www.speedywunderground.com | @SpeedyWunder

Speedy Wunderground release their fourth single, ‘Keep Your Eyes Open 

Boy’ by Scotti Brains on 2nd September

Scotti Brains is label chief and producer Dan Carey, best friend and fellow producer / 

recording artist Oli Bayston & Beth Buxton.

Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and Dan’s 

cat Scotti (who coincidentally is prone to close his eyes and ‘dance’ upon hearing Bunny 

Brains), Scotti Brains was initially a project born out of early morning recording sessions 

following parties at Dan’s South London studio. Tradition dictated that the insane / furious / 

psych / punk / noise results featured Beth screaming over the tracks - major labels seemed 

unimpressed so a Speedy Wunderground release beckoned.

Having a full day rather than a few snatched hours to record, Scott Brains’ debut single for 

Speedy Wunderground is slightly more accessible than their previous late-night-output. A 

perfect summer-song, in the great Speedy Wunderground tradition ‘Keep Your Eyes Wide 

Open Boy’ again features the Swarmatron but this time a lunch-break was allowed – the boss’ 

prerogative.

Recording Beth’s ‘vocal’ over the phone due to ‘relationship-problems’ (Oli & Beth are 

partners who split up during the recording of the single but now happily back together), 

the track also features an ominous and anonymous ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’ vocal 

snatch taken from a tape Dan had bought along with a vintage 1950’s tape recorder in the 

Oxfam shop on Streatham High Road. The tapes featured recordings of the owner and his 

friends ‘chatting’ and at one point a woman repeating ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’, a 

phrase that was to provide the title for the single.

‘Keep Your Eyes Open Boy’ is a summer warning to all who think it’s all OK (it might not be).

SW004: Scotti Brains - Keep Your Eyes Open Boy (Full Version)

Jorge Elbrose (Jorge Elbrecht & Ariel Pink) - "Called To Ring" taken from Mexican Summer - Five Years 10" / Book.

Purchase from Mexican Summer: http://bit.ly/MS5book

Jorge Elbrose - Called To Ring

"Tokyo" is the second single from TEEN's forthcoming record "Love Yes" out February 19th, 2016

Pre-order the album here:
iTunes w/ instant grat: http://smarturl.it/loveyes_itunes
Carpark shop: http://smarturl.it/loveyes_carpark

catch the band on tour this winter: http://bit.ly/1ntZJhH
February 14th - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
February 16th - Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb’s
February 17th - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
February 18th - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
February 19th - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
February 20th - Lakewood, OH - Mahall’s
February 21st - Chicago, IL - Hideout Inn
February 22nd - Cincinnati, OH - Monday Night at the Comet
February 24th - New Haven, CT - BAR
February 26th - Stony Brook, NY - Stony Brook University

TEEN - Tokyo

"Violet City Lantern" is out February 19th on Fire Talk
Pre Order LP: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-violet-city-lantern
Pre Order Bundle: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-viol…y-lantern-bundle
Deluxe Bundle: firetalkrecs.com/shop/murals-viol…rn-deluxe-bundle

Formed nearly 10 years ago while in high school the band now known as Murals have traveled a long road to their debut Full Length LP. After some dips and turns the three core members have landed back in their home town of Louisville, KY. They write record and live in a house on a hill in the not so swank part of town - the type of place that acid trips and all day jam sessions go hand in hand. The results are an ever present body of slow churning psychedelic folk that wouldn't be so surprising in your hippie dad's record collection or buried deep in the crates of your headiest record store.

Pre Order

Murals - Watching In The Dark

Is Bliss
‘Velvet Dreams EP’
21st October 2016
12” Vinyl EP / AC3013084. 
www.clubac30.com

Introducing ‘Velvet Dreams EP’, the debut from psychedelic shoegazer trio Is Bliss, set for release this autumn on Club AC30. 

‘Velvet Dreams’ is a tantalising taster of this new band’s potential. It’s atmosphere resonates strongly with the hazy sixties underground, with its sitar-like waterfall guitars and hypnogogic beats, but other, harder influences bleed through. From the intense hit of fuzzed-up anger on ‘Truth’, through to yearning, soaring dream-pop gorgeousness of ‘Lure’ and lead track ‘Ocean Blue’, this release sets out to show Is Bliss’ full range and depth.

Comprising of Jimmy Stuart (vox, guitar), Dean Edwards (bass) and Sam Speakman (drums), Is Bliss have been together barely a year and yet have quickly gained attention opening for Wolf Alice, Telescopes, Nine Black Alps, Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie. Many bands today cite My Bloody Valentine as a major influence, but Is Bliss exist because Dean clocked Jimmy’s MBV t-shirt and when they struck up a conversation they discovered a shared a love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3, Verve and The Cure, along with a need to escape the mind-numbing boredom of rural Hampshire. This first clutch of songs was developed through live improvisation, but is taken to the next level here by Pat Collier (The House Of Love, Primal Scream, Swervedriver).

Is Bliss are planning a UK tour in the autumn to promote the EP, followed by the release of their debut long-player in the new year. 

Live:
Thursday 4th August - The Victoria, London - Supporting The Hacienda
Friday 5th August - The Fat Fox, Southsea - Supporting New Desert Blues
Saturday 24th September - Edge of the Wedge - Southsea Psych Out
Saturday 28th January - The Fat Fox, Southsea - Icebreaker Festival 2017

For all press enquiries please contact Clare Buckland at Big Wheel PR 
on 07968 379 355 or e-mail clare@bigwheelpr.com


EP PERRY VALE

Is Bliss - Ocean Blue

Wouldn't Even Know is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Additional vocals by Bill Ryder Jones

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net
www.facebook.com/AmberArcades/

Wouldn't Even Know (feat. Bill Ryder Jones)

ANNA ST. LOUIS
FIRST SONGS
woodsist092 / mare002
release date: November 3, 2017

Despite her last name, Anna St. Louis was born and raised in Kansas City. She grew up a painter and singing in punk bands, eventually leaving her hometown to attend art school in Philadelphia. After graduating she made the move to Los Angeles where she began teaching herself guitar, writing songs and recording them on her own in her bedroom. First Songs is the sound of someone discovering their talent in real time - a peak into the collage of a wonderful mind that is absorbing their new surroundings and using new tools to put them into the room. Listening to this collection you can feel the sun coming in through the window - Anna on the foot of the bed with a guitar on her knee, finding her voice. St. Louis wears her influences well - think Patsy Cline singing over John Fahey - but has a style all her own. And while you can take the artist out of the midwest, you can't take the midwest out of the artist - so let this be known; this is Midwestern music ran through a California filter. I believe Anna will have many more releases in her lifetime, but let it all begin here - First Songs.

ANNA ST. LOUIS - Fire (Mare Records)

Panda Bear - Bros

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

Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator

If you ever wondered what’d happen if two best friends who share a collective mission to not take life too seriously spent just as much time soaking up the muddy blues of Mississippi as they did the kosmisch experimentations of West Germany (the pair also play in Krautrock collective Datashock) then Pretty Lightning are your answer. Unsurprising, then, that as often as their sound is indeed full to the brim with crunch, swagger and feedback, they’re also just capable as easing off on that oft-abused accelerator and dealing in something more far hypnotic and drone-like.

The reverberating slow-burner, ‘Greyhound’, is exactly one such moment. Just like the video that comes with it, it’s the sonic equivalent of hitching a long motorcycle road you never want to end–only, as in said visuals, the landscape you’re cruising through happens to be somewhere weird, cartoonish and, true to form, psychedelic-as-hell. The band says of the single: “Greyhound is pure escapism - one fantasy of it, anyway. It’s probably our most pop-pleasing song so far too, even if that’s not the direction we’re generally heading into. If you think that sometimes it´s ok to treat yourself to a fantasy, why not take the imagination of an eternal ride and stick it in a 4 minute ‘pop-song’”

Pretty Lightning - Greyhound

New song for album-in-progress. Unmastered.

Lyrics:

Don't you even try to put me on the hot seat, 
I won't deny it. I want it all, 
cause I started out with nothin' in the Kingdom Hall parking lot, 
waiting for my girl to come out. No question, no doubts.

Some people say that I'm an Agent of Corruption. 
After your song and prayer, it's time for a lesson.

There are some things I've done that seemed like a good thing at the time. 
Just having fun (yeah). Half way around the world and drinking juices,
with my brown-skinned hostess.

Some people say that I'm an Agent of Corruption. 
After your song and prayer, it's time for a lesson.

My gift gets given when something is taken away. 
(just wait, receive the gift with grace) 
And there's always another device with which to play. 
But if all I ever did was nod my head and agree, 
would there be no corruption and would it set my conscience free? 
(set my conscience free)

Even though they told you what they told you,
over my shoulder Jehova's married with kids.

Some people say that I'm an Agent of Corruption.
After your song and prayer, it's time for a lesson.

Murals - Watching In The Dark

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