Everyone go check out their new album Static! Its streaming on NPR: http://smarturl.it/CultsStaticNPR

Mother Madeline and Father Brian did it again 🙏

Music

"Case & Point" is a previously unreleased basement recording and B-Side to the "Varsity" 7" available 7/9/13.  The full LP "Soft Will" is available now.  

This track is exclusive to the 7" which can be found at local indie record shops, for the one closet to you check here:  http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues

thx


Smith Westerns - "Case & Point" (basement recording)

This basement recording features as the B-Side to a limited tour-only "3am Spiritual" 7", available on the band's forthcoming US dates with Sky Ferreira.

11/11: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/13: Boston, MA @ The Paradise
11/14: Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theatre
11/15: Philadelphia, PA @ The Church
11/18 Washington, DC @ 930 Club
11/20 Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick
11/21 Columbus, OH @ A&R
11/22 Madison, WI @ High Noon
11/23 Chicago, IL @ The Vic

http://smithwesternsmusic.com
http://facebook.com/smithwesterns
http://twitter.com/smithwesterns

"3am Spiritual" (basement recording)

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

Dye The World

Lingua Ignota - Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (2017) Full Album.mp3

Something in the Room She Moves

Who Brings Me

Wound Up (feat. a l l i e)

19-year-old Joe Russell-Brown’s debut EP is a collection of songs created on a cheap microphone and laptop in his grandma’s bungalow. It captures his transition from acoustic songwriter to dream-pop band leader. It’s lo-fi yet anthemic. 

Joe comments "Post-Youth Depression is a retrospective euphoria of the days you can only appreciate when they're gone. It's about friends, living in a shit town and the acceptance of whatevers to come."

Post-Youth Depression

Joe Russell-Brown - 'Post-Youth Depression'

so straighten out your thoughts
don't joke around with me in that way
acting way too strange
i'm not delusional
you are not the thing i've been dreaming of
x and y x and y
it's not alright not alright

if you think of me that way
we'll never be the same
hey i don't want you near me anymore
have way too much to lose
it'll leak out to my folks
losing my way of life my friends my home
you're acting way too strange
they've laws against this stuff
know they'll put us to death for this i'm sure
have too much here to lose
please don't look at me that way
you haven't been the thing i'm dreaming of
x and y x and y
it's not alright not alright
i can't i can't i can't

straight the kid delusionite
long been taught this wrong from right
in an ocean wide to turn the tide
i can't i can't i can't
x and y x and y
it's not alright not alright
x and y x and y
i can't i can't i can't

Mesita - XYXY

"3am Spiritual" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

Pre-order 'Soft Will' now, and receive '3am Spiritual' for immediate download: http://smithwesterns.gomerch.com

www.smithwesternsmusic.com
www.facebook.com/smithwesterns
www.twitter.com/smithwesterns
www.instagram.com/smithwesterns
www.touch-the-orb.tumblr.com

3am Spiritual

Cults - The Curse

"Idol" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

Pre-order here - http://smithwesterns.gomerch.com/

www.smithwesternsmusic.com
www.facebook.com/smithwesterns
www.twitter.com/smithwesterns
www.instagram.com/smithwesterns
www.touch-the-orb.tumblr.com

Cults - The Curse

cultscultscults

Recent comments

𝕻𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖗'𝖘 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖉𝖊

𝕻𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖗'𝖘 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖉𝖊

starrrsh

Sofja Markarova

Related tracks