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Track from 'Psych For Sore Eyes 2'

Available on double 7" at www.soniccathedral.co.uk

Digital release on November 3.

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White Fence 'Before He Met Her (Decomposing Lime)'

new single from new Dick Diver album Melbourne Florida. Album will be released on vinyl, CD and digital by Chapter Music on March 6, 2015 for Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Pre-order Melbourne, Florida and get Waste The Alphabet via

itunes.apple.com/au/album/melbour…rida/id947586646
http://chaptermusic.com/store/dick-diver/melbourne-florida/
chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/melbourne-florida

Listeners outside Aus, NZ & Japan head to troubleinmindrecs.com/ for your copy.

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Dick Diver - Tearing The Posters Down

shoutout to all my friends//
prod me + @notthesameithink + @hiseph
vocals by me and @hiseph
mix by me
lyrics,
rimeren:
She just wanna talk I said girl not now,
All these thoughts in my brain yeah they screaming so loud,
Yeah we going up, got me singing to the crowd,
I've been getting luck got me reaching from the ground,
Can you pick me up? cuz you saw I fell down,
You won't fall in love if I'm not around,
Everybody sit back watching like a crowd,
Do it my way, I don't feel bound,
Got him spinning like a Beyblade,
I'm just tryna get paid while you get played,
Wanna guard my heart, keep a slow pace,
You was talking down you get no shade,
Saying dumb things, I don't know you,
Shouldn't have to say it twice yeah I'm so thru,
Couldnt listen to these things that I told you,
Dont need to hold you, know that you're cold too..

seph:
you only tryna see me when you’re upside down
she gon bring me up 
just to tear it all down
rip out my heart
turn it inside out
stuck in repetition 
but you’re looking so proud

im tryna make it right with you
can’t help but feel like you don’t want me to
not tryna be in sight of you
coming full circle 
even when im hurting

making money moves 
yea that’s urgent
i thought we was a team 
like, what happened?
there ain’t no “you & me”
that was past tense
i know we’ll never own up to our actions

you only tryna see me when you’re upside down
she gon bring me up 
just to tear it all down
rip out my heart
turn it inside out
stuck in repetition 
but you’re looking so proud

fell down

fell down w/ seph [prod me + numb + seph]

Produced and mastered by Rory Attwell

Out on Dec 11th
pre order beermat: http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/shop.php?release=501&sections=latest_releases
on itunes : dec 11th

artwork by Orfeo T

Stay - N

Speed Demon

Following the February release of their critically acclaimed debut long-player, ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, Priests will be releasing ‘Early Recordings’ through Tough Love as part of this year's Record Store Day. It will be pressed on to opaque white vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Priests’ ‘Early Recordings’ combines the band’s first two cassette-only tape releases, originally recorded in 2011 and 2013. The small run cassette releases were originally intended to be for purchase only at the band’s live shows. “We didn’t want everybody to hear it,” said drummer Daniele Daniele. “We were still learning our instruments, so these tapes were not intended to impress the world, just document where we were for our own sake.” Daniele met vocalist Katie Alice Greer the same week she arrived in Washington, DC to complete a fellowship at Georgetown University, and the two decided to start a band. Guitarist GL Jaguar joined soon after, and bassist Taylor Mulitz completed the lineup the following year.

Tape 1 was recorded by Jaguar in his parent’s basement in Maryland. The band had existed for one week, and the trio had written four songs. “I was very eager to have evidence of the band exist for myself, because I didn’t know how long it would last, and I wanted to make music more than anything,” said Greer. “Diet Coke”, the band’s first song, is a hundred second blast of pummeling energy and what would become Jaguar’s signature riffage. A winking nod to advertising that sneaks into culture, the tune is followed by the more contemplative “Talking”, a song on which both Greer and Jaguar play guitar. Greer’s lyrics speak to US public school systems “rewarding complicity” and children being “being socialized by reality TV”. “The World”, perhaps foreshadowing the band’s krautrock-inspired penchant for repetition, is a jubilant intermission before “Cobra”, a playfully minimal stop-start closer inspired by cult favorite rock group She (also known as “The Hairem”).

On Tape Two the band was eager to showcase their fuller sound as a newly expanded quartet. The tape’s seven songs were recorded by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy, who had already recorded the band’s first single “Radiation/Personal Planes” a year earlier and would go on to produced half of Priests’ Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP and all of Nothing Feels Natural. “Leave Me Alone” nods to the Priests’s affinity for inverting the cool funk of a song like Bush Tetras’ “Too Many Creeps” (“I see you when I’m out on the street/ I think you look like a creep”) while exploring more melodic territory on tracks like “Twelve”, hinting to material that would later surface on Nothing Feels Natural. Lyrically, Priests continued to explore themes that center women’s lives (“Lillian Hellman”), critique social perception of female celebrity (“Lana”), interrogate assumptions of US history (“Incantations”), and invert the male gaze on the Daniele Daniele-penned closer “Watch You”. Priests was already interested in expanding their musical palette, as evidenced by metallic clangs and a purring drum machine on “Watch You” and creeping mellotron weaving in and out of a few different tracks throughout.

‘Early Recordings’ lays the groundwork for Priests longer releases in the following three years and provides context for the band’s evolving sound.

Early Recordings (master MP3s)

Priests - Leave Me Alone

Song written and performed by Chest Pains. 
Produced by Tom Orrell at The Nave Studio, Leeds.
Mastered by Paul Crompton.

Download here (Pay As You Feel) - https://chestpainsband.bandcamp.com/track/petrified

Petrified

Taken from the album, Stains on Silence, out 15th June on Tough Love. Pre-order here -  http://smarturl.it/StainsOnSilence

Formats:
LP  - black vinyl, with cream sleeve
LPX - orange vinyl, with black sleeve (indie stores-only - 300 copies)
LPXX - ultra clear vinyl, with black sleeve, poster and hand-numbered (Bandcamp only - 200 copies)
CD & digital

Biog

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.

Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. “There was a finished – and then aborted – mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,” reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. “We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.”

The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."

Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25’ and the submerged disco doom of ‘Haus Proud’ to the rapt, dub-leaning ‘Fragments of a Portrait’, Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.

Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." — ‘25’). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney, March 2018)

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Girls Names - 25

"Fracasó"

Regresará 
Los cambios 
Que nunca olvidará 
Siempre pienso 
En la vida 
Envuelta 
En toda 
Oscuridad 

Y al último 
Fue Fracasó 
Al último 
Que fracasó 

A regresado 
A otro lugar 
Las memorias 
Dejado atrás 
Envuelto 
En toda 
Oscuridad 

Y al último 
Que fracasó

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