Notes from Left of the Dial: June 27

released 30 December 2013 
All music and performances by Balancer 
(Bass by Andrés Rebellón) 
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by GG Reynolds at Amati Sounds 
Recorded at The Amati Tracking Room - Maple Valley, WA 
Recorded and Mixed at Electrokitty Sound Studio - Seattle, WA 
Mastered at The Lodge by Emily Lazar, assisted by Rich Morales

the age is a gift

2014 Paper Bag Records
PS I Love You - 'For Those Who Stay'
Out July 22nd, 2014 worldwide

www.psiloveyouband.com
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PS I LOVE YOU - Friends Forever

Magicicada - "Glancing Off the Edges"

Track 2 from the second Full-Length album from  experimental pop band Niagara. Released 8 September 2014 on Monotreme Records

www.niagaraniagara.it

Niagara - 'Fat Kaoss'

Pre-order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/tpo-wh-itunes

Slumberland Records is pleased to announce the signing of London-based neo-psychedelic pop group The Proper Ornaments. Mining the rich territories of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, their debut album proper "Wooden Head" features fourteen thrillingly taut and melodic pop songs with a deep, dark undercurrent. Comprised of Argentinian Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) – who both sing and write the songs – and joined by Daniel Nellis (bass) and Robert Syme (drums), the band have already shared stages with the likes of Real Estate, Woods, Crystal Stilts, Toy and Metronomy.

Maximo Claps arrived in London in 2008 on a one-way ticket from Buenos Aires, aided by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Oldham had produced a record by Claps' Argentinian band of the time but the group had fallen apart in a mess of drugs and acrimony and Claps' family were attempting to intervene by sending him to a mental hospital. The only option seemed to be to flee the country. As Claps recalls, "The day before flying to the UK I got run over by a car and had to escape hospital in order to make it so I arrived with bandages and my head all stitched up."

A few weeks later Max walked into the vintage clothes shop where James Hoare sat behind the counter reading a book on The Velvet Underground, and attempted to cause a diversion while his kleptomaniac girlfriend stole a pair of boots. “She didn't steal them in the end,” says Max. “They weren't her size”. However, the shop assistant and the would-be accomplice bonded over a mutual love of the Velvets, Love, Felt and West Coast pop and began writing together, taking their name from a song by the pioneering soft psych band The Free Design. In 2010 they released their first single, "Recalling", following it up with a five-song EP for London label No Pain in Pop. In 2013 Lo Recordings released all their output to date on a collection titled "Waiting for the Summer", followed by the single “First Step Out” in February 2014.

Their new album was recorded at a studio in Hackney, as well as at home in their old flat in Whitechapel on a broken 8-track reel-to-reel bought off eBay from an angry guy who threatened to shoot them and chop off their balls when they attempted to return it - a terrifying experience for a pair of skinny indie boys. Taking inspiration from Berlin-era Lou Reed, Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Darklands”, The Television Personalities and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the songs are breezy and easy on the ear, with sublime harmonies and chiming Byrdsian guitar, but with a darker twist and a pervasive air of melancholy. Stand-out tracks include the beautiful but sad “Summer’s Gone” (about mental illness), “Magazine” (an upbeat number written from the perspective of a bullet in the barrel of a gun) and “You’ll See” (about how when you die you’ll see everyone you know, all there lined up in a row).

With "Wooden Head", The Proper Ornaments prove that it is still possible to create an album of pure pop perfection. Max's girlfriend may not have stolen the boots, but The Proper Ornaments are about to steal your heart.

“The joint project of James and Max, through romantic drama that borders on that of The Libertines. And when you hear The Proper Ornaments you’ll see why it’s all worth it. It’s like they’re meant for each other, like Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts” - Loud & Quiet

The Proper Ornaments - Magazine

Kevin Morby
"My Name" 7"/DIG
Pre-order: http://suicidesqueeze.scdstore.net/
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Label Instagram: @suicidesqueeze

ORDER 

My Name by Kevin Morby

Second single from the upcoming SKYGREEN LEOPARDS album, "Family Crimes" out July 8th on Woodsist Records.

www.woodsist.com

PRE-ORDER FROM iTUNES
itunes.apple.com/us/album/family-…imes/id872670304

The Skygreen Leopards - "My Friends"

White Arrows - I Want A Taste
The new album 'In Bardo' out now.

iTunes: http://bit.ly/BardoiTunes
Amazon: http://bit.ly/BardoAmzn


In Bardo

I Want A Taste

From the upcoming album "SOS."
http://xosos.com
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Lyrics: 

Red eye and 
grey lung
Tonight we
Stay young
Can’t let it go
Can’t let it go
Can’t let it go

Chours:
I think I’m better, better off
When I’m drunk or high
Let our youth decline (tonight, tonight, tonight)

They stay so high, so high
They can see the world tonight
The city looks like starlight
They’re all twenty-something fed up
Liquor in their red cup
Baby they don’t give a fuck


Black light and
A pocket of ones
Tonight we
Dance for love
Can’t let them know
Can’t let them know
Can’t let them know

SOS - Youth in Decline

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmQ6iN8hKM

http://www.anamanaguchi.com/popit
DHX 002
dream.hax 2014

Pop It
Like a wheelie should
I'm up on your mind feeling 
Pretty Good

Don't stop it
Ay you in my way
Thank you so much
Oh wow, OK

Pop It
See me on your screen
Sit back and watch
Show you what I mean

Can't top it
Doo Dee Doo Dee Doo
La La Dee Da
ALL BECAUSE OF YOU

So Pop It
Like a wheelie should
I'm up on your mind feeling
Pretty Good

Don't stop it
Ay you in my way
Thank you so much
Oh wow, OK.

Well I don't know
I-D-K
Well I don't know
I-I-I
What's really good?
What you want me to be?
Well I don't know
OK

Notes from Left of the Dial: June 27

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