Leeds quartet Crake have today announced their debut album, ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’. It arrives via Fika Recordings on April 8th. The band have also shared the album’s lead single, ‘Winter’s Song’. 

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and invaluable listening.

Winter's Song

Crake - Winter's Song

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Boy With Apple - Brighter Than the Sun

Track 1 of 'Sleeping With Weird People EP'

Written and composed by Guilherme Machado Correia
Produced by Miguel Vilhena and Guilherme Machado Correia
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Miguel Vilhena

Features Guilherme Machado Correia on vocals, bass guitar and electric guitar, João Simões on electric guitar, synths and backing vocals, Dani Oliveira Royo on electric guitar and João António Nunes da Silva on drums.

Released by Spirit Goth

Lyrics:
I look at these photos
they’re all so unappealing
I’m sleeping outside

I don’t care for comfort
if you’re not there to welcome me
when I get home

take me down to
wherever you are
cast a spell 

fly like tapestry
wind on your face
clouds below

fake fucking in the bushes
go buy a couple cushions
don’t act so old

a night at the Apollo
a couple guests will follow you
you’re thoughts so rude

take me down to
wherever you are
cast a spell 

fly like tapestry
wind on your face
clouds below

Wherever You Are

Lyrics:

All the pills are drying me out
You gave me hope but turning me down
All of you here but never around

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

All the jeans are wearing me out
You built me up now tearing me down 
You showed me love now loving me out

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

It’s alright
I will carry on
In my sweetest tone
Sometime I wish you could just
Wait for me

My Sweetest Tone

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Paradise Blossom - Shape Of You

Mirage

written, performed, and produced by me
mixed/mastered by me
album art by me

Lyrics:
I stopped looking for answers in all of the wrong places
They once looked so inviting to me
I stopped wishing that you'd see my value as a person
I don't need anyone to set me free

It's a hard truth, getting older
All these knives stuck in our shoulders
It's a hard truth, to have loved you
Left me with more pain to undo

If I shed a tear it won't be for you
It will be for the person I used to be
Before you took them away from me
When I went looking for answers

When I close my eyes I feel your lies
And I can see that it was never meant to be
All you ever did was hurt me
So I went looking for answers

Oh, if there was an acting award
For acting like you care 'til you're bored
You'd win it while I'd die by your sword

And oh, if it isn't shiny and new
Then it's disposable to you
You bite the hand that feeds then you chew

If I shed a tear it won't be for you
It will be for the person I used to be
Before you took them away from me
When I went looking for answers

When I close my eyes I feel your lies
And I can see that it was never meant to be
All you ever did was hurt me
So I went looking for answers

I don't forgive you
I never have to
I don't forgive you
I never have to

I don't forgive you
I never have to
I don't forgive you
I never have to
 
I don't forgive you
I never have to
I don't forgive you
I never have to

I don't forgive you
I never have to
I don't forgive you
I never have to

Answers

out 11/11 on Spirit Goth Records
https://orchid-mantis.bandcamp.com/album/how-long-will-it-take

How Long Will It Take

Release Date - Nov 11, 2022

Originally a working title representing the first letters of the band members’ names (Sean, Cory, Alec, Brandon), S.C.A.B. is an acronym with a shifting meaning – its phonetic double acting as a metaphor for protection and healing for a group that’s always been there for one another.

Following the release of the band’s debut album, 2019’s Beauty & Balance, COVID-19 put the brakes on the Brooklyn-based band’s burgeoning career. Not content with sitting still, the band decided to travel down to Georgia to record their sophomore, self-titled LP (S.C.A.B.), which they engineered and produced themselves. (side note: Brandon, the letter "B" in S.C.A.B., does play on this record, but has since left the group to focus on solo work under the name Hayfitz). Having distance from their beloved city during this unprecedented, tragic time helped them hone a sound that is even more distinctly New York.

Frontman Sean Camargo, whose parents immigrated from Ecuador and Bolivia as teenagers, was born in Elmhurst, Queens. His lyrics are colored with nostalgic memories of 90s Bushwick, where his grandparents later settled, alongside sardonic observations of the contemporary city where he landed again after stops in Maryland and Massachusetts. Each song on S.C.A.B. contains snapshots of New York moments that feel hazy with nostalgia, yet are the result of being present through transformational circumstances, no matter how seemingly small. As a self-titled effort, it solidifies the band’s mastery of balancing raucous, distorted guitars with glimmering spoken word passages and a pop-infused melodic confidence.

The angular guitar passages in lead single “Tuesday” conjure up trains skidding across deteriorated subway platforms, as Camargo declares he's "trying to let go of everyone I’ve ever loved," reflecting a relatable disillusionment with trying to form meaningful connections, and searching aimlessly for something worthwhile. Thematically, S.C.A.B. covers an array of topics ranging from grief (“Small Talk”), as Camargo describes bonding with another band member over the loss of a parent, to infatuation with a partner you know is ultimately bad for you (“Why Do I Dream Of You”).

S.C.A.B. is a result of four musicians, a tight-knit group, best friends: the kind of rare conditions that allow for such raw, emotionally-charged music. When the members of a band are this close, able to protect each other from the world outside it, they are a force to be reckoned with. As Frank Sinatra famously sang about the city, “Green beams of steel, making me feel, like I’m home again”. S.C.A.B. embodies that sentiment and evokes the intangible magic that is New York City.

VINYL 💿

S.C.A.B. - Why Do I Dream Of You (Edit)

Ruby Haunt - "Laughing Heart"

Second single from our upcoming album "Cures for Opposites" out November 17th, 2022.

Tour dates:
https://rubyhaunt.com/

lyrics:

feel it when i'm back in my car
needling my way home
holding it in my arms
keeping it from growing cold
closest when i've gone too far
reaching for what i know
hearing it in my heart
never gonna be alone

i remember, i remember
i remember, i remember

see it when i'm closing my eyes
laughing about growing old
rolling in the back of my mind
filling in every hole
even when i'm telling my lies
preaching about turning gold
stealing back all my time
watching it all unfold

i remember, i remember
i remember, i remember

Laughing Heart

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