🆔 2020.02 | indie dance. synthpop. disco. | Indie Discotheque

A tribute to Nirvana's "In Utero" by a selection of bands from Toronto.

Curated by Hand Drawn Dracula, Greys and The Wooden Sky. Mastered by Gavin Gardiner.

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Tess Parks - Marigold

“Dream of Bees” is the first single from Lilies on Mars’ full-length Dot to Dot, to be given worldwide release early next year on Saint Marie Records. Previous recordings by the London-based, Sardinian multi-instrumentalists Lisa Masia and Marina Cristofalo have established the duo, formed in 2009, as purveyors of  poignant, otherworldly “retro-futurist” dreampop.

“Dream of Bees” opens with a hovering organ chord that’s quickly overtaken by an instrumental preview of a chorus that always pulls the listener aloft on a softly turning but slightly dizzying carousel of sound, an image bolstered by a vertiginously calliope-like keyboard line. With the first verse commences a high, distant vocal that soars gently through the rest of the track. Nimble drum work contributed by Valentina Magaletti ensures that the proceedings never quite touch the Ground.

The first remix included with the single comes by way of San Francisco’s ethereal pop team Silver Swans, whose sparer, more synthetic approach to the song brings the vocal line to the fore and uses programmed drums to pull the track’s rhythmic emphasis inside out. A remix by Vancouver-born, New York-based cellist Julia Kent startlingly recasts “Dream of Bees” in purely instrumental terms with an exquisite string arrangement.

Lilies On Mars - Dream Of Bees

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Sparks Kiss The Water

Known for their compelling song-writing and excruciatingly long breaks between albums, The Laurels are back with ‘Monkey On My Back’, the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming and highly anticipated third record.

‘Monkey On My Back’ combines raw guitars and layered harmonies that are driven by a soulful rhythm section. The track sees the band regain the energy they captured on Mesozoic, the pop sensibilities displayed on Plains, and the hip-hop production aesthetic developed on Sonicology.

Monkey On My Back by The Laurels

'The Big Exercise' (Release date: February 7, 2020)

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The Homesick - I Celebrate My Fantasy

"Lead Me Astray" taken from James Alexander Bright's album 'Headroom' which is out on !K7 on the 3rd April 2020. 

Pre-order album here: https://k7.lnk.to/Headroom

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Lead Me Astray

James Alexander Bright - Lead Me Astray

Skin on Skin

Pretty Drama - Give Me Your Love (if Found Remix)

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

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Las Kellies - Closer

The second single off our "For Australia with Love" Compilation out this Friday

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A.L.I.S.O.N - Always In My Dreams

Exclusive Mordisco 'Sacromonte'

Celebrating its 4th anniversary Mexican label Duro releases the second installment of their various artist series called 'Muy Duro' and kickstarts 2020 with five label befriended artists, namely Mordisco, Jepe, Darlyn Vlys, Fausto and Carisma, that synonominously represent Duro's international philosophy when it comes to music and giving it a home. With 116bpm Spanish duo Mordisco delivers a dark disco-ish wave, 'Sacromonte', slowing the generel pace of the V/A a bit down but still capturing the right amount of Latin vibe or their Latin roots with a lead-synth that's causing 'Sacromonte' to become one of these groovey, disco creepers one enjoys hearing in a sweaty club or under the open sky.

'Muy Duro Vol. 2' will be released on Duro on January 24th, 2020.

Buy the EP
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V/A - Muy Duro Vol. 2

Sacromonte

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EXCLUSIVE: Mordisco - Sacromonte [Duro]

Waiting Out The Storm

Hands Down In Your Pockets

Nightshift - Make Kin

Their album "Private Meaning First" will be released 27th November. First single "Closure" soundtracks a short film, the result of the band's collaboration with with Clara Marguerat, a young French photographer and videographer. It shows everyday life at its most honest, filmed on the Paris Metro

Watch and listen here: https://thepsychoticmonks.plctrmm.to/closure

The Psychotic Monks - 'Closure'

"Daringly different and dazzlingly diverse" Rough Trade

TROPICAL FUCK STORM / DERADOORIAN / THE LEMONHEADS / EARTH / LUCKY BREAK / HAYLIE DAVIS / WHITNEY K / BLACK LIPS / MONDE UFO / PICTISH TRAIL / GRAHAM REYNOLDS / VANISHING TWIN / JANE WEAVER / DECISIVE PINK / MARINA ALLEN / RVG / BAS JAN / MARTA DEL GRANDI / ISLET / ELLA RAPHAEL / FATEN KANAAN / LUCY GOOCH / HATER / RATS ON RAFTS / JOSEPHINE FOSTER / DEATH AND VANILLA / ROYAL TRUX / KRISTIN HERSH / THROWING MUSES / THE CHILLS / HALF JAPANESE / SEBADOH / THE DREAM SYNDICATE / AMBER ARCADES

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