''rightI'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over 'cause I'm all alone
I need excitement, oh, I need it bad
And it's the best I've ever had
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night, all rightI''
THE UNDERTONES "Teenage Kicks" (1978)

Teenage Kicks - AUGUST 2017 \\ Dreampop / Shoegaze / Psychedelic / Indie Pop

Don't be fooled by their cute kitten faces.  Bolt and Nova are two kitty cats who like to tear into furniture and each other.

Bolt and Nova

work vibes

Août 2017

Released on April 1, 2014. 

Digital: http://apple.co/1faFMrn
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/salad-days

Mac DeMarco // Passing Out Pieces

In Between

CD and download available 11th May 2015

Released on Hello Thor Records

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He Will Disappear

Blue Nue

Dreams

Me+Your

Chastity Brown melds folk, pop, soul and gospel on 'Silhouette of Sirens,' weaving together a poet’s lyrical ear and a raw soul-laid-bare quality. The album’s 10 original tracks introduce us to an exciting new voice — a songwriter of power and conviction who isn’t afraid to bare her heart as she sings of heartbreak, need and love. 

“Wake Up,” the first single, is a beat-heavy, minor key tune of longing where she sings, “Wake up honey, love — come on soon.”

More info: http://www.redhouserecords.com/artists/chastity-brown

Silhouette of Sirens

Chastity Brown - Wake Up

One More Love Song

The lead track off their Red House Records album 'Transient Lullaby,' the song paints a portrait of two broken lovers who still manage to find a strange optimism in this challenging world. 

Buy Transient Lullaby: 
Red House Records: http://bit.ly/2og1KFj
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2oYqa9X
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Transient Lullaby

The Mastersons - "Perfect"

Tally Ho!

Hard Times

The Growlers performed a cover of "Psycho" at Studio Milwaukee on May 9th 2017.

The Growlers - Psycho (Live Session)

Cumberland Gap

Written by Cosmic Strip
Illustration by Jack Richardson

Cosmic Strip - Goodbye

Single released on July 28th 2017. Available on:
https://elvalsdelconejo.bandcamp.com/album/fire-between-us-single

Fire Between Us

Vinyl: http://bit.ly/willowbank-vinyl 
Spotify: http://bit.ly/willowbank-spotify 
iTunes: http://bit.ly/willowbank-apple
Bandcamp: yumizouma.bandcamp.com/album/willowbank
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'December' is the first single from Yumi Zouma's sophomore album, Willowbank, out October 6, 2017 on Cascine.

Limited edition Willowbank 12"s are pressed on baby blue vinyl and include sheet music for album highlight 'Carnation’ printed on premium cotton paper. Select LPs will also include hidden entry tickets to invite-only release parties in New York City and Los Angeles, featuring live and DJ sets from the band. Pre-orders will ship the week of September 18.

Just over a year after releasing their lauded debut LP, Yoncalla, Yumi Zouma return with Willowbank, the band’s sophomore album. For the making of Willowbank, Yumi Zouma's members — Charlie Ryder, Josh Burgess, Christie Simpson and Sam Perry — settled on a plan to reunite for the New Zealand summer. To complete what would become their first significant work written and recorded entirely in their home country, they rented a studio in Christchurch’s semi-demolished CBD, on one of the few remaining blocks that still characterizes the city from before it was destroyed by a series of earthquakes. “It was as though there was a brief pause in all of our lives and we finally felt like a band from New Zealand,” said Burgess. “We were on home turf and creating from a place that felt fundamentally natural.” When you know it’s there, the feeling of rootedness is undeniable on Willowbank. Being connected to their origins on the bottom of the earth allowed the band’s members to craft another essential chapter in the Yumi Zouma storybook.

Catch Yumi Zouma on tour this fall and winter: www.yumizouma.com
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Willowbank

December

Pre-order Vinyl

Yumi Zouma - December

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Follow Surf Rock Is Dead:
http://www.surfrockisdead.bandcamp.com
http://www.surfrockisdead.com
https://www.facebook.com/surfrockisdead
https://twitter.com/surfrockisdead
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Hailing from Chicago and Melbourne, Australia respectively, Kevin Pariso and Joel Witenberg together make up the Brooklyn duo, Surf Rock is Dead.  Embodying the beachiness of their namesake's genre through a new wave filter, the band have spent the last two years crafting an infectious brand of dream-pop in the vein of Diiv, Day Wave, and Beach Fossils.

“The phrase ‘we have no friends’ is a running joke and half-truth between the band.” Says Pariso about the namesake of the EP. “When we formed the project we would spend late weekend nights jamming and writing music instead of spending it out with friends. Putting time into a creative project definitely can hamper your social life but the idea is that the fruit it bears will be worth the sacrifices.”  

Those sacrifices paid off when the band went to record, using music as a way to escape the day-to-day grind and hot NYC summers. Ultimately, the duo was able to build off each other from similar shared experiences to turn song and lyric ideas into the anthemic dream-pop of the five-song EP. 

‘We Have No Friends?’ will be released September 22 on both vinyl, and digital formats. Vinyl versions include their debut 'SRiD' EP on the b-side.

Photo by Allegra Toran

Vinyl/ Streaming

Surf Rock is Dead – As If

All those things I did for love 
Have they really paid off? 
Where will I stand in a year, or maybe in a day? 
Maybe in a day, maybe in a day I will shed another tear 
For every year 
On everything spent here, I lie broken 

When you showed me your room, I thought that things would only get better 
When you showed me your room, I thought that we'd turn back time tonight 
And if I could, I would turn back history 
And if I could, I would turn back time to before you ever 
Met me 
Met me 

The things I did for love

Silence

Buy "Silence" Here

Morning train to Tanah Abang

"This song is a tribute to people in Rawa buntu train station who carry their hopes in the morning train to Tanah Abang".

Trust me that I’ll never turn away
I know you always say that I have to be there 
The sun will never shine anyway
Every time you leave me 
You so far away

So Don’t ever leave me 
You know you can put a trust in me
Don’t ever leave me
Don’t ever say goodbye

I will  always there / to come with you
You’re my morning train/ to Tanah Abang

The Lousy Pop Group - Morning Train To Tanah Abang

The second single from Lina Tullgren's debut LP "Won" out September 22nd on Captured Tracks!

Pre-Order Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/won

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Lina Tullgren // Fitchburg State (Official Single)

From Nassau's debut album "Heron" Out 9/08 on Fire Talk

Nassau is the collaborative recording project from Brooklyn-based songwriters Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein. Both seeking new creative outlets following respective projects in Baltimore and Chattanooga, the duo formed in late 2015 out of a mutual respect for raw, honest music. Sitting on a handful of riffs and half-songs, material would soon actualize for Hoss (2016), their debut EP of tranquil ambient/folk for Fire Talk Records.

Heron, the group’s first proper LP, sees the duo hitting their stride. Recorded, mixed, and produced by Wilcox at his home studio in South Williamsburg, the album explores new territory both sonically and thematically. Taking a far more deliberate and careful approach to writing, the album centers on the concept of change and balance- the Heron often representing an ability to progress and evolve in folklore. A warm, full-bodied sound envelopes each track giving breathing room for interweaving guitar lines, meditative rhythms and Wilcox’s gentle vocal delivery. Relying only on guitars, drum machines, and synth, the duo capitalize on using ambient textures as a base layer for each of these 8 beautiful tracks. Heron will be released September 8th on Fire Talk Records.

Note from the band - 
“This record was written and recorded throughout a series of big changes in both of our lives. Justin got married, I got engaged and finished a master’s degree, and we both began new creative endeavors. Throughout all of this - we asked both ourselves and each other a lot of big questions. We set out to make an album that represented the changes happening in our minds, our hearts and in our lives. Even though we “wrote” these songs, none of them would have been possible without the support of our family, friends, and community. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to listen.”

Heron

Nassau - Risin' Sun

The first single off Reptaliens' debut album, FM-2030, out October 6th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/fm-2030
Pre-Order Digital: http://apple.co/2fHTyiw

Reptaliens // If You Want

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
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In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "To Follow and Lead"

Mac's debut '2' will be available worldwide October 16th on Captured Tracks. 

Reptaliens // If You Want

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