Playlist ezik #27 : des jours/des sons

These 6 previously unreleased tracks are a collection of B-Side material from our last EP 'Mansions'. As part of our mailing list now, you are welcome to stream or download this record which no one has ever heard before.

The release of this was sparked by the response we received from the leak of the track 'Walrus' and the resulting public push for us to release more material from the last record that was left on the cutting room floor. This record, unlike 'Mansions', was mixed and mastered independently by us in the same style and fashion as our first full length album 'Candy Flu'. For this reason these B-Side tracks share a similar sonic touch as both 'Mansions' and 'Candy Flu'.

We're very grateful for the support we have received over the years and it makes us incredibly happy and proud to release material we have written together which would have otherwise been lost in the Ether.

You can keep up to date with more of our latest news and releases from www.thewalkingwho.com and our related social media pages.

This release is best served with Gin and THC late in the evening, and we recommend for optimum sonic sound that it is ingested in bed or laying down with your eyes closed and your mind thirsty.

Cheers - TWW


Isn't That Dandy?

Having impressed us over the past nearly three years with their excellent first releases and their explosive concerts, it is now time to get our hands on the first complete work of A Victim Of Society. And its name is ''Distractions''.

Vagelis Makris and Fotis Ntouskas, in other words the two members of the band, manage to fit in their music the best moments of the bands that made us love rock n 'roll and at the same time to create a completely personal sound. Dark, dirty, neurotic, yet addictive, ''Distractions'' steps on the best music of the past but still sounds as fresh and contemporary, as few of its genre. Haunting guitars and loops that produce waves of rhythmic noise accompany the spunky vocals to create the perfect soundtrack for a nightmarish post-urban landscape. Recorded at Sonic Playground Studios by Nikos Triantafyllou and mastered by Jamal Ruhe at West West Side Music Studio in New York, ''Distractions'' has all the makings to be a landmark album of the greek alternative scene.

''Distractions'' is out on vinyl including bonus cd and digital album from Inner Ear.

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Αφού μας εντυπωσίασαν τα τελευταία τρία σχεδόν χρόνια με τις εξαιρετικές πρώτες τους κυκλοφορίες και τις εκρηκτικές  συναυλίες που τις συνόδευσαν, έφτασε επιτέλους η στιγμή να έχουμε στα χέρια μας την πρώτη ολοκληρωμένη δουλειά των A Victim Of Society. Και το όνομα αυτής, ''Distractions''.

 Ο Βαγγέλης Μακρής και ο Φώτης Ντούσκας, τα δύο μέλη δηλαδή της μπάντας, καταφέρνουν να χωρέσουν στην μουσική τους τις καλύτερες στιγμές από τα συγκροτήματα που μας έκαναν να αγαπήσουμε το rock ‘n' roll, δημιουργώντας τελικά έναν τελείως προσωπικό ήχο.  Σκοτεινό, βρώμικο, νευρωτικό και συνάμα εθιστικό, το ''Distractions''  ενώ πατάει πάνω στις καλύτερες στιγμές της μουσικής του παρελθόντος, ακούγεται και είναι τόσο φρέσκο και σημερινό, όσο λίγα πράγματα.  Κιθάρες που σε στοιχειώνουν αμέσως, λούπες που παράγουν κύματα ρυθμικού θορύβου και συνοδεύουν τα ψυχωμένα φωνητικά, δημιουργούν το ιδανικό soundtrack για ένα εφιαλτικό μετα-αστικό τοπίο.  Ηχογραφημένο στο στούντιο Sonic Playground από τον Νίκο Τριανταφύλλου και με το mastering να έχει γίνει από τον Jamal Ruhe στο West West Side Music Studio στη Νέα Υόρκη, το ''Distractions'' έχει όλα τα φόντα να αποτελέσει έναν δίσκο-σταθμό για την Ελληνική δισκογραφία.

Το ''Distractions'' κυκλοφορεί σε βινύλιο με bonus cd και digital album από την Inner Ear.


A Victim Of Society - Enough Said

Ought - "Beautiful Blue Sky"
from 'Sun Coming Down'

available 18 September 2015 on Constellation:
cstrecords.com/cst115

Sun Coming Down

Ought • "Beautiful Blue Sky"

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Get Some

‘Brand New Bathroom’ is the second single and title track from the debut EP by The Dolce Vita. The EP releases on white cassette as part of the Brand New Bathroom bundle and digitally via Major Leagues on 25th August, following a release show the night before. More details are available here:

www.facebook.com/events/249016965503547/

Pre-orders will be available soon.

ML xx

Brand New Bathroom EP

The Dolce Vita - Brand New Bathroom

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2017’s equal parts somnambulant and sultry Sleeprydr 7” was aptly described as “psychedelic rock that hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares” (-Stereogum). Thankfully, Slow Sundown, Holy Motors’ debut full length release, finds the Estonian dreamcatchers utilizing a similar sonic palette ranging from dark psychedelic pop to shoegaze-inflected western music. But while Sleeprydr, much like 2015’s Heavenly Creatures 7”, provided only a fleeting glimpse into the dreamscape that their music evokes, Slow Sundown’s eight tracks offer a more immersive experience for those brave enough to take the ride. While the guitar lines from lonely cowboy ballads like “Honeymooning” could easily serve as the central themes for unwritten Morriccone scores, dystopian anthems like the rhythmically propelled “Signs” break new ground for the band and demonstrate that Holy Motors are not bound by their influences. Thematically the album is comprised primarily of sad love songs centered around the idea of motion – the motion of a satellite orbiting a planet, the motion of a passenger riding shotgun in a car – as it relates to stellar-scale and existential isolation. Produced by Merchandise’s Carson Cox and recorded at Brooklyn’s Kutch1 Studios when the band was visiting the US on tourist visas, Slow Sundown is a beautiful alien artifact that definitively delivers on everything we have been promised by Holy Motors’ work to date.

About Holy Motors

Hailing from Estonia, Holy Motors is a five-piece twang and reverb band featuring three guitarists. They are cowboys at heart who come off as shoegazers by their presence and dreamcatchers in their music. In their time, Holy Motors have played alongside bands such as Kaleidoscope, Craft Spells, Sic Alps, Dirty Fences, and Rips. They will appear at South by Southwest in 2018 and are currently organizing a series of US tour dates centered around the festival.

STEREOGUM
Hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares
THE FADER
HOLY MOTORS makes shoegaze that sounds like the old west
ADHOC
Alluring in their delivery, entrapping in their substance

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Holy Motors - Honeymooning

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TEEN - Electric

"Line of Fire", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.

Buy the track on Amazon: http://glnk.it/1v4
or on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1v5

http://www.junip.net
http://www.mute.com
http://www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:

What would you do
If it all came back to you
Each crest of each wave
Bright as lightning
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining

Standing on higher ground
But when you hear the sounds
You realise it's just a whim (/the wind)
And you notice it matters
Who and what you let under your skin

If put to the test
Would you step back from the line of fire
Hold everything back
All emotions and desires

Convince yourself to be someone else
And hold back from the world
Your lack of confidence
What you choose to believe in
Dictates your rise or your fall

With no one else around you
No one to understand you
No one to hear your calls
Look through all your dark corners
When you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire

I'd do the same as you would
Would do the same as you
Step back from the line of fire

Buy on iTunes

Junip - Line Of Fire

Official Music Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Lcv-b9Nag

Original version from debut album « LUNAR LANE » http://polydor.lnk.to/LunarLane

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http://www.jabberwocky.fr
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Jabberwocky ft. Wildstars - Photomaton

Scout Niblett - Gun

Live A Little - written and performed by Florrie for a Sony Headphones campaign

Florrie - Live A Little

Download this from http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/beaches-she-beats

From second album She Beats, out on Chapter Music 3 May 2013.

Sprawling Melbourne psych-rock fivepiece Beaches return with second album She Beats.
Their self-titled debut emerged on Mistletone Records in 2008, making the Australian Music Prize shortlist for that year and featuring in 2010 book 100 Best Australian Albums. In the intervening years, the band have toured the US twice, played All Tomorrow’s Parties at the invitation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, released an EP for NYC label Mexican Summer, shared stages with the likes of Roky Erickson, Deerhunter and Wooden Shjips, and even celebrated the birth of beautiful twin daughters to guitarist Alison Bolger.

But a second album was always on the cards. For She Beats, Beaches have once again joined forces with producer Jack Farley (Twerps, Scott & Charlenes Wedding). And like its predecessor, the album reflects a love for 60s pop, 70s psych, shoe-gaze, prog, southern boogie and Krautrock. But She Beats is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than the debut.

For one thing, German guitar icon Michael Rother of Neu/Harmonia features on two tracks. The band formed a bond with Rother at ATP in Melbourne in 2009, and he invited himself along to their recording sessions during his next Oz tour in 2012. One of these tracks, the cascading sonic swirl Distance, was premiered in March on Gorilla Vs Bear and has already had more than 30k Soundcloud plays.

￼Elsewhere, Veda sees the band extending hypnotically Eastward, while droning cello scrapes introduce Tanzanite. On the other end of the spectrum, tracks like Send Them Away, Out Of Mind and Runaway are upfront, glorious pop, though still heady with Beaches’ dreamy guitar heroics. All up, She Beats is rich, confident and layered, a multi-dimensional sonic world to get lost in over and over again.

Beaches are Antonia Sellbach (guitar/vocals), Alison Bolger (guitar/vocals), Ali McCann (guitar/vocals), Gill Tucker (bass/vocals) and Karla Way (drums/vocals).

“The five-piece can make a racket, no doubt, but Beaches are far from reckless, as the band delivered tightly constructed, densely layered and intricately detailed songs, all of them packing riffs the size of glaciers” - LA Times

“If the Melbourne, Australia-based all-girl rock group Beaches were based in, say, Brooklyn, you would probably have heard about them by now” - Pitchfork

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www.twitter.com/beachesband
www.chaptermusic.com.au
Itunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/she-beats/id610715433?uo=4

Beaches -  Send Them Away

Taken from the Boiling Point/Promise Land 12", out 5th Feb 2021. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BadwanCoxon

A collaboration between Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat’s Eyes) & renowned guitarist John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack / Spiritualized / Treader), Boiling Point/Promise Land is the first release of an ongoing collaborative series between Faris and other artists, details of which will be subsequently announced.

Badwan & Coxon met some years ago when Faris was looking for producers to work with on his solo material and their working relationship evolved beyond the existing songs into something more improvisational and instinctive. As Faris explains:

The new songs we ended up working on were largely spontaneous and cut together from early takes with minimal overdubbing. The lyrics were improvised and the focus was placed more on creating atmosphere and keeping things fairly raw and expressive. I guess I found it rewarding particularly with the guitar playing because it was so intuitive and completely free from any expectations of how a song should be constructed. There are hooks and repetitive sections but fewer traditional structures.

We tried to avoid doing any planning beforehand and focussed more on responding to what was happening in the moment. I guess the sessions were kind of a constant dialogue where we would each respond to the other's improvisation.

With Promise Land I began by improvising lyrics over a drone track John and I created. Some time later I came across “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet, and was struck by the similarities - there are a few lines that match really closely. Despite being half-palestinian myself this was a total accident and I know for sure I hadn’t seen Darwish’s piece before.

With Boiling Point the lyrics are almost the ghost of a narrative rather than an explicit story. I’m interested in the subconscious and how the hidden parts of your brain express themselves when given the opportunity. Looking back it was almost more about creating the right conditions for the subconscious to come out.

Boiling Point / Promise Land is out on Tough Love Records on Friday 5th February 2021 on DL and as a limited edition (500) 12” which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available via Bandcamp. In keeping with the approach of the music, each design was improvised and instinctive. Faris added about the artwork:

What was interesting about it was the way the style of the designs naturally evolved as a result of having so many blank squares to fill - there's a really clear development from start to finish - beginning with angular lines filling the sleeve and ending with smoother, more minimal abstract shapes responding to the existing sleeve design. It ended up almost like a process-based art project where you work repetitively within really strict confines and let the results emerge organically.

Beaches - Send Them Away

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