BIRP! Indie Playlist April 2013

www.geographermusic.com

Artist: Geographer
Song: Lover's Game
Album: MYTH

Geographer - Lover's Game

Garden Grays

The former Wu Lyf member launches his bright, bold first official single on Dazed Digital. 

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/18292/1/francis-lung-a-selfish-man

A Selfish Man 7" is out on Jan 16 on Atelier Ciseaux b/w “Tsunami Blues (Cause of Me)”

Francis Lung – A Selfish Man

Cape Town, South Africa.

http://www.indieshuffle.com/booklub-western-hours/

Booklub - Western Hours

Animal Shapes EP -- Released 2010 on Tricycle Records

Geographer - Kites

From the album Ad Infinitum, out September 18, 2015 on Merge Records.

Ad Infinitum

Telekinesis "Sleep In"

All Hail Bright Futures

Big Thinks Do Remarkable

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

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About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

Buy on iTunes

Atlas Genius - Back Seat

Quivers are back with new song "You're Not Always On My Mind", their first release since debut LP "We'll Go Riding On The Hearses", and are soon heading over to showcase at SXSW.

"You're Not Always On My Mind" (out everywhere Feb 20th) is their most direct release yet - Quivers' signature jangly guitars and shouted choruses tightened up into their first real pop song. It was recorded in The Aviary Recording Studio by Matt Redlich. The result has a "Reckoning” era R.E.M. vibe - snaking and shimmering guitars, and driving drums.

It's a bit like 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" - a song to prove how much you're not thinking about someone...

Quivers - You're Not Always On My Mind

MOCKY "ALL THESE THINGS FOR YOU" feat. Hilary Gay

Peoples – cheers elephant

The debut album from Ficiton premiered via Dazed Digital

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15720/1/fiction-the-big-other

Fiction - Big Things

Relativity 3 out now! Buy it here: http://bit.ly/XlV9oz

Cut To Black

"The Speed of Things" is now available for download at http://smarturl.it/speedofthings.

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If You Didn't See Me [Then You Weren't On The Dancefloor]

If You Didn't See Me (Then You Weren't On The Dancefloor)

Released April 2, 2013
Recording and Mixing by Hani Zahra
Mixing and Mastering by Adrian Morgan
Post Production Supervision by Jared Dymbort
Artwork by Darnell Scott

Hani Zahra - Along Those Lines - 06 Cannibal Crime (Wait Wait Wait)

The Zolas - Ancient Mars

Our new song "Good Old Days" is out now!
https://ffm.to/goodolddays

If You Didn't See Me (Then You Weren't On The Dancefloor)

JR JR

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