La Luz

The Pines

Music toys with time. Or, maybe songs reflect back that time is always toying with us. The world of a song takes hold of us like an eternity to be lost in, with its repetitions and variations, but ultimately, as with everything else, it has a start and then ends. And there’s no place to lose time like San Francisco, where there are no seasons and all the seasons occur within one day; where the fog takes the space where your plans might have been; where there’s insane wealth all around and everyone you know and love is hanging on at the periphery and making art on any given Tuesday night. About Glenn Donaldson’s new record, "The Town That Cursed Your Name," he says, "I realized as I was piecing it together that it's a song cycle about trying to live while also feeling called to make music." It’s a double life when it works and a deeper doubleness to mirror the Gemini nature of songs themselves. "The Town That Cursed Your Name" contemplates this problem with wryness, generosity, and the micro- and macroscopic realness Donaldson is known and loved for.

Whereas the 2022 collection "Summer at Land's End" was a softer, gauzier world, "The Town That Cursed Your Name" is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. "Leave It All Behind" starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. "Here Comes the Lunar Hand" is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with color – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

In the liner notes, Donaldson dedicates the record "to everyone who ever tried to start a band in the Bay." There will be many knowing smiles at his title "Too Late For An Early Grave." But, this dedication captures something else about the particular strain of sincerity that laces the city water supply – the front man around here is on stage under those lights evincing the fervor not of the pop star but of the biggest fan.

-Karina Gill

The Town That Cursed Your Name

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Life in the Void

2. FEEL THE SAME WAY + ENOUGH
Produced, Performed and Mixed by Athe6th

2. FEEL THE SAME WAY + ENOUGH

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Trackslist:
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2. Left It With The Moon
3. Orchids
4. Audrey Hepburn
5. Tidal Waves
6. Rain
7. Hands In Your Pockets


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The Shacks - Orchids

6/28/17
Pouring down rain
 acting like I don't care 
Cuz I don't 
 while you're out with friends  
 I don't know 
Now I'm worried I'm alone 
Or worse 

That I'm never gonna call you mine 
Never gonna call you mine 
Never call you mine 
Never gonna call you mine 

In the morning 
nothings fixed and you're gone 
How I know 
That you're gone and I'm alone 
Who knew 
I wouldn't know what to do 
Had no clue 

that I'm never gonna call you mine 
Never gonna call you mine 
Never call you mine 
Never gonna call you mine

Fitting In

Never Gonna Call You Mine

Reclusa is part of Glassnote Records comp. NOTEWORTHY 01
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This song will also be featured on Petite League's upcoming record 'RIPS ONE INTO THE NIGHT out sept. 1st! 
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RECLUSA

The Marías - I Dont Know You.mp3

lac easy is made up of Joe and Shibbs.
produced by shibbs & Joe
vocals by Joe
mixed by shibbs and Joe

Single

peachy

CRISTO

All Emotions Are Equal

The Way It Should Be

Big Crown Records is a Brooklyn based independent record label started in 2016 by Leon Michels & Danny Akalepse. Home of Lee Fields & The Expressions, Lady Wray, El Michels Affair, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Shacks, Paul & The Tall Trees, 79.5, Bobby Oroza, Brainstory, Okonkolo, and many more.

The Shacks - Orchids

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