On the road again (Vol.20)

Jim Noir - The Ancoats Dream
From the new album 'Finnish Line' Out 3rd November 2014
http://www.jimnoir.com

The Ancoats Dream

This track was written and recorded in January of 2014 while on residency at the Harrison House Music & Arts located in beautiful Joshua Tree California. It was subsequently mixed at home in SF and released as part of the benefit compilation "Music For A Good Home 3" July 16th, 2014. 100% of the proceeds go towards helping raise money for UK homelessness charity Shelter. You can purchase it here: 
https://audioscope.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-good-home-3

Hidden Valley

"...Heaps of distortion, melodic concerns and guitar explorations with psychedelic hues is what you can hear here." 
Time-Out Porto Magazine, December 2012

Pre order LP here https://loversandlollypops.bandcamp.com/album/dreamweapon

Dreamweapon - The Heart Is Alive

the debut long-player from Melbourne four piece Totally Mild. Available from April 6, 2015.

buy LP + CD: http://bedroomsuckrecords.com/shop/totally-mild-down-time/

buy digital: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/down-time/id973406094


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Totally Mild - Christa

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Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic (PoB-20). But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt.

For fans of The Only Ones/England’s Glory, The Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed. With lyrics, color inner sleeve, and download code.

“Nap Eyes moves from psych-riffs to astrophysicists; from Rubaiyatic poetry to punctuated bass, in easy fluid motions. Chapman’s calm, steady voice can be as pained as Bob Dylan’s, and his lyrics can be just as profound.” - Noisey

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes

Thought Rock Fish Scale

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Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale : "2 Stargazer" (2016, PoB-24)

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Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic (PoB-20). But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt.

For fans of The Only Ones/England’s Glory, The Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed. With lyrics, color inner sleeve, and download code.

“Nap Eyes moves from psych-riffs to astrophysicists; from Rubaiyatic poetry to punctuated bass, in easy fluid motions. Chapman’s calm, steady voice can be as pained as Bob Dylan’s, and his lyrics can be just as profound.” - Noisey

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/nap-eyes

Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale: "Lion in Chains" (2016, PoB-24)

taken from their debut LP 'Down Time', available now through Bedroom Suck in AUS/NZ and from August 7 in the UK/USA.

Totally Mild - When I'm Tired

Hayden Pedigo - Stray Feat. Danny Paul Grody

Holdings & VAT

GGB-008
The album "House in the Tall Grasses" will be released on LP/CD/DL in May 13th.

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Kikagaku MoyoHouse in Tall Grass


Kikagaku Moyo - "Green Sugar"

New album "Malamore" available April 15th

The collaborative garage psych duo are returning with a new album, "Malamore" on 15 April, and the first track taken from the record,' Garden Of Love' has been recorded with Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order) on bass & vocals.

Video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHOBkzaT2c
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The Limiñanas - Garden Of Love (feat. Peter Hook)

A Link Wray tune, this track is from my forthcoming album release "Introducing" which features Tucker Martine's production (as well as drums!), Eli Moore's beautiful guitar, Steve Moore on the piano and organ, and some backing vocals by Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Laura Veirs. 

"Introducing" releasing May 13th 2016 on Bella Union(UK/EU) and Raven Marching Band Records(US) has elements of country and soul and features tunes written in the 70s - Tom T. Hall, Waylon Jennings, Don Gibson, Barry Gibb, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Rush are some of the songwriters covered.

Thanks to The Line of Best Fit for sending out album/single announcements this February 18th 2016 post -  http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/karl-blau

Introducing Karl Blau

Fallin' Rain

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

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By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

Carter Tanton - "Jettison The Valley feat. Marissa Nadler"

From his album "Velvet Arc" - out now on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Chuck Johnson - As I Stand Counting

Tiny Ruins - Dream Wave

Tell Me

Saturday Song

From the album 'Colt' available June 3, 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Trevor Montgomery is a craftsman. By day he's a skilled tile setter, a job taxing to both the mind and body. By night he's an equally meticulous and hard working musician, coaxing just the right tones out of his vintage drum machines and synths to carry his tales of love and redemption. As a tile setter and as a musician, his job is the same: assembling things of beauty to fill empty spaces. Gifted with a somber baritone, Montgomery returns with a new album under his Young Moon moniker entitled Colt, due for release on Western vinyl on June 3rd.

Having been in bands such as San Francisco post-rockers Tarentel and solo under the moniker Lazarus (Temporary Residence), in 2012 Montgomery released Navigated Like the Swan, his first album under the Young Moon moniker. According to The Wall Street Journal; "It engulfs the listener—and sometimes even the narrator…", while Consequence of Sound called it "…powerful and heartfelt…".

Soon after its release, the relationship that inspired those songs unraveled, leaving Montgomery at an all-time low, living on a houseboat out of necessity, and unable to write songs, or even play guitar. "That part of me was broken. My life was pretty broken as well," says Montgomery.  Fortunately he realized he needed a radical change to rebuild his mind, body, and spirit.  He turned to devotional yoga to facilitate that change.  As he explains, "I chanted, stretched, sweated, juiced, and ate salads…transformed my body first and foremost.  I kept practicing yoga 5-7 days a week, and I started my daily meditation practice. It was at the two-year point that I was ready to start playing music again. I'm sure there are other songwriters and artists out there that can relate to not being able to work due to just being too broken, too sad. I don't blame my relationship failing at all, that was just the spark that made me realize that I was really fucked up on a ton of levels." 

Though he eased back into the habit of playing music on a daily basis, something was still missing.  Drummer Syam Zapalowski was a Young Moon fan, and started pursuing Montgomery about playing live shows with him.  Zapalowski's persistence and encouragement led Young Moon to expand to include Montgomery's longtime collaborator Danny Grody on guitars and synths, and Jeff Moller on bass.  "It was a natural progression for Young Moon. I needed to have more dynamics and volume to tell the stories the way they were laying out in my head," says Montgomery.  Inspired by the newfound potential of a full band, and revitalized by his yogic discipline, the songs that make up the new album Colt started coming together.  

Understandably, many of the ideas about love and compassion that he absorbed though yoga and meditation show up throughout the album.  Though most of the songs recount Montgomery's experiences of self-acceptance and transformation, album standout "Fell On My Face" takes the listener back to the bleak days in his life, when he first realized he needed to make a change.  Even when he's shining a light on the dark and broken parts of his past, Colt feels redemptive, inspiring, and full of hope.

Young Moon - "Colt"

From the new album "Inner Journey Out", Out Now

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Inner Journey Out

Baby

Psychic Ills - Baby

"The Halfwit In Me" off of 'Golden Sings That Have Been Sung' by Ryley Walker, out August 19th, 2016 on Dead Oceans

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On the road again (Vol.20)

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