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1st Song Music - Surf Music | October 2022

The Jacket

Salt

SUGAR SWEET

teen suicide - get high, breathe underwater (#3)

Gourmet Feat. Ausar

Good morning
I love you
Come over
I'll heat you up some leftover shepherd's pie

Suddenly I feel older
How long will it take for you to kiss some other lips when I die

I'm still alive

Today I'll buy you a houseplant
A visual indicator of our love
If I seem to be distant
I just never thought I could be as happy as I am with you
What to do

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame

Will you take me to the lake just one last time
Nothing left to do but just smile and die
Yeah I'll leave you my demons if you promise to walk them everyday on leashes

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame
If I die in a chemical fire please go
Move on without shame

CHEMICAL FIRE

Art Moore

Sixish

Loose Future

2p Machine

Longshot

You Had One Job

Thousand Steps is sure to make you jump off your feet and dance as well as make you reflect on you every emotion.

Lyrics:
You think you face death but you don't even start to live
You walked a thousand steps but you don't even move an inch
And I, and I, and I
Bringing more suspects upon a thin and weak old back and
Begging on your knees to stop the pain that runs within
Your heart, your heart, your heart

Hey man, you look fine
Have you been pushing people around
Can tell it by your smile
You're pleased within your mud
Chasing the wrong path
When will you ever put down your mask
Power and control won't heal you at all

I don't know what you're talking about
Seriously

You think you face death but you don't even start to live
You walked a thousand steps but you don't even move an inch
And I, and I, and I
Load all we suspect upon a thin and weak old back and
Begging on your knees to stop the pain that runs within
Your heart, your heart, your heart

Slave of your reality
You're representing individuality
Got to wake up your mind
Pretention is your mud

I was going to lose the thing that I
I was going to lose the thing I love
You can't just break into someone's life
(You can't just break into someone's life)
Maybe that person just needs some time
(Maybe that person just needs some time)
(I was going to lose the thing that I)
(I was going to lose)

You think I faced death but you don't even know my name
You're judging a picture that you have painted in your brain
And I, and I, and I
You think you face death but you don't even start to live
You walked a thousand steps but you don't even move an inch
Load all we suspect upon a thin and weak old back and
Begging on your knees to stop the pain that runs within
You think you face death but you don't even start to live
You walked a thousand steps but you don't even move an inch
And I, and I, and I
Load all we suspect upon a thin and weak old back and
Begging on your knees to stop the pain that runs within
Your heart, your heart, your heart
Bringing more suspects upon a thin and weak old back and
Begging on your knees to stop the pain that runs within
Your heart, your heart, your heart

Thousand Steps

English Weather

Paradise

Out now via @PilotRecordsUK!
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Lyrics:
(Enemy brain, enemy brain)
(It’s always the same, always the same)
 
Just another day in this hell world, hey
I don’t let it in, I get by okay
Step through the fog, how am I feelin’ today
Well you know, you know, you know, you know, know
 
See I was doing great ‘til the happiness tax
‘round 4pm it just hits like that
Yeah, some of my best days still go bad
But you know, you know, you know, you know
 
I been tryna figure it out
Oh, there’s gotta be some kinda reason why I’ve been feeling so down
I did everything right but it still feels like the sky’s falling down
It’s my enemy brain, ain’t cooperating
It’s beating me down
And it’s freaking me out
 
(Enemy brain, enemy brain)
(It’s always the same, always the same)
(Enemy brain, enemy brain)
(Yeah)
 
Okay okay okay
I can’t quite tell if it’s cool or depraved
Having pizza for breakfast for the last 5 days
How am I gonna shake this bad vibe haze
Well I don’t know don’t know don’t know don’t know NO
 
If I fall down and don’t know how
How am I meant to pick myself up right now?
Seems like maybe I should know by now
But you know, you know, you know, you know
 
I been tryna figure it out
Oh, there’s gotta be some kinda reason why I’ve been feeling so down
I did everything right but it still feels like the sky’s falling down
It’s my enemy brain, ain’t cooperating
It’s beating me down
And it’s freaking me out
Yeah, yeah!
 
(Everything makes no sense)
(And I just can’t see the difference)
(And I been hoping that tomorrow might save me, yeah)
 
You could say that I’m 
Out past misery 
And I’m outclassed viciously 
By the hard times 
Could be me or my bad mind 
I wish to be with my people 
Trying stuff for no reason 
Might discover some meaning 
Why am I here overthinking?
I’m just tryna figure it out
 
I been searching and can’t find a reason why I’m the mess I am now
How am I supposed to relax through competing with all of the stress and the doubt
I’m too close to the canvas I gotta step back I can do this but how
I guess I’ll keep trying to
 
Figure it out
Oh, there’s gotta be some kinda reason why I’ve been feeling so down
I did everything right but it still feels like the sky’s falling down
It’s my enemy brain, ain’t cooperating
It’s beating me down
And it’s freaking me out
Yeah, yeah!
 
(Enemy brain enemy brain)
(It’s always the same, always the same)
(Enemy brain enemy brain)
(Yeah)
 
(Figure it out)
(Oh there’s gotta be some kinda reason why I been)
(feeling so down)
(I did everything right but it still feels like the) 
(Skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)

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Enemy Brain

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The name “Let’s Whisper” implies secrets—the sorts of things you’d tell friends in a night’s waning hours, as the sun is about to peek over the horizon. Colin Clary and Dana Kaplan have been friends and musical collaborators for years, and the openhearted, detail-rich indiepop they craft together reflects their rich creative relationship and trust in each other. On The In-Between Times, the second Let’s Whisper full-length—the band’s first release in eight years, and first as a five-piece—the Burlington-based band digs deeper into their day-to-day worlds while confronting their individual and collective futures.    
“This is a record about love and loss and change and possibilities,” Colin and Dana say about The In-Between Times, which comes out on Fika Recordings in August 2022. Indeed, the prevailing mood of this album is a sense of grounding, of not letting the big questions of life—“what gets you through the night?”, “will I see you around the town?”, “have you done the thing that defines you yet?”—completely obfuscate the minutiae that makes it beautiful.  
Musically and lyrically detailed, The In-Between Times is the work of a band that uses the catchy melodies and jangling guitars of indiepop to peel off into exciting, and at times unexpected, musical and lyrical directions. “The Thing That Defines You” is crisp and questioning, with squiggles of guitar at its melody’s fringes implying the strands of identity that a friend is trying to see in order to get a full, unencumbered-by-narrative picture of someone they love. “Sing!” swells from a gentle jangle into a triumphant trans anthem that charmingly flips the bird to societal norms. “40 Ways To Love You” pairs its pointillistic detailing of a loved one’s best qualities with a weepy guitar countermelody that makes the romance all the more poignant.        
Let’s Whisper started as a home-recording project between Colin and Dana, also in the beloved “open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries” The Smittens, in the mid-2000s. Writing and recording music at home resulted in more tightly knit songwriting process, which the pair referred to as “Whispering.” After releasing a pair of EPs, 2008’s Make Me Smile and 2010’s Keep a Secret, Let’s Whisper brought on drummer Brad Searles (Eef, The Also-Rans), expanding and adding a fulcrum to their sound. Since Brad joined, Let’s Whisper has released one album, 2011’s The Shortest Days, and a 10-inch, 2014’s As Close As We Are. The latter was called “short and sweet, by turns deadpan in its delivery and sentimental in its subject matter” by the Vermont weekly Seven Days, and it was Let’s Whisper’s last release until now.
But Let’s Whisper has kept creatively busy in those ensuing years. In addition to the three members pursuing their own projects individually and together, Let’s Whisper toured the US and the UK, rounding out its lineup with bassist-guitarist Jeff Baron (Essex Green, Ladybug Transistor) in the States and bassist-vocalist Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, Mammoth Penguins) in Great Britain. For the recording of The In-Between Times, both Jeff and Emma joined Colin, Dana, and Brad during sessions at Marlborough Farms in Brooklyn—although they did so a year apart, with Emma recording her parts (including banjo on the chiming “Simple Times” and vocals and banjo on the plainspoken “Long Run”) with the core three in 2017 and Jeff adding guitar and keyboards in 2018, when the finishing touches were put on the album by studio owner and engineer Gary Olson.  
With The In-Between Times, Let’s Whisper have created an album that, even in its more pensive and mournful moments, celebrates the array of what life has to offer—the elation of watching hot-air balloons lift off at sunset, the triumph that comes with living honestly, the joy that comes when an open heart is mirrored by a friend, or a fan, or a loved one. Lean in and listen closely.

The Year Of Getting High

Let's Whisper - The Year Of Getting High

you're my everything
you make me feel alright
you're the only thing
that makes me feel alright
you're my everything
you make me feel alright
and you're the only thing
i never feel alright
i guess I have to go
and in my silence
it's so menacing
and when I'm left alone
it's so damaging
and in this violence
the walls cave in
i'm not able
to escape it all
'cause you're my everything, i have no words
and you're the only thing that makes life worth
thought I had everything, but it's not worth
thought I had everything
another lonely night
another lonely night
you're my everything
you make me feel alright
you're the only thing
you make me feel alright
you're my everything
you make me feel just fine
and you're the only thing
i never feel alright
i guess I have to go
i guess I have to go...

perfecto miserable (cover)

CASTLEBEAT 'Half Life' 2022 album out now on Spirit Goth Records (SG47)!

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Cinema

Hot on the heels of this year’s jazz-rock odyssey A List of Sightings, Guma returns with another stylistic left turn. First single “Driving the Highways of Texas” pulls liberally from the classic outlaw country handbook, featuring pedal steel guitar, honky tonk piano, and a quasi-mariachi string quartet in a song about the perilous pavement that criss-crosses the Lone Star State. At the center of it all, T.J. Masters’s dry sense of humor and meticulous songcraft anchors the shift in sound; times change, styles go in and out, but Guma remains.

Driving the Highways of Texas

Guma - Driving the Highways of Texas

vhs sports - somedays

Tired Vibes

Just When I Thought I Got It Right I Realized I’d Been All Wrong 
So I Just Might Stick Around And Wait For You To Come Along 

Whenever I would Need some Space I Hid my Face in the Crowd
You’d Never Hear me Say a Phrase In Latin or Think out Loud 

And If I Should Forget Your Name I Hope You Will Me Remind Me of That Day
When We Both Met And No Regrets could hold me back from giving you my love 


Ref: Rushing through the twinkling stars
From a fleet of million cars
Where every traffic light’s a heart – turning Green


Break: Falling Leaves and flakes of Snow 
Time has come for us to go
To this warm place down below  
in the southern hemisphere

Just When I Thought I Got It Right

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DYSLEXIC POETRY

Closure - Warehouse

Written and performed by Icehead.
Produced/mixed by Daniel Moore.

Mastered by Jonny Coddington at Bottle Rocket Recording.

Artwork by Jason Herr.

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Icehead - Denialism

Fika Recordings is a diy indie[pop] label run from London.
