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A story that should not be told – yet it whispers through the cracks of the world.
It is temptation, the first sin, the serpent’s kiss upon bare skin.
A paradise never untouched, a wound that bled before it was ever touched.

Here the angels begin to fall, their wings blackened with lust and fire.
Kings rise from the dust, crowned with thorns, born of pain.
Voices speak of liberation, yet every promise carries poison.

Snake of Eden is no simple journey.
It is a descent into madness and desire, a dance with demons at the heart of darkness.
Pleasure becomes prayer, obsession an altar, the body an offering.

And yet – beyond the ashes, behind the walls of corruption –
lies something unknown, older, unspeakable.
Something that coils like a serpent around your heart,
until you no longer know where temptation ends and you begin.

Prepare yourself.
For the fall, for damnation, for rebirth.
For the whisper in the dark that will haunt you until you can no longer ignore it.
And perhaps – just perhaps – you will allow yourself to be seduced.

Paimon

First single from the debut four-track EP 'Nights', to be released on Spirit Goth Records on October 3rd

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Lattice Moore - "Superused"
The First Single Off 'Spilt', The Debut Album From Lattice Moore
Out 4/29/2016 On Forged Artifacts [FA032]

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BIG SKY IS A NEW ALBUM FROM SPACE MOUNTAIN. A WARM BEAR HUG OF A RECORD FROM BOSTON.

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'Never Lonely' is the first single to be taken from Cole Kinsler's album titled Big Sky. Out 26/08 on cassette via Super Fan 99 (EU) & limited CD via Dust Etc (US)

Listening to Space Mountain feels like being wrapped in a warm blanket after coming in from a freezing winters eve which naturally makes this a perfect summer release. The reason for this is, in truth Super Fan have never coped well in the summer heat, it's just not the weather we are accustomed to here in London. Call us miserable but we often miss those winter bus journeys home from college, rain hammering down on the steamed up windows while the records on our walkmans let us drift off to another time and place. In Big Sky we have a new favourite soundtrack in waiting. The 9 tracks which make up 'Big Sky’ bring to mind 90s Merge faves such as Neutral Milk Hotel and The Magnetic Fields or a country inflected Alex G.

Initially inspired by the DIY music he discovered during college, Cole has been recording and self releasing an album every year since 2013. Big Sky marks his first full international release and he intends to continue the project in whichever direction his inspirations take him.

The first 25 copies of the cassette release will include a square one sided lathe cut vinyl of ’Never Lonely’ As always these will be one copy per person and you’ll have to be quick to grab one. Never Lonely features guest vocals from Ava Trilling of New Jersey band Forth Wanderers. Pre-order starts on 15/08. 

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Happy Cassette Store Day! We’ve decided to celebrate by giving one of our favourite EP’s of recent times a proper physical release, it is of course Comfortably Swell, the debut EP from Brighton brother and sister duo Penelope Isles.

Originally self released on their own Wavey Head label, Comfortably Swell is seven tracks of wonderfully varied melodic beach pop. I often find it quite a struggle to write about music that I love so dearly, but thankfully our pal Ross has already done a pretty great job of describing what makes this release so special.

"Opening slowly with each listen, the way the group engage is in their apparent ease in writing such compelling melodies. Each chorus swells with emotional value; the gentle delivery of their vocals producing the most stirring effect. Lily sings with an innate ability to evoke child-like curiosity, ‘Apple Juice‘ full of wonderment in it’s loose and adventurous moments, ‘The Loop‘ dwells on love’s disorientating nature as guitars sweep and mingle in swelling distortion, while ‘Tea‘ dreams nostalgically of the coast, patters of synth topped with another heart-wrenching chord progression through it’s chorus.

It all builds around an empathetic belief in the reminiscent romance of growing up and it’s influence on what’s happening in the very present. ‘Bad Head‘s introduction is of wishful thinking and a proactive need for change; “I’m trying to act my real self / but I don’t think it’s working.”. A plea for difference and positivity opens the record to the colourful remembrance of youth, ‘Apple Juice‘s comfort and buoyancy in simplicity is the complete antithesis; “I think I’m the better swimmer / after only two weeks” Lily’s lyrics are convivial in their simplest form, yet are penned by an irrepressible melancholy, trying to hold onto the happiest of memories that allow at least a moment of escape, “grab your bucket and spade / before the memory fades“. "

If it had been left to me I would’ve just gone for the much less eloquent description of “Comfortably Swell is the sound of your favourite Beach House and Deerhunter records spinning round inside a tumble dryer full of glitter and that one good Melody’s Echo Chamber album.

As anyone who arrived early at our Label Mates party in March or our 6th Birthday in August will attest, live, these songs take on a new form as they soar and swell. Despite their early billing both times, I think I can honestly say both times they have been my favourite band I’ve seen that day. We’re really excited for whatever they come up with next, but in the meantime we thought giving this amazing EP a bit more attention served as a nice stick in the ground.

Comfortably Swell

Penelope Isles - Bad Head

"Blood Spitting" is taken from the debut 7" by Brooch, a new project featuring Ben Stidworthy from Ought and Mikkel Holm Silkjær from Yung, out 31st March. Limited to 300 copies, 100 of which are on green vinyl and only available through the Tough Love online shop

"I rode back to Aarhus with Yung after we toured together last winter. Every day, Mikkel and I would write and record one song at their scando-office rehearsal space, and then go out in the evenings. These songs emerged from us without discussion or direction, and I feel they captured an energy that was resonating in black and white. Blood Spitting is a collection of fragments that I collected over the course of a very long year. It’s a historically-situated conversation between a healer and a lover who search for remedies that aren’t real. They are the first lyrics I’ve ever been proud of. " - Ben Stidworthy

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Biography:
Brooch is the glimmering spinoff of a tour that Ben Stidworthy and Mikkel Holm Silkjær did together with their bands, Montreal’s Ought and Aarhus’ Yung.  Their first offering of two songs are like the people behind them: youthful and yet already wise, cold-hearty and yet with ripe with a primrose melodicism.  “Blood Spitting” and “Broken Glass” are an expertly crafted pair of rock songs, but ones that maintain that burgeoning kind of playfulness that comes from a new collaboration.

The tracks were recorded over two days in Aarhus, DK in November 2015.  Ben continues, as he does in Ought, to play bass like a craftsman makes a fine chair and expands his palate to not only lush organ playing but also whispery and emotive vocals.  Mikkel, Yung’s principal songwriter, continues to show off his multi-instrumentalism as he offers guitar, drums and, as he does in Yung, vocals.

In “Blood Spitting”, Ben shows his poetic heart atop a crisp and revolving drum and guitar melody that recalls the quietest moments of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out-era Yo La Tengo.  And yet a tender edginess appears lyrically: “For the blood spitting and vertigo,” he sings “these days are muddled by dust.”  It is a striking juxtaposition, the lush organ tones with words such as this.  It alone almost conjures the cold room they recorded in: a few beer bottles clattering on the cement while a soft cough, visible breath and a smile break the quiet between takes. 

Mikkel answers on his side of the pair with a distinctly piercing and yet lush vocal presence.  “Broken Glass” features violin from the duo’s friend Lena Geue which balances the more rugged bass tone and chugging, almost off-kilter rhythm of the thing.  “A see-through window is not a rare sight, but a shattered one will leave blood behind,” replies Mikkel beyond his warbly and fierce guitar line.

These are both songwriters who know when to leave space, when to sustain a moment, and yet are unafraid to play ornamentally.  It is a rich collaboration, bursting at the edges when you take stock of who these songwriters are, and yet contained here in a small capsule that introduces us to their voices together.  It is a bit like a brooch, in that way, something they would both wear in real life.  I’d wear this 7” on my jacket.  And with songs like this for the kindling of a project, it’s pretty exciting to think about what happens next.

Tim Darcy, Montreal, October 2016

Brooch - Blood Spitting

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