Force Field PR Sept. 2016 Playlist

Fresh Snow - ONE (HDD054)
September 9th 2016 /// ORDER: goo.gl/V4kY7T

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Fresh Snow - January Skies

Mara

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In the interest of brevity, Tony Molina speaks a plain truth rarely considered by modern musicians. He's not going to waste your time pontificating on sentimentality when he knows the very sentiments that power his music will stay with you long after the songs end. The West Bay guitarist's background in hardcore, metal, and punk lends itself to this concept -- imagine if Crossed Out or No Le$$ were on some Lennon-McCartney or George Harrison or early Bee Gees shit, inventing a mode of sincere, world-beating pop expression and concentrating it into a span of seconds. That's what's happening here -- a resourcefulness that is typically at odds with the kind of guitar mastery you'll hear within. 

You could fit the contents of Tony's previous releases on Slumberland and Matador onto one side of a 90-minute cassette and still have room left over for the eight offerings on Confront the Truth, but would you want it any other way? When Tony sings about "trying to move on but I just don't know how," no extension of the time it takes for him to bring that feeling across is going to solve the problem at hand. You're immediately thrust into the orbit of these songs; you know how he feels, and now you can relate. Transference is complete. You've got plenty of time left over to dwell upon them.

The eight offerings on Confront the Truth notch a significant advancement in his style and approach. Almost completely absent from these new songs are the overloaded guitar crunch of Dissed and Dismissed, or his earlier work with Ovens; it's replaced by gentle acoustic balladry, tasteful Mellotron and piano backing, the kind of musicianship that often takes a lifetime to master. The sadness of this music has precedents in pop's past; Tony's revelatory turn into specific traditions of pop music speak directly to the reasons why we love music in general, and what keeps our finest players driven to create. The repertoire from which he draws may be narrow, but in these songs, you hear exactly what Tony found in those influences that shaped his experience; years upon years of focus and isolation in developing his guitar skills to speak to these truths. The main difference here is that where Tony's previous works felt casual and easy to digest, here we feel the full weight of his emotional needs pressed against the gentlest and most careful music of his career.

I'll paraphrase myself here, from something I wrote about Tony's old band, Ovens, which applies here as well: the music is at once what I believe to be the quintessential encapsulation of the turmoil of West Coast youth. Hang out by the ocean on a beautiful day, land that trick you’ve been practicing on your skateboard for months, but you’re still bummed; the struggle to achieve balance without means in a place where you’re told you’re lucky to be informs every second of these songs. That the pain turns inwards -- lamentations on relationships that are over for good -- proves to be as much a condition of the environment as it is the mindset with which it aligns. The record's coda, a highlight reel of Thin Lizzy's "Banshee," indicates that the Tony you knew is still in there, but the game has changed, and the rules are entirely his own. Tony Molina is in complete control of his own destiny, and we should all care about where he's going.

Doug Mosurock, a fan first and a friend forever
August 2016


Confront The Truth

Buy 7"

Tony Molina - See Me Fall

Tony Molina - Hung Up On The Dream

Produced by Brandon Bost and Justin P. Romanos
Mixed and Engineered by Brandon Bost
Assistant Engineering by Sam Palumbo
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe, Philadelphia PA. 
Additional Production Recorded at The Gallery Studios, Brooklyn NY.
Album Photography by Ryan Jay
Album Design by Justin P. Romanos

Jay Pray

Smile

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"Wordless Wonder" is the long awaited full length from Real Numbers.  It follows up a pair of 12" EPs on Three Dimensional Records, a single on Florida's Dying, and recent appearances on cassettes from Forged Artifacts and No Problem.  Tenderly crafted by Matt Castore at his St. Paul, MN studio A Harder Commune from late 2015 to early 2016, it is presented here on Slumberland Records for your enjoyment.

Wordless Wonder

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Real Numbers - New Boy

Field Music - How We Gonna Get There Now?



Field Music - How We Going To Get There Now

Written by Cecilia Della Peruti
Produced by Todd Dahlhoff
Mixed by Chris Sorem
Mastered by Jared Hirshland

Vocals, Guitars, Bass - Cecilia Della Peruti
Keys - Todd Dahlhoff
Drums - Rhys Hastings

Lyrics:
I thought to try harder, that's what it'd take
I thought it'd be worth humoring a charade 
You'll wait for me, so wait for me
Don't mess with me, don't mess with me
But if you won't bother, that's what you'd say

Don't give me up, don't give me up, you don't have to go that far
Don't give me up, don't give me up, na-na-na-na open up your eyes
Don't give me up, don't give me up, we don't have to be apart
Don't give me up, don't give me up, a-na-na-na open up your heart
Don't give me up don't give me up (x4)

Don't run out of patience when things get tough
We can come out on the other side caring enough
When the prize outshines the pain you know we'll get it, get it
We can do our own thing and not miss the train to get it, get it together again
But if you won't bother, that's a damn shame

Don't give me up, don't give me up, you don't have to go that far
Don't give me up, don't give me up, na-na-na-na open up your eyes
Don't give me up, don't give me up, we don't have to be apart
Don't give me up, don't give me up, a-na-na-na open up your heart
Don't give me up don't give me up (x4)

Don't give me up don't give me up (x4)


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Don't Give Me Up

Nervous Bird

Untraveled

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album.  Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
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When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Pelicans

Monster Rally - Pelicans

"Queens" is taken from La Sera's new EP, Queens, out now!

Download: http://plyvnyl.co/LaSera-Queens

La Sera - Queens

'Adult Contemporaries' LP out 10/14/16 on Lolipop Records

Digital: ablebody.bandcamp.com/album/adult-contemporaries
LP/CD/CASS: https://lolipoprecordsstore.com/collections/ablebody

"Send Me A Letter" (Official Music Video) - Directed by Francis Serra & Nicolas Postiglione
https://youtu.be/HB14Q_hm6OM

Send Me A Letter [feat. Sean Nicholas Savage]

All Living Rooms is the debut single from SPELLBREAKER - Bouquet's first full-length release.


All Living Rooms

Written by Marion Belle
Produced by Nicholas Allen Johns + Marion Belle
Recorded at The Penthouse

Album out NOW

Coverboy

Bitter Blessings

Ghost

"Whole Lotta Love" is taken from La Sera's new EP, Queens, out now!

Download: http://plyvnyl.co/LaSera-Queens

Force Field PR Sept. 2016 Playlist

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