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Pre-order About Face LP, out Fri 8th Aug (Pieater)
12” Vinyl & CD 
US - flythelightrecords.bandcamp.com
Aus/Row - musicyourdadsmake.bandcamp.com/album/about-face
Digital
itunes.apple.com/album/about-face/id882631659

musicyourdadsmake.com
facebook.com/musicyourdadsmake
pieater.net

#1 Dads - Camberwell (About Face LP | 2014)

Taken from the album "Ripe 4 Luv." Out March 10th on Slumberland Records.
Pre-order iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ripe4luv
Pre-order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/282

From: Harry Winklebottom
To: Social Media/Marketing/Sales
Re: who is Young Guv and why is he ripe for love?

Who's @youngguv? He's still underground, but everyone will know him soon. Right now, he only has 1500 followers, so we need to get this kid a checkmark as soon as possible. Here's the rundown:

He's a white boy in a backwards snapback with fake Emoji neck tattoos. He's ripped bald kid fronting one of the most important and successful hardcore bands in Toronto history. He's a ghostwriter eating pasta as he pens al dente tunes for the likes of Sum 41, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, a few Canadian Idols, Snow, a slew of hardcore bands, Maroon 5 and one or two OVO affiliates. He's a tortured artist turning down Katy Perry's edits to his tunes because she didn't like his babies as they were. He's a child actor playing Ryan Gosling's sexy little brother. Do I need to go on?

@youngguv is Ben Cook, and he's putting out an album, "Ripe 4 Luv," on one of the greatest labels ever, Slumberland Records. Having been around for a minute, Guv has decided to put together a set of pop tunes that shows off his range as a performer, singer, songwriter, style icon and retweet-worthy pop star. I've heard the album, and its ready to head to marketing. We don't need a billboard for this one, all we need to do is release a single and get it trending worldwide. We're going to break Nielsen SoundScan. We're going straight to #1 on iTunes!

Guv got it right the first time with his band No Warning, one of the only Canadian hardcore acts to achieve recognition from major labels in the U.S. He parlayed this experience into a successful career as the creeper peaking through the curtain as better-looking people sing his songs to an appreciative audience. In addition to writing for pop royalty and no-name punk acts, Young Guv has spent the last 7 years playing guitar in fellow Toronto legends Fucked Up, selling 10's of 1000's of singles recorded in various bedrooms, and helping put the East End back on the GTA's music map with his Bad Actors imprint. Guv has been around for a while, and now he's helping new, young talent get around and release classic records. How could you not like this guy? He's got the bone structure to go viral at any moment.

"Ripe 4 Luv" is a beautiful album for beautiful people. Plus, it really shows off his range. There's only one way to describe this record: Guv sings like Prince into expensive audio-nerd mics over power pop backing tracks that evoke Big Star after they got some nookie but before they became depressed about their failure to appeal to the right audience. If that's not good enough for you, then it sounds like Cheap Trick produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Or how about Drake's producer 40 manning the boards for a Hall & Oates session? Any of those will help sell this record to the blogs, just pick one and run with it. 

That's it, that's what you get when you stream "Ripe 4 Luv" on Spotify. I'm telling you, this album is just perfect for Billboard's Trending 140 chart. We're going to be rich!

Young Guv - Wrong Crowd feat. Jef Barbara

Second single taken from debut EP, available online via Deaf Ambitions.

Buy our debut EP here:
https://deafambitions.bandcamp.com/album/redspencer

Ride It Out

"The Magician" by Andy Shauf from the album 'The Party,' available now on Anti (World Excl. Canada) and Arts & Crafts (Canada)

Order CD / Vinyl: http://found.ee/AStheparty_store 
Apple Music: http://found.ee/Astheparty_iTunes
Spotify: http://found.ee/Astheparty_Spotify

Official Site: http://andyshauf.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/andyshauf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andyshaufmusic

Andy Shauf - The Magician

"Hopeless" appears on Psychic Twin's debut full-length album, Strange Diary, out 9/9/2016.

Pre-order Strange Diary:
Polyvinyl (LP/CD/DIGITAL): http://plyvnyl.co/strangediary
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/strange-diary
Bandcamp: http://plyvnyl.co/strange-diary-BC
Stream: http://Psychic.Twin.lnk.to/strange-diary

Psychic Twin - Hopeless

Lead single from Hater's debut LP You Tried, due March 10 via PNKSLM Recordings. Pre-order the vinyl and deluxe package here: www.PNKSLM.com/store

"awash with chiming guitar chords and shimmering synth embellishments, an old-school rock song shrouded in indie-pop softness" - Stereogum

Listen via Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2eMZdBc
Listen via Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/DtQVfb

https://www.facebook.com/haterrmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/PNKSLM/

Mental Haven

Listen on Spotify

Hater - "Mental Haven"

Debut 12" from Gothenburg's very own OK! (300 copies) 

Buy: http://westcoastrecs.tictail.com/product/wcr005-oktoberklubben-12

‘Everyday’ is a total banger in the Balearic frame. The bassline comes on like ‘My Jamaican Guy’ and the world vibes roll. 

@Apiento (TestPressing.org)

Awesome debut 12" on West Coast Recordings (Sweden). Rad organ heavy beach grooves with slo-mo party pumper vibe and a perfect vocoder line after the break. 

@The-Dream-Chimney

Stunning breezy disco track arriving from Gothenburg with some connection to those great Studio releases from a few years ago. Recommended!!

@PhonicaRecords

"This exciting two tracker  – “Everyday” starts out chugging, grooving all “hammondy” vibes – slowly building to ecstasy w/ guitar riff and more – switch sides for more slow funky business – that suddenly gets all pop vocoder madness. Excellent all over the place record that does not miss to join the dots in the right places.

@publicpossession

Oktoberklubben - Un Universo Para Los Dos

Vinyl: http://bit.ly/halfwaifvinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SeveredLogicSpotify
Bandcamp: https://halfwaif.bandcamp.com/album/form-a
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/HalfWaifiTunes
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'Severed Logic' is the first single taken from Half Waif's form/a EP, which launches February 24, 2017. 

form/a is a collection of tracks that expand on Nandi Rose Plunkett's exploration of home. “There's an inherent restlessness in the way that I write and think about sound," she explained. "I'm the daughter of a refugee, and somewhere in me is this innate story of searching for a home. As a result, I have many – a collection of places that I latch onto, that inspire me, that fuse themselves to me. I'm sentimental, nostalgic – yet constantly seeking what’s next, excavating the sound of my past and coloring it to make the sound of my future. I'm a child of divorce, fiercely loved but forced into independence at a young age; I rocket into relationships with the desire to find roots, commonality, to create stillness in the midst of public noise. In this way, my songs are like the notes of a large scavenger hunt, clues pinned to trees I have known, or tucked under rocks on my path, urging the listener to keep looking a little deeper, because maybe they will find something special in the end.”

form/a will be released on a limited-edition 12”. Art for the cover was shot by Aidan Carlo and hand-stitched by Chilean artist, María Aparicio Puentes. 
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“beautifully ornamented melodies—intricately woven, as if using harmonies to climb into the sky.” -Pitchfork

“a combination of glitchy percussion and rueful piano that never sits completely still.” -Village Voice

“Half Waif combines urgent synths with Celtic melodies and lines like "’come down, turn me around, I don't even know what I'm here for.’" -NPR
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Half Waif on FB: http://bit.ly/2fhWigW 
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form/a

form/a EP

Half Waif - Severed Logic

Mixed by Chris Coady at Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering, NYC

New album 'Microclimate' out 3rd Feb 2017 on Volcanic Field
Pre-order here!
www.volcanicfield.com
porcelainraft.bandcamp.com/
ITUNES:
itunes.apple.com/album/id11701313…?ls=1&app=itunes

Big Sur

Mr Unlucky

Come Home

Cigarette Kids

Alternative pop label based in Los Angeles.

info@cascine.us

Half Waif - Severed Logic

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