A beautiful, languid bath of shoegazeyness with guitars and sweet voices, bubbling around me.

First online single from the Living Eyes new LP "Living Large", due out January 2015.
Out in AU through Anti Fade from January 30 and in UK/EU through Agitated from January 19.

Geelong delinquents the Living Eyes have just churned out a second LP of burners to hit the shelves early 2015, following their self-titled debut from 2013.  
Since then the band have thrown around a handful of singles, shows and a split 7”, but its common ground that all arrows are pointed towards this new long player. As of January 30, the Living Eyes will unhinge a new belt of stompers to make up LP round two. 
The album was predominantly recorded by Straight Arrows’ front man Owen Penglis over a day and a half spent in Sydney at Penglis’ new hideout; Goliath Professional Recording Studio. The tapes were then driven back down the Hume highway and finished off in a couple of West Geelong bedrooms, before being mailed to Rye mixing master, Mikey Young. 
Living Large takes off in a somewhat new direction since the S/T LP, filling out with more sharp cuts and guitar crunch but still keeping the snotty sound they’d always had. In a few words – it’s a poppy punk record that sounds nothing like pop punk. 
But it’s nothing to dwell on - its ten tracks wide and 26 minutes minutes long and it’ll spin faster than your average long player any day of the week. 



THE LIVING EYES - High Standards (Living Large LP - 2015)

Reincarnation

O Amargo é o Fim (Single)

O Amargo é o Fim

Fever Dream - Heads Will Roll

Air Formation - A.M.

Russian Baths' debut EP, "Penance," out now via Good Eye Records ~ http://smarturl.it/penance

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Intertwining feedback and harmony with equal significance, Russian Baths paint in searing strokes finding beauty in towering, looming, incendiary noise-rock. Comprised of Luke Koz (guitar, vox), Jess Rees (guitar, keys, vox) and joined by Evan Gill Smith (bass) and Jeff Widner (drums), the band has been honing their craft and chemistry since initially storming listeners with their split single, “Ambulance / Ghost.”

Russian Baths now announce the forthcoming release of their debut EP, "Penance," and their signing to Brooklyn-based label Good Eye Records.

Incorporating dissonance into traditional song structures, Penance’s aesthetic recalls Big Black's caustic fits, '70s space rock, Chapel Hill's noise pop, Big Muff driven grunge, and the angular arrangements of British post-punk. The breadth of Russian Bath’s scope in sound is marked by the distance and cohesion between singles in the furious, driving “Slenderman” and the elegant thunderstorm that is “Poolhouse.”

Stay tuned for more from Russian Baths and be sure to follow them on their social outlets detailed below. "Penance" is out now and is the fourth release from Good Eye Records.

Penance

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Russian Baths - "Slenderman"

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Written recorded and produced by Dead Heart Bloom with additional recording by Pete Wells at Saltlands Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Performed by Dead Heart Bloom. Additional backing vocals by Amanda Wells. Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK. 

Boris Skalsky, bass, keyboards, vocals 
Paul Wood, guitars, keyboards 
Jared Baron, drums

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Lost In A Dream (Single)

recorded at Family Mob Studio São Paulo Brasil
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Drivin' Searching

Taken from the EP of the same name, out 29th November. Pre-order on limited edition vinyl here - smarturl.it/PeelDreamMagazine

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Founded by New York City-based musician Joe Stevens in 2017, Peel Dream Magazine released their debut album, Modern Meta Physic, on the much loved and venerable American independent label Slumberland Records the following year, 2018.

Driven by a DIY aesthetic and initially very much a ‘home recording project’, their debut recalled the likes of Yo La Tengo and Unrest and harkened back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as an inspiration to a new set of bands wielding synthesizers and off-set guitars.

Having only played their debut show in January 2018 the Up and Up EP, and forthcoming second album, reflects Peel Dream Magazine’s gestation beyond the bedroom delivering something more dynamic than Modern Meta Physic reflecting their new status as a 4-piece band. Recorded in part at a studio on the northern tip of Greenpoint near Queens, the tracks feature vocals from sometimes-band-member, collaborator, and friend Jo-Anne Hyun.

While channelling some of the droney, kraut-y repetitiveness of their debut album, the tracks however hide less behind a hazy veneer possessing a hitherto to unheard sense of immediacy which draw easy comparison with the likes of Stereolab or Broadcast.

Talking about the inspiration for the EP, Stevens said:

"Thematically, these songs are plucked from a big batch of material that deals with the ethics of popular music. I wanted to talk about the current popular music scene through the eyes of Bertolt Brecht, who warned that audiences become susceptible to mind-control when they take popular art at face value. The entire EP is like a little Brechtian play. Up and Up is literally about feeling manipulated by the theatre of crap art. It's about second-guessing the highs and lows you're told to feel. Our heartstrings can be pulled by anyone who really knows what they're doing, and its not a very nice feeling when you suspect that you're being taken advantage of. Oppressive political regimes ban free-thinking art because they don't want citizens to flex their brain muscles and question the status quo. In the song, I'm inserting myself between Brecht and his nemesis, Aristotle. I want to stand up for audiences everywhere, myself included."

Details of Peel Dream Magazines second album will be announced shortly.

Up and Up EP - final digital master MP3

Peel Dream Magazine - Novelty

"This Is Not the Indie Rock I Signed Up For" can be heard on Girl Friday's 2020 album Androgynous Mary smarturl.it/girlfriday_AM

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Androgynous Mary

Girl Friday - "This Is Not the Indie Rock I Signed Up For"

"Fusing vintage American indie rock with shoegaze tapestries, the band's blissed out style forever verges on the edge of raucous collapse" – Clash Music

“Recalling the wild but awesome fuzz- and feedback-driven noise channeled through the likes of Swervedriver and Jesus & Mary Chain, Southampton’s Burning House produces a fine slice of heavy shoegaze bliss with a talent at walking a fine line between melodicism and an ear-wrenching wall of sound” – Louder Than War

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