2014

Lawman

The new double A-sided Cheatahs single is available to purchase now on iTunes: 

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Or you can pre-order the seven inch here:

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Cheatahs

Cheatahs - Cut The Grass (Single Edit)

HALLS - LOVE TO GIVE
OUT FEB 10th 2014

Pre-order on iTunes and get 'Forelsket' MP3 instantly - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/love-to-give/id768882884

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Halls - the solo project of 23 year old South London musician Sam Howard - released a debut album, ‘Ark’, in November 2012. 

A long twelve months later - after rapt reviews and a stint modelling for Hedi Slimane in Paris - Howard’s second album is here, and the changes are marked.

“This is an album about opening up. Ark is the cold album, closed-off, obscure and confusing.  I obscured lyrics and hid behind reverb and mumbling. For this album I wanted to reach out more. In some ways it is darker than Ark. I feel that I struggle to connect with a lot of people and I want to connect somehow. Love to Give is about opening up and becoming more of a human being.”

In his new work, Howard has replaced apprehension and doubt with a muted hope, and just as the sentiment has shifted, as too the compositions and arrangements have moved into the real world. Ark’s electronic templates have ceded to - as Howard says - “embrace the sound of human beings”, and the instrumental palate has widened: brass, tuned percussion, woodwinds, and organs now flesh out the tracks, with digital percussion only used for texture rather than structure. Much was recorded in a theatre in London’s Woolwich, with Howard’s vocals recorded naturally in the large main hall, and passing traffic and street noise can be heard faintly throughout the album.

Opening track ‘Love To Give’ builds from hymnal acoustic reverie to a wall-of-noise breakdown, before ending on a military brass finale; the seven minute centrepiece ‘Aria’ leads with a solo xylophone into interweaving Kraut percussion and strings lines; ‘Forelsket’ contains a freeform pitch-shifted saxophone, evoking Sun Ra alongside a Justin Vernon vocal line and symphonic swells; and closer ‘Body Eraser / Avalanche’ ends the album on a few minutes of haunting ambience.

The album is not a clean listen; lyrics and vocal melodies are still lost occasionally to the music, creating an hazy, sometimes impenetrable aura, and even the direct, sparser guitar-and-voice-tracks ‘Aside’ or ‘You Must Learn To Live Again’ rely on a heavy atmosphere rather than narrative. Instead of relying on clearer melodic control, what is more apparent is the growth in Howard’s compositions - his ability to breathe life in to sentiments of cold confusion and loss across dense, shifting arrangements.

‘Love To Give’ is a weighty, masterly executed album - a step away from anxiety towards light.

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Halls - Forelsket (from 'Love To Give', out Feb 2014 through No Pain In Pop)

Spectres - The Sky Of All Places

Produced and Mixed at Wax LTD. Studios in Los Angeles, CA. by Wally Gagel and Xandy Barry. Mastered by Pete Lyman.

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Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young turks of Rare Monk have a sonic resilience that’s like everything and nothing you've ever heard. While the obvious signposts are there to guide you (Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Phoenix), Rare Monk combine their love of both 90s and contemporary Indie Rock with a fevered Pop intensity, before shooting the whole thing into outer space to see what comes back. As frontman Dorian Aites puts it, “Although we draw upon many genres for inspiration, we’ve been creating our own thing based on nothing other than the idea that, ‘these are the songs we wrote cause they sound cool’”. 

The psychedelic insanity can be traced back to their college roots, when the guys were the go-to band for drunkin‘ dorm rooms and sonic exploration. In 2012 Rare Monk teamed up with noted producer Skyler Norwood (Blind Pilot, Horsefeathers, Talkdemonic) for their self-released EP, ‘Death By Proxy’. The giddy pop thrill of the title track and the funky, slow burn of “Underground” act as the band's mission statement, and according to Dorian, “Is pretty genuine. I think the important thing here is not to try and fit a compartmentalized soundscape, or to try and be different from everyone else; the importance lies in doing what you are passionate about. Passion is genuine.” 

In 2014 Rare Monk release a limited edition 7” AA-side single with new songs “Splice” and “Sleep/Attack” via B3SCI Records. The release was recorded and produced late Summer 2013 in Los Angeles at Wax LTD Studios by Wally Gagel (Best Coast, Muse, Family Of The Year, Folk Implosion). The songs showcase the next frontier for a band who venture toward a lauded career, capturing the sheer energy of an incredible live show, bridging a sound for the masses and that of music appreciation.

Purchase

Rare Monk - Splice

'Garden' is the latest single off the forthcoming album ATLAS, due for release in May 2014.

Recorded by Pete Uhlenbruch
Mixed by Sturla Mio Thorisson
Mastered by Audiobomber @ Castle Mastering

Released through Labelship
Label contact: thomas.labelship@gmail.com

Published by Source Music
All licensing enquiries contact: rob@sourcemusic.com.au

US Publicity Contact: Green Light Go 
Megan Fisher - megan@glgpub.com

UK/Europe Publicity Contact: Polymath PR
Tom Brumpton: tbrumptonpr@gmail.com

All other enquiries: owlsoftheswamp@gmail.com

Owls of the Swamp - Garden

Artist: Inventions
Title: Entity
Album: Inventions
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Inventions - Entity

Our "BROODS" EP is available now on iTunes: po.st/BROODSso

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Broods

Taking You There

Available Now

From the upcoming album LONGEST WINTER, available on SparkAlaska.bandcamp.com and Shammy Tapes May 10th.

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Aloe Vera

"Lonely Richard" appears on Love, out now. 

LP/CD: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr113-amen-dunes-love
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love/id820487768?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

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Tourdates: https://www.facebook.com/amendunes/app/123966167614127/


iTunes

Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard

Released on april 19, 2014. 

Order here: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/memory-loss

The Snow // Memory Loss

The weight, I'm gone 
In my skin, I'm lost
Tangled in the bones of this love
Melding to the flow of your blood

Grace bestowed
But I was shaped with snow
Seasons don't change
Ignorance remains

I need this alone

The burdens on this chest
The vessel of these words
Sinking under tension
Drew afterthoughts and hurt

Flaws

New Single From Dustin Tebbutt

Available now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bonestrack
www.dustintebbutt.com

Lyrics:
 Couldn’t find you 
Honesty
All the blisters
You were holding alone

Couldn’t find you
Honesty
Were you water
Were you breaking

My frozen bones
My broken mind
It pulls this frozen 
Weight on us 

Now I’ve spoken
What it meant to be
In your doorway
Standing taller than those
Long shadows

Couldn’t find you 
Honesty
Were you water
Were you breaking
Was it tearing out
At your feint skin
Are you out there 
‘Cause I’m shaking

 Website: www.dustintebbutt.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/DustinTebbuttMusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/DustinTebbutt Instagram: http://instagram.com/dustintebbutt

Bones

Loom - Yosoko (Radio Edit)

Taken from Omi Palone's S/T debut LP co-released by Faux Discx and Negative Space on 14th April 2014, available on vinyl LP (limited to 300) and digital download.

PRE-ORDER NOW:
Via Faux Discx: https://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/omi-palone
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Following their long sold-out self-released cassette of 2011 and two split 7”’s in 2012, Omi Palone will release their debut self-titled long-player as a joint release between Faux Discx and new label Negative Space. 

The 8-track record is a frenetic fuzz-tinged pop headrush of barely-restrained punk outbursts. Singer-guitarist Philip Serfaty's deep and sleepy baritone reverberates over urgent, rushing chord progressions and incisive rhythmic precision.  Frantic jangling guitar hooks fall away to one-chord motorik chug, hypnotic drone and looming fuzz, giving the tracks a hounded, runaway feel.

Finding strength in brevity, the band explores and experiments with what can be expressed in a 3 minute post-punk song; controlled, complex melodies interweaving in amongst simple (but not simplistic) repetitive structures, interrupted only by stomping middle-eights. Artistic allegiances nod towards an Antipodean influence: the output of 80s New Zealand labels such as Flying Nun & Xpressway, as well as the current Australian punk scene. 

OMI PALONE – Shallow Divide

Released on June 10, 2014.

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/album/nausea/id845312726 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/nausea

Craft Spells // "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide"

The newest single 'Here It Comes' is made available on an exclusive 7" picture disc for Record Store Day on April 19th. The b-side to the release is Ásgeir's version of Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box'.

Go to http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk to find your local participating store.


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Order 'In The Silence - The Deluxe Edition' here: 
Triple pack CD: http://bit.ly/asgeir-itsde-oli
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/asgeir-itsde-it
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/Asgeir-Deluxe-Google

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Ásgeir - Here It Comes (Record Store Day 2014)

Taken from Dignan Porch's forthcoming 'Observatory' LP, released by Faux Discx on 16th June 2014, available on vinyl LP and digital download.

PRE-ORDER NOW:
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DIGNAN PORCH – Wait & Wait & Wait

''Your Colour'' is out now!
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Official Music video:
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Your Colour

Spotify:  hyperurl.co/actorsspotify
Apple Music: hyperurl.co/actorsapplemusic

www.stillparade.com

2014

Diego Romero López