From the upcoming record 'Tides End' out August 6th on Captured Tracks, worldwide.

Pre-order the album here: goo.gl/BYHth

MINKS // Margot

Taken from the album, Herein Wild, released on Fat Possum Records Sept. 24 (US/Canada)/October 8th (UK/EU)

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Frankie Rose "Sorrow"

Released June 26, 2012. 

Digital: http://apple.co/29cYRmF
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/oshin

DIIV // Doused

Released on November 12th, 2013.

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/saada-bonaire/id704702097?ls=1
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/saada-bonaire

Saâda Bonaire // You Could Be More As You Are

Order here: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/for-against-box-set

For Against // Amen Yves

Released on MArch 4, 2014.

Order here: http://bit.ly/1cZjW9k

Axxa/Abraxas // I Almost Fell

'Saâda Bonaire' 2XLP or CD relased on Nov 12, 2013.

Purchase: http://bit.ly/19NHa7c


Saâda Bonaire // "The Facts" (Pharaohs Edit)

Working under the name Craft Spells, Stockton, Calif.'s Justin Vallesteros makes music for bedsitters who dream about being social. Though often addressed to a love interest either real or imagined, Idle Labor is above all a lonely album that rarely betrays its origin as a solo project. Sonically it recalls Wild Nothing it the way it mines a large swath of 1980s synth pop, but its clear emotional tenor gives it a distinguishing perspective and personality.
Idle Labor exists in a time frame best described by the title of its ebullient centerpiece-- "After the Moment". These are sketches of romantic problems and solutions with the wounds still fresh and the thoughts uncensored. Taken as a whole, it could be read as a narrative following Vallesteros from heartbreak to infatuation and back, a few months' worth of romantic uncertainty boiled down to a taut and hooky album.
In a maundering yearn somewhere between Jens Lekman and Ian Curtis, Vallesteros introduces himself as a lovelorn melodramatist over sunstroked, near-Balearic pop. But as the narrative begins to hint at physical contact, the music works in lockstep, and Vallestreros builds tracks more as a dance producer than a singer-songwriter. And that's where he hits his stride-- while his vocals remain a central fixture, the post-punk mordancy is softened by locomotive arrangements that stack synth pads, ringing guitar, and primitive drum programming.
"Party Talk" starts a mid-album mini-suite with Vallesteros as a nebbishy Woody Allen character trying to decode a mutual romantic connection from casual conversation. But he leaps forward during the upbeat "From the Morning Heat", and by the fantastic morning-after celebration "After the Moment", something has apparently clicked; Vallesteros repeats the chorus as if he knows it's the best he's written.
The emotional high is predictably short-lived, and even within its brief half-hour runtime, more than a few of the melodies take detours and left turns. "The Fog Rose High" has the feel of a gothier Beach Fossils, while the anodyne dream-pop scruff of "You Should Close the Door" could have been a Radio Dept. B-side. But as with so many bedroom auteurs' debuts, it's tough to separate the creation from the creator, and Idle Labor shows the promise of a precocious songwriter who isn't claiming to have anything totally figured out just yet.

Craft Spells -  After the Moment

Released on april 19, 2014. 

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The Snow // Memory Loss

Released on June 10, 2014.

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/album/nausea/id845312726 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/nausea

Craft Spells // Komorebi

Craft Spells // "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide"

http://craftspells.tumblr.com/

"In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a couple notes played in experimentation soon transformed into vibrant melodies that soon shook Vallesteros' musical foundation to the core. Guitar chords laced over pulse sating synth melodies and drum rhythms was a departure from Justin's previous work; he began to create the dreamy nostalgic pop music that is Craft Spells. Justin is a California native who now finds residence in the mid-size town of Stockton, the heart of California. Craft Spells is the epitome of the recent uprising of the DIY music scene. Coming from a place not known for its musical history or impact on music culture it seemed destined for Craft Spells to stay as a bedroom pop project with no final destination in sight. But soon the shear amount of blog volume his work began to generate was unimaginable. Sites like Weekly Tape Deck, Pasta Primavera, No Modest Bear and Pitchfork's Forkcast took notice and thus began the never ending worldwide posting and re-posting on blog after blog of Craft Spells. The sound is led by Justin's blissful voice, backed behind beautiful guitar melodies over heavenly synths, pop basslines and looped rhythms. Captured Tracks has released 7" single for the song "Party Talk" and will release the debut LP due out in Spring 2011 called Idle Labor. 2011 is going to be a busy year now that Justin has set up a live band for future touring. Keep a look out for tour dates in Europe and US come the new year. In no time at all, Justin has been able to move out of Dave Brubeck and Pavement's shadow to create something his own which he shares with the ever continuing admiration of the world." 

Craft Spells - Party Talk

The Pains are back with a perfect pop single for those hot summer months. "Say No To Love" is an absolute smash, a tune bursting with melody, great riffs, delicious guitar jangle and the infectious energy we've some to expect from the Pains.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Say No To Love

I think we were all knocked out by the Frankie Rose and the Outs album from 2010, the effortlessness of its gorgeous girl-pop mantras, the intimate immensity of its Spector-esque walls of reverb, the beauty of a song sung sweetly over the most graceful two-chord vamps. But are you ready for the new Frankie Rose? – her transformation into a wholly other kind of pop, the reverie and revelation of "Interstellar," an album that floats free of its maker’s history – time spent with Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts, and creator of one of the most breathlessly compelling girl-pop albums of the past few years – and offers the listener something strangely other, as alien as it is familiar, as compelling as it is enchanting.

On "Interstellar" Frankie takes the lessons learned with her debut album – like reverb as the holy route to pop-grandeur, scaling a wall of teenage tears – fully digests, and transfers those skills into the brave new world mapped out by ten new songs. Aided by production ace Le Chev, remixer supreme for Lemonade, Narcisse, Passion Pit, and Frankie’s own “Candy,”  Frankie has replaced that reverbed-out classicism with the confident swagger of a singer and auteur fully aware of how to build the simplest of pop moves into aching, full-blown melodramas, how to grab hold of an emotion and ride its darker waves.

"Know Me" is the first single from "Interstellar." It's a gorgeous piece of widescreen pop, dreamy and driving at the same time. The clean, big hooks bring to mind the best of mid-80s pop -- Smiths, New Order -- without sacrificing any of Frankie's unique melodic style. It's a single in the best sense; a three minute gem that perfectly captures the essence of the new album. Le Chev's remix on the flip side is pure 2012 - a slow-motion house burner with a tropical vibe and atmosphere to spare. Turn it up and drift away.

Frankie Rose - Know Me

Beirut - Elephant Gun

Mystery Jets - Serotonin

The Walkmen's new album "Heaven" is in stores May 29.

Pre-Order the album from iTunes: 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/heaven/id515362837

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Buy on iTunes

The Walkmen - Heaven (radio edit)

Beach Fossils - Face It

'Zeros' LP/CD/MP3 will be out October 30th (North America) and Nov. 5th (Worldwide). 

The Soft Moon // Insides

Beach Fossils' new album 'Clash the Truth' out February 19, 2013 on Captured Tracks.

LTD LP: http://goo.gl/rLdXd
Regular edition LP/CD: http://goo.gl/5nR5M
iTunes: (LINK WILL BE PLACED HERE TOMORROW 2/9) 

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