incredible vocals and soundscape. the closeness to the microphone and respect for silence reminds me of Stina Nordenstam's early stuff.

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From the debut album It's Alive by Seattle "surf noir" band La Luz, out 10/15/13 on Hardly Art Records.

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"Big Big Blood" from La Luz's 2013 album "It's Alive"
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It's Alive

Big Big Blood

North Highlands' second and likely final full-length release. Some members of North Highlands have scattered across America, and this is likely their last release... most likely...

Digital Release only, on Feb 3, with a single scheduled for release on Jan 13 or 20, dependent on lyric video completion.

Produced by Matt Marinelli
Recorded by Matt Marinelli at Guilford Sound, Vermont
Mixed by Matt Marinelli and Daniel Stewart at Exile, Long Island City
Mastered by Nathan James at Vault Mastering
Cover Art by Hannah Schultz

Brenda Malvini - Vocals, Keys
Mike Barron - Guitars
Daniel Stewart - Guitars, Keys
Jasper Berg - Drums, Percussion, Keys
Andrew Kasperbauer - Bass, Keys

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Debut album "Little Mourning" now available
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Beat of Your Heart

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Yumi Zouma now returns with their anticipated second EP, bookending their era of intimate and restrained short-form releases. The new tracks are just as effortless and engaging as expected, but they also tell the story of a band evolving. Lush, electronic productions buoy key tracks and the vocal deliveries are increasingly sophisticated.
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Yumi Zouma - Song For Zoe & Gwen

“The Process” is a soft-spoken reminder that not everything is supposed to make sense right away. I wrote this as a reflection on how all the unanswered questions, delays, and quiet chapters in life eventually show their purpose. It’s about reclaiming the parts of ourselves we thought were gone, and realizing we were never lost, just becoming who we were always meant to be. This one is delicate, raw, and spiritual in a way I can’t quite explain, just felt.

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The Process

"White Cops on Trial" appears on Sonny & The Sunsets full-length album, Moods Baby Moods, out May 27, 2016. Produced by Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs).

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Sonny & The Sunsets - White Cops On Trial

Pill — "Medicine" 
From the debut LP, Convenience.
Out August 19 2016 - LP / CD / DIG
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Pill — Medicine

Phases

For You

Wishing - Close To Me

Taken from the album, Stains on Silence, out 15th June on Tough Love. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/StainsOnSilence

Formats:
LP - black vinyl, with cream sleeve
LPX - orange vinyl, with black sleeve (indie stores-only - 300 copies)
LPXX - ultra clear vinyl, with black sleeve, poster and hand-numbered (Bandcamp only - 200 copies)
CD & digital

Biog

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.

Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. “There was a finished – and then aborted – mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,” reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. “We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.”

The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."

Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25’ and the submerged disco doom of ‘Haus Proud’ to the rapt, dub-leaning ‘Fragments of a Portrait’, Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.

Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." — ‘25’). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney, March 2018)

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Girls Names - The Impaled Mystique

THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE NEW SINGLE – ‘SEE YOU’

BUY ON ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/see-you-single/id587334514

Released on MARSHALL TELLER RECORDS

London based five piece, The History Of Apple Pie are set to release a new single digitally on Marshall Teller Records on the 14 January, 2013.

‘See You’ is available to download and is lifted from the bands eagerly awaited debut long player ‘Out Of View’, which is released on 28 January, 2013 (UK) / 29 January, 2013 (US).

PRE-ORDER 'OUT OF VIEW' NOW: http://t.co/ayh0x5Gm

The album, recorded in London over the last few months, was self-produced by guitarist Jerome Watson, mixed by Charles ‘Chicky’ Reeves and engineered by Joshua Third of The Horrors.

A truly great and exciting live band, to coincide the release of ‘See You’, The History Of Apple Pie line up of Steph Min (Vocals/Guitar), Jerome Watson (Guitar), James Thomas (Drums), Aslam Ghauri (Guitar) and Kelly Owens (Bass) will set off on their first UK tour for over a year. The dates kick off in York on 31 January and finish up with a London show at The Old Blue Last on 19 February. 

Prior to the tour, the band will play a special in-store show at Rough Trade East in London on the day of the album release on Monday, 28 January 2013.

LIVE DATES:

28 Jan - Rough Trade East In-Store, London
31 Jan - The Basement, York
01 Feb - Inside Out, Darlington
02 Feb - Victoria Inn, Derby
03 Feb - Banquet Records In-Store, Kingston
04 Feb - Soup Kitchen, Manchester
05 Feb - Art School, Glasgow
06 Feb - Dog & Parrot, Newcastle
07 Feb - The Compass, Chester
08 Feb - The Cockpit, Leeds
09 Feb - West End Centre, Aldershot
11 Feb - Bodega, Nottingham
12 Feb - Undertone, Cardiff
13 Feb - Joiners, Southampton
14 Feb - Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
15 Feb - Green Door Store, Brighton
16 Feb - 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth
17 Feb - Thekla, Bristol
19 Feb - Old Blue Last, London
20 Mar - Point Ephemere, Paris
21 Mar - Fuzz'Yon, La Roche-Sur-Yon

See You

Taken from 'Early Fragments', a compilation released in the U.S. by Kanine Records which collects together the tracks from our limited UK 7"s, plus 'Doldrums' and 'Seer'.

Pre-order link (U.S.): http://www.insound.com/Early-Fragments-Vinyl-LP-Fear-of-Men/P/INS113758/ 

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