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Les Yeux

Rosie Thomas - Always Be My Baby (feat. The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Josh Ottum)(Lullabies For Parents Vol. 1 EP/Sing-A-Long Records, 2022)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah (The Linden Trees Are Still In Blossom/Secretly Canadian, 2022)
Jens Lekman - Black Cab (The Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom/Secretly Canadian, 2022)
metagirl - ASPHALT ((23) I FEEL YOU EVERYWHERE/Indie, 2023)
Carla Geneve - Residue (Learn To Like It/Dot Dash, 2022)
Harper - crawl (spider EP/Indie, 2023)
Coach Party - Nothing Is Real (Nothing Is Real EP/Chess Club Records, 2022)
Robert Pollard - Miles Under The Skin (Our Gaze/Guided By Voices Inc. 2022)
Guided By Voices - Caution Song (La La Land/Guided By Voices Inc. 2023)
Superdrag - Baby's Waiting (In The Valley Of Dying Stars/Arena Rock, 2000)
Elephant Factory - 1000 (Suspended Over Seas/Tape Op Records, 1998)
Tomberlin - Happy Accident (I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This…/Saddle Creek, 2022)
Sebadoh - ...Burned (Sebadoh Vs. Helmet EP/Domino, 1992)

Invisible Archives - Leaves (Slow Down The River EP/Indie, 2023)
THISNESS - Hung (Underneath EP/Indie, 2023)
Yelverton Undertow - Breathing Room (Fields E​.​P./Indie, 2023)
DAYFIRE AVENUE - midwest film scores (2003 EP/Indie, 2023)
Telescoping - Teenagers Tonight (Window EP/Indie, 2023)
Market - I Would Do That (The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong/Western Vinyl, 2022)
Eat At Home - Ruby (The Beauty Room EP/Indie, 2023)
MJ Lenderman - You Have Bought Yourself A Boat (Boat Songs/Dear Life Records, 2022)
Mall Girl - Bubbly Cool Drink (Superstar/Jansen Records, 2022)
Joyce Days - Eyes Wide Shut (Turn Off The Noise/Indie, 2023)
Precocious Neophyte - 산 San (Stony EP/Indie, 2023)
Helms Alee - Mouth Thinker (Keep This Be The Way/Sargent House, 2022)
drive-by crush - tribute as a thread (3:02 EP/mörtelsounds, 2023)

Daniel Rossen - I'll Wait For Your Visit (You Belong There/Warp Records, 2022)
The Flaming Lips - Mrs. Lennon (Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono/Chimera Music , 2022)
JEFF The Brotherhood - Rennaisance Moderne (Ye Olde.../Earthbound Sound Inc. 2022)
Erica Eso - O Ocean (192/Hausu Mountain, 2022)
LNZNDRF - You Still Rip (II/LNZNDRF, 2021)
Destroyer - June (Labyrinthitis/Merge Records, 2022)
Girlpool - Dragging My Life Into A Dream (Forgiveness/Anti- 2022)
Diane Coffee - Forecast (feat. Deep Sea Diver)(With People/Polyvinyl Record Company, 2022)
mari park - september (sharp objects EP/Indie, 2023)

Lykke Li - Carousel (Eyeye/Play It Again Sam, 2022)
Many Voices Speak - Phase Out (Gestures/Strangers Candy, 2022)
Warpaint - Melting (Radiate Like This/Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, 2022)
Jenny Hval - American Coffee (Classic Objects/4AD, 2022)
Melody's Echo Chamber - A Slow Dawning Of Peace (Emotional Eternal/Domino, 2022)
Let's Eat Grandma - Hall Of Mirrors (Two Ribbons/Transgressive Records, 2022)
ex. happyender girl - ワ​ー​ル​ズ​エ​ン​ド​・​ガ​ー​ル​（​フ​レ​ン​ド​） - world's end​(​er) girl​(​friend)(Indie, 2023)
Mousey - Pudding and Pie (My Friends/Winegum Records, 2022)
Sasami - The Greatest (Squeeze/Domino, 2022)

Collage #12

Opal Eskar is the latest convergence of some of Philadelphia’s busiest indie musicians.

After releasing a one-off single “Sunlight Is Breakin’ Out” (“Dreamy,” said NPR-affiliate WXPN) as a trio comprised of Karl Blau (vocals), Heyward Howkins (vocals, guitar), and Chet Delcampo (vocals, guitar, bass, keys) last summer, Opal Eskar is now a five-piece featuring two more members of the Philly fabric: Charlie Hall and Robbie Bennett of The War on Drugs.

Opal Eskar will release its debut self-titled EP on May 19, 2023 via Spiral Valley Records.

To get an idea of the band’s sound beyond “dreamy” (which it is!), look no further than the comprehensive careers of the members of Opal Eskar and the company they keep.

Blau met Howkins and Delcampo after relocating to Philly following a highly prolific period in the Olympia, Washington area where he released dozens of records and helped nurture the scene that brought the K Records label and influential artists such as Laura Veirs, The Microphones, and Earth — many of which Blau recorded and performed with — to prominence.

More recently, Veirs, along with My Morning Jacket front man Jim James, appeared with Blau on a cover of Link Wray’s ten-minute epic “Fallin’ Rain,” a cut from Introducing Karl Blau, a covers collection of overlooked country songs by Blau, released by legendary UK record label Bella Union.

Delcampo has two earlier album releases to his name, as well as another pair as Hong Kong Stingray. His list of current and former collaborators is long, including Kid Congo Powers, Joel RL Phelps, and Dave Lovering of Pixies. Last year he released a single with Howkins as Later Fortune, called “lush, sophisticated art pop” by Brooklyn Vegan.

Howkins has released two full-length albums of his own, and is a founding member of the choral group The Silver Ages with members of Dr. Dog and The War on Drugs, the Grammy®-winning rock band that features Hall on drums and Bennett on keys, the same instruments they contribute to Opal Eskar.

Like Howkins and Delcampo’s Later Fortune project, which covered David Bowie’s soul-noir classic “Win” (from the Young Americans album, which was recorded in Philly), Opal Eskar cannot help but be influenced by the man.

Delcampo says, “A few years after Bowie’s death, I was reflecting upon his methodology of assembling an interesting cast of characters into the right room at the right time. Tony Visconti, Brian Eno, Nile Rodgers, Mick Ronson, and many others.”

Inspired to assemble his own group of collaborators this way, Delcampo reached out to Blau (whose work he had long admired) and Howkins brought Hall and Bennett to the band.

Opal Eskar’s own song about modern love is the EP opener and first single, “And Yet Love Rules.” Blau says the song asks us to “let love be the governing force in exchanges with other humans. Let the innocence of our inner child — the curiosity that permeates life — help lead our actions and interactions.”

That sentiment permeates the entire EP — the blissful sound of a group of musicians with their own thing going on, but whose mutual respect for each other’s work inspires a creative curiosity that makes it to tape (yes, the EP is an analog recording!)

The debut EP by Opal Eskar arrives on May 19 via Spiral Valley Records and preceded by the singles “And Yet Love Rules” (March 17), “The Woodsman” (April 7) and “Open Mind” (April 28.)

Opal Eskar - All I Wanna Do (originally by The Beach Boys)

Thank you https://soundcloud.com/ayadove Aya Dove to let me work with your good voice ;)

Aya Dove And Mr Menator - Dreams Come True

My cousin and me made a great track just for you !!!

Next Summer Feat. Verda Snort On Bass

https://soundcloud.com/user-434699157 Mtlsir and Me are Glitchy dot Phong

Glitchy Dot Phong - From Home Part 2

"The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?" (Lou Reed)

Collage #12

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