walking with someone who like loves you

Milk & Honey

Random Nostalgia out August 12, 2014

<a href="http://fatherdaughterrecords.bigcartel.com/product/rivergazer-random-nostalgia">PRE-ORDER ON VINYL</a>

Rivergazer is the nom de plume of London-born, New York-bred songwriter, Kevin Farrant. Since 2011 he has quietly self-released demos and an EP entitled, Oh My Ego, and played in a variety of bands including guitar with childhood friend Aaron Maines’ Porches. (Exploding In Sound).

On Random Nostalgia, Rivergazer’s first full length studio album being released August 12th, Farrant teamed up with producer Hunter Davidsohn and longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist, Kolson Pickard to achieve a bigger conceptual sound. The album tells a tale of modern sadness -- growing up in the suburbs, getting married and divorced, having no money, being in debt, driving mom’s car, friends, isolation, wanting a dog, finding zen, and making memories. Rivergazer has crafted an album that is both thematically relatable and sonically familiar, residing at the intersection of nostalgia and now.

Rivergazer - Lonely

From Happy Diving's debut album, Big World, out October 21, 2014. Recorded at The Atomic Garden in East Palo Alto, CA, with producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor, Whirr).

PRE-ORDER: fatherdaughterrecords.bigcartel.com/product…g-world

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LIVE DATES
Saturday, Sept 27th @ Thee Parkside (San Francisco, CA) - Bay Area Record Fair
Saturday, October 4th @ Chromatic Coffee (San Jose, CA) w/ The Exquisites 
Wednesday, October 22nd @ 1-2-3-4 Go! (Oakland, CA) - Record release show with w/ Big Ups, Lvl Up, Fish Breath

Happy Diving - Sad Planet

From the album "All Energy Will Rise" coming April 7th via Miscreant & Father/Daughter Records.

Somebody

Lifting The Smoke

Recorded at Blue Barn Studios
Produced by Ben Lemi & Brooke Singer
Recorded and Engineered by Ben Lemi
Mastered by Mike Gibson 

Voice, piano, guitar: Brooke Singer
Guitar: John Fitzgerald
Drums: Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa
Bass, voice: Ben Lemi

Released on Home Alone Music (NZ) & Lefse Records(World)
Publishers: Native Tongue

LYRICS

I watched in horror as the bird went up in flames, 
Couldn't beat his wings fast enough to up, and fly away. 
So feathers into dust, dreams into dust. 
Feathers into dust, dreams into dust, 
For this small one, this one of many birds. 

I closed my eyes to see, delicate wings in smoke. 
Heard the last cry of courage, heard the last sweet note, 
And feathers into dust, dreams into dust, 
Feathers into dust, dreams into dust. 

Helpful hands won't reach where they will only burn, 
These are lessons only if they are heard. 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing them 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing them 
Don't turn away, honour them by seeing their pain.

Feathers And Dreams

"Judas Said to be a Man" available on iTunes. Full single, including "Endless Shame" out May 27th, 2016 on Jagjaguwar.

Available now on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/TrevorSensor_Judas
trevorsensor.com

Trevor Sensor - Judas Said to be a Man

All This Life Going Down

Back In Love

Pale Seas - Something or Nothing

Woodstock.
Available via Terrible Records today.
Stream and purchase here:
http://smarturl.it/WoodstockMF

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Woodstock

The Shins - Goodbye Girl

David Wingo is a busy man.  In the years since the release of his last record as Ola Podrida, he's written and recorded soundtracks for several movies including Take Shelter (winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2011), MUD (starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon), and Prince Avalanche (starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch and co-composed with Explosions In The Sky), both of which are seeing wide release this coming spring/summer. When he had time in between films, Wingo assembled a live band featuring Colin Swietek on guitars, Matt Clark on bass, and David Hobizal on drums and began to bring his new songs in to the band.  A first for Ola Podrida, the new album Ghosts Go Blind was recorded to tape in a proper studio, mostly live, with the full band.  The resulting songs are energetic and accessible, while Wingo's abstract narratives are more personal and intimate than ever.   

Throughout the album bittersweet memories of youth are filtered through the nostalgic eyes of a man starting to accept his adult life for the first time.  The album opens with last guy at the party pleading for someone to stay with him, and keep the revelry going a little longer.  It's an almost cringeworthy desperation, and yet Wingo makes it feel relatable.  The final refrain "It's no fun, being alone at the end" takes on a bigger meaning, giving you the feeling his friends have grown up and moved on, leaving him to decide how he'll proceed with his life.  By the middle of the album, the character has evolved, now pleading with his partner again, but this time the goal is to stay home and shut out the world.  

Part of what makes this album so satisfying is how elegantly Wingo uses the mundane, common events of day-to-day life to conjure tales of desperation, resignation, and reflection.  The power of Wingo's storytelling is magnified by Swietek's shimmering riffs and Clark and Hobizal's alternately propulsive and restrained rhythms.  In the end, Ghosts Go Blind is about finding someone you resonate with and want to grow old with, appreciating the carefree days of youth, and steadying yourself for whatever comes next.

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"Staying In" by Ola Podrida

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