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Overflow (The most beautiful thing)

Divided

Close your eyes

Run River

Run River - Southey [MASTER]

S T R U N G - O U T // F E V E R  

// https://youtu.be/R0d5uX23CLg //

Artwork: Alex Pines 

STRUNG OUT

Part song, part experimental tech-art piece, Toronto’s cinematic indie-pop/rock duo W I N C H E S T E R reveal their debut single Last Day of the Year taken from their forthcoming EP, “If Time is Not Linear Why Can’t I Forget the Past?”. The high-tech visual and audio experience is the product of the unbridled collision of the pair’s backgrounds in architecture, classical music, coding, visual art, DJing, and design. Together, Canadian artists Lauren Austin and Montgomery de Luna forge an atmospheric sonic pallette brought to life by an equally hybrid video art piece that blurs the line between computation, projection mapping, photography, and still life.

A refreshing, genre-bending composition of dark-alley dance beats, pop hooks, luscious synths, and ferocious guitars, songs from the W I N C H E S T E R debut have been described as, “epic tracks” by Velvet Rope Magazine’s editor Care Finch, stating, “this is certainly a band that I can get into”. Despite only releasing their first single now, their informal demos have already garnered the attention of Velvet Rope, the Indie Rock Playlist, ongeKunsteld, 88.3 CJIQ’s Indie Rock Invasion Show, Bells Brigade, Coast2Coast Mixtapes, Music of the North, and 89.5 CIUT’s Unsigned Radio.

Fully self-produced in domestic secrecy, Last Day of the Year is the first in a series of art pieces to be released later this year through Label Labs Records, an emerging grassroots recording club based out of Toronto. With each release the group will carve out another piece of the W I N C H E S T E R universe, methodically developing the visual companion to each song. This combination of sonic and visual elements as one integrated work advances the duo’s vision of a holistic concept realized through multiple media which will define their place in the music scene.

Last Day of the Year Written and produced by Montgomery de Luna
Performed by Montgomery de Luna and Lauren Austin
Mixed by Shayn Hotton
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, assisted by Chris Allgood
Released by Label Labs Records recording club
© Copyright 2016 Montgomery de Luna, ℗ 2016 Montgomery de Luna
All rights reserved

Last Day of the Year (single)

Last Day of the Year

W I N C H E S T E R - Last Day of the Year

Roads to Rivers

Half Awake

LAVA

Devil only knows
Who he owns
Who he owns
Never told a soul
What I owe
Was I sold out?

All the lava I contain
Tremors I’ve wrestled and tamed
Tip-toe around the mouth
Ashes float out
But eruption is not allowed

Waiting for forever
I’ve been waiting for forever
Waiting, waiting for forever
Waiting to explode
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

When it’s time to go
Will you know?
Will you know?
Death is always slow
If your soul 
Takes the long route

All the lives you’ve lived before
Have brought you to destiny’s door, oh-oh-oh
See you on the other side
Say your goodbyes
Spirit is ready to rise

Waiting for forever
I’ve been waiting for forever
Waiting, waiting for forever
Waiting to explode
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Say your goodbyes,
Spirit is ready to rise

Waiting for forever
I’ve been waiting for forever
Waiting, waiting for forever
Waiting to explode
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Music Video

Lava

Classic

Spotify

Freedom Fry - Tidal Wave

Little Wound ft. Ed Prosek

Heart's Rhythm

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

Baby Books

With you

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