i love this so much. i posted it at http://new-music-daily.tumblr.com

You can download here: https://suiix.bandcamp.com
Written, Recorded and Mixed by SUIIX 
Drums: Kristjan Garcia-Lamerton 
Mastering: Freddy Knop (Listeners Berlin)



Taken from Laura's 'Committed Language' EP

Buy: https://deekrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/committed-language-ep


Laura Groves - Dream Story

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MoaiYYoSpotify
Apple: http://smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo

Sleeping all of the day
Waking up in a haze

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, its true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love

You will see me again
Don't you worry friend

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, it’s true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love

Hey Mr. doctor don't let me die
cause I’ve got a feeling I cant describe
The Mona Lisa is driving me mad
I think all about the times we had

You don't know what its like to move on
She started dancing to that fine fine music, its true love
You don't know what its like to move on
From a name you despise, its true love


To Move On

Out on 10th Feb on limited 7" (250 copies).
Pre-order - speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW020 - JW Ridley - Everything (Deathless) - Part 1

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

Destroyer - "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" off of ken, out October 20, 2017 on Merge Records / Dead Oceans

Buy / stream: https://destroyer.lnk.to/ken

Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming In Blood

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"Still Learning" is the newest track from the lovely Madeline Kenney, featuring the artistic style of Naytronix (of Tune-Yards).

AVAILABLE HERE
Carpark shop - smarturl.it/stilllearning_cpark
Everywhere else - smarturl.it/stilllearning_dsps

TOUR DATES
March 27th – Lexington, KY – The Burl *
March 28th – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop *
March 29th – Chicago, IL – Schubas *
March 30th – Davenport, IA – Raccoon Motel *
March 31st – Minneapolis, MN – Bryant Lake Bowl *
April 3rd – Spokane, WA – The Bartlett *
April 4th – Seattle, WA – Barboza *
April 5th – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
April 10th – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo *
April 11th – Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar *
May 16th – Brighton, UK – The Haunt 
May 18th – Dublin, IRE – Button Factory ^
May 19th – Belfast, UK – Empire ^
May 21st – Sheffield, UK – The Plug ^
May 22nd – Edinburgh, UK – The Caves ^
May 23rd – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds ^
* - w Soccer Mommy
^ - w Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Madeline Kenney - Still Learning (feat. Naytronix)

From 'Freedom,' out now.
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Amen Dunes - Blue Rose

Stream 'Camel Walk' : https://newstrangers.fanlink.to/camelwalk

Two thirsty camels walk into a bar in Amsterdam. As they fill their humps with kegs of local beer, one camel turns to the other camel. “Ever got drunk with a camel below sea level?” The second camel turns to the first camel and winks. “Walk the camel walk, man.”

Rufus and Daniel have been making music together since they met in a bar in Amsterdam in 2010. After a four-year hiatus spent playing music separately on either side of the Atlantic, the duo reunited in Amsterdam where they engaged in an extended reunion party. They woke up two months later, thirsty and illuminated like two desiccated camel saints in a flooded desert. Camel Walk was born: a smooth-paced awakening, like a wave one could walk on, from one side of the Atlantic to the other, and back.

Stream

New Strangers - Camel Walk

Established in 1999, Carpark Records is an independent record label based in Washington DC.  

Madeline Kenney - Still Learning (feat. Naytronix)

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