Aug. 2017 三十

Probably my personal favorite Braindance track. Wrote this early 2014 when I was busy hooking up my current synth studio. The strings that enter 3/4 of the way through get me every time : > 

Grab the EP this track is from via ~ https://marlyluske.bandcamp.com/album/vacation-in-torquay

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Park It

Taken from "Endless Summer" out on Morr Music May 2017
Buy the single: https://api.morrmusic.com/itunes/1204887922
Tour Dates: http://bit.ly/2lAm0EL
Sóley's Homepage: http://soleysoley.is/
Sóley's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soleysoleysoley
Sóley's Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleysoleysoley
Sóley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleysoleysoley/

Sóley’s latest offering is the warmth beneath the snow at the end of winter, the seeds waiting to grow as spring whispers to us. From the heavy organs, synths, and minor keys of her last album Ask The Deep, 'Endless Summer' emerges with a kind of hopeful sweetness, and feels even more vulnerable, as Sóley climbs with us to incandescence. "The idea for the album came pretty randomly one night in beginning of January 2016 when I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a note to myself: ‘Write about hope and spring’," she says about the LP’s general direction. "So I painted my studio in yellow and purple, bought a grand piano, sat down and started playing, singing and writing."

And 'Endless Summer' delivers just that, opening with the song "Úa" (named after her young daughter) that washes over us like a hopeful dream. It’s based on an adventurous acoustic arrangement reminiscent of Joanna Newsom or Agnes Obel, which sets the tone for what is to follow in its wake. Throughout the new album, Sóley’s arrangements for a small orchestra give 'Endless Summer' a colorful touch: Take, for example, the track "Never Cry Moon", in which the sound of clarinet, trombone and cello beautifully engulf Sóley’s repetitive piano playing.

Comprised of eight songs, 'Endless Summer' is an album that’s grounded in fertile wisdom. Not just an ethereal dream of love and light, but a subtle, accumulative wisdom, a conscious choice to cling to vitality. One might say that one of Sóley’s signatures is the childlike wonder in her lyrics, and 'Endless Summer' delivers the same wonder, but with a kind of reverence for it, for she’s no longer a wanderer in a nightmare, but an enchanted lover of mystery.

With the album’s title track, "Endless Summer", Sóley soothes the wandering mind in her lyricism, asking: "Did you see the stars?/Did you see the sun come up?/You can find me in the flowers/You can find yourself some peace."

'Endless Summer' is like the Icelandic summer, a liminal, endless turning, a shift of consciousness, an endless awakening of continual brightness not without the acknowledgement of winter; it is the eruption from which the rebirth of light emerges.

Endless Summer

Sóley: Never Cry Moon

IT WILL BE FOREVER
26 May 2017
www.sunglitters.com


Traveling sideways in time, Sun Glitters’ It Will Be Forever is a cinematic cruise that illustrates a retro-future landscape of wildlife. Brimming with its own synthetic nature, the album’s foundations of heavy bass, complemented and contradicted by electronica melodies, carve a panoramic view as he journeys between apprehensive, haunting tension and bright, revelatory scenery. 

Victor spent his formative years as a teen in the 1980s, naturally gravitating to the luminous synth sounds characteristic of that time. Now, with a copy of the Drive OST under his arm and witnessing his own children’s inquisitive nature about the world, Victor found himself drawing inspiration from within–opening the door to nostalgia and taking a trip down a memory lane paved by dreams drawn on an Atari ST. 

The result is It Will Be Forever, a love letter to a time of not so distant past–or perhaps so far in the future that it defies imagination–and a contemplative soundtrack that acknowledges the paths leading to this point, both personally and communally. Painting a vivid Tech Noir world layer-by-layer, It Will Be Forever reflects the cautious anticipation many of us feel today in the digital age: a sense of something bigger looming. Spanning 11 tracks, the album depicts a version of the seven stages of grief, with the conclusion being the most poignant as it closes with a wonder and zest for life that the author hopes to impart on us.

It Will Be Forever

WHERE THE END BEGINS

“FACEPAINT” by Happy Abandon
The album will release digitally, on CD, and on vinyl worldwide on Friday, August 25th.

Happy Abandon is:

Peter Vance - Lead vocals, Guitars, Banjo, Percussion
Jake Waits - Percussion, Backing vocals
Justin Ellis - Bass, Synth bass, Mandolin, Woodwinds, backing vocals
Alex Thompson - Piano, Keyboards, Harmonium, Synthesizers, Backing vocals

Performed and Arranged by Happy Abandon
All songs and lyrics by Peter Vance
Strings arranged by Alex Thompson, Camille Faulkner, and Peter Vance
Strings conducted by Alex Thompson
Vocal arrangements by Happy Abandon 

Produced by Jason Merritt and Happy Abandon
Tracks 1, 6, and 8 engineered by Jason Merritt
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 engineered by Jamie Candiloro and Jason Merritt
Track 7 Produced by Brett Scott and Happy Abandon
Track 7 engineered by Brett Scott
Mixed and Mastered by Jamie Candiloro

Recorded at Bellview Studios (Macon, NC), Overdub Lane (Durham, NC), and Blinky Star (Chapel Hill, NC) and North Carolina Central University in October 2016 & February 2017
Track 7 and harmonium on track 6 recorded at BNB Audio (Chapel Hill, NC) in May 2016
Mixed and Mastered at Banana Chicken (Los Angeles, CA) March, April 2017

Additional players:

Camille Faulkner - Violin, Backing Vocals, Additional string arrangements
John Reardon - Cello
Nick Johnson - Violin
Azul Zapata - Backing Vocals on Track 7
Emily Pate - Flute on Track 7
Jason Merritt - Synthesizer on Track 4

Album cover:
Eliza Merritt, painted by Mariam Marand, photographed by Shannon Kelly and Jafar Fallahi

Special thanks to;
Missy Biggers, Mike Allen, the NCCU Audio Production Class
Stephen Judge, Mary Liles, and the rest of Schoolkids Records
City Bird PR, To Be Heard Booking, VEWT Entertainment
Our friends and Families.
Dedicated to the memory of Derrick Case, Jeremy Reyes, and Ernie Curtis

Heavy Lines

Do Make Say Think returns with their first new album in 8 years, Stubborn Persistent Illusions.

Out 19 May 2017

domakesaythink.com
cstrecords.com/cst120

Do Make Say Think • "Return, Return Again"

Still Summer

A Spark

Info: www.topshelfrecords.com/roster/prawn
Purchase: www.topshelfrecords.com/products/596592-prawn-run

"North Lynx" from the album Run by Prawn — available September 22, 2017 on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally from Topshelf Records.

Pre-Order

Prawn - "North Lynx"

Almosts

Taken from the debut EP 'Epilogue' out June 2nd

Listen/stream/buy here http://phonofile.link/epilogue-josin

Epilogue

The One (Epilogue)

Info: www.topshelfrecords.com/roster/wild-ones
Purchase: tpshlf.co/tsr178

"Paresthesia" from the album Mirror Touch by Wild Ones — available October 6, 2017 on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally from Topshelf Records.

Wild Ones - "Paresthesia"

Greg Fox - Catching An L

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Add to your collection at Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/rvngnl38-bcamp
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The Gradual Progression (RVNGNL38 - 320 Promo)

Greg Fox - Catching An L

Empty Gestures is the new single taken from Holy Family's new album 'Values', released 25th August 2017 on Melodic.
Pre - order CD/LP/Digital here: 
www.melodic.co.uk/values

Holy Family - Empty Gestures

From the album Exit Index out October 20th on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Exit Index:
Bandcamp https://grooms.bandcamp.com/album/exit-index
iTunes hyperurl.co/jjt6lf
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv157

Grooms' Exit Index combines the abandon of pop with the unease of American life in 2017, cloaking its hooks in a clamor of samples and distortion, its agitation expressed in its dream-poetry lyrics. The album as a whole is a study in contrasts—light meeting dark, amplifier fuzz surrounding big melodies, sampled friction squaring off with fluidly played basslines. 

Grooms laid down the skeleton tracks for Exit Index, the Brooklyn band's first album since 2015's Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair, at the storied New York recording studio The Magic Shop. 

The heavy processing on the group's guitars helps add to the gloom as well; Johnson, who has co-owned the Brooklyn pedal company Death By Audio Effects since 2008, made a limited-edition distortion pedal to celebrate the album's release. "There's a lot of tremolo on Exit Index," he says, "so I made a fucked-up-sounding trem. I designed it to be dense and possibly confusing at first, where all the controls affect what the other controls do, like a synth. It can tremolo, or it can degrade things like they're on worn-out cassette tapes." Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey) mixed the album, adding a few finishing touches to intros and song structures while also making the structures Grooms constructs sound even more massive and imposing.

Grooms -  "Turn Your Body"

The original track is taken from new album 'Every Valley'. Available to buy from here: https://publicservicebroadcasting.net

They Gave Me A Lamp (Plaid Remix)

The second single off Widowspeak's 4th album, Expect The Best, out August 25th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/expect-the-best
Pre-Order Digital: smarturl.it/expectthebest

Tour Dates:
09/08 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
09/09 - Burlington, VT - ArtsRiot
09/11 - Toronto, ON - Garrison
09/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club
09/13 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09/15 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
09/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon
09/17 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Social Club
09/19 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
09/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
09/21 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
09/22 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
09/23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
09/24 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
09/26 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
09/27 - Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
09/28 - Los Angeles, CA - Pico Union
09/29 - San Diego, CA - The Hideout
09/30 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
10/01 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
10/03 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder
10/04 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
10/05 - Birmingham, AL - Syndicate Lounge
10/06 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt
10/07 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/08 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
10/10 - Washington, DC - DC9
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot and Saddle
10/12 - Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston
10/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

Expect the Best

Widowspeak // When I Tried

stream/download: hwtrs.co/mmunicating 
music video: youtu.be/o1v7mGD14lo
on tour: hwtrs.co/tour

some days i feel like i love you a little too much 
some days i don't want to touch 
fingers leave of linger

open close
all windows 
i can't tell if we've been lying 
open close 
all windows 
i can't tell if we've been dying

then once i start realisizing 
i'll end up apologizing

some days i feel like i see you a little too much 
but on the days i don't see you 
are the days i don't see anything at all


open close
all windows 
i can't tell if we've been lying 
open close 
all windows 
i can't tell if we've been dying

then once i start realisizing 
i'll end up apologizing

fingers
leave or linger 

then once i start realizing 
i end up apologizing 

when will i start realizing 
i'll end up apologizing

Fingers

SSWB

Dead Leaves - "Deteriorate" 
From their album "Vultures"
Out now on 12"/CD/Digital via Take This To Heart Records

Vinyl/CD: http://bit.ly/2tmVmPA
iTunes: http://apple.co/2gc2j51
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2wMyjmv
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Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2xz40g5

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Aug. 2017 三十

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