Maida Vale Sessions

Come On Let's Go

The Noise Made By People

Long Was The Year

The Note [Message From Home]

Bird Machine

The Scull of Lucia

R. Stevie Moore - Pink Litmus Paper Shirt

Come And Play In The Milky Night

Come And Play In The Milky Night (Demo)

Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Melodie Is A Wound

prod xy1va


lyrics:
faudrait que je m'arrête de courir
toute cette peine qui me ferait mourir
y'a rien qui changerait le fait que tu sois plus là pour me sourire
si seulement je pouvais aller dans le temps pour pouvoir te secourir
mes larmes asséchées attendent que tu sois là pour les guérir

faudrait que mon monde s'arrête
tout ce qu’il me reste c'est mes cigarettes
j'me noie dans l'alcool en espérant te faire réapparaître
ma santé c'est le moindre de mes soucis, ça
j'ai pas peur de l'admettre

tous mes soucis m'attendent
tous mes regrets m'entendent
j'me retrouve dans ce vaste néant
sans sortie imminente (x2)

vaste néant (prod. xy1va)

The deliciously off-kilter and wholly unique musical oeuvre of Connan Mockasin stands defiantly alone in the current musical landscape. Exploring the furthest flung horizons of pop music on his critically acclaimed album “Forever Dolphin Love”, the New Zealand born, current London resident synthesises the playful aural experimentation of pop mavericks past and present like Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Ariel Pink but pushes the boat our even further, dissecting, inverting, and dissembling the very structures of the pop song itself, creating something endlessly inventive and completely beguiling, all at the same time.

This willingness to toy with the edges of musical convention is showcased to startling effect in “Faking Jazz Together”, its typically opaque title belying a gorgeous, leisurely amble through an enchanted forest of lush psychedelia, complete with dreamy guitar licks, liquefied salsa rhythms and Mockasin’s trademark alien vocals, sounding like a transmission from another cosmos, ghostly yet strangely affecting all at once. Tom Furse from The Horrors, meanwhile, extrapolates the beats from the original and relocates them in a wide-eyed, sprawling dub epic akin to Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, and renowned German producer (and Kompakt lynchpin) Michael Mayer builds a propulsive, tropical-flavoured anthem around Mockasin’s unusual vocals, with delightfully unpredictable results.

Even better, you can see Connan Mockasin in glorious live action this autumn, when he and his band embark on their own headline tour of the UK, playing dates across the country at the end of September. 

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The Note [Message From Home]

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