October 2015

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2015

Second mp3 single from Chastity Belt's 2015 album Time To Go Home, out 3/23/15 on Hardly Art records.

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Time to Go Home

Joke

Chastity Belt - "Joke"

Swept Away

Purchase from label: paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-023
Purchase from Bandcamp: gunoutfit.bandcamp.com/album/dream-all-over
Other options: lnk.to/PoB23

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On their most refined and ruefully elegant album, Gun Outfit perfect their incandescent sonic signature: a dusky, canyon-cult blues fueled by melodic dual-guitar weaving and seductive male/female incantations at zero hour. It’s the nocturnal sound of desert-damaged L.A. burnout, a soured American surrealism in rock and roll creole: white line fever, paint fume flashbacks, a stranger wading out alone into the black surf.

Gun Outfit - Dream All Over (PoB-23, 2015): "Worldly Way"

As Far As The Eye Can See

Lilies on Mars present 'Dancing Star', lead single from their upcoming album '∆GO' released by Lady Sometimes Records.

Mixed and co-produced with Tom Furse of The Horrors, Dancing Star is an uplifting psychedelic dance track with cosmic groove, hypnotic synth arpeggiators, sensual vocals and addictive hooks throughout.

WATCH THE VIDEO PREMIERE ON THUMP!
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/video/lilies-on-mars-dancing-star-is-the-perfect-cosmic-pop-jam

Dancing Star

The House On The Hill

Vertical Slump are Simon Marsham (guitars, vocals), Andrew Milk (drums, vocals), Ed Shellard (bass,vocals) and Peter Simpson (synthesizers), a quartet of time-served hands at the DIY foundry who are/were also involved in (amongst others) the bands Shopping, Gloss Rejection, Omi Palone and Circuit Breaker.

This collection of songs was recorded in February of this year at Sound Savers studios with Mark Jasper, and follows on neatly from where a cassette E.P of early demos left us, released earlier in 2015 through Mïlk Records.

In collaboration with Mark, they have produced a fully formed and insistent record, oozing with confidence and vigour. It is four tracks of galloping, compelling post-punk wherein vocals are gulped with ardent

intensity; guitars jag and agitate across the mix, veering from the sweetly melodious to the darkly dissonant, while basslines rumble and lope hand-in-glove with sparse and sympathetic percussion. Keys change, amps squawk, and tense locked-in cadences give way to silvery, sweet-spot choruses.

Mastered with an added slice of punk grit by the evergreen Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory, these recordings can be seen as both a pulsating introduction to a band, and a persuading proposition of what’s to come in the future.

Pre Order link: http://icecapades.bigcartel.com/product/vertical-slump-ruined-value-e-p

Vertical Slump - Tether

Darren Hayman returns with a beautifully delicate and touchingly honest album simply titled Florence after the city in which it was created. This is his very first purely solo album, featuring no other musicians. It was written and recorded between Christmas and New Year at the end of 2014 in the Firenze flat belonging to Elizabeth Morris (Allo Darlin’) and Ola Innset (Making Marks). Continuing his habit of making incisive, observational and beautiful albums, with Florence Hayman has taken a back-to-basics approach, eschewing his recent collaborative, conceptual approaches for a humble and modest solo effort, entirely recorded and performed in the Italian apparetemento of his hosts.

Best known as the singer-songwriter of the phenomenally successful and much-loved Hefner, Darren Hayman is now 15 years, and over 14 albums, into an increasingly idiosyncratic career path, where he has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly. Darren is also writing the best tunes of his career; increasingly complex and mature songs, he is a thoughtful, concise and detailed songwriter. 

Hayman’s first two solo albums, Table For One (2006) and The Secondary Modern (2007), charmed the critics – with The Guardian opining that Hayman’s profoundly English songwriting was “the match of Ray Davies”. Mostly joined by his band The Secondary Modern – a loose, urban folk collective, underpinning Hayman’s concrete sorrow with rural violins and tired pianos – he has released a series of albums, largely focused on place. This allowed for the exploration of nuanced subjects in detail, with a trio of albums based in Essex (2009’s Pram Town and 2010’s Essex Arms) and culminating in 2012’s The Violence, a 20 song account of the 17th century Essex witch trials. From this he developed an album of English Civil War folk songs of the time (2013’s Bugbears) and stayed with the historical theme for this year’s Chants For Socialists, which saw him set William Morris’ words to music, creating an album of kindness and hope that brought Hayman’s most critical acclaim yet.

Florence is sparse and poignant. Tinged with melancholy and etched with heartache, revealing the very best of Hayman’s considerable songwriting verve, this collection of songs shows what you can achieve whilst on holiday at a friend’s house, taking refuge in the winter quiet during the festive season.

Florence

Nuns Run The Apothecary

Darren Hayman - Nuns Run The Apothecary

Chastity TAPE released in Canada/Australia via Hand Drawn Dracula.
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Chastity - Saliva

A Change

"Sea" is the second single from Swings' new record "Sugarwater," due out November 13th via Exploding In Sound Records.

Swings - Sea

The first single taken from GUM's second album 'Glamorous Damage' out now http://radi.al/GUMGlamorousDamage.

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Glamorous Damage

Anesthetized Lesson

GUM - Anesthetized Lesson

Recorded by Rob Blamire in Dunston; b-side of The Kids Are Sick Again; released 4 May 2009

Tales Of The Semi-detached

Golden Fable are releasing new music every month. The Crossing is the first in the series, and includes a cover of The Lemonheads classic "It's a Shame About Ray". 

The Crossing's artwork and lyrics are inspired by "Butcher's Crossing", the 1960 novel from John Williams.

BUY HERE: https://fullofjoyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-crossing

Golden Fable - The Crossing

Written by Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre

Produced by Gemma Doherty, Morgan MacIntyre and Alex Ryan

Recorded and mixed by Alex Ryan at Noise, Bonane, Co. Kerry

Mastered by Fergal Davis

'Madrid' EP to be released by Trout Records, November 2015

Artwork by Deborah Sheedy

Logo by Éna Brennan

Blood Moon

Written by Paddy Hanna 
 
Mark Chester - Guitar 
Bobby Aherne - Bass, Piano 
Enda Canavan - Drums 
P. Hanna - Guitar, Vocals, keyboards 
Produced by Mark Chester 

Recorded in Orphan Recording, Dublin 

Cover design by Jill Redmond 
Cover photo by Conor Steenson.

Underprotected

Lifted from the 'Bathing Beach' EP out now via AllPoints
Buy: https://novoamor.lnk.to/bathing-beach
Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKAn8rNbKg

Anchor

Depth of Field is the first song to be taken from Sea Pinks forthcoming album Soft Days, due for release in January 2016 via CF Records. Rich in natural imagery and autumn colour, Depth of Field twists and turns on the super melodic guitar line of the verse and a lush, dreamy chorus extolling the virtues of uncertainty. 

Sea Pinks are a three piece from Belfast featuring Neil Brogan (ex-Girls Names, CRUISING) on guitar and vocals, Steven Henry (Documenta) on bass and Davey Agnew (Newton Forest FC) on drums. 

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http://cf-records.com

Sea Pinks - Depth of Field

Pleasure Beach play:
Nov 1st - Communion Club Night @ Notting Hill Arts 
Nov 5th - Community LDN Festival @ Hoxton Square Bar & Grill

Produced By Ben McAuley and Pleasure Beach at Start Together Studios, Belfast, N.Ireland
Mixed By Dan Austin
Mastered By Fergal Davis 
Released October 2015 on Faction Records

Dreamer To The Dawn

Tutti Frutti is the second single from New Order's Music Complete - out NOW on Mute. 

Get 'Tutti Frutti' EP here: 
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New Order - Tutti Frutti (Hot Chip Remix)

From the upcoming Shearwater album Jet Plane and Oxbow 

Quiet Americans

Shearwater - Quiet Americans

Kitty's Cool Beams

Tender Is The Neck is lifted from Rolling Blackouts' forthcoming debut 'Talk Tight' EP, due out on October 23rd via Ivy League Records. 
Pre-order the EP here and receive instand downloads of Clean Slate, Wide Eyes and Tender Is The Neck: http://apple.co/1hLbKmA

Talk Tight

Tender Is The Neck

Coming on November 13th his latest piece of wizardry. “Want You” - will be featuring the beautiful and talented River and include remixes from Ekkah, Le Flex and Vanbot.

Cesare definitely knows how to spread a glimpse of summer in our hearts…

Read more on the Kitsuné Journal: http://bit.ly/1NQtLOR


Want You EP

Cesare - Want You Feat River

Our cover of James' classic "Laid" featuring vocals from Jen Goma. 

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Laid

Spilt Milk is the brand new album from indie auteur Pete Astor, previously of The Loft, The Weather Prophets, and other esteemed acts. It was recorded onto ½ inch tape at the home studio of James Hoare of Ultimate Painting, The Proper Ornaments and Veronica Falls, with James playing guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and singing backing vocals. “He was”, says Astor, “an amazing band.” Other contributions came from members of Astor's live band, with Pam Berry (Black Tambourine, Withered Hand) supplying vocals, Jack Hayter (Hefner) on pedal steel, Alison Cotton (The Left Outsides) on viola, and Robin Christian (Male Bonding) and Susan Milanovic (Feathers) on drums.
 
The album has all the hallmarks of a future Pete Astor classic, drawing together key strands and tributaries of his work over the years, blending intuitive songwriting, acute lyrics and incisive melodies. After many years making more experimental, electronic music Astor has come full circle to the sound that made his name. He explains, “I’m back to being myself, bringing together sounds that I’ve used over time to make a record that sounds more like me than me!” 

From the opening track “Really Something” to the recent single “Mr Music” (a favourite of Marc Riley and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 music) the album’s re-connects Astor’s bespoke guitar pop with his long-standing embrace of The Velvet Underground’s musical DNA. Other standout tracks include “My Right Hand”, a hymn to everyone’s best friend, with guest appearances from Tony Hancock, Marvin Gaye, Philip Larkin and a host of ex-girlfriends; the slow burning drama of “The Getting There” recalling the atmospheres of Astor’s 80s kindred spirits, The Go-Betweens. Also, there is the wry drive of “Very Good Lock”, summed up by Astor as “a description of an injurious medical condition that often affects the male of the species”. Elsewhere there are the gorgeous harmonies of the grown up country lament “Good Enough”, which wouldn’t be out of place on one of George Jones’ most heartbroken albums. 

Spilt Milk is part of a continuum: from Astor’s beginnings with The Loft and The Weather Prophets on Creation Records in the 1980s, via his solo work through the 1990s and his more left field albums with The Wisdom of Harry and Ellis Island Sound on Matador Records, Heavenly and Peacefrog, through to his return to solo work with the Songbox album in 2012. As well as this ongoing musical activity, Astor is also Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he teaches, researches and writes about music; 2014 saw the publication of his study of Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation as part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Series. 
 
Astor remains in touch, engaged and vital in a way that is rare with someone with such longevity.  The album continues the story of one of one of England’s most respected and significant songwriters. As Astor says, “time passes, shit happens; some losses, some gains. Don’t cry – but I did!” 

This is Spilt Milk.

 
"Quintessentially English yet Cohenesque pastoral folk-pop songs bent the way of French chanson. Lovely, every one - and a striking reminder of Astor's influence on artists from Belle & Sebastian to Luke Haines" - Uncut
  

Pete Astor - My Right Hand

Pre-order Bobby Caldwell & Jack Splash's "Cool Uncle" here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cool-uncle/id1049141097?uo=4&at=1001l3Iq&app=itunes

Breaking Up

Download

Cool Uncle (Bobby Caldwell & Jack Splash) - Breaking Up (feat. Deniece Williams & Eric Biddines)

have you seen the disgrace?
the world wears the dawn like a day
like a painting of a face
whose features fade away
puts it's mirrors in the dark
points at your back and starts to laugh

in the meeting of this mire
i awake as if on fire
no my dawn was not put out
by some mistake was not put out
unlike the dawn was not put out
and now it will never be put out
there will be music all around
when they put me in the ground
and the drunk whilst laughing, spoke
these words that i have wrote

'you look like a sad painting' he sighed
'on both sides of the sky'
as the room it roamed a throng
and the piano played a song

outside the world is crucified
you must find something to be sacrificed to
to your love
or to your lie

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have you seen the disgrace?
the world wears the dawn like a day
like a painting of a face
whose features fade away
puts it's mirrors in the dark
points at your back and starts to laugh

in the meeting of this mire
i awake as if on fire
no my dawn was not put out
by some mistake was not put out
unlike the dawn was not put out
and now it will never be put out
there will be music all around
when they put me in the ground
and the drunk whilst laughing, spoke
these words that i have wrote

'you look like a sad painting' he sighed
'on both sides of the sky'
as the room it roamed a throng
and the piano played a song

outside the world is crucified
you must find something to be sacrificed to
to your love
or to your lie


Suicide Songs

You Look Like A Sad Painting On  Both Sides Of The Sky

A label based in Belfast, UK focusing on limited edition tapes and vinyl. Releases from Girls Names, High Places, Lucky Dragons, Mt. Eerie, Sea Pinks, Cloud Nothings and many more. 