2017

A Place To Lie

On their spellbinding sophomore album, "Whispers in the Speech Machine," the young Ohio siblings from The Laughing Chimes fully embrace their Southern Gothic influences, cannily balancing the light of their infectious pop with the shadow of their rust belt environs. While attending an afterschool music program at their local opera house, Evan and his brother Quinn began recording The Laughing Chimes' debut album "In This Town," released in 2020. A string of well-received digital singles and a cassette EP for Slumberland followed, dazzling savvy pop fans with their Paisley Underground-inflected jangle that owes as much to the Flying Nun sound as it does to 80s Athens, GA.

The eight assured songs of "Whispers in the Speech Machine" prove The Laughing Chimes deserve the attention and accolades, while their approaches to songwriting and sonic aesthetics continue to evolve. "Southeast Ohio is the foothills of Appalachia, so it has this indescribable mood and atmosphere to it," guitarist/vocalist Evan Seurkamp told The Big Takeover. "Sometimes there's a haunting weight of decay you want to escape, but at the same time there is some sort of strange romanticism surrounding ghost towns. We've tried to channel those moods to add more regional flavor into our sound."

Whispers In The Speech Machine

The Laughing Chimes - High Beams

Steady Arms

Take It to the Limit

The MySpace Top 8 was never meant to change the music industry. Chillwave was never meant to be a genre—it started as a blogosphere joke. And Bora York was never meant to be a band—it began as a school project. Yet all three took on a life of their own, shaping an era of indie electronic music built on hazy nostalgia, warm synths, and melodic escapism. Now, after six years away, Bora York returns with "Melting on the Moon," a shimmering sonic love letter to the chillwave movement that first inspired them.

"I think I needed to distance myself from it for a while," says songwriter Chris Bartels, who also writes music as Elskavon, Dellwood, and Hi-Fi Cali. "I was trying so hard with this, in my head, being my ‘main’ project, hoping for so much with it. I was putting so much emotional stock into it that it was probably even sucking some of that original creative magic out of it. Bora York was essentially an accident—it started as a school project and turned into something exciting and unique. Then for a while, I tried to keep recreating that. Stepping back for a few years and only writing as I felt led creatively allowed me to let go—to just let it be."

While writing, Chris started curating a playlist he facetiously called "Chillwave Revival," letting himself become fully immersed in and inspired by the sun-faded synths and woozy nostalgia of Toro y Moi, Washed Out, MGMT, and Neon Indian. Before long, that feeling took over. "Melting on the Moon" is the result—a track that embraces the fuzzy textures and dreamlike melodies of early chillwave, yet with an undeniable modern pulse. It’s laced with Chris and Rebekah’s signature vocal chemistry and an irresistible post-chorus synth hook that lingers long after the first listen.

With past syncs in Netflix’s To All the Boys, Mr. Robot, The Middle, Criminal Minds, Target, Honda, and more, Bora York’s music has resonated far and wide. Press accolades from Clash Magazine, Neon Gold, Indie Shuffle, and Earmilk hailed their sound as “sublime,” “summertime radness,” and “impossible not to get swept up in.”

Now, Bora York embraces a new chapter—one that taps into the playfulness, freedom, and MySpace-era nostalgia of their earliest influences while letting the music just be.

Melting on the Moon

Summer Nights

Sabotage

ANIMA! - "Like An Ocean" 
From the our new album Water, out on September 19, 2025 
Stream / Buy : https://tr.ee/like-an-ocean
Pre-Save New Album: tr.ee/anima-water

Album Tour: tr.ee/anima-show
10.3 Gold-Diggers, LA, CA
10.5 Barboza, Seattle, WA
10.15 Chop Shop, Chicago, IL
10.16 Public Records, Brooklyn, NY 
10.25 The Mothership, Taos, NM  [album release show]
more tba.

All songs written by ANIMA!
Produced and mixed by Vicente Espi
Mastered by Pablo San Martin
Atmos Master by Vicente Espi
Video visualizer by Josh Shaffner


----lyrics---
Like An Ocean

Every giant river
Is just a bunch of streams
Flowing from all corners
Moving as a team

If every single being
Could focus on one thing
The world would get a little closer to the
Place I see in dreams

Could we understand how many tiny pieces form a man
If you give a damn, imagine your love multiplying like an ocean

Do we just sit back and watch ourselves dissolving
Bodies underneath the sand
I keep thinking, I keep thinking
How is it only a few of us making the waves but
So many are drowning, so many are drowning
Can we come up for air now
Can we come up for air now

Could we understand how many tiny pieces form a man
If you give a damn, imagine your love multiplying like an ocean

Like An Ocean

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Bandcamp: etaliae.bandcamp.com/album/rose-ep
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@et_aliae is a pianist, composer and producer who makes refined and future-forward electronic pop. Her debut EP, Rose, is a collection of crystalline, late night jams that reflect her diverse range of influences - from Johann Sebastian Bach and Chopin to Ana Caprix and Aaliyah. Lead single, "Sober," sees et aliae collaborate with the inimitable D∆WN (Dawn Richard) to deliver a downtempo ballad that's as heartbreaking as it is lovely.

Raised in Singapore, et aliae was classically trained on the piano. In 2012 she relocated to London to study design at Central Saint Martins and a more contemporary form of her music took shape. When she eventually started posting early demos online, accompanied by imagery that playfully merged consumer technology with femininity, an enthusiastic fanbase formed. The tracks were undeniably special, pulling from reference points as wide as dancehall and trap to commercial pop and modern composition.

In 2014 she released her first actual track on Ryan Hemsworth’s Secret Songs compilation, ffb6c1, and simultaneously caught the ear of Cascine. et aliae has since applied her elegant, otherworldy touch to remix key singles for ASTR, Kero Kero Bonito, Lemonade, Anna of the North and more.

Rose is released March 4, 2016. The EP’s cover art was created by Berlin’s, András Csuka.
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et aliae - Sober Feat. D∆WN (Malory Remix)

"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" off Jens Lekman's 'Life Will See You Now,' out February 17, 2017 on Secretly Canadian

Pre-Order 'Life Will See You Now': https://jenslekman.lnk.to/lifewillseeyounow

Life Will See You Now

WHAT'S THAT PERFUME THAT YOU WEAR

Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?

Little Bubble

Little Bubble (edit)

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Long Distance

Off the new album, "The Far Field", out April 7th.
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The Far Field

Father John Misty's album Pure Comedy is available now on Deluxe 2xLP / 2xLP / CD / DL / CS in Europe through Bella Union and the rest of the world from Sub Pop.

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LYRICS:

Naturally the Dying Man wonders to himself
Had his commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide
Of idiots, dilettantes and fools
That were on his watch 
While he was alive
Lord, just a little more time

Oh, in no time at all this will be the distant past

So says the Dying Man once I’m in the box
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
The homophobes, hipsters and one percent
The false feminists he’d managed to detect
Who will critique them once he’s left?

In no time at all this will be the distant past

What he’d give for one more day to rate and analyze
The world made in his image as of yet to realize
What a mess to leave behind 

Eventually the Dying Man takes his final breath
But first checks his newsfeed to see what he’s about to miss
It occurs to him a little late in the game
We leave as clueless as we came
From the rented heavens to the shadows in the cave
We’ll all be wrong one day

We’ll all be wrong someday

Pure Comedy

Ballad Of The Dying Man

Alternative pop label based in Los Angeles.

info@cascine.us

et aliae - Sober Feat. D∆WN (Malory Remix)

CASCINE

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