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Public Memory - Demolition

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"Then if you got it you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice"
DEVO "Freedom of Choice" (1980)

Freedom of Choice - OCTOBER 2018 \\ Post-Punk/Coldwave/Darkwave/Synth-Pop/Minimal Synth

October

billion-blooded sea

Son of Autumnal

GRAVE096 :::: The Stargazer Lilies 'We are the Dreamers' out 10/22/13

A great dance party is a thing of beauty, but a good soundtrack for the comedown can be just as vital. After nearly a decade on the trippy dancefloor of Soundpool, guitarist/drummer/bassist/producer John Cep and singer/bassist Kim Field set off from that New York five-piece to take respite in the warm and woozy sounds of a new shoegaze-infused project, The Stargazer Lilies. And with their debut album, We Are the Dreamers,they're letting their days of disco beats slip away into memory with style.

Linking up with Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow and live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, they've teased influences like the French pop of Air and the shoegaze of Lush and Slowdive out to create a record of dripping dream pop. Here, they've pared down their sound to Kim's airy vocals, reverb-washed drums and a fuzzy, swelling ether of effects-laden guitar and bass. The resulting punch-drunk collection, from the gentle melody of "Del Rey Mar" to the sluggish and nearly indecipherable drone of "Light of Day," is coated in the disquieting patina that Tobacco brings to BMSR, though in this case the mood he creates is more melancholy than sinister.

And isn't that just how it feels, that limbo between a real good party and the morning after — sickly sweet, a little muzzy and ready, before too long, to do it all again.

The Stargazer Lilies - Endless Days

Ahhh by The Stargazer Lilies


good morning dawn
the night is gone
eyelids once drawn
part to gaze on

dreams held at bay
fully rigged
and set to sail away
grounded hopes of yore
cast a sea
on this day
from shore

ahhh

hello day break
senses awake
to witness scenes
of living dreams

dreams of yesterday
unmoored
and set adrift today
afloat and starboard bound
guided by
celestial bodies found


ahhh

words &amp; music by j. ceparano(bmi) &amp; k. field(bmi)

Ahhh

We're Not Talking

The Goon Sax - We Can't Win

WASTELAND RADIO NEW ARCHIVES [GREEN/376] 
by Air Credits (C. Sandifer, S. Reidell) 

Mixed by Greg Magers at The Attic  
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room 

CARSELLO: synths on “Through The Dust” 
RICH JONES: vocals on “O.O.E.” 
ASTROSHREDS: background vocals on “O.O.E.”

THIS COULD BE BAD

Coming in late Spring 2018 on Slumberland Records.

Used To Yesterday

Smokescreens - The Lost Song

STREAM/BUY HERE : http://smarturl.it/jlvpld
PRODUCED BY CHINI, METRODOME + DEFTY
BASS BY SAM VICARY
RHODES BY LIVIU GHEORGE

Stream/Buy

Pass Me The Ashtray (Feat. IAMDDB)

songwriting and lead vocals by Ruby McGinn
production, instrumentation and backing vocals by Pablo Sotelo
mastered by Jonathan Colin

Driver

Track 02 from "Here Come Tommy and the Commies" LP / CD out 28 September on Slovenly Recordings.

From swingin’ Sudbury, Ontario, CA (nada), here come TOMMY and the COMMIES with their debut recordings for Slovenly Recordings, "Here come Tommy and the Commies!" “Here Come…” is 16 blistering minutes of hooliganistic mod-punk madness featuring Jeff Houle, also known as the sole brain behind budget rock cult faves STRANGE ATTRACTOR, and his brother Mitch, known ⅔ collectively as the power-pop force STATUES of P. Trash Records fame. 

Swagger drenched youngster frontman Tommy Commy recruited Strange Jeff by dragging him into a bathroom stall during a punk show, playing him an inaudible demo on a phone. The Houle Two agreed to join forces for Tommy’s first foray into the world of record making on the strength of giving “Spiral Scratch” era Howard Devoto a run for his dosh on the vox on any given holiday. This kid has GOT IT, BABY! 

In a perfect modern world, songs like “Devices,” and “Suckin’ In Your 20’s” would be massive chart smashes on the level of “Teenage Kicks.” Those days are long gone, but here we are in 2018, giving YOU what you need, and what THEY don’t deserve.

"Here Come" LP

Suckin' In Your 20's

Demolition

Public Memory - Aegis

Public Memory - Falsetto

Public Memory - Mercy

Public Memory - Red Rainbow

Artist: Public Memory
Album: Demolition
Label: felte 

https://publicmemory.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/public.memory 
https://www.facebook.com/thepublicmemory
https://twitter.com/public__memory
https://soundcloud.com/publicmemory

Public Memory - The Line

Official Single off of the upcoming album "what if there is no way out" released on Icy Cold Records, Paris. 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ycvv9JfoLpdpRWTzs4wDh?si=tmSyDmM5SYeEWjUBCy-s7A
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viclucerne/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visionsinclouds/?hl=en

what if there is no way out

Tides

Following a recalibration and consolidation with their recent electronics-inflected album, 2018’s U.E.F., The Oscillation is back with their sixth and most ambitious album to date, Wasted Space. A meditation on the nature of existence in the face of what can be insurmountable odds, Wasted Space finds The Oscillation painting from the darker shades of the kaleidoscopic scale.

“The origins of Wasted Space go back to Monographic in 2016,” muses Demian Castellanos - the mastermind behind The Oscillation. “That was a very bleak and heavy record and I really needed to move out of that mindset. Making U.E.F freed me up to write a coherent collection of narrative songs and compositions. Wasted Space is a partial continuation of a journey started with U.E.F., but one that re-incorporates more song-based ideas again.”

What’s immediately apparent is that Wasted Space sets it stall well away from the prosaic third-eye tropes that have become orthodoxy. Album opener ‘Entity’ establishes the pace with a focus on the dancefloor as much as on the navigation of existence. Fusing muscular grooves with an industrial wall of sound, these are bold steps into wholly new territories.

“There’s an irony at play here,” considers Castellanos. “It’s a twisted party song, albeit a party for one.” But what a party it is. The mutant disco is bolstered by the rhythmic call-and-response of ‘Drop’, a track that eschews conventional methods of dance sensibility for more instinctive and primal urges. This is music that calls out to the suitably attuned. “We’re reaching out on an innate level,” says Castellanos. “It’s a form of wordless communication that transcends the limitations of verbal language and thought processes.”

Wasted Space’s more somatic moments are tempered and balanced by episodes of contemplation and reflection. Fuelled by dreamy, orchestral sweeps and mournful, sustained notes, ‘The Human Shell’ is a deceptive yet redemptive piece that at first glance appears to be resigned to the futility of existence. But look once again and there you’ll find hope. “People will be able to relate to this song,” states Castellanos. “There's a lot of love and empathy in there and it reaches out to say that we’re not alone, that we don’t have to exist independently of each other.”

Bringing Wasted Space to an emphatic conclusion is the epic instrumental ‘Luminous Being’. Ambitious in scope and delivery, it methodically and unequivocally slow releases repressed emotions to throw the wider world into sharper focus. Hedonistic yet reflective, Wasted Space is an album that moves purposely along a high wire as it finds the perfect balance between dealing with life and escaping it. The Oscillation’s finest album yet, Wasted Space is the area to which you’ll return to again and again.

Wasted Space is due for release September 21st.

Wasted Space

The Oscillation - Drop

Heat is a surprise new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS. It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There’s no sonic fiction involved - this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold.

Heat

Shinichi Atobe - Heat 1

5th Amendment - Torres

Taken from Public Service Broadcasting's upcoming EP, 'White Star Liner'.

Buy / Stream: smarturl.it/whitestarliner

flicker

It's raining cats and dogs
From the cloudy sky
I´m waiting for the sunlight
So my clothes can dry

I´m waiting for the sun
To break through the clouds

Every cloud has a silver lining
Maybe is it true
But i´m longing for the sun to come
I´m longing for you

I´m waiting for the sun
To break through the clouds

I´m waiting for the sun to come
To break through the clouds
I´m longing for the sunlight
I´m longing for you

Waiting

From MADMOIZEL's brand new album, 'Play Bizarre'.

Out now on CD on TONN Recordings, available from TONN Bandcamp.

Mastered by Wellencocktail Tonstudio, Hanover.

Play Bizarre

You, A Dreamer

You, A Dreamer - MADMOIZEL (from the CD album 'Play Bizarre')

https://grandeur-usa.bandcamp.com/album/singles-vol-1-the-great-famine

Cobalt Sky [4LT4RS Remix]

Probably a little dark for a "Happy Halloween!", but whaddya gonna do?

LYRICS
Seventeen and in your bed
let's say clean; let's say red
All that talk; what you said
"Passion's gone. Love is dead."

I have no substance, anyone can see
these words are like pennies; useless and cheap

I'll take your time with a song
And sell your soul for skin and bone 
If I can't sleep I'll take your home
You may be cold but you will never be alone

I am your lover. I am not your friend
I built you this castle with blood, sweat, and sand
You are just paper on which I compose lies
I feed fire to demons and kill to survive

I want to tell you how much you mean
My own makeshift Saint of suffering
In your blood I taste your dreams
So I reach inside and take it all for me

Joli Vampire

Bloom Offering is the synth-wave / blighted electronic project of Seattle’s Nicole Carr. Having released a handful of well-received cassettes through Clan Destine, Aught Void, and Sinneslöschen, Bloom Offering presents her debut LP Episodes through The Helen Scarsdale Agency. 

In her development as an artist and technician, Carr has steadily honed her abilities in sculpting sharply cold electronics and declarative vocals set upon propulsive spines of whipcrack snares and throttled kick drums. Episodes strikes us as the refinement and culmination of those motifs into a compulsive communion with bleak noise, dark-eyed melody, controlled rhythm, cathartic release and emotional drainage. “Venus Shrugged” maintains a stately almost haughty sequence of synth stabs, evoking the sexual politics of the male gaze and any woman who choses to look for herself. In the constant headlines of men behaving badly, Bloom Offering’s curse remains necessary.

Episodes

Bloom Offering // Venus Shrugged

GRAVE096 ::::  The Stargazer Lilies 'We are the Dreamers'

The Stargazer Lilies slow motion bathing through space music is like sun glistening on the water in sound, ambient rock for daydreamers to bob their heads to. The Northeastern Pennsylvania based trio of guitarist/bassist/drummer/producer, John Cep, singer/bassist, Kim Field, and live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, bring back the raw rock primal gaze, no bullshit sunshine haze.

The gazey dance floor where Soundpool, John & Kim’s previous band, dwelled lies behind them, while The Stargazer Lilies cosmic ambient arena lies ahead. Soundpool released three full-lengths in the last half decade, two on Aloft & Quince, and one on Killer Pimp. They shared the stage and in some cases toured with the likes of: Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, School of Seven Bells, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco and Robin Guthrie to name a few.

The Stargazer Lilies streamline and minimize Soundpool down to just the bare essentials, ridding themselves of the superfluous & getting down to the essence of what The Stargazer Lilies are: ~butterfly wings, slowly beating guitars enveloping the listener, ethereal breathy female vocals floating on a melody, rocked out bossa nova beats and bad ass bass throwing down the rhythm.

This new direction, like minimalism, gains strength by taking away and paring the instrumentation down to create vast vistas of sound.

Their debut album, We are the Dreamers, will be out Oct 22nd on Graveface Records. Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow curated the release.

PR :::
Michelle King
michelle@noisyghostpr.com
http://www.noisyghostpr.com/album/we-are-the-dreamers/

The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers

multiple meanings with existence born in 2012.