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Autumn has arrived, and the Weekend Showcase 4.37 edition is just as colorful and diverse as the changing landscape. This week's mega-playlist features 49 songs from 14 countries. Learn more here: https://therevue.ca/2018/09/22/weekend-showcase-4-37/ ‎

Weekend Showcase 4.37

Big Swimmer

New York, Let's Do Nothing

Hear The Children Sing The Evidence

Hear The Children Sing

Night Life

LA Runaway

Faded

Spirale

Evil People

Smart World

Regicide

Dripping

Dialogue iii

One Too Many

One Too Many [dialogue iii]

Light Song

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Bec Sandridge's new single 'Animal' produced at Melbourne’s Aviary studios, Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy)

Animal

Taken from 'Bunny' LP by Matthew Dear out October 12, 2018

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Bunny

Matthew Dear - Horses (feat. Tegan and Sara)

Too Real

lyrics: 
nobody trips like 
nobody trips like i do 
I can hardly see 
I can hardly see it through 
but I'll swim right through 
I'll swim right through the rain 
and I hope there's love 
sweet love to gain 
alright 
nobody does me 
quite like I do myself 
my mind's my own 
and it's not for sale 
and I felt my spirit 
my spirit fly away 
but I know it's mine 
until my dying day 
nobody trips like I do 
swimming through the rain 
on a hot afternoon 
said, nobody trips like I do 
swimming through the rain 
on a hot afternoon 
I've been back to reckon the sun 
climbing up a horizon 
I've been back to reckon the sun 
as the one 
that we come from

Trippin' Like I Do

Taken from the Boiling Point/Promise Land 12", out 5th Feb 2021. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BadwanCoxon

A collaboration between Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat’s Eyes) & renowned guitarist John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack / Spiritualized / Treader), Boiling Point/Promise Land is the first release of an ongoing collaborative series between Faris and other artists, details of which will be subsequently announced.

Badwan & Coxon met some years ago when Faris was looking for producers to work with on his solo material and their working relationship evolved beyond the existing songs into something more improvisational and instinctive. As Faris explains:

The new songs we ended up working on were largely spontaneous and cut together from early takes with minimal overdubbing. The lyrics were improvised and the focus was placed more on creating atmosphere and keeping things fairly raw and expressive. I guess I found it rewarding particularly with the guitar playing because it was so intuitive and completely free from any expectations of how a song should be constructed. There are hooks and repetitive sections but fewer traditional structures.

We tried to avoid doing any planning beforehand and focussed more on responding to what was happening in the moment. I guess the sessions were kind of a constant dialogue where we would each respond to the other's improvisation.

With Promise Land I began by improvising lyrics over a drone track John and I created. Some time later I came across “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet, and was struck by the similarities - there are a few lines that match really closely. Despite being half-palestinian myself this was a total accident and I know for sure I hadn’t seen Darwish’s piece before.

With Boiling Point the lyrics are almost the ghost of a narrative rather than an explicit story. I’m interested in the subconscious and how the hidden parts of your brain express themselves when given the opportunity. Looking back it was almost more about creating the right conditions for the subconscious to come out.

Boiling Point / Promise Land is out on Tough Love Records on Friday 5th February 2021 on DL and as a limited edition (500) 12” which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available via Bandcamp. In keeping with the approach of the music, each design was improvised and instinctive. Faris added about the artwork:

What was interesting about it was the way the style of the designs naturally evolved as a result of having so many blank squares to fill - there's a really clear development from start to finish - beginning with angular lines filling the sleeve and ending with smoother, more minimal abstract shapes responding to the existing sleeve design. It ended up almost like a process-based art project where you work repetitively within really strict confines and let the results emerge organically.

Promise Land/Boiling Point (MP3)

Badwan/Coxon - Boiling Point

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