Metamorphosis

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Soko - Monster Love (feat. Ariel Pink)

Song taken from Follow The Light (DSA, 2010)

Molly Nilsson - The Closest We'll Ever Get to Heaven

Song from These Things Take Time (DSA, 2008)

Molly Nilsson - Joyride

Molly Nilsson - Never O'Clock

Taken from the 7" single SEX released on DARK SKIES ASSOCIATION November 2014.

Molly Nilsson "Ugly Girl"

FIRST SINGLE OFF OF NEW ALBUM, "CHRONOVISION" OUT AUGUST 2015

Chronovision

Memory Remains

http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/molly-nilsson

A sweeping, cinematic, emotional change is in the air. Molly Nilsson’s sixth studio album Zenith begins with clear, wide eyes open to Earth as we would love it to be but seldom is. Recorded in her home of Berlin and whilst touring and, as ever, conceived, produced, written and recorded in solitude, Zenith is Nilsson’s big statement and consequently her most affecting work to date. It sees her reveling in big arrangements, sweeping synth strings, bigger choruses and emotions. Like the rest of us she looks within and to endless sunsets in wonder and puzzlement.

That Molly Nilsson is a DIY cult figure is beyond question; she has always written directly and with wit straight down the line between the universal and the personal. The difference with Zenith, and you can hear it in the opening chords of opener The Only Planet, is that her scope is now much wider and her heart heavier than ever before: over a post-ecstatic dusk, Nilsson serenades the globe in a loving embrace. Following on, 1995 is, arguably, one of Nilsson’s finest songs to date. It’s one of those songs to learn the lyrics to, to listen to on repeat, a reason to wear the grooves down to the bone, it’s why pop music can be one of the greatest art forms we have. It’s an example of how, on this album, Molly draws the listener closer to her heart than ever before. There’s simply no escape from the line “The plans that you made / when you still had the time / I’ve saved all the things that you left behind but by now I guess I’d consider them all mine /Windows 95, is only a metaphor for what I feel inside / Although I’m older now / there’s still an emptiness that’s never letting go somehow.” Show-stopper Mountain Time is the soundtrack to being on the run, from societal conventions, from normative ideas of happiness, from your surroundings. It’s the intoxicating call of the renegade. That’s not to say that Nilsson’s light touch has been forsaken for grandiose statements. Bunny Club begins as a demo-sketch before breaking into a fast-paced tale of doomed romance with big rave synths and Bus 194 (All There Is) sees Molly joyride through a city on a happy hardcore bus. But it’s tracks like Tomorrow and another contender for best-ever-Molly moment, Happyness that the true scale of what she’s accomplished reveals itself. We’re locked in a spiraling orbit, strings and bass whirling, gazing at the spinning planet below us as we contemplate both the ultimate freedom in loneliness and the glimmer of hope in the Other. Can we ever be truly with someone? Are we ever truly alone? 

Over the 13 tracks here we get the impression that Nilsson may always be restless; like anyone else she has conflicting feelings of love and hate. It’s just not many other people can tell you exactly how you feel before you know it yourself.


MOLLY NILSSON: 1995 (from Zenith)

Deux Dance With Me

Taken from their self-titled debut album 'Exploded View', Out Now!

 New band from Berlin & Mexico City fronted by Anika. 

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Orlando

Exploded View – Orlando

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If you saw WALL play in NYC or at SXSW (they were No. 2 on Time Out Austin’s top picks for SXSW 2016) you will recognize some of the tracks on their new LP, Untitled. "Everything In Between" was often a set opener, albeit in an instrumental form. Here we find the definitive full band arrangement, which shows a group capable of generating wave after wave of engaging post-punk. First single "High Ratings" advances the strengths of WALL's self-titled EP with it's look at modern anxiety stemming from social media addiction: "We're all guilty," as singer Sam York howls. Their rocking cover of Half Japanese's classic "Charmed Life" is probably the closest track in tone to "Cuban Cigars," the pop moment on the WALL EP. True to the original, it features perfectly skronky sax from Pill’s Ben Jaffe. "River Mansion" displays Vince McClelland's extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary with squalls, shrieks and plinks over the band's elegant Kroutrock groove with York and Skadden's cooing vocals occasionally synching with a slippery guitar riff. Fans of Skadden's former group, Finally Punk will appreciate "Save Me" – a tale of desperation with Skadden sharing lead vocal duties along with York. These are just a few examples of songs from this diverse and intense LP, showing us a band stretching out sonically and stylistically at their peak and right before their untimely demise. 

So there you have it -- a testament to a band that formed in an instant, burned brightly and left us with two great records. Did you see WALL at Palisades, The Silent Barn, Alphaville, Union Pool, and all the rest of them? Let this LP remind you or take you there for the first time. Mixed by Mike Kutchman at Kutch 1 Studios and mastered by Josh Bonati.

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WALL - River Mansion (from the Untitled LP)

"NO LOVE DEEP WEB"

Release date: October 01, 2012

1. Come up and get me
2. Lil boy
3. No Love
4. Black dice
5. World of Dogs
6. Lock your doors
7. Whammy
8. Hunger Games
9. Deep Web
10. Stockton
11. Pop
12. Bass rattle stars out the sky
13. Artificial death in the West

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No Love Deep Web

No Love

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Molly Nilsson - Follow The Light - I'm Still Wearing His Jacket

Song taken from Molly Nilsson's 5th full-length album THE TRAVELS, released
June 21st 2013 on DARK SKIES ASSOCIATION and NIGHT SCHOOL RECORDS.

Preorder Spiral picture disc (limited to 100), Standard Black vinyl and CD here:
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THE POWER BALLAD

Bless the poets in their graves
who say we're all gonna be saved
In the most unpredictable way
On the most predictable day

Who loves a sceptic? 
And who do skeptics love?
Who won't surrender to the mysteries above
we were all born to be
so dangerously free

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power

Don't wanna grow in their gardens
I wanna be the weed beyond the fence
I wanna live outside the frame
with no name in my defense
Fame, only makes you inhumane
Look at the kings all gone insane
I only wanna be rich
if everyone in the whole world is

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power

I'd rather wear shirts with broken seams
than to wear their hand-me-down dreams
Fashion only lasts a little while
but an open mind is always in style
You gotta be brave to be so afraid
I feel like I win every time I fail

The Power of Love
vs. the Love of Power


Molly Nilsson "The Power Ballad"

First single off upcoming album "Imperium". Out September 17th on Captured Tracks.

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Molly Nilsson "The Power Ballad"

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