Select tracks from Tropical Popsicle - Dawn of Delight LP, out in May on Volar on vinyl, already available digitally.  http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/product/preorder-tropical-popsicle-dawn-of-delight-limited-color-vinyl

TROPICAL POPSICLE - Tethers

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I Might Just Be

“Abattoir” is the second single from our 3rd studio album, “Ars Oblivionalis.” It’s an upbeat melody draped around somber lyrics.

Abbattoir

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

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The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Morro Bay"

From Deeper's Self Titled debut album out 5/25 on Fire Talk.

Buy: https://lnk.to/stdeeper

The debut album from Chicago based Deeper. Origins of the project date back to 2014 where the band has made their mark locally supporting like minded acts Omni, Protomartyr, Chris Cohen & fellow Chicago powerhouses Whitney & Ne-Hi. Fresh off official after show appearances at Pitchfork & Lollapalooza the band is poised to jump out wide with this debut record. 9 tracks channel the anxiety and uneasiness of modern life in this pit of endless internet, chiming post punk rave ups with pointed "of the times" lyrics & gorgeous ambient interludes woven in.

Deeper

Deeper - Feels

Nanami Ozone "NO" out March 15th, 2019 on Tiny Engines

Nanami Ozone - Something To You

2nd Holy Ship single "Tau"  from Jonatan Westh,  formerly of late 00's shoegazers BLACKSTRAP (Swe). As HOLY SHIP he explores post-punk dark wave with anthemic hooks in a similar vein to debut single "Lüst". Mixed by US producer/mixer Ed Ackerson (BNLX, Polara, The Jayhawks, Motion City Soundtrack)  
FIYL: BRMC, The Soft Moon, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS

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Holy Ship - Tau

Nots - Floating Hand

Pond- When It Explodes (Diger Rokwell remix)

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Thanks to Pond and Spinning Top for the opportunity, plus Mike Jelinek for the extra hand with the levels and the master. 





Pond- When It Explodes (Diger Rokwell remix)

From their DEBUT LP on Empty Cellar Records. 