The Chills Release New Album ‘Snow Bound’
Out 14th September

The Chills’ ever-present songwriter Martin Phillipps has a check list.

1.	Establish band as much-loved New Zealand legends. Check.
2.	Release the greatest summer single ever in the shape of ‘Heavenly Pop Hit’. Check.
3.	Go on lengthy 19-year sabbatical out of the public eye. Check.
4.	Return to recording and cock a weary eye at politics, the environment and other social issues with an infectious earworm in mind. Check.
5.	Sonically weld your “spindly guitar sound” and psyche roots to a new found angst about, well, just about everything on a brand new “grown up” opus called ‘Snow Bound’. Check.

The latest postcard from The Chills’ epic journey is an album about “consolidation, re-grouping, acceptance and mortality,” claims the chief Chill. “Hopefully a kind of Carole King ‘Tapestry’ for ageing punks.”

Wow! Are rock bands allowed to grow old gracefully and assess the world’s and their shortcomings in the process? Is it possible to swerve the obvious and make something that’s bittersweet in tone but harmonious on the ear? Of course it is.

On ‘Snow Bound’ lost heroes are lamented, relationships are re-evaluated, atonement is sought, mortality is mulled over and fake news is undercut. It’s serious stuff, the thoughts of a dysfunctional 50-something wrestling with maturity and discovering that their post-punk DIY beliefs still have a real voice that resonates between the fans of their early years and which can now pass down to the next generation.

Casting our minds back The Guardian mused, “They sound almost like the musical embodiment of autumn,” when confronted with ‘Silver Bullets’. Three years on, ‘Snow Bound’ nestles heartily in its own winter of discontent. And all this with a humalong melodic verve, Phillipps’ gift for the tempered dalliance of verse and chorus and those gorgeous euphoric organ fills. Lead tracks ‘Complex’ and ‘Lord Of All I Survey’ recall R.E.M, Go-Betweens and Guided By Voices. 

Let the soul-searching commence…

The Chills - Complex

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Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 195

July 2018

Titre issu de la cassette d'Avventur remplie d'une heure de sentiments, sortie cette semaine chez Indian Redhead rcrds : http://indianredhead.bandcamp.com/album/avventur
Plonge sous la vague avec nous !

Avventur - Lise

from 'Turmalinturm [Remixes] [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den302
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/foghdepot]

Turmalinturm [remixes] is a scrupulous compilation of tracks inspired by the second Fogh Depot album released in October 2016 via Denovali Records. The idea was to compile pieces both from artists of the Denovali roster and of the booming Russian electronic scene.

The Tourmaline tower is crashed. A new town is being raised at its place, eclectic in architecture, but of a monolithic mood. Get ready for a dense atmospheric mix of magnetic darkness and genuine delicacy. This is an example of seductive and at the same time disturbing tunes at the confluence of drone, ambient, IDM and live electronica. The collection absorbes works of the most skillful producers of this noble genre demanding extreme precision.

Half of the London-based duo «Piano Interrupted» and also successful solo musician Franz Kirmann provides a shard of pure romanсе from Albion’s shore, while the experienced Moscow artist Dima Ustinov delicately and gently dissects the modal harmony of the track «Meduse». The prolific Sardinian producer Saffronkeira adds a detached, ephemeral and otherworldly piece and master of techno hymns Moa Pillar contributes a horror-drone remix of Quicksilver Spoon. For those who want to dance there is Monokle - an eclectic musician from Saint Petersburg - decomposing «Meduse» into a bassy club track. The Siberian dark lord of modular synthesizers Hmot totally deconstructs Oscar and literally distills all the piercing dramatic effect from the track, while an emotional and powerful piece by John Lemke, gloomy, affective and catchy, closes the remix album. 

The Tourmaline tower is crashed. But the town made of its remnants is no less fascinating than the original.

Turmalinturm [Remixes]

Fogh Depot - Svetly Prazdnik (John Lemke Remix)

A side from a new Protomartyr/Spray Paint 7" on Monofonus Press. Conceived on a tour together a year or four ago. Finally got around to doing it. The concept was each band would record an instrumental and send it to the other band. The other band would then sing on the track, and here it is.

Purchase it:
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Out August 17

Corinthian Leather

Hypoluxo - Kentucky Smooth

The Chills - Lord Of All I Survey

"Trip into the Sun," the third single off of The Rareflowers' new EP, self-titled EP out June 29th via Good Eye Records.

Spotify: bit.ly/Spotify-TripintotheSun
Buy: bit.ly/iTunes-Rareflowers
Facebook: bit.ly/FB-TheRareflowers

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Comprised of brothers Jimmy (guitar, lead vox) and Kane Maraday (bass, vox) and joined by Aaron Gollubier (drums), New Brunswick, NJ-based group The Rareflowers craft an infectious blend of jangle and power-pop reminiscent of masters like The Cars and The Replacements. Following a self-released split single, the band now announces their signing to Brooklyn-based label Good Eye Records and their forthcoming debut EP.

Although the name may be new, the seeds of The Rareflowers were sown as early as 2013. Jimmy and Kane had left their previous band to join Aaron, who had also left his band, to experiment with multitrack cassette recording.

Flash forward to 2016 and The Rareflowers, performing under a different name, meet Matthew Molnar (Friends, Kissing Is A Crime) at New Brunswick basement show. Molnar would prove integral in the production of the EP with mixing done by Jarvis Taveniere of Woodsist Records. Born from the spirit of this newly formed partnership, The Rareflowers are already at work on a follow-up LP.

Stay tuned for more from The Rareflowers and be sure to follow them on their social outlets. "The Rareflowers" is out June 29th and is the seventh release from Good Eye Records.

Buy "The Rareflowers"

The Rareflowers - "Trip into the Sun"

"Black Lagoon is the lead single from Still Corners 4th album Slow Air.  With clean toned electric guitar, a driving beat, and the smoky crooning of Tessa Murray, Black Lagoon contains the shimmering atmospherics Still Corners are well known for.  The cinematic video that accompanies the track finds the band on a journey from the desert to the ocean in search of a lost Eden. Filmed over a month in California, Arizona and Texas and shot on a small handheld cinema camera, the band travels across America in a white mustang convertible searching and reaching into the unknown."

Slow Air

Black Lagoon

Anti Fade records is very pleased to announce the release of the ‘New Centre of the Universe, Vol. 3’ LP; the third instalment (and first to appear on vinyl) in the label’s series of Australian-based compilations that began back in 2012. It’s been five years and over two dozen releases since the last volume of the compilation - but I like to think that this one is worth the wait! The record is made up of the likes of Terry, Parsnip, Exek, School Damage, Vintage Crop. Traffik Island, Gonzo, The Shifters, The Stroppies and many more - nil bands of which have appeared on any previous compilations.

To recap earlier volumes; New Centre of the Universe, Vol. 1 and 2 came out within 12 months of each other on small cassettes runs in 2012 and 2013. Volume 1 featured nine Melbourne bands on the first side and nine Geelong bands on the second, together spanning the likes of The UV Race, Frowning Clouds, Dick Diver, King Gizzard, Ausmuteants, Hierophants, Living Eyes and many more. 10 months later came New Centre of the Universe, Vol. 2, which this time featured bands spread along the Australian East Coast such as The Stevens, Straight Arrows, The Gooch Palms, Super Wild Horses, Cobwebbs, Terrible Truths, Bits Of Shit and of course many more. 

But enough about the past - “New Centre Of The Universe Vol.3” is now finished and ready to see the light of day. The compilation features 17 Victorian bands and artists and has backed off from any ‘punk’ bands that may have featured on earlier volumes, with the overall theme here being a more relaxed and easy listening record. It was compiled over the last 12 months by Anti Fade Records, mastered by Mikey Young and finally wrapped in the glorious, hand-painted artwork that you see above by Carolyn Hawkins - who also features on two of the songs! From the garage-y sounds of girl group Parsnip’s opener, “It Couldn’t Be True” to the minor, instrumental closer that is Zane Gardner’s “In Saint-Rémy and Auvers”, the compilation sets a strong and versatile balance of some of Victoria’s finest musicians, groups and songwriters. 

See for yourself. New Centre of the Universe is out worldwide on LP and digitally through Anti Fade Records from August 3rd.

PARSNIP - It Couldn't Be True (from New Centre of the Universe, Vol. 3)

Likely Story

Order the new album here: http://www.smarturl.it/missred-ko

Miss Red - War

Young M.A’s debut album, ‘Herstory In The Making’, is out now: https://www.smarturl.it/herstoryinthemaking

Watch the music video here: http://smarturl.it/pettywap

Produced by Antwan “Amadeus" Thompson, Anthony “Bruce Leroy” Barfield & Orrin “ Dr. O” Wilson of Velocity Music for Platinum Boy Music Inc. Mixed/Mastered by Wizard Lee @Feet1stmusic.

For M.A Tour Dates & Gear visit: http://www.linktr.ee/youngma

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BALI BABY "AMBER Alert"

Promises 諾言 written, produced and performed by Rainbow Chan, 2018. Mixed and mastered by Brendan Zacharias.

Promises 諾言

Dedicated to a six-foot, three-and-a-half-inch tall invisible rabbit… Grab a stool, order two martinis and enjoy this sweet ode to ‘Harvey’, coming straight atcha from the one and only, Her’s.

New single ‘Harvey’ is out now!
Stream / Download: http://smarturl.it/HersHarvey

Taken from the debut album 'Invitation to Her's', out now on Heist or Hit.
Available on LP, CD, & Digital Download: http://radi.al/InvitationToHers

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Invitation To Her's

Harvey

A Little Color

Taken from Frøkedal's forthcoming album 'How We Made It' - released August 31 via Propeller Recordings

Frøkedal - David

One Hour

nightwalk

Hi! Thanks to my fans & soundcloud for helping me get my login back so quickly. I wanted to post something now that it's back in my hands. Here's a cover of ~Voices Carry~. I've played it live a few times this year. It's always been one of my favorite songs but it's kind of deeply personal to me,lyrically. I recorded this in one day when a engineer had a room at Sunset Sound available.He let me use the studio for free as a favor, some of my friends came in and played the bass/guitar/drums for me after calling them 45 minutes before asking if they could try playing random stuff for me to work with/write on. Nobody has produced it (except me... I guess but this version isn't produced or mixed.It also doesn't have the synths & guitars I added today. I am out of the country so my computer keeps crashing.)I didn't want to wait until I was back to upload something. I have no idea what this sounds like in speakers either lol. This is what I call the infant demo because it's basically the scratch demo since it hasn't really been worked on & what not. It's also the only thing I can post without getting in trouble by other people involved on other songs.I promise I will be posting a lot more stuff on here & will let you know more about my album. I always feel a lot more comfortable sharing music related things here instead of Instagram etc 
thanks for the support 


I will give you one hint about one of my first two singles:

There's a fire on your street
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VOICES CARRY COVER INFANT DEMO

Moon Zero - Aeolus. 

Tape dubs and stairway recordings at Cable Street studios, Limehouse.  

Free download for the wav


Aeolus

"Daringly different and dazzlingly diverse" Rough Trade

VANISHING TWIN / JANE WEAVER / DECISIVE PINK / MARINA ALLEN / RVG / MONDE UFO / THALA / 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 LEMONHEADS / PICTISH TRAIL / THE CHILLS / HALF JAPANESE / SEBADOH / BLACK LIPS / THE DREAM SYNDICATE / GRAHAM REYNOLDS / AMBER ARCADES and more

The Chills - Complex

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