www.facebook.com/thepublicmemory

Wuthering Drum

Public Memory - Ringleader

Baby I'm Blue

When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired

Copper Mines

First single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, out April 8, 2016.

WOODS
CITY SUN EATER IN THE RIVER OF LIGHT
LABEL: WOODSIST
CD / LP / CS / DL
Street Date: April 8, 2016

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith


WOODS - SUN CITY CREEPS

Sending out inspirations of creativity and the joys of collaboration! 

Download Free Album Here:
musiciselation.bandcamp.com/album/la-luna-y-el-sol

Special Limited Edition Cassettes available for purchase also on Bandcamp!

Normal-bias 60 minute maxell cassette tape with full 5 track album recorded on both sides. Original artwork designed by Calebass with hand folded gatefold sleeve. Full album and packaging recorded, printed, and assembled at the castle of the Couch King. 

Includes unlimited streaming of La Luna Y El Sol via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Deep, deep gratitude for Tensor who kicked this one off, Calebass for always being a joy to work with, and Emma Caiman who came up with the first set of lyrics that got us thematically started. They are all great, great artists.

And a specials thanks as always to my friend Wizardshoes for all he does to make the tracks pop! 

Huge gratitude for all the SoundCloud community and all the many people who listen to my songs. I hope you all receive great benefit and joy. 

Calebass: lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, and synth
https://soundcloud.com/calebass
Emma Caiman: lyrics, vocals
https://soundcloud.com/emma-caiman
Tensor: bass and drums
https://soundcloud.com/tensor-tensor-tensor
The Couch King: lyrics, vocals, drums, production, arrangement 
Wizard Shoes: Final mastering 
https://soundcloud.com/ill-dub-productions

Art work by Calebass

Lyrics

Human: 
My doggy dug a great big hole
She dug it in the ground
She was digging for a rabbit
For she made that rabbit sound
How'd it go?
Woofa Woofa Digga Digga 
Woofa Woofa Digga Dig

My doggy dug a great big hole
She dug it in the ground
She was digging for a rabbit
For she made that rabbit sound
That Rabbit Sound
Woofa Woofa Digga Digga
Dog came flying through the air
In my socks and down my gumboots
In my teeth and in my hair

Dog: 
And this one goes out to all the fine furry creatures out there
hear me now! 
I dig in deep with the claws of fury
I get the passion and I'm off in a scurry 
Off me to catch me a fine piece of furry
You never know when your gonna get a lucky
I got no worries
I got no worries
Gonna dig me some deep deep holes
Live life simply 

Rabbit:
You
You can't catch me
Digga digga
You can't catch me
Canine fang
You can't catch me
Ya ain't gonna snatch me
I am going, I am going to run
I am going, I am going to run

You can't catch me
You can't snatch me
You can't reach me
You can't reach down the rabbit hole

Human:
My doggy dug a great big hole
She dug it in the ground
She's digging for a rabbit
For she made a rabbit sound

La Luna Y El Sol

Bandcamp

Emma Caiman, Tensor, and Calebass & the Couch King - Teeth Under Feet

Right Now is written by Annelotte De Graaf 

Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NYC

All songs recorded and mixed at Strange Weather Recording Studio and Figure 8 Recording, Brooklyn, NYC

Guitars by Shane Butler
Bass by Keven Lareau
Drums by Jackson Pollis

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman
www.amberarcades.net

Management by MMM

Fading Lines

Right Now

We are thrilled to announce the debut single and first solo release to come from South London’s Lou E, aka 18 year old Louis Milburn. ‘What Do You Do It For?’ / ‘Next Time’ was recorded and mixed in Milburn’s bedroom and a friend’s garden shed in the Autumn of 2015, amidst Louis’ hectic touring schedule playing guitar and keys for Oscar across the globe. The single will be released on 7” vinyl and digitally on 26th February 2016. 

Despite his youth, Milburn is currently sitting on around three albums worth of unreleased material and this prolificity has an almost cult-like feel to it. Pairing the song writing styles and lyricism of the likes of Elliot Smith and Lou Reed with intricate contemporary guitar work similar to Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Lou E’s work is intensely personal whilst retaining a refined and sincere feeling. In his own words, “Lou E is the chance for me to discuss issues, problems and worries that I’m far too British to talk about with everybody and nobody at the same time”.

This concern for a progressive dialogue is found in lead track ‘What Do You Do It For?’, which deals with faux-spirituality and it’s rise as a trend, the snide line of “go find yourself some more” a shot at those who return from foreign cultures with only a set of clichéd appropriations and a pair of harem pants to show for their travels. Turning on his own anxieties for the single’s B-side, ‘Next Time’, Milburn mourns a relationship that ended badly due to a lack of communication and honesty as he sings ‘Say next time for sure / When your heart is out the door’ as drums crash behind him. 

‘What Do You Do It For?’ / ‘Next Time’ is released 26th February on 7” vinyl and digitally via Beech Coma. The single is the second instalment of the label’s bi-monthly subscription series, part-funded by Arts Council England, with the first cut coming late last year from Bruising.

Buy 7"

Lou E - What Do You Do It For?

Recorded at the sound gallery in Exeter. September. 

Thanks to Art Is Hard records for putting this on a pizza club (theres still some downloads left here....http://soundcloud.com/separatedbymotorways/birdskulls-ghost-world and....many thanks to our good friend Luke Ellis of Muncie Girls for drumming! 

We made a video for it! here////////////// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRdAZ5yLac

Ghost World

One of the songs off the two track cassette we released on Art Is Hard! 

You can purchase the single right here: http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mispresume-rolling-tongue

Recorded in Exeter


Rolling Tongue

Be Cool

Record label working with artists we (I) love a lot