Best Songs of 2016 So Far

August 2016

2016 - Part 6

Broken Promises

AF's Best Tracks Of The Week 8/22

electronic pop

Pressure

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http://raccoo-oo-oon.org/np/ 

05 Tried And True - Sandy

Written and Produced by Charlotte Day Wilson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdaydreamz
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After All

Good Life

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Oh My

Contact: hannah@exitpr.co.uk

I had a dream last night
The world on the upside
I wanted to let go
I wanted you to know
That the arrow in my side
Been there all my life
It’s hard to cut things clean
But we'll do it as a team

Lets build a fortress
And we’ll hold up the walls
Lets build a fortress
And we’ll never fall

Walls that have no seam
A tower tall as dreams
Let go and hold my hand
We’ll do it cos we can 

Those that come to hate
Are screaming at the gate
Try to understand
That we’re royals of this land

Lets build a fortress
We’ll hold up the walls
Lets build a fortress
And we’ll never fall

Lets build a fortress
It’ll be our shield
Lets build a fortress
And we’ll make it real

And we’ll make it unbreakable
And we’ll set each stone
Keep the blueprints in our fingertips
So no one else can know
And we’ll crush the seeds of doubt
Til we rule them all
And we’ll lay the fragments out
In a perfect whole

Lets build a fortress
We’ll hold up the walls
Lets build a fortress
And we’ll never fall

Lets build a fortress
It’ll be our shield
Lets build a fortress
And we’ll make it real

The Great Unknown

Fortress

lyrics:

ivy— baby—
sweetheart—
you’re so insecure:
taking back your words.

Oh, lover—
loveless— 
take me, take me by my hair;
take me to your lair.

Oh, ivy— sweetheart—
daydream—
speechless ain’t your thing;
tell me what you need.

hey-hey ivy— honey— 
daydream—
fill me with your needs;
I don’t need to breathe.

Oh, I understand, always understand. 
What’s the problem?

Oh, I understand, always understand. 
What’s the problem?

Hold-up, 
I get it.
I know that you meant it.

The distance between us,
the size of a planet.

It could have been nothing—
slow motion discussion.

I wake up with nothing.

(i wanna)
(i gotta)

(get away).

Written and produced by Charlotte Day Wilson
Additional production by Howie Beck
Mixed by Howie Beck
Mastered by Joao Carvalho

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Work

Recorded and Mixed by Lindsay Corstorphine in Hackney Wick, February 2016. 
Mastered by Daniel Husayn.

Seagulls

The first single from Chris Staples' forthcoming album 'Golden Age' out August 19th on Barsuk Records.

Chris Staples "Relatively Permanent" (from Golden Age)

AdamTorres - Outlands

'Hoops' EP out August 26th via Fat Possum Records

iTunes pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.iTunes
FP store pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.CDLP

Track listing:
1. Cool 2
2. Yeah
3. Going Strong
4. Give It Time
5. Gemini

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Hoops Tour Dates:
08/24 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop +
09/08 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club *
09/09 Madison, WI @ The Frequency *
09/23 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival
09/24 Champaign, IL @ Pygmalion Festival
09/29 Green Bay, WI @ Meyer Theatre (Backstage) ^
10/03 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In *
10/04 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *
10/05 Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse *
10/06 Washington, DC @ DC9 *
10/07 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
10/09 Allston, MA @ Great Scott *
10/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

* w/ Whitney
^ w/ Car Seat Headrest
+ w/ The Pills & Nice Try

Tickets: bit.ly/Hoops_TourDates 

iTunes

Hoops - Cool 2

<3 <3 Heart on Hype Machine >>>> http://hypem.com/item/2hfdc
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I wish I cared less what people thought about me
Would I still be who I am?
And if I cared less would you still hang around me?
Would I need any friends?

It doesn’t matter what I do
Doesn’t matter what I say
In the end we’re all gonna go away
When I’m looking at my life
For a final empty night
Will I change my mind or will I feel the same?

Am I losing my mind?
Am I losing control?
Am I losing my way?
Tell me cause I need to know

Am I opening up?
Am I shutting you out?
Am I going insane?
Tell me cause I need to know

I feel in love with someone who looks just like me
Seems like I know what I want
I figured how to warp how people see me
But I’m still stuck in this hole

Twitter: http://twitter.com/raekomusic 
Facebook: http://facebook.com/raekomusic 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/raekomusic 

Produced, Mixed, & Mastered by Jason Suwito @ Noise Coalition
Written by Jason Suwito, Ryan Lawhon, & Landon Jacobs

Need 2 Know

Need 2 Know (feat. Mating Ritual)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/46yXVxujjjezOPbosfpzh5
Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/Sz6wdb?i=1130079977


Written by: Stefan Alexander, Elliot Jacobson, Andrew Horowitz, Toyin Mustapha, Rob Drake
Produced by: Elliot Jacobson, Andrew Horowitz
Mixed by: Mike Tuccillo
Mastered by: Emily Lazar, assisted by Chris Allgood


Stefan Alexander - Skeleton

Newest single from The Electric Sons– available everywhere July 25th!

Mixed/Mastered by Billy Snyder III @ethossoundstudios

– FB, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat: @theelectricsons
– Website: theelectricsons.com

Cool - Single

Cool

The issue had been forced, the cards were laid bare upon the table. They knew what they must do. The vanishing twin had left their family broken, however, the time had come to strike back and find the culprits at hand. Their small village had lived through wars, peace, and natural disaster, the wooden huts sat promptly on the hillside. Now, into the jungle they must go, to find their long lost brother, their long lost twin.

Soundway Records continue to uphold a reputation of excellence as they deliver music of superb quality time and time again. This time they have placed their faith in the recently formed group Vanishing Twin who blend traditions of English Pop alongside arkestral and world influences, a winning combination. Here is an exclusive premiere of  'Vanishing Twin Syndrome'.

PREMIERE: Vanishing Twin - Vanishing Twin Syndrome [Soundway]

FAT WHITE FAMILY - BREAKING INTO ALDI

Swaai Boys are proud to announce the newest crumbling desert pop single off their upcoming collection of songs Hot Sand!
 
REF_HS_002 (Dana of Dendur) is based on a love story from Swaai Boys' percussionist Helmut's youth. The Temple of Dendur is an intact Egyptian temple housed in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a highschool girlfriend of Helmut's had a summer internship. Her name was Dana. Helmut said she was tasked with categorizing hundreds of shabtis in the galleries near the temple -- Egyptian Blue funerary figures -- which was apparently very boring and lonely. 
 
The Swaai Boys were having a few mai tais at the museum's roof garden one summer afternoon when Helmut told his fellow Swaai Boys about the affair -- Helmut would meet Dana at the end of her shift, they would cut the lines, sneak into the temple, throw pennies in the water, and make out under the palms. 
 
Often staying until the museum closed, Helmut and Dana would wander the wing looking at Queen Nefertiti's jewelry and crumbling pharaoh sarcophaguses. At one point, Dana said she knew hieroglyphs, and tried to decipher the insanely long Book of the Dead papyrus which lines a corridor there. They were in paradise, but was all too good to be true. They drifted apart after the summer, and Dana left a fond hole in Helmut's heart. 
 
A few weeks later Helmut ran into Dana at an opening at the Hemingway Gallery on 55th Street. She was quite cold and aloof to him. Her wealthy, stuffy parents had never liked Helmut, and she seemed to have grown into the mold.
 
Dana of Dendur is about foiled young love -- how funny and sad it can be watching people grow up and change, sometimes in such a short amount of time. Especially astute in the shadow of a 2000-year old temple preserved immaculately under stippled glass that mimics its original Nubian lighting.
​Deluxe expedition edition, including music video and packet coming soon!

Lyrics --

dana of dendur
i've got nothing too

free admission
to your exhibition 

bogus papyrus
bogus papyrus

dana of dendur 
i've got nothing too

once, twice, all the time
on your parents dime

bogus papyrus
bogus papyrus

but dana of dendur why would you
cut the line if all the time you lose?

Credits --

Produced and engineered at MCFK Studios by Oliver Ignatius 

Mastered by Caleb Townsend and Andrew McInerney at Warner Bros. Sound

Written by Andrew McInerney

Andrew McInerney - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Caleb Townsend - Vocals, Lead Guitar, Percussion
Jose Ginarte - Drums
Asher Townsend - Percussion 
Josh Barocas - Bass
Oliver Ignatius - Backing Vocals

REF_HS_002 (Dana of Dendur)

Feat. Elle Olsun

From upcoming triple LP 'Phantasmagoria' 

Available on Itunes: http://apple.co/2bgE5TH 
 
           And Amazon: amzn.to/2bxrn1Z

© 2016 Kan Wakan. All Rights Reserved


Molasses

As the curtain
closes in on your eyes
you embrace the lie
 
You were searching 
for a kiss
in other lips

I said why
can't I love you
like I used to?

And the weakness
of my heart grows
there's no beating
only flames and bows

Like molasses
that flows
with tension
ooo it grows
faucets dripping 
at a steady pace
tears will travel 
down your face

I said why
can't I love you
like I used to?

Why can't I?
oh why can't I?
Love you

Molasses

What shall I do now the world is mine?

Taken from the new album, Bonito Generation. 

Pre-order CD: http://bit.ly/2c2ts8c
Pre-order digital: http://apple.co/2bsweBd

Bonito Generation

Pre-order the album

Graduation

Written, produced, mixed by Danz. Obscure but Visible EP out October 7th on Channel 9 Records, available for pre-order here: http://https://itun.es/us/eiMBdb 

Pre-order limited edition 10" vinyl here: http://bit.ly/2bDaALd
Pre-order limited edition red cassette here: http://bit.ly/2bS1Ql9


Computer Magic - Dimensions

Computer Magic