Février 2014

sounds that matter

Goodkickings Program 2

Dead leaf echo

Soundcloud Orbitings - Feb:2014

Spreading the love of shoegaze, dreampop, spacerock, blisspop, Lo-fi,krautrock, electronica, psychedelia.....

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Shoegaze & Dreampop #34*

Rock

Departure Gate

Jeg kan ikke se 
Måske sku' jeg gå
Men jeg kan ikke stå
og kys kan ikke spå

Kan du ikke se?
Du må ikke gå
Bliv hos mig, stå
stå her
Kys kan ikke spå

Taken from their debut album "Weird Sister."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) & Fortuna Pop! (UK)

LP/CD: http://smarturl.it/jgws-album
Digital: http://smarturl.it/jgws-itunes

Thrilling Cardiff-based noisepop five-piece Joanna Gruesome will be releasing their terrific debut album via Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Slumberland (USA) in September. Brimming with irresistible pop melodies and spiked with dissonant fuzzy jangle, their songs are shot through with loud discordant feedback and super-fast, hardcore punk drumbeats. This album sees their first foray away from recording in a living room to a proper studio under the guidance of producer MJ of the much lauded Hookworms.

Kicking it against sexism and homophobia, nothing is off-limits, drawing inspiration from DIY scenes such as Riot Grrrl/noisepop/C86 /K Records as well as post hardcore like Drive Like Jehu/Converge and the art rock of The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Gruesome offer a staggeringly diverse album, unexpectedly quiet and surprisingly loud.

Joanna Gruesome comprise Alanna on vocals, Owen on guitar, Max on bass, George on guitar and Dave on drums. They all met in an anger management counseling group. During the course they were told that writing, making music, dancing or painting could relieve tension and help reduce feelings of anger. One initiative involved a project where they were assigned a group to compose and perform a song in front of other members. Initially they found each other infuriating but gradually acknowledged their musical chemistry and decided to continue with the band outside the therapy group.

Most of the album was written during a month long stay in a seedy west Brighton hotel (now closed down) called The Hell House. The residents were pretty strange, kept attempting occult rituals/using Ouija boards etc and many of the songs were written to distract from the weirdness. Heart-wrenching and exhilarating in equal measure, these are not cheerful songs.

Awash with nods to mental illness and the dark recesses of the mind, the record is littered with references to the devil or zombies and allusions to comic books. “Secret Surprise”, in which mental illness takes a physical form and is fought using razor blades. Or "Anti-Parent Cowboy Killers," which is about stealing a scooter and driving it into the ocean when you should be in school LEARNING. Or "Sugarcrush," about spending a summer burning knitwear.

They have built-up a phenomenal live reputation, blending obnoxiously loud guitars and the occasional band uniform, with a high energy performance dispersed with quieter reflection, boy/girl vocals and teenage angst.

“Abrasion, anger, attitude. One guitarist is in the audience, but this isn’t too much of a stretch. There are slower parts where the musicians take a second to breath. There are noisier bits where the musicians take a second to reflect. There are thumpy bits where the musicians take a second to dance and enjoy themselves. Everyone’s smiling. Everyone’s hugging themselves. What a glorious mess of a noise to be a part of. What a glorious sense of community.” Everett True, Collapse Board
 
"A brilliant band from Cardiff who love their fuzzy melodies and songs dripped in scuzzy reverb." Huw Stephens, Radio One.

Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush

Download the single free here:
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Open Up Your Mind

Taken from Mazes' mini album 'Better Ghosts', released 21st November 2013.

Hayfever Wristband

Ze  Beseder Lefahed

FUZZ - Whats In My Head

She Breathes remixed by Tiers (Artificial Records) 

She Breathes (Tiers Remix)

Sudden Death Of Stars - 'Halcyon Days' - Ample Play Records

Free end of the year remixes of The Soft's Uncanny Valley EP (available now on 12" and digital). Artwork by William Glass.

https://soundcloud.com/jahnne
https://soundcloud.com/thesoft

The Soft - Bewilder (Jahnne Remix)

When it's Over

To download this track, visit itun.es/i66B3RR

Look for our upcoming album, out this summer on Kanine Records

"Honey Do" is also on the limited edition, vinyl-only Kanine Record Store Day Compilation, out April 19th

Beverly is Drew Citron & Frankie Rose

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Careers

Honey Do

The new single from Younghusband, taken from their acclaimed debut album 'Dromes'. Released on February 17, 2014.

Left Of The Rocks

Younghusband 'Left Of The Rocks'

Slow Glow

From the album Shriek, out April 29, 2014 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/shriek

Shriek

Buy from Merge

Wye Oak "The Tower"

'Alta' and 'Waterfall', taken from the forthcoming debut album, 'Loom'.

Released by Kanine Records on the 21st April in the UK, 22nd in the US, on CD, Digital and Vinyl formats.

A limited deluxe two coloured vinyl edition will be released on Record Store Day, April 19th.

Pre order at FEAROFMEN.CO.UK

Alta/Waterfall

The History Of Colour TV - Split Blood

From Dead Leaf Echo's upcoming new EP "true.deep.sleeper" 
Released 2.25.14 on Moon Sounds Records 
Mixed by Monte Vallier (Soft Moon, Weekend) 
Mastered by Joe Lambert (School of Seven Bells, No Joy)

"true.deep.sleeper" 
you run and you stay 
you turn in shame

You burn my heart away 
your thoughts are all the same 
true sleep will fall away 
as you run into my dream

you turn to pray 
you kneel... fall away

you burn my tears away 
my want is all your game 
my heart will hide the shame 
as I fall into your dream

you burn my heart away 
you turn my thoughts to shame 
true pain will fall away 
as you run into my dream

true.deep.sleeper

Written and Produced by Cathedrals (Johnny Hwin and Brodie Jenkins)
Engineering and Additional Production by Max Savage (www.noisysavage.com)
Mastering by Twin Peaks Studios
Additional Drums by Mitchell Wilcox (@future-perfekt)
Photography by Jennifer Skog (www.jenniferskog.com)

Debut EP out now on Neon Gold—

iTunes: smarturl.it/CathedralsEP

Vinyl: neon-gold-shop.myshopify.com/products/c…hedrals-ep

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Want My Love

Bluejuice - Act Yr Age

The Sunshine Factory - Don't Fall Asleep

I Would Hide

Ball Park Music - Coming Down

Track #6 from dead leaf echo's debut LP "Thought & Language'
Released 04.02.13
Label: Neon Sigh

Free download here- http://deadleafechonyc.com/widgets/Memorytraces/

Memorytraces

THE CHURCHHILL GARDEN
aus Luzern
Ein Mann Projekt

The SWAN

Ulrich Schnauss - Clear Day

www.saintmarierecords.com
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amber@gotsyncmusic.com
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wyatt@saintmarierecords.com

Drowner - Stay With Me

>>Sweden is available now via iTunes and all other digital retailers<<

>>To buy Sweden now from iTunes head over here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sweden-single/id633129971 

Gigs: 

LONDON - BIRTHDAYS, Dalston (w/ Scanners) - £6 Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/217158

* FANDANGO RELEASES 12 SINGLES TO CELEBRATE 12 YEARS OF INDIE CHAOS *

* SCOTTISH SKYGAZERS THE MACHINE ROOM ARE THE SECOND IN LINE *

Spring 2013 sees gig promoting stalwarts Club Fandango turn 12 years old. To celebrate this highly unlikely event their in-house record company Label Fandango is releasing 12 digital singles by 12 of their very favouritest new acts throughout this year, continuing on May 8th with ‘Sweden’ by Scottish stargazers THE MACHINE ROOM. These singles will be available on a subscriptions basis through State 51’s greedbag shop, with a bargain payment of £7.99 ensuring receipt of all twelve singles as and when they happen. Or you can just buy the singles individually when you feel like it. It’s really up to you.

THE MACHINE ROOM, then: not the clanking heart of a factory but five mildly electro-fied dreamers from Edinburgh who consist of Adie Emanuel, Cecilia Stamp, John Bryden, Ryan Marinello and Scott Hitchings and who exist in their own swirling world of heavyweight rhythms and featherweight melodies. Just over a year ago they released the ‘Love From A Distance’ EP, which saw the quintet correctly described as “enthralling” and “epic-sounding”. Continuing the E-treat theme the follow-up is ‘Sweden’, which is released as a digital download on Label Fandango (catalogue number: GALAGOS 40) on May 8th, and is both casually ecstatic and cannily euphoric. Or, in their own words…

“Appearing on the BBC Vic Galloway’s ‘Ones To Watch’ list for 2012 The Machine Room have long been regarded as one of the most exciting bands on the Edinburgh music scene. Influenced equally by the succinct and bittersweet rhythms of New Order and the jangly pre-Britpop wonder of The House Of Love, they are ethereal, vulnerable and strikingly pop all at once. Retro pads, modern arpeggios, hooky bass and beautiful guitar lines set the backdrop for John Bryden’s falsetto delivery of lyrical honesty, packing a brutal love punch.”

Check out and purchase The Machine Room's last EP 'Love From A Distance' here http://the-machine-room.bandcamp.com/

The Machine Room - Sweden

Order on http://www.itunes.com/kidfrancescoli or http://www.kidfrancescoli.bandcamp.com

Watch the music video on www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZbf5dr8V0

Taken from the forthcoming LP "With Julia"
© Microphone Recordings 2013

www.kidfrancescoli.com

Blow Up (Single Edit)

2nd single from Miami rockers Jacuzzi Boys' self-titled third LP, out September 10th, 2013.

Jacuzzi Boys / Hardly Art: http://www.hardlyart.com/jacuzziboys....
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Sub Pop: https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/...

Jacuzzi Boys on tour: http://www.hardlyart.com/tour.html

Jacuzzi Boys

Be My Prism

Jacuzzi Boys - "Be My Prism"

The Dark Has Fallen

Alternative Pop Music
http://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/delusional-waste-single-and-remixes

Delusional Waste (Single MIx)

Brooklyn's Dead Leaf Echo is a music/art collective that released their debut LP Thought and Language in 2013. That premier album was strongly influenced by many 4AD acts, brought into sharp focus by the mixing of This Mortal Coil’s John Fryer (Lush, NIN, Depeche Mode) and featuring artwork by 4ADs legendary designer, V23's Vaughan Oliver (Pixies, Bauhaus), which further enhanced their strong aesthetic connections to that label. The band maintains a distinctive ethos--embracing their idols, while still forging their own sound.

Their second LP, Beyond Desire, coming October 13th via Papercup Music finds them working with legendary My Bloody Valentine engineer Guy Fixsen (MBV, WIRE) and Jorge Elbreht (Ariel Pink, No Joy, Frankie Rose, Violens, Lansing-Drieden) with artwork from Timothy O’Donnell (another 4AD design alumni) at Mexican Summer's Gary's Electric studio in Greenpoint. 

The new record finds them exploring something much more than bands within their sphere typically strive for - it's introspection leavened with human connectedness and higher arching themes of maturation and growth that transcend the basic needs of lust and want. This record comes far closer to approximating their live show, with a scorching sound that is often volatile, rife with damaged guitar deconstructions and gleaming figures, yet maintains their eminently melodic sensibilities. Beyond Desire, shifts from shimmering to scorching at the drop of a hat held together by rock solid songwriting. By moving between both ends of the spectrum, the ten tracks on Beyond Desire function both as blissed-out, resplendent expository narratives, and also as pure, white-noise nihilism. 

Both their live performances and album, replete with gorgeous packaging and artwork, are crucial entry points to understanding the band. 

Their upcoming tour will take them across the country from New Orleans to California playing in old and new cities alike over the course of three months. DLE has done multiple national tours over the past three years resulting in over 200 shows and taking them to SXSW, CMJ, NXNE, Northside Festival and everywhere in between. Previous tours and SXSW bills included Swervedriver, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Ocean Blue, The Warlocks, Modern English, The Wedding Present & Trail Of the Dead. They're also veterans of the Desert Stars festival, sharing a bill with the Lemonheads and opening for Lou Barlow in the Joshua Tree desert in 2016. They've toured the East with Slumberland bands Weekend and Lorelei, and on the West Coast with Beach Fossils and the Telescopes at The Echo. They played a festival in 2011 with the Psychedelic Furs as well as sold out shows in 2010 opening for the then recently reunited Chapterhouse and Ulrich Schnauss. 

They’ve constantly topped the CMJ Top 20 indie charts, have played twice live on the venerable KEXP's John in the Morning, and were recently featured as song of the day, while simultaniously on regular rotation on KEXP, and have also been featured on Nic Harcourt's KCSN show Morning Becomes Electric.