2015 Favorite Tracks #12

Watch my new lyric video for 'Rebound' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJdfEABSuqA

Download Julian Moon's debut album 'Good Girl' at http://smarturl.it/julianmoon.

Watch the music video for "A Cup Of Coffee" at http://youtube.com/msmoonmusic.

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Julian Moon proves herself to be a formidable raconteur on the wittily insightful story-songs she has written for her upcoming debut album. Whether she’s capping off a tale of her dire financial circumstances by wryly proclaiming, “I know my life fuckin’ rocks” on “One Penny,” or channeling an overworked barista dealing with an impatient customer waiting for her “non-fat one-pump latte with two added shots of espresso” in “A Cup of Coffee,” or calling out a thoughtless serial heart-breaker in denial on “How To Break A Heart,” Moon delivers her keen observations with a genuine vulnerability that makes her work appealingly relatable.

“Pop music is awesome and I love it, but I’m not sure it’s always very relatable to an ordinary person,” says Moon, who was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has resided in Los Angeles on and off for the past six years. “I can't afford Louis Vuitton. I don't go to the club and drink Patrón. I wanted my songs to come from this place of, ‘Okay, I get up, I work. I've gone to college, I'm still broke.’ I think that's something a lot of people my age deal with. We’re trying to figure out this life. I wanted to be a voice out there saying, ‘It's not just you who’s struggling.’”

Moon’s sly commentary goes down sweet thanks to her intimate vocals (think a young Suzanne Vega) and bright acoustic-pop sound, with production by Greg Wells (Adele, Katy Perry). Moon was raised by musically inclined parents who loved singer-songwriters like Fiona Apple, Patti Griffin, Tori Amos, and Sarah McLachlan. At 16, Moon asked her dad to show her a few guitar chords then locked herself in her room for months. “I learned how to play by teaching myself Jason Mraz songs,” she says. While studying screenwriting at L.A.’s Loyola Marymount University, Moon began attending open mic nights on campus, realizing that performing enabled her to connect with people more easily. She was offered a publishing deal as a sophomore and planned to be a “hippie songwriter chick in Portland” before Warner Bros. Records came calling with a recording contract and the opportunity to send her into the studio with Wells.

“There is such a magic when it’s just a voice and guitar,” Moon admits, “but I didn't want to have this opportunity to make this record and then have it be something I could have done in a basement somewhere,” she says. “I wanted it to be the best it could be.”

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Good Girl

'Last Year' is the taster track from Joanna Gruesome's forthcoming new album 'Peanut Butter', out 11 May via Fortuna POP! (UK), Slumberland (US) and Turnstile (ROW).

Rival groups will be disappointed to learn that the record is a further experiment in combining hyper melodic pop music with sonic violence. Officials have confirmed that the album contains a record number of hooks, traces of nut and elements of jangle pop, British hardcore punk, atonal music, screaming and drone organs. Yet they have issued warnings of "a marriage of radical politics with peanut butter spread". "Last Year" is a song about experiencing tragedy and the occult in a water park.

Like their debut, the new album was recorded by MJ from Hookworms, with the aim of heightening the group's "pop" and "aggressive" elements to excessive and hitherto unrecorded levels. As songwriter Owen Williams explains: “We tried to make it shorter, more economical and attempted to pack as many hooks and screams in as quickly possible in order to avoid short changing the consumer or wasting her/his/their time. Lyrically it’s more obtuse and surreal but also attempts to mock trad masculine rock themes whenever things do get more lucid. But sometimes musically we embrace them by doing embarrassing guitar solos. I'm not sure how much else I'm at liberty to say but one thing I will disclose is that the record is a response to threats posed by rival groups."

Building up to the album's release, Joanna Gruesome will play the following UK gigs.

17 April - Islington Mill, Manchester http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981
18 April - Stereo, Glasgow http://stereocafebar.com/
23 April - Scala, London http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/scala/853979
2 May - Live at Leeds, Leeds http://www.liveatleeds.com/
3 May - The Haunt, Brighton http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981

Last Year

I Did It Now

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Distractions', released on Upset The Rhythm, June 8th!

Available to pre-order here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/



Sauna Youth - 'Transmitters'

‘Bright Young Things’ (EP)
Record Label: Scruff of the Neck Records
Impact Date: March 16th 2015

“I’m not moving, it gets faster, moving slowly and walking backwards,” croons singer James Fitchford on ‘Regress’. Fortunately, the opposite couldn’t be more true. Whilst earlier releases from Delamere relished in an understated spacial awareness, their mammoth choruses somehow blowing them open even further, Bright Young Things leaves behind the shimmering guitar lines and hard-hitting percussion in favour of a sleeker, somewhat subtler sound. Almost.

Much like the band themselves, their debut EP is built around a confident exploration of dynamics; the trademark verses of eponymous lead single ‘Bright Young Things’ as subdued as ever, the choruses cathartic explosions of stadium-sized proportions. The EP also marks a definite step-up in confidence in the production department too (track 3 ‘All of This’ done in-house by drummer Will Mason), the polish of previous releases paradoxically stripped by the cataclysmic sci-fi sounds of the single’s conclusion. It might have been two years in the making, but it seems it was time well spent.

Having spent two years honing their sound, it was inevitable that murmurings of a debut EP would soon follow. And follow they have, the band now ready to unleash Bright Young Things on the world, turning heads with their infectious hybrid of sleek synth-pop and emotionally-charged indie. Having already earned support from such regional radio personalities as Rob Adcock (BBC Introducing Stoke) and Lucee Clarke (6towns Radio), Bright Young Things might very well be the release to push Delamere from the fringe, in to the mainstream.

Press for previous release ‘Headstrong':

“…Headstrong is a professional, technically smooth as silk, layered and intricate, yet there is a raw, emotive edge, providing veracity and an underlying darkness and yearning that always gets me.”
Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia

“Indeed, whilst ‘Do You Want Me’ flirted with an understated synth, ‘Headstrong’ relishes in it, and as such it feels like the fully realised sound the band have been teasing us with.”
Dave Beech, Lounder Than War

Bright Young Things will be unleashed in March 2015, with a launch party at Manchester’s Night & Day Cafe on March 21st.

Bright Young Things

GOLDHOUSE - When I Come Home

Hypemachine <3 - http://goo.gl/TecjiF

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When I Come Home

'Giant Peach' from Wolf Alice's debut album, 'My Love Is Cool'. 
Out now on iTunes: http://po.st/MyLoveIsCool
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My Love Is Cool

Giant Peach

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VÉRITÉ - "Wasteland"

Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/597dH51ghiTbr2xBIY6ATw

Download on iTunes: smarturl.it/VERITEWasteland
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/verite
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/veriteohverite
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/verite

Written by VÉRITÉ and Elliot Jacobson
Produced by Elliot Jacobson
Additional Production by Peter Thomas
Mixed by Mike Tuccillo
Mastered by Emily Lazar

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It’s like I’m living in a wasteland
of words I’m trying to say 
but they don’t come out right
Like I could be your friend
if you had anything to offer me tonight

I want a heart unbreakable
so I can feel it all

It’s like I’m living in a wasteland
of words I’m trying to say 
but they don’t come out right
Like I could be your friend
if you had anything to offer me tonight
But I am just a fool
Cause I could be in love if I really tried
Holding onto something I can’t see
so you can comfort me tonight

I can feel disaster 
falling on me after 
the sun comes up
you say goodnight
But I keep crawling over you for now
cause everything I feel is a waste of time
Holding onto something I can’t see
won’t comfort me tonight

I want a heart unbreakable
So I can feel it all.
It’s like I’m living in a wasteland
of words I’m trying to say 
but they don’t come out right
Like I could be your friend
if you had anything to offer me tonight
But I am just a fool
Cause I could be in love if I really tried
Holding onto something I can’t see
so you can comfort me tonight

I want a heart unbreakable
I want a heart unbreakable
I want a heart unbreakable
So I can feel it all.

It’s like I’m living in a wasteland
of words I’m trying to say 
but they don’t come out right
Like I could be your friend
if you had anything to offer me tonight
But I am just a fool
Cause I could be in love if I really tried
Holding onto something I can’t see
so you can comfort me tonight

2015 Favorite Tracks #12

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