2019

INDIE/Feb2019

Songs We Like February 2019

February 2019

Songs We Like - February 2019 Short List

WL//WH - MARCH 2019 \\ Post-Punk/Coldwave/Darkwave/SynthPop/Minimal Synth

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The Best Indie Dance Tracks of March 2019

All songs written and produced by Holden Laurence 

Holden Laurence: Bass / Guitars / Synths / Vocals 
Michael O'Brien: Drums / Percussion 

℗ © 2018 Holden Laurence 

© 2018 Romantic Americana Publishing (ASCAP) 

Recorded at Fe True Records / Bobby Peru Recording Studio 
Engineered by Shane Olivo 
Mixed / Mastered by Shane Olivo 
Artwork by Matthew Childers 

Special thanks to Dr. Bassie, executive producer and champion of this project.

Rewire

Shadows of Old Love

From the new Swervedriver album 'Future Ruins,' out January 25, 2019 on Dangerbird

PREORDER AND STREAM: smarturl.it/Swervedriver

Future Ruins

Spiked Flower

Swervedriver - Spiked Flower

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3C5vAqLDPk0iau8SLXl3PQ
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whatever-ever-single/1454887793
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/NRVS_LVRS_Whatever_Ever?id=Bo56rrwb26xk3acxyxxwohe6tma

whatever & ever

from the album placeholder, Out March 1st 2018

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Hand Habits - placeholder

SHADOWS

Primer is the alias and creative project of vocalist/producer Alyssa Midcalf.

With her debut album, Novelty, Midcalf showcases her skills as both a vocalist and songwriter. The sound of the album, which was composed heavily on a Roland Juno synthesizer, is characterized by driving drum beats, sub-heavy bass lines and shimmering synth leads. Midcalf’s vocals are airy yet dynamic, binding her songs together with a reverberating surrealism. To see these elements on full display, look no further than her haunting cover of The Beach Boys song Til I Die. 

Partly inspired by the indie time travel film of the same name, Midcalf says she was also drawn to the sense of futurism the word Primer invokes. This is fitting with the tone of her debut album, which brings to mind images of a dystopian disco. 
 
Midcalf, who gained some attention as one half of the duo Parts, made her introduction as Primer with the single Anesthetized, released on YHS Records in 2018. Her full album, Novelty, is set to be released on YHS Records in early 2019.

Novelty

My House

Primer - My House

From debut album - Future Fantasies (release 19th April 2019)

Time Travel - released 8th February 2019

Recorded at The Scorpions studio somewhere outside of Hannover and mixed/mastered at Propeller Studios, Oslo.

For PR in the UK please contact:
jgreen@mysticsons.com

For PR in Germany please contact:
darya@nbnberlin.de

For all other enquiries please contact:
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Future Fantasies mp3 160 final master

Time Travel

"Runner" is the second single from TEEN's forthcoming record,  "Good Fruit," out March 1st on Carpark Records.

PRE-ORDER
http://smarturl.it/teen_goodfruit

TOUR DATES
March 7 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook
March 8 - Atlanta, GA - 529
March 9 - Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover
March 12-17 - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 19 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo*
March 20 - San Francisco, CA - Cafe du Nord*
March 22 - Portland,OR - Mississippi Studios*
March 23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza*
March 24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Festival
March 27 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout
March 28 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
March 29 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere*
March 30 - Washington, DC - DC9*

* w/ Methyl Ethel

TEEN - Runner

Oyster Kids - "Losing My Mind" // Music Video: https://youtu.be/55cG4doVfM8
www.oysterkidsmusic.com

Written, Recorded, and Produced by: Oyster Kids
Full Credits: https://goo.gl/NVB2NG

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LYRICS:
Lean Back - Lean back, theres another way out through all of this
Insomniac, all the while to find your bliss
We don't need much, gotta breathe it all out and give it up
Soft to the touch, dreaming never lasts enough

Im losing my mind, wonder just how we wasted all our lives
Colors fade in white, wont let go when that feeling becomes mine

Hanging over me, like a wish right now 
Drift into beyond the cold sea water
Trouble in your sight, waves crash down
Dream into the night, let up, come home, go

We spend all our time looking over me
Feet on solid ground, see if i can lead
Teammate down this time, looking back at me

Summers Gloom, Rush over you
Life in bloom, could we pull through

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Losing My Mind

Lincoln, here’s a song for you
I’ve been twisting in the vapors and the fumes
There is nothing that I can say to you now
That you have not already heard

Lincoln, you cheated me again
From the highways, I had visions and the shakes
There is no one who can take me from this land
More than once, I was captured in your lens

Fall back, let the sunshine blind your eyes
Hear the voices of your lovers be your guide
There are many windows open in the house
They are letting out our secrets with the heat
There is nothing to hide
There is nothing left to hide

Dear shipwrecked, I, too, am waiting to be saved
I had my prayers and praises all sent back
Heaven is full of people who belong
There is nothing to hide
There is nothing left to hide

In the Shape of a Storm

Order the album

Damien Jurado - Lincoln

Blue Wings

Birds On A Wire

Rendered Armor 

Ritual Howls - Devoured Decency

Written & produced by Augustine / Rassmus Björnson / Agrin Rahmani


Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5_QbCUEFNc

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1esNGCDFDiy6sKEqPhlLb4?si=8u7_vyYtTCSwiplqQvgs2Q

Luzon

Laughing Matter

Thin Air

from Julian Lynch's "Rat's Spit" LP

OUT 1/18/19 via Ya Reach/ Underwater Peoples

PRE-ORDER LP --> underwaterpeoples.bandcamp.com/album/rats-spit

Julian Lynch - Catapulting

Let the Guys Down

▲▲ B I G   S Y N T H S , P U N C H Y   DR U M S , F U N K Y   B A S S ▲▲

Something In The Water

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Sadmoney

yr heart [reprise]

Weight of the World

Weight Of The World

Performed by Kat Saul
Written by Kat Saul, Paige Blue, Lucas Arens
Produced by Lucas Arens
Mixed by John Rausch (Taylor Swift, P!NK)
Mastered by Evren Göknar (John Legend, Ellie Goulding) 

Management: MOXI MANAGEMENT

FOR INQUIRIES:
wallacemorgan@moximanagement.com

Middle Name

“High With You“ written and performed by Turtles on Speed at the Canyon Hut and 17 Hertz

Produced by TOS and Mike Pepe
Mixed by Mike Pepe
Mastered by Alan Douches

LYRICS:

Hangin’ outside the liquor store
Tryin’ to find some sucker to buy us alcohol and cigarettes
You know, life was so much simpler then
And I never wanted it to end

Getting high with you 
Is all I ever wanna do

Skipping school, telling lies
About where we been and chasing girls around the valley
You know, the stars could never shine half as bright
If we lived that night 1,000 times

Getting high with you
Is all I ever wanna do

Stoned out of my mind on Ventura Blvd.
Hopped into a strangers car
But we never got too far
Because all I wanna do
Is get high with you…

High With You

I was only young when he told me that he had enough
For me to just stay home and relax, don'y worry 'bout the money in the bank
'Cause I got stacks around the house, it's underneath the floorboards in the lounge
It's only bits of paper lying round, everything you need is underground
I think it feels right

Would you like to be my sugardaddy?
I'm tired of working seven days a week
He's old enough to treat me properly
In five more years, he might die in his sleep

I was wearing red that dress you like
And now it's hanging over my head like a cloud
When did it start to feel like this? You say you love me and you'll pay for it
Am I your little pet? You keep me rest and red
I say it twice then you write me a cheque, 
It's like you never care if I'm upset, I wish you could slot notes into my head

Sugardaddy

LUCIA - Blue Heart

'Softie' is an attempt at proving that there is more than one way of being a functional human being. The album is about coping, growing out of your fears, learning how to distance yourself from your anxieties and the ups and downs that comes with being bipolar. 'Softie' is ultimately about releasing the pressure off of yourself and we want to encourage our listeners to do the same.

We decided to make a record that was turbulent, back and forth and non-conforming, because we wanted our second album to hit you in the face rather than rock you to sleep or move you to tears.

Wy - Softie

Ho Chi Minh

Housey kicks, plucky guitars, mind bending synths, and jazz rock breakdowns from SouthEast duo So So Sun.

(( LEAVE THE HOUSE ))

so you get set
in your one hand is a drink
and your other's a little lost
little lost

you guessed it at times
tried to hide it in a laugh 
you’re wasted inside
new spaces to find

oooowarm blood hard to find

arrested by day 
and the night now knew your name
when the lie's not your beginning
yeah you’re shaking

and the lune crept in, at a godly speed,
by the dust that rose, so your mind could sleep
just leave the house
leave the house
just leave the house
leave the house 
behind

so you sit tight
with a square for eyes to find
and the data's coming in
coming in

selfless your time
you can trust now in the grief
when life’s out there beginning 
pretty soon out with the lune

crept in, at a godly speed,
by the dust that rose, so your mind could sleep
and the lune crept in, at a godly speed,
by the dust that rose, so your mind could sleep

and the lune crept in, at a godly speed,
by the dust that rose, so your mind could sleep

you're scared to leave aren’t you
too scared to leave
scared to leave aren’t you
scared to leave 
the house
behind

Leave the House

'The Good News' (Release date: May 17, 2019) 

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/2DDN0Ko
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Minor Poet - Tropic of Cancer

**Out 4/5 on Get Better Records**

All songs by Control Top
Produced and mixed by Al Creedon
Recorded by Al Creedon and Jeff Zeigler
Mastered by Emily Lazar
Additional production by Ali Carter

Design by Nolen Strals
Photography by Kevin Spaghetti

Covert Contracts

Chain Reaction

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt. 1

White Onions

Toughest Man is out now: smarturl.it/toughest-man

It's the first song from our upcoming album Grow Your Garden out on May 10.
PRE-ADD ALBUM: https://ffm.to/anima-grow-your-garden

TOUGHEST MAN
BUY / STREAM: http://smarturl.it/toughest-man
WATCH MUSIC VID: http://youtu.be/4iEKxRCuJDc
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TOUGHEST MAN

Is he fact or is he fiction
Distraction his ammunition on your heart
Cleans up so good you won’t notice
He is hollow, covered up the fragile parts

Give it up man, understand that it’s not your fault
They’ve given you a rock for a heart
Put down your guns you can just let those tears fall
The toughest man ain’t no man after all

Works so hard so it looks easy
Keep those shades on, we all need that mystery
Fight that fight, that backwards current
Keep it chill, don’t feel too deeply or they’ll see

Give it up man, understand that it’s not your fault
They’ve given you a rock for a heart
Put down your guns you can just let those tears fall
The toughest man ain’t no man after all 

Give it up man, understand that it’s not your fault
They’ve given you a rock for a heart
Put down your guns you can just let those tears fall
The toughest man ain’t no man after all 

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Written by ANIMA!
Produced by ANIMA!
Mixed by Beat Vince (ANIMA!)
Mastered by Alex Psaroudakis
Artwork by Dylan Vandenberg

Toughest Man

Covert contracts rule our world: manipulative relationships, encoded social norms, opaque technologies. “With a covert contract, the trick is that the agreement is only known by the person who makes it,” says Ali Carter, singer and bassist of Philly post-punk trio Control Top. “The other person is oblivious. Consent is impossible. A void of communication opens up a world of misunderstanding.”

In an era of such impossibilities, Control Top—Carter with guitarist Al Creedon and drummer Alex Lichtenauer—rip open space for catharsis. Their explosive songs are a synthesis of varied interests and backgrounds: Carter’s innate sense of new wave melodies, Creedon’s sirening noise guitars, Lichtenauer’s feverish hardcore drumming.

On their debut full-length, Covert Contracts (out April 5th on Get Better Records, an independent label co-run by Lichtenauer), the songwriting is fully a collaboration of Carter and Creedon. Carter’s voice thumps and screams and deadpans while her driving, hooky basslines play out like guitar leads. Creedon, also the band’s engineer and producer, balances composition and chaos, equally inspired by pop and no-wave. With her lyrics, Carter responds to feeling trapped and overwhelmed in a capitalist patriarchy, offering indictments of wrongdoing and abuse of power, odes to empathy and ego death, as well as declarations of self-determination.

These songs hit even harder when you consider how close this band came to not existing at all. Despite being involved in underground music communities for years, Carter didn’t start Control Top (her first band) until age 25: “It took me that long to believe in myself enough to take the plunge.” Disillusioned by punk, Creedon had all but abandoned guitar: “Playing guitar in a rock band felt like writing poetry in Latin in 2019, using a dead language to convey ideas.” But Control Top felt exciting, a chance to experiment: to rethink the relationship between guitar and bass and use samplers to add new dimensions. Meanwhile, Lichtenauer had quit playing drums after an abusive situation in a previous band that had ruined playing music for them: “I thought I was done playing live music forever, but joining Control Top was sort of a rebirth for me.”

“Chain Reaction” is one of the record’s most urgent moments, exploring the degradation of communication at the whim of contemporary platforms. The follow-up to “Type A” originated as an instrumental demo by Creedon and highlights the destructive types of interactions that prevail today, where a desire to elevate oneself comes at the expense of others. “Light the wick, pull the trigger / What started small is getting bigger,” Carter sings on “Chain Reaction”, over a propulsive upbeat, infectious bassline and dissonant, fragmented guitar.

“The song takes place in the middle of an argument,” Carter explains. “Vitriol is flying and emotions are running high. With our culture’s growing appetite for anger and conflict, a petty disagreement can easily escalate into a full-out shouting match.” When Carter sings “I can't take it anymore / I wish I could disappear,” it’s at once anthemic and chilling, putting words to today’s unspoken anxieties. Brimming with post-punk poetry for 2019, Covert Contracts is the sound of agency being reclaimed.

Covert Contracts was recorded and mixed in Philadelphia by Creedon (Priests, Pouty, Taiwan Housing Project) and Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, The War On Drugs, Allison Crutchfield). The album was mastered by Emily Lazar. Covert Contracts will be for sale via the Deathwish webstore (US/UK/EU).