It's awesome the way he makes the vocal and the melody in a crazy ritm.

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Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - This Is How It Feels (Single Edit)

Tweens' self-titled debut album out April 7 (UK) / 8 (US)

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Tweens - Forever

Mixed by Brian Batz
Produced by Brian Batz, Mikael Johnston & Jeff Saltzman
All instruments played by Brian Batz except the violin by Lisa Light
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SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE - In Another World

"Bad Blood" appears on Fred Thomas' album, All Are Saved (released 4/7/2015).

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Fred Thomas - Bad Blood

New single out July 10th, 2015
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Aeons

“The Desert’s Prophecy” rises like a vision carried by the wind.
An ancient string instrument sketches fragile motifs, soon joined by the thunder of orchestral riders and choirs of men and women locked in dialogue. Two themes emerge - warning, driving, almost spectral - as if voices of the desert itself were calling.

The music shifts between silence and storm, from ghostly whispers to explosive cries, weaving fate into sound. It is both majestic and ominous, a prophecy etched into the sands.

🌌 Genre: Cinematic / Epic / Ritual Soundscape
🎧 Fifth single from the upcoming EP Whispers of Eternal Sand - the prophecy unfolds…

The Desert’s Prophecy

i'll be your doll

L’alphalpha is a Dream Pop/Indie Rock band from Jakarta, Indonesia. The band consists singer-guitarist Herald Reynaldo , bass guitarist Yudishtira Mahendra, synthesizer player Citra Winitya , drummer Ildo Reynardian, pianist Byatriasa Ega, and violist Purusha Irma.  L’alphalpha musical influences are varied. Their musical style is link to various genres such as indie pop/rock, post-rock and shoegazing.   

L’alphalpha Began working their debut album in the mid 2010, continuing their unreleased EP at Black Studio, Jakarta. And in 11 February 2011 they self released their debut album entitled “When We Awake , All Dreams Are Gone”. 

L'Alphalpha - Cortex

L'Alphalpha - Wish

L'Alphalpha - The Day When Everything Around Us Fall Asleep And We Do Remember How To Awake

L'Alphalpha - Peace, Completeness, And Welfare

produced by Jason Balla and Gabe MG. Mastered by Mike Bridavsky.

Leggy Singles

Not What You Need

Summer Owl (2016)

SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE - We Were Drifting On A Sad Song

TRACKLIST:
1. A Dark God Heart
2. Chin
3. We Were Drifting On A Sad Song
4. Melancholic Fog
5. Heavy Burden
6. Gazing At The Moon
7. Heaven Is Above Us
8. Things Will Disappear Like Tears In The Rain
9. The City Light Died

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SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE - Gazing At The Moon

Taken from the band's forthcoming album Waiting For Something To Happen out  4th February on Bella Union and 12th February on Slumberland in the US.

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SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE - Gazing At The Moon

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