Definitive Taste | Spring Selections 2015

Shopping - In Other Words

Set Your Lightning Fire Free LP out April 7, 2015

Shana Falana-Go

From the Mascot LP by Bichkraft!  Order your LP or CD at www.wharfcatrecords.com!

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Release Date:  4/21/2015
Personnel:  Dima Novichenko, Jenia Bichowski, Serzh Kupriychuk, Jenia Machina

RIYL:  The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Velvet Underground, Big Black, Sonic Youth

From Kiev to Kansas City, 20-somethings the world over tend to traffic in the same sort of distractions from modern life: clothes, sneakers, cars, love. Mascot, the debut LP from Ukranian guitar and drum machine noise makers, Bichcraft, holds these things for what they are: fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern times and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. That the band composed, wrote and recorded Mascot’s eight songs in its hometown of Kiev only adds to their authority on the matter.  As Dima Novichenko sings in the album opener ‘Didn’t Know,’ “There are erased numbers on your road… We better cover our heads.”  
This is heavy, paranoid music in the shape of frenetic jams like “A4,” in which waves of dual-guitar noise accompany a digitized howl, chanting from deep inside the mix. Often, guitar interludes emerge quickly and take a song in a new direction as they do in "Might Night Dicks."  On this track Novichenko and Bichowski display an extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary. They are as fluent in Psychocandy as they are early SY.  After hearing the record’s interwoven guitar lines, it should come as no surprise that the two originally met up to play garage jazz before Serzh Kupriychuk and Jenia Machina joined to handle bass and drum machines, respectively.   
For its brutality and chaos, Mascot has some undeniably pretty moments: the lilting guitar refrain that kicks off “Bushes,” for example, or the often poetic imagery in Novichenko and Bichowski’s lyrics about the natural world, love and decay. Still, these nods to beauty always lead back to fractured songs about suburban scenes where mankind’s disregard for nature is just a warning of greater dangers looming on the edge of town. 

Bichkraft - Didn't Know

No Joy - Everything New

Buy 'Natureboy' Debut Album on 2LP Gatefold Vinyl (incl. Download Card), CD or Digital

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Natureboy

With Me Now Feat. Dirg Gerner

valet 'nature'

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from the album ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar: http://smarturl.it/umo?iQid=sc.cant // Amazon: http://smarturl.it/umo_amazon?iQid=sc.cant // iTunes: http://smarturl.it/umo_itunes?iQid=sc.cant // Indies: http://smarturl.it/umo_indies?iQid=sc.cant

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Artist Page www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=umo
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Lyrics:
Aurora Borealis, me for her for real it’s lust
The love can’t be heard above
Everyone acts like a day drinker (yeah)

We eat crickets 
In the future
Just tastes like 
“Far-from-home”
Drink Chicha
In the Jungle
That sounds great
Im kinda busy, could you call back again?
Im sure you’ll come back
Til then I

Can’t keep checking my phone (no)

We read the universe might be holographic
Traffic lights might reverse my love
Go ahead and traverse the winter (yeah)

We eat crickets 
In the future
Just tastes like 
“Far-from-home”
Drink Chicha
In the Jungle
That sounds great
Im kinda busy, could you call back again?
Im sure you’ll come back
Til then I

Can’t keep checking my phone (no)

Can't Keep Checking My Phone

Pre-order on iTunes

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Can't Keep Checking My Phone"

DRINKS

Hermits On Holiday

Stealing Sheep 'Pas Réel' (Not Real French Version)

Jstowee (single edit) from the forthcoming album Hud Dreems – May 5, 2015 
http://stonesthrow.com/store/album/knx/hud-dreems

Hud Dreems 

on vinyl

Knxwledge - Jstowee

Guantanamo Baywatch
"Darling...It's Too Late" CD/LP/DIG
Order: CD/LP/DIG - suicidesqueeze.scdstore.net
Order: AUS/NZ customers - www.sfmusic.com.au/store/
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Artist Instagram: @guantanamobaywatch
Label Instagram: @suicidesqueeze

Corey Baum's Theme by Guantanamo Baywatch

Get the February 15 EP
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February 15

Inhale Exhale ('15)

There's a Girl in the Corner (Robert Smith version)

Patriarchaeth is a track from Gwenno's debut album titled 'Y Dydd Olaf.'

'Y Dydd Olaf' is released on Heavenly Recordings on 24/7/2015.

Y Dydd Olaf

Patriarchaeth

Satellites

Manchester musician Aldous RH (@AldousXander) shares a new demo before he plays Dummy's Ace Hotel show tonight.

Read more: http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/aldous-rh-u-and-me-track-stream

Aldous RH - U and ME

02 Heavy Love

Since breaking the surface of the largely languid indie tributaries earlier this year, publicity shy Gulf have been hiding out in their Liverpool studio.  Adding beef and brawn to their singularly diaphanous pop hooks, Ocean represents a mini-psych symphony in two parts.  

Gulf live dates:
Friday 22nd May - LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY
Sunday 7th June - FIELD DAY
Thursday 18th June - Liverpool, Kazimier.
Friday 19th June - Wrexham, Central Station
19th July - LATITUDE FESTIVAL, 
23rd - 26th July - SECRET GARDEN PARTY, Huntingdon
25th July - TRAMLINES, Sheffield

www.gulfmusicuk.com

Ocean

Spring is here and Summer is right around the corner 

photo taken by me

A Touch of Spring

Taken from the debut album ‘Roosevelt’ available now on Greco-Roman / City Slang.

Listen & stream on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music and more:: roosevelt.lnk.to/roosevelt

www.iamroosevelt.com
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www.greco-roman.com
www.cityslang.com

Roosevelt - Hold On

"A sly declaration of new classic status..." —Nick Hornby