Corduroy - 237 dagar

in yer pocket

Happy Man

Taken from the 17-track 'Means of Production' CD on Matinée Recordings

The Royal Landscaping Society - Friends And Lovers

Drop

First song off self-titled LP, out 12/25/2020. Produced and mixed by Cameron Spies at Trash Treasury in Portland, Oregon. Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. Cover photo by Sam Gehrke Photography.

Bad News:
Don't come around
Don't get the wrong idea
Helping yourself
Please keep your distance

Hugh, I've got bad news
Hugh, it's not for you

I'm well aware
I know it looks bad
I didn't mean
It to get so weird

Hugh, I've got bad news
Hugh, It's not for you
Never for you

Bad News

Written by Carla J. Easton and Scott Paterson
Produced by Scott Paterson
Mixed by Stephen Watkins
Mastered by David Simpson
Released by Olive Grove Records 2020

Get Lost

GET LOST | Carla J. Easton

Pale

Pretense

New single from NOPRISM - released Fri 30th October.

NOPRISM - HAPPINESS

‘End Credits’ is a nihilistic yet optimistic track about slipping into the unknown of the afterlife. Musically joyous, lyrically dower this track perfectly sums up the highs and lows of realising our human condition as we hopelessly and defiantly trudge towards the end.

End Credits

Making music described as “glitter bursting from every chorus” and combining “the ominous glimmer of synth-wave with the maximalist fun of Carly Rae Jepsen’s ’80s throwbacks”, Carla J Easton is a pop songwriter with a back catalogue that would make most people envious.

From the Myspace-occupying Futuristic Retro Champions, through scrappy pop upstarts TeenCanteen and a record under the name ETTE, to the  the solo albums Impossible Stuff (shortlisted for the 2019 SAY Award and produced by Arcade Fire cohort Howard Bilerman) and WEIRDO , Carla J Easton writes essential indie pop. 

Sitting proudly alongside The Vaselines (who she plays keys for on tour), BMX Bandits (who have covered her songs) and Belle and Sebastian, with whom she co-wrote the track “Best Friend” she is considered alongside the best Scottish music  has had to offer over the past few decades.

WEIRDO is a record that Bandcamp  described as “all volume needles buried in the red, glitter bursting from every chorus.” The Line of Best Fit praised its “maximalist” tendencies while hinting that Scotland has found its own answer to the pop titans Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift and Pitchfork called it “bubblegum pop [with] the scrappy glamour of a homemade theatrical production”. Finding her voice, Carla J Easton is in the position now where she is consistently releasing music that’s talked about in terms of albums of the year garlands in Scotland, and beyond.

-Andrew Hannah, Bright Dead Things 2020