Third single and title track from The Goon Sax debut album Up To Anything.
The album Up To Anything is released on vinyl, digital and CD by Chapter Music on Friday March 11, 2016 Out Apr 8 in UK). Pre-orders available now (including instant downloads of this track plus previous singles Sometimes Accidentally and Boyfriend):

Chapter: http://chaptermusic.com/store/the-goon-sax/up-to-anything/
Digital: http://radi.al/UpToAnything
Bandcamp: https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/up-to-anything

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The Goon Sax - Up To Anything

Hallelujah Heartache offers the familiar sounds of Childsaint’s soft and soulful choral vocal melodies, combined with the backdrop of dark and dreamy layers of guitars and drums. A little louder and a little grittier than Sick, this single is a sneak peak at how the band’s sound has evolved since the release of their debut EP.

Recorded by Rob Stephens at Sumo Studios
Mixed by Mitch Mcdonald
Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio

Hallelujah Heartache

© & ℗ EAT FAST 2016

Produced by James Hall & EAT FAST
Mastered by James Hall
Design by Cody Sowerby



Fenham Dreadlock

Pre-order now: https://smarturl.it/usedtoyesterday

Smokescreens began as a love letter to the Flying Nun scene of the 1980’s and it’s outlying bands. Chris Rosi and Corey Cunningham had become friends when the pair toured together in their bands Plateaus and Terry Malts in 2011. By 2015 both had moved to Los Angeles where they began the band in earnest with Rosi on guitar and Cunningham on bass. After getting their sea legs playing the bars and bowling alleys of Southern California, the duo recruited engineer/drummer Jon Greene to help them commit their shambolic paeans to kiwi pop onto tape. Recorded in a disused dairy factory and mixed in mono, their self-titled debut came out on Cunningham’s label Parked In Hell in February of 2017 and was reissued by Spain’s Meritorio Records later that summer.

After the passing of Jon Greene, the pair re-grouped with drummer Brice Bradley and bassist Jenny Moffett, a move that enabled Cunningham to switch to lead guitar and keyboards. The group worked tirelessly, nurturing their sound and writing batches of songs with steadfast dedication. They soon decamped to Primitive Ears, a small studio in North Hollywood, where they tracked the 10 songs that make up "Used To Yesterday." After a handful of quicksilver sessions, the group brought the tapes to producer Kyle Mullarky (The Allah-lahs) who created a final mix that really captures the band's rhythmic drive and melodic verve.

"Used To Yesterday" continues Smokescreen’s zeal for New Zealand pop but also incorporates influences from the more melodic side of Messthetics-era DIY pop and expands into classic indie pop territory, a natural fit for the group’s new label Slumberland Records. First single "The Lost Song" perfectly encapsulates where the band is coming from on this new record; literally a lost demo from the group's earliest days, it is here given a NZ-meets-Athens GA arrangement, galloping along at an urgent clip and packed with guitars that strum and jangle in magical unison.

Where Smokescreens really excel is in the quality of their songwriting and the ability to incorporate a disparate set of influences while still forging their own sound and identity. The song "Used To Yesterday" is classic power-pop, riding a chunky three chord riff and leavened by a bright, clanging lead. Elsewhere we find nods to The Velvet Underground ("Fool Me"), The Clean ("Someone New") and SF's beloved The Aislers Set ("Waiting For Summer"). Smokescreens are such skilled writers and keen students of sound that their cover of the über-obscure NZ band Wasp Factory's "Steel Blue Skies" fits in seamlessly. Album closer "Falling Down" could be a lost single from LA's paisley underground and definitely leaves the listener itching to hear where the band goes next.

Used To Yesterday

Smokescreens - Someone New

Stove's sophomore album 's Favorite Friend is out October 31st, 2018.

Stove - Mosquiter

WYATT BLAIR
"It's Yesterday"
Inspirational Strawberries
Lolipop Records (2018)

It's Yesterday

WYATT BLAIR - "It's Yesterday"

From the forthcoming record 'Mirroring' out on Orchid Tapes and Fear or Missing Out Records June 7th.

Pre-order the 12" vinyl: shop.orchidtapes.com/product/yohuna-mirroring-12

Yohuna - Mirroring

Clara Luz

Alternative Privilege

Recorded at The Hobby Shop Studio West in Highland Park, CA Produced by Trends and Andrew Murdock
Engineered by Marina Paiz 
Mixed by Andrew Murdock
Mastered by Mike Wells

Branches - Single

Branches

From Fran's debut album out 11/15 on Fire Talk.

Pre Order / Pre Save: ffm.to/franaprivatepicture

The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicago’s Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios –when you hear them, it’s a conversation. It’s therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core, Fran’s music is about sharing a truth -–telling it, confessing it, yelling it—in the service of human connection. Or, as Jacobson puts it, “I feel that I am a songwriter for the same reason I wanted to be an actor. I want to tell the truth. I want to challenge myself to get closer and closer to the core of an experience, an emotion- I want to say it, sing it, in a way that says exactly what it is. I cry when I write songs because I am constantly making discoveries, about myself, about the world, about the best way to convey and connect and get closer.”

Stove - Mosquiter

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