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Five Things We Liked This Week - 19/11/2021

New & hot: Indie

November 2021  - Best new alternative, punk and indie tracks

Written, recorded, performed and produced by Laura Wolf
Mixed by Zubin Hensler
Mastered by Joe Lambert Mastering

Work Of Art

Artist: The Acharis
Song: Nothing Sacred
Recorded at Survivor Sound Studios. Oakland CA
Recorded by: Ross Harris
Mixed by: John Fryer
Mastered by: Alan Douches - West West Side
New album "Blue Sky / Grey Heaven" on Cranes Records Nov 2021

@theacharis

Zum Audio Vol 4

The Acharis - Nothing's Sacred

If Words Were Flowers

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elkyn has announced his debut album ‘holy spirit social club’ and shared its lead single ‘everything looks darker now’. 

Set for release via Curation Records on 18th March 2022, ‘holy spirit social club’ sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldn’t dare expose. Whether that’s hurtful messages to one’s self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from childhood, it’s all here on ‘holy spirit social club’, unfiltered and searingly honest. 

This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on ‘holy spirit social club’ are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP ‘beech’, tender finger picks and elkyn’s distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is palpable, its impact - as you’ll hear on new single ‘everything looks darker now’ - is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself. 

Speaking about the single, Donnelly said: “This is about a rainy gig I played in Manchester. I invited someone and didn’t expect them to show up and when they did I shied away from them for most of it. We had a big catch up over a cigarette outside but when I left I realised how much I missed them”.

Rainy regret-tinged evenings, like this one, dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘last night’ concerns the final night he spent with a friend, considering the ensuing loneliness that awaits. While ‘change’ finds him on the streets of Yorkshire, revisiting his family home and wondering whether he had fulfilled his father’s desire for him to ‘become a man’ - a sore point that resurfaces again and again on ‘holy spirit social club’. 

This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent months, with the one-off singles that followed ‘beech’ making it on to a number of Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios with Producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio. 

Whilst elkyn isn’t exactly kind to himself on ‘holy spirit social club’, it does see him lift a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyn’s words, it’s “an interim into writing nicer songs and being nicer to myself”. In creating ‘holy spirit social club’, he has faced demons that he’s shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself that previously felt impossible. It’s only by sitting with your darkest moments that you can begin to glimpse the light - ‘holy spirit social club’ is proof of that and a whole lot more.

everything looks darker now

Hang Time

Stilling

Wait For You is out now: https://smarturl.it/margotwait

Wait For You

Margot - Wait For You

Rolodex City is taken from the album Archive Material, out now. Buy: https://orcd.co/archivematerial
Silverbacks are on tour in March 2022! Tickets and details: https://silverbacksband.com/

Silverbacks - Rolodex City

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Anorak Patch - Delilah

Pain Without a Touch

[production by. WYNT-RR]

/lyrics/
you say you’re sorry but sorry just doesn't mean anything 
were falling out of our love but it only mattered to me 
if you don't want it then say it I'm holding onto a string
switch your teeth with your heart and tell me what do you think

you say you’re sorry but sorry just doesn't mean anything 
were falling out of our love but it only mattered to me 
if you don't want it then say it I'm holding onto a string
switch your teeth with your heart and tell me what do you think

I wish I knew what I could do to keep you in my life
but its not like its my fault that you keep playing with our time
soon you'll just be a memory that I look back at
I held my hand in fire for you but I know you don't know that

your words are not enough 
I'm dying for your touch
you’re lying through your tongue 
its like you’re blacking out the sun
we're under the same moon 
but you're on another planet
one that I cant reach I'm scared and I might panic

you say you’re sorry but sorry just doesn't mean anything 
were falling out of our love but it only mattered to me 
if you don't want it then say it I'm holding onto a string
switch your teeth with your heart and tell me what do you think

you say you’re sorry but sorry just doesn't mean anything 
were falling out of our love but it only mattered to me 
if you don't want it then say it I'm holding onto a string
switch your teeth with your heart and tell me what do you think

DYSPHORIA <doesn't mean anything> [ex. WYNT-RR]

A Place To Rest

mv coming soon follow me on instagram & twitter @imjacobgeoffrey

as well as my boy @samrichman

STREAM IT ON SPOTIFY & APPLE MUSIC PLEASE

one way i’m telling time
is counting the moments between the last time we met eyes
twice before you knew the truth
would it be weird for me to tell you that i’m feeling for you too

i don’t know if it’s okay
if i’m dreaming of your face
i don’t know bout fate
but it’s putting you in my way
it’s putting you in my way

please tell me why
i’m running away from what i wanted
running away from what i wanted for you

and i can’t say
that i ever felt like i got it
that i ever felt like i got it from you

and there is nothing that you could say
i mean you said so much like
“i think you’re really pretty 
but i’m thinking too much, so”
i never knew what you wanted

and there was nothing i could do
i said “see you soon”
and soon turned into months without an end
we might as well be friends

i don’t know if it’s okay
if i’m dreaming of your face
i don’t know bout fate
but it’s putting you in my way
it’s putting you in my way

please tell me why
i’m running away from what i wanted
running away from what i wanted for you

and i can’t say
that i ever felt like i got it
that i ever felt like i got it from you

i’ve lost time
yeah i knew you in the past and never thought a dime about it

you’re still not mine
and for now i wish i’d never ever doubted you

please tell me why
i’m running away from what i wanted
running away from what i wanted for you

and i can’t say
that i ever felt, ever felt like you

i always wanted, always wanted you

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coming of age movie (prod. aldrch)

It’s been four years since we last heard from Tigercats, with the 2018 album Pig City marking the expansion of their sonic palette from indie-pop and alt-rock, to include highlife, afrobeat, and scuzzy West African psych.

The New Works EP is another step into the new for Tigercats, the sound of an increasingly political band, unbound by the records they’ve made previously, and enjoying the freedom of exploring and experimenting for these 5 new tracks.

“We’ve been a band over 10 years and it felt like all of our previous recordings have been leading up to this one. After Duncan switched from guitar to kalimba a few years back, and we welcomed a horn section into the line-up, the sound has been getting denser and grittier, particularly live. With this recording we’ve finally managed to capture some of that energy on record.”

The opening track New Work, a song about the relentless tyranny of labour in the 21st century, grows from the synth bass riffs and riotous brass lines with production inspired by industrial techno like JK Flesh, to display lyrical ferocity not often heard.
The Space came together completely improvised in the studio, and reflects on the fight for space to create art - in a world fighting for your attention 24-7, and the depletion of available arts spaces.
The intensity subsides for The Picture, a track whose origins date back to the writing of the band’s second record. More reminiscent of Tigercats’ indie credentials, drawing on the textures of Low or Yo La Tengo, it is developed here by a band confidently hitting their stride.

New Works was written in 2019 and recorded at Lightship 95 on the Thames, and at Big Jelly in Ramsgate. Originally scheduled for a spring 2020 release, we’re excited to finally bring you these 5 tracks and the promise of a return to blistering live shows from Tigercats.

Tigercats are a kalimba-led psychedelic pop band from East London.
Having honed his songwriting craft in the short-lived but much much-missed Esiotrot, in 2010, Duncan Barrett went about forming a new band and recruited sibling/long-time producer Giles Barrett (bass), talented songstress Laura Kovic (keys), as well as Paul Rains (guitar, of Allo Darlin’).

The band have performed throughout the UK and Europe and have supported The Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin and Darren Hayman among others. They have also performed at the End of the Road and Primavera Festivals and have appeared on Spanish TV (RTVE Radio3) and Indietracks. A tour of the USA and Canada included a headline appearance at NYC Popfest.

New Works harks a return to Fika Recordings, having released the debut Tigercats album Isle of Dogs back in 2012, bookending albums with Fortuna Pop! (2014’s Mysteries) and El Segell Del Primavera (2018’s Pig City).

Tigercats are:
Duncan Barrett - Vocals, Kalimba
Giles Barrett - Bass, Production
Laura Kovic - Keys, Vocals
Paul Rains - Guitar, Vocals
Will  Connor - Drums, percussion
Seb Silas - Baritone saxophone
Meridyth Dickson - Alto saxophone
Thom Punton - Trumpet

New Works

Doxxed & Loaded

Tigercats - Doxxed & Loaded

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Track by @wickedwiggitydawhg 
Art by @e-twoup
Quotes by @axcicos

BO: And the litter of furries enter the scene. Say, you kids happen to know a guy named Andy?
BEA: Ugh, I've never liked comedians. Nothing personal, pal, but it's been long enough for me to know you won't change that.
GREGG: Hey, I like the show, if it's any consolation! We won't end things like this, so you put your back into it too, yeah?


Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders [Bo - Vine]
On The Hunt - Alec Holowka [Trammals - NitW]
Rockin' The Suburbs - Ben Folds [Both - Comedy/Alt. Rock]
Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants [Trammals - Alt. Rock]
RANT - Bo Burnham [Bo]
You're On Fire - They Might Be Giants [Both - Comedy/Alt. Rock]
30 - Bo Burnham [Bo]
Die Young - Ke$ha [Trammals - Anthro Animals]
What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club [Trammals - Alt. Rock]
Lame Claim to Fame - "Weird Al" Yankovic [Both - Comedy/Alt. Rock]
Problematic - Bo Burnham [Bo]
All Star - Smash Mouth [Both - Vine/Ironic Humor/Alt. Rock]

[LR3 M1] Phase 1 - Bo and Friends In: Hunt For The Stars!

Written, recorded, and produced by Felicia Sekundiak
Artwork by Felicia Sekundiak

Lyrics:

If you knew that tonight would be the last time
Would you say something different?
Did you mean always when you said 'please be mine'?
Or did you mean something different?

Late nights in your bedroom
Everytime I leave it always feels too soon but
I can't stay forever
Because my brain says now or never 

Where's the joy in growing old?
Is it just something that we're told?
Is heaven even a real place?
Or is it what I felt the first time I saw your face?

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

Wait
I'm not the lead character in my movie
I think I've lost all control but
Everyone is gonna wish that they knew me
When those end credits roll by

Late nights in my bedroom
Everytime I cry I always think of you and
When I told you never
But my heart will hurt forever, and ever, and ever

Where's the joy in growing old?
Is it just something that we're told?
Is heaven even a real place?
Or is it what I felt the first time I saw your face?

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

If you only knew what I could see (hey!)
They love my acting, they don't love me
Never gonna share an onscreen kiss (dadadadada)
All my best moments are often missed

End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll
End credits roll

End Credits

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