www.speedywunderground.com | @SpeedyWunder

Speedy Wunderground release their fourth single, ‘Keep Your Eyes Open 

Boy’ by Scotti Brains on 2nd September

Scotti Brains is label chief and producer Dan Carey, best friend and fellow producer / 

recording artist Oli Bayston & Beth Buxton.

Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and Dan’s 

cat Scotti (who coincidentally is prone to close his eyes and ‘dance’ upon hearing Bunny 

Brains), Scotti Brains was initially a project born out of early morning recording sessions 

following parties at Dan’s South London studio. Tradition dictated that the insane / furious / 

psych / punk / noise results featured Beth screaming over the tracks - major labels seemed 

unimpressed so a Speedy Wunderground release beckoned.

Having a full day rather than a few snatched hours to record, Scott Brains’ debut single for 

Speedy Wunderground is slightly more accessible than their previous late-night-output. A 

perfect summer-song, in the great Speedy Wunderground tradition ‘Keep Your Eyes Wide 

Open Boy’ again features the Swarmatron but this time a lunch-break was allowed – the boss’ 

prerogative.

Recording Beth’s ‘vocal’ over the phone due to ‘relationship-problems’ (Oli & Beth are 

partners who split up during the recording of the single but now happily back together), 

the track also features an ominous and anonymous ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’ vocal 

snatch taken from a tape Dan had bought along with a vintage 1950’s tape recorder in the 

Oxfam shop on Streatham High Road. The tapes featured recordings of the owner and his 

friends ‘chatting’ and at one point a woman repeating ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’, a 

phrase that was to provide the title for the single.

‘Keep Your Eyes Open Boy’ is a summer warning to all who think it’s all OK (it might not be).

SW004: Scotti Brains - Keep Your Eyes Open Boy (Full Version)

Feted for the urgency and unrest of their live presence, London three-piece Fever Dream have now committed their dark and brittle post-punk-shoegaze noise to tape in the form of debut album, Moyamoya, out April 26th from Club AC30.

The first single from Moyamoya, Serotonin Hit is a potent introduction to the sound of this young London band. Building to a steady forward charge, punctuated by stinging guitars yet keeping intact a core connection to melody, Serotonin Hit reaches a liminal communion of transitory mental state, the glow that you get from a sudden rush of distant memories and the fog of images: people and places of the subconscious. 

Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Adey Fleet, bassist Sarah Lippett, and drummer Cat Loye, Fever Dream make music which stalks the unsettled territory between MBV and PiL: suffused with melody and discordance, unhinged. Via the twitching fragility and freneticism of Fleet’s guitar and vocals, Lippett's stormy bass, and the propulsive dark heart that is Loye’s drumming, Fever Dream pitch tumultuous swathes of noise against irresistible pop hooks and gentle febrile tonality, arriving at a sound which sharply articulates a disorientating world of panic attacks, tender allegiances, and sweet perversions.

Drawing from shoegaze, slowcore, and alt-rock - basically any form of music that favours distorted guitars and never really had its “moment” in indie rock post-1995 -- and for that reason, never really went out of style – Fever Dream manages to successfully sound genreless -- despite being referential of half a dozen genres at once -- and a seamless, coherent listening experience that remains in memory long after the last note has faded.

FEVER DREAM – TOUR DATES

MARCH 27th BRIGHTON: The Joker / 29th CAMBRIDGE: Portland Arms 

APRIL 5th BRISTOL: Roll For The Soul / 6th NOTTINGHAM: The Maze / 7th LEEDS: 
Wharf Chambers / 8th EDINBURGH: Henry’s / 9th NEWCASTLE: Lit & Phil Library / 
10th MANCHESTER: The Castle / 11th YORK: Fulford Arms

MAY 1st LONDON: Shacklewell Arms (Album Launch / Oddbox Weekender) / 31st LONDON: The Lexington


Fever Dream - Serotonin Hit

This is an un-mastered version of "Happy Together"

credits

Erin Birgy (voice, guitar, vibraphone, drums, drum machine, synthesizer, glass), Zach Burba (guitar, drums, drum machine, bass, chimes, saxophone, voice), Will Murdoch (clarinet, bass, guitar, sampler, synthesizer, bowls. voice), Meg Duffy (guitar), Jacob Zimmerman (saxophone), Aaron Otheim (synthesizer, piano), Andrea Shiavelli (Rhodes), Julien Gasc (piano, drum machine), Clementine March (bass), Ezra Tenenbaum (guitar, write credits "She's History"), Matt Bachmann (bass), Jackson Macintosh (guitar), James Krivchenia (guitar) 

"Happy Together" was recorded between October 2014 & October 2015 in Seattle, WA / Anacortes, WA / Brooklyn, NY 

Produced by Mega Bog 
Engineered by Erin Birgy, Zach Burba, Nicholas Wilbur 
Mixed by James Krivchenia

192014

"Violet City Lantern" is out February 19th on Fire Talk
Pre Order LP: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-violet-city-lantern
Pre Order Bundle: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-viol…y-lantern-bundle
Deluxe Bundle: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-viol…rn-deluxe-bundle

Formed nearly 10 years ago while in high school the band now known as Murals have traveled a long road to their debut Full Length LP. After some dips and turns the three core members have landed back in their home town of Louisville, KY. They write record and live in a house on a hill in the not so swank part of town - the type of place that acid trips and all day jam sessions go hand in hand. The results are an ever present body of slow churning psychedelic folk that wouldn't be so surprising in your hippie dad's record collection or buried deep in the crates of your headiest record store.

Pre Order

Murals - Watching In The Dark

FEELS "Close My Eyes" 7" out now!

*COLOR VINYL SOLD OUT*
Black vinyl still available!

Get it here: http://store.winkandspit.com/product/feels-close-my-eyes-7

FEELS is Laena Geronimo, Shannon Lay, Amy Allen, Michael Rudes.

FEELS - "Gwen"

Drive Me Home

A Pastel Sky

YELLOWBIRDS
Songs From The Vanished Frontier

Available May 28, 2013 from The Royal Potato Family

http://yellowbirdsmusic.com/

'Songs from the Vanished Frontier,' the second album from New York’s Yellowbirds, includes love songs and breakup songs, happy numbers and sad numbers, tunes about not believing in the truth and, alternately, tunes about delivering it. There’s bracing rock ’n’ roll and bubbling folk, drifting jangle and swiveling R&B. But the thread that unites these nine instantly affecting songs is their search to find the signal amid the noise—that is, to understand the world and its whirlwind and to deliver just a little bit of clarity every three or four minutes. “What have I believed in?” Sam Cohen sings toward the end of the title track, his voice a near-murmur that peeks out from beneath the ashes of a smoldering empire. “How will I deceive me now?”

That quest for answers and assurance suits Cohen’s backstory: After the 2009 end of his longtime vehicle for wild, radiant anthems and experiments, Apollo Sunshine, Cohen thought his musical career might be over. But a clutch of songs he wrote in his bedroom soon found currency with a few New York musicians, and they started developing and playing them under the name Yellowbirds. The band’s 2011 debut, 'The Color,' received favorable reviews, with Pitchfork Media noting that the record espoused “an endearing raggedness … as though Cohen invited you into his living room.”

'Vanished Frontier' hinges on the same intimacy, but you’d never mistake it for a living room project. Indeed, for the first time, Cohen and his now full-time band (drummer Brian Kantor, singer/bassist Annie Nero, her husband and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman) had their own studio in which to build the new songs and sounds.

“I knew the sonic possibilities were broader than ever before, so I made a point to write the entire album on an acoustic guitar before delving into recording,” says Cohen. “I wanted to believe in the songs in their rawest form.”
	
Again, he wanted to keep the signal clear from the noise, and that’s precisely what Vanished Frontier achieves. It’s not a fussy album, overpopulated by a load of special guests and strange accessories. And Cohen’s brilliant guitar playing is never flashy so much as it is functional, sending simple lines through a web of carefully chosen effects to help illustrate the stories he sings. On “Vanished Frontier,” for instance, the arid guitar seems to be shaking its world-weary head every time Cohen uncovers another lie; during the lovelorn equivocation of “Mean Maybe,” the six-string solo warps the blues into a pattern that’s as fractured as Cohen’s feelings. 

That’s not to say, of course, that these songs are spare or stripped in any way. This is still Sam Cohen, of course, draping and dressing these tunes with spectral harmonies and backmasked voices, decorative percussion and interwoven textures. It’s just that these songs now stand on their own and then glow in the presence of the band and the studio. In the end, then, the noise supports the signal.

Yellowbirds | "Young Men Of Promise"

I followed you slowly into shallows
Absorbed by you and trapped within your shadow

I followed you slowly into the shallows
Absorbed by you and trapped within your shadow

Your words flood in 
I’m drowning in my skin 
You broke me from within
You never felt a thing
You left me hurt 
Dug deep down in the dirt 
I know now what I’m worth

He held me down and waited for tomorrow
There’s no way out I’m trapped within your shadow

Your words flood in 
I’m drowning in my skin 
You broke me from within
You never felt a thing
You left me hurt 
Dug deep down in the dirt 
I know now what I’m worth

I’m in his words
I’m in his mouth
I’m his mind

I'm in his words
I'm in his mouth
I'm in his mind

(Your words flood in 
I’m drowning in my skin 
You broke me from within
You never felt a thing
You left me hurt 
Dug deep down in the dirt 
I know now what I’m worth)

Flood

From the many musical lives of artist Glenn Donaldson emerges The Reds, Pinks and Purples, a project that sifts out the purest elements of pop music and in the process chronicles the point of view of an assiduous songwriter. His new album "Uncommon Weather" is both an elusive portrait of San Francisco -- during one of its fluctuations as an untenable place for musicians and artists -- and also a self-portrait of a songwriter who has dispatched another treasured collection of timeless sounding DIY-pop songs. Self-recorded and mostly self-performed, the music on "Uncommon Weather" continuously reckons with the influence of The Television Personalities' Dan Treacy, as well as The Cleaners From Venus, Blueboy, East River Pipe, and the Cherry Red and Flying Nun labels. Beautiful, mysterious and rather perfect pop.

Uncommon Weather

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Biggest Fan

La Luz
Brainwash b/w T.V. Dream 7" EP/digital
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Artist Instagram: @laluzband
Label Instagram: @suicidesqueeze

Yellowbirds | "Young Men Of Promise"

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