going to play this track monday october 13th on ROCKSIDE www.radio-active.net 21h - 23h

Dude this is killing tbh. The best post punk and greteast instrumentell band i got to in 2020

great drums and bass. this is just so good. killing it

September Girls - Ships

Alice (Isn't Playing)

A wonderful follow up to last year’s masterpiece “Light Show” - may we present “Weird Moons”.

Here we have an eminently listenable but intrinsically weird pop record that is unlike anything else you'll hear today. This record pulses with vitality and a mercurial strangeness, but is at every turn undeniably pop. So pop, in fact you would be forgiven for jamming to the tunes alone, but underneath the surface the lyrics follow an otherworldly concept, a bizarre and engrossing story, continued in some ways and with similar actors as his previous record, Light Show - dig if you will:

The Shadows have been catapulted post-mortem to the leviathan planet Jupiter with its 67 known Moons. Reborn as lycanthropes with eyes intently focused on the lunar array above them, The Shadows are eternally shifting shape, based on which Moon is closest and cresting the horizon.  Their current body denotes their creative abilities, their only respite is the volcanic Moon Io’s inevitable rise and their cyclic disintegration.  Observed by mirror-eyed Watchers, The Shadows are trapped forever in a circle of creation and destruction, yet are by their nature compelled to their monkish watchfulness of The Moons. Love and hate, performance and audience, rise and fall, inhale…exhale…

weird?…. indeed

moons?…full of the same shadowy mystery of luna’s face smiling down on a darkened Earth.

Night time is the right time, I say.

Reminiscent of late era Can, Bruce Haack, Hans Edler, Solid Space, Dario Argento and VHS tapes…

https://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/jack-name-weird-moons

Jack Name - Running After Ganymede

Crystal Stilts - The Dazzled

A mi me basta tocar tu pecho con mis manos,
y con mi boca poder besarte en la ausencia...
eternamente,
llenas de fuego mi vida
yo sigo esperandote.

Largas horas...
quieren lo mejor de mí.

Eres llama mortal que me envuelve,
noche doliente
pálida y azul...
creación tan viva,
alma erguida
gira hacia tí.

Largas horas...
quieren lo mejor de mí.

Ojos profundos, llenos de miel...
las calles mojadas.
tu has venido a dormirte en mi vientre
tan sin embargo, te alejas en la tarde.

Quieren lo mejor de mí...
largas horas.

Largas Horas

From the limited edition compilation Killerrockandroll available on Record Store Day 2016 from participating retailers.

Release details at Kanine http://kaninerecords.com/product/skywave-killerrockandroll/

At RSD US: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8498

at RSD UK: http://recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-releases/rsd-2016/skywave/

Killerrockandroll

Skywave -  Over And Over

Bagstiv - Blood

a whirlwind of gloomy, fresh, dense and melodic, late-70’s and early-80’s influenced, post-punk with new wave

Cruel Reflections - 30 Minutes or Less

Taken from Cold Pumas' debut album – Persistent Malaise

Released 05/11/12 on Faux Discx / Gringo Records / Italian Beach Babes

COLD PUMAS – Fog Cutter

Kraken

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Girls Names - Pittura Infamante

An independent record label based in Brighton.

http://fauxdiscx.com

COLD PUMAS – Fog Cutter

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