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Best of 2016

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Minneapolis-based Forged Artifacts is a labor of love. Founded in 2012 by music writer and defender Matt Linden, the label was built on the strength of local acts. Immersing himself entirely in the process of making a record from start to finish, Linden has grown the label organically. Choosing not to pigeonhole himself in one genre, he’s since cultivated a vibrant roster of artists from across the country including our recent favorites Alexei Shishkin and Los Angeles Police Department. Well curated with an eye for design, we’re stoked to present the latest selects mix from FA. 

Tracklist:
1    Lattice Moore-Superused
2   Plums - "Parking Lots"
3   Los Angeles Police Department - "Enough Is Enough"
4   Iles - "Little Notes"
5   Alexei Shishkin - "Yucca Street"    
6   Earl Boykins - "Lance Armstrong" 
6   France Camp - "Marisha"
8   Rupert Angeleyes - "Jealousy"
9   Canopies - "Choose Yer Own Adventure"
10  Suzie - "I Must Be Dreamin'"
11  Platinum Boys - "Downtown"
12  Dan Svizeny - "New Hope Is A Bad Scene" 
13  Big Air - "Vibe Patrol" 


Selects Mix 17 X Forged Artifacts

Spring 2016 Playlist

Under the Radar Playlist April 1, 2016

Spring 2016

My Chill Music

Prog Kool Summer 2016

"Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!" out now - download on iTunes http://smarturl.it/TooWeird

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LYRICS
Climbing out back the door, didn't leave a mark
No one knows it's you Miss Jackson
Found another victim
But no one's ever gonna find Miss Jackson 

You put a sour little flavor in my mouth now
You move in circles hoping no one's gonna find out
But we're so lucky, 
Kiss the ring and let 'em bow down
Looking for the time of your life

A pretty picture but the scenery is so loud,
A face like heaven catching lighting in your nightgown,
But back away from the water, babe, you might drown- 
The party isn't over tonight

He-eyy
Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
He-eyy
Out the back door
Goddamn
But I love her anyway
I love her anyway 
I love her anyway
Out the back door
Goddamn
But I love her anyway

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?
Are you nasty?
I love her anyway 

Ohhhh
Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
Ohhhh
Out the back door
Goddamn
But I love her anyway

Way down 'til the fire finally dies out 
You've got 'em wrapped around your finger
Watch 'em fall down 
There's something beautiful and tragic in the fall out-
Let me say it one more time
(tragic in the fall out) 

He-eyy
Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
He-eyy
Out the back door, Goddamn
But I love her anyway
I love her anyway 
I love her anyway 
Out the back door but
I love her anyway

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?
Are you nasty?
I love her anyway

Ohhhh
Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
Ohhhh
Out the back door
Goddamn
But I love her anyway

Climbing out back the door, didn't leave a mark
No one knows it's you Miss Jackson
Found another victim
But no one's ever gonna find Miss Jackson 

I love her anyway 

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?

Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Miss Jackson
Are you nasty?
Are you nasty
I love her anyway 

Ohhhh
When will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
Ohhhh
Out the back door
Goddamn
But I love her anyway

Miss Jackson

Miss Jackson (feat. LOLO)

The Ballad of Mona Lisa

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Los Angeles Police Department
The Debut Self-Titled Album Out September 2, 2014
Released by Forged Artifacts (LP) and ChillMegaChill (CS)
Mastered for Vinyl by Warren Hildebrand

Los Angeles Police Department - Enough Is Enough

Thanks to @seanxoleary at @indieshuffle for the premiere: http://www.indieshuffle.com/iles-little-notes/

Order: https://iles.bandcamp.com/album/apartments

Buy Tape / Download

Iles - Little Notes

Calyer

Plums - "Parking Lots"
The First Single Off Their Debut Album, 'jen'
Out July 14, 2015 On Forged Artifacts

Plums new 'EP02' is available now: https://plums.bandcamp.com/album/ep-02

Buy the EP

Plums - Parking Lots

Panic! At The Disco's official audio for 'Emperor's New Clothes’ from the new album "Death of a Bachelor" out now. Get it now on Apple Music http://smarturl.it/PATDDeathOfABachelor or Amazon http://bit.ly/1LKW1wA and get "Victorious," "Hallelujah," "Emperor's New Clothes," "LA Devotee," & "Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time" instantly http://bit.ly/1LKW1wA 

Subscribe to P!ATD on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1jTpNa1 

WEEZER & PANIC! AT THE DISCO SUMMER TOUR 2016 w/ special guest Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Dates + ticket info on http://www.panicatthedisco.com/tour

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Emperor's New Clothes

twenty one pilots' audio for 'Stressed Out' from the new album, Blurryface - available now on Fueled By Ramen. Get it on…

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Google Play: http://www.smarturl.it/blurryface-gp
Amazon: http://www.smarturl.it/blurryface-az
Spotify: http://www.smarturl.it/TOP-Spotify
Webstore: http://www.smarturl.it/top_store

Stressed Out

twenty one pilots: Stressed Out

From the forthcoming second Slows Down EP

I'm Not Inside Your Heart

Jealous of the Birds- Plastic Skeletons out now: 
CanvasbackMusic.lnk.to/JOTBTheMothsso

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Goji Berry Sunset

Alexei Shishkin - "Yucca Street"
The Title Track Off Shishkin's Second Full Length Album
Out On Forged Artifacts 2/19/2016 [FA031]


Alexei Shishkin - Yucca Street

Taken from the new album "Each Other" - hyperurl.co/ivnn4f

Catch Aidan Knight live supporting Villagers & Half Moon Run www.songkick.com/artists/777518-aidan-knight

Aidan Knight - What Light (Never Goes Dim)

Recorded 8/6 and 8/7 at Silent Barn with Julian and Carlos

Album art by Liz Moser

Additional pplz:
Steve Laing on Bass 
Brian Alvarez on Guitar and Drums

Albemarle

Download / stream ‘No Woman’: https://lnk.to/whitneytheband

https://www.facebook.com/whitneychicago
https://twitter.com/whitneytheband
https://www.instagram.com/whitneyband/

No Woman

Whitney - No Woman

Recorded one of our favorite Leonard Cohen songs.

Recorded at Kawari Sound
Engineered/Mixed by Zach Goldstein

ENJOY!

LOVER LOVER LOVER

Here's a version of the song "Cone of Silence" which will be on an album someday in a different form. Recorded at the Doghouse, January 2016. Written, recorded and performed by DM Stith.  

Stay warm kiddies. 



SNOW CONE

First single from Kyle Forester's debut solo record out May 2016 on Flying Moonlight

Vinyl Pre-order: 
http://flyingmoonlight.com/preorder/

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http://www.weareconnect.com/


Kyle Forester - Won't Go Crazy

"I Need An Angel" appears on La Sera's 4th full-length album, Music For Listening to Music To, available March 4, 2016. Produced by Ryan Adams.

Order the album:
Polyvinyl - http://plyvnyl.co/music_for_listening
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/musicforlistening
Bandcamp - http://plyvnyl.co/lasera-bc
Stream/download - http://lasera.lnk.to/musicforlistening 

La Sera - I Need An Angel

ARMS - Keep It Light

From SMILE's sophomore LP 'Rhythm Method". Out on Smooch Records April 1st 2016 www.smoochrecords.org

Old Boys

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

Buy Tape

Lattice Moore - Superused

Released on  May 6th, 2016.

Digital: smarturl.it/asifapart
Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/as-if-apart

Chris Cohen // In a Fable



3rd Single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, out April 8, 2016 on Woodsist.

Pre-order at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/city-sun-eater-in-river-light/id1072915934
Pre-order CD and Vinyl: hyperurl.co/ytovyl

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith


WOODS - MORNING LIGHT

Limited 12": smarturl.it/MorlyVinyl

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LYRICS:


I flew through
Blue to you—
You plucked my back
Sang ‘til you
Came too soon
Get off my back—my back

Wanted to
Sound like you
(Don’t tell them that)
Passed through your
Ash t(w)o more
Grew from my back—my back

Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—your tracks on my—

Doped up faces crowding around your bed
Dumbed down chases taking me to my head
Well I’m taking my back

Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with my tracks on—my tracks on my back


Plucky

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MoaiYYoSpotify
Apple: http://smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo

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Owen Rabbit - Weeds

"Happy" from 'Puberty 2' by Mitski, out on Dead Oceans on June 17th, 2016

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Puberty 2

Mitski - Happy

Taken from the album 'Fall Forever', out now on Kanine Records.

Buy album and concert tickets: www.fearofmen.co.uk

Tour Dates

16th May - Espace B, Paris, France
3rd June - Resident  Instore, Brighton, UK
10th June - Fall Forever Album Launch Show - St Pancras Church, London
11th June - Long Division Festival, Wakefield, UK
13th June - Oslo, London, UK (Sold Out)*
14th June - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, UK*
15th June - CCA. Glasgow, UK*
16th June - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK*
30th June - DC9,Washington, DC , US
1st July -  Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, US
2nd July - The Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY , US
3rd July - Great Scott, Allston, MA, US
5th July - Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B., Montreal, QC, Canada 
6th July - The Garrison,Toronto, ON, Canada
8th July -  Schubas Tavern, Chicago, IL, US 
9th July - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, US 
12th July -  Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA, US 
13th July - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US 
14th July - Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
17th July - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US 
19th July - The Hideout, San Diego, CA, US 
20th July - Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ, US
22nd July - Club Dada, Dallas, TX, US 
23rd July - Barracuda, Austin, TX, US 
25th July - The Masquerade (Purgatory), Atlanta, GA, US 
26th July - Cat’s Cradle (Backroom), Carrboro, NC, US 
27th July - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD, US
*W/ Wild Nothing

Fall Forever

Pre-order Album

Sane

'The Child' is taken from A Youthful Dream, the debut album from Yung
- in stores June 10

Pre-order:
LP/CD/limited edition transparent vinyl - http://smarturl.it/AYouthfulDream.LPCD
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/YungAlbum.iTunes

www.facebook.com/yungbandstuff

“I wrote The Child while working a summer job at a crop farm last year. I stayed at the farm for ten days and had very little to do besides working and playing the guitar. The words came much later than the music – I wrote them after CMJ. It’s a reflection on the conflict between being an artist but also being successful, so I think CMJ had some bearing on shaping the lyrics. When you start playing music you do it for the sake of writing music but when you’re signed to a label there’s commercial pressure. There are good things and bad things about that. One of the good things certainly is that you have to reinvent yourself within or beyond your music, which I tried to do with The Child, as it’s a bit different to a lot of Yung songs.” - Mikkel Holm Silkjær


pre-order iTunes

Yung - The Child

"House Down" is out physically + digitally on 5/27.

Cassette: http://bit.ly/1WasFkF
Digital: http://bit.ly/255uCnL

House Down

Brenda's Friend - House Down

(Druun)
Past Lives
Human
Air Conditioning
How Long Have You Known?
Wait
Earthboy
(Druun Pt. II)
Follow
Sometime
Oshin (Subsume)
Doused
Home

(Druun)

Human

Earthboy

Produced and mixed by Simon Throught and Giles Barret in Soup Studios, East London. Out soon on Fika Recordings. Debut album out September 2013.

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